Vikrant Bhateja is associate professor in Department of Electronics Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Technology (UNSIET), Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He holds a doctorate in ECE (Bio-Medical Imaging) with a total academic teaching experience of 20 years with around 190 publications in reputed international conferences, journals and online book chapter contributions; out of which 39 papers are published in SCIE indexed high impact factored journals. One of his papers published in Review of Scientific Instruments (RSI) Journal (under American International Publishers) has been selected as "Editor Choice Paper of the Issue'' in 2016. Among the international conference publications, four papers have received "Best Paper Award''. He has been instrumental in chairing/co-chairing around 30 international conferences in India and abroad as Publication/TPC chair and edited 52 book volumes from Springer-Nature as a corresponding/co-editor/author on date. He has delivered nearly 22 keynotes, invited talks in international conferences, ATAL, TEQIP and other AICTE sponsored FDPs and STTPs. He has been Editor-in-Chief of IGI Global--International Journal of Natural Computing and Research (IJNCR) an ACM & DBLP indexed journal from 2017-22. He has guest edited Special Issues in reputed SCIE indexed journals under Springer-Nature and Elsevier. He is Senior Member of IEEE and Life Member of CSI. Fiona Carroll is Reader (Eq-Associate Professor) with the Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMet), Wales, UK. She obtained her Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) from Edinburgh Napier University in 2008. Her research over the past twenty years has focused on the fast-changing relations between humans and digital technologies. She has been particularly proactive in applying aesthetics to digital graphics, visualization, and HCI. At CMet, she co-leads the Creative Computing Research Centre andis also passionate about exploring new multidisciplinary approaches to engage more girls in STEM. As an accomplished academic, she has numerous peer-reviewed publications and has partaken in cutting-edge research projects both at national and international levels. João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001 and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). He is Co-editor of more than 75 books, Co-author of more than 50 chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 internationaland 3 national patents.. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human-computer interaction, and new product development. Sandeep Singh Sengar is Lecturer in Computer Science at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. Before joining this position, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Machine Learning Section of Computer Science Department, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India, and an M. Tech. degree in Information Security from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. His current research interests include medical image segmentation, motion segmentation, visual object tracking, object recognition, and video compression. His broader research interests include machine/deep learning, computer vision, image/video processing, and its applications. He has published several research articles in reputed international journals and conferences in the field of computer vision and image processing. He is Reviewer of several reputed international transactions, journals, and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Pattern Recognition, Neural Computing and Applications, Neurocomputing. Peter Peer is Full Professor of computer science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he heads the Computer Vision Laboratory, coordinates the double degree study program with the Kyungpook National University, South Korea, and serves as Vice-dean for economic affairs. He received his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Ljubljana in 2003. Within his postdoctorate, he was Invited Researcher at CEIT, San Sebastian, Spain. His research interests focus on biometrics and computer vision. He participated in several national and EU funded R&D projects and published more than 100 research papers in leading international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is Co-organizer of the Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge and Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition. He serves as Associated Editor of IEEE Access and IET Biometrics. He is Member of the EAB, IAPR, and IEEE.
