Vikrant Bhateja is Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow and also the Head (Academics & Quality Control) in the same college. His area of research include digital image and video processing, computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, neural networks, soft computing and bio-inspired computing techniques. He has more than 90 quality publications in various international journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Bhateja has been on TPC and chaired various sessions from the above domain in international conferences of IEEE and Springer. He has been the track chair and served in the core-technical/editorial teams for international conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014 and INDIA 2015 under Springer-ASIC Series and INDIACom-2015, ICACCI-2015 under IEEE. He is associate editor in International Journal of Convergence Computing (IJConvC) and also serving in the editorial board of International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM) under Inderscience Publishers. At present he is guest editors for two special issues floated in International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) and International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) under IGI Global publications. João Manuel R.S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto - Portugal (1992); MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the field of Industrial Informatics, University of Porto (1995); PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (2001). From 1995 to 2000 he was a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (INEB). He is co-author of more than 350 scientific papers in national and international journals and conferences, co-editor of 18 international books and guest-editor of several special issues of international journals. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging “ & “ Visualization (CMBBE: Imaging “ & “ Visualization); Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Biometrics and Bioinformatics (IJBB); Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics (IJCV” & “B); Co-Editor of the Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (LNCV” & “B); Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP), Journal of Engineering, ISRN Machine Vision, Advances in Biomechanics “ & “ Applications, and of the Journal of Computer Science (INFOCOMP), and reviewer of several international scientific journals. Since 2001, he has been Supervisor and Co-Supervisor of several MSc and PhD thesis and involved in several research projects, both as researcher and as scientific coordinator. Additionally, he is co-author of 3 international patents and 2 national patents. His main research areas include Computational Vision, Medical Imaging, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction and New Product Development.B. Padmaja Rani is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad. Her interest area is information retrieval embedded systems. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and conferences in the areas of agile modeling, web services and mining, etc. She was the former Head of Department of CSE, JNTUH. She is a professional member of CSI. V. Kamakshi Prasad is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department at JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad. He completed his PhD in speech recognition from IIT Madras, India. He did his M.Tech. from Andhra University and B.Tech. from K.L. College of Engineering. He has completed over 12 years in JNTU on various positions. He has 21 years of teaching and 11 years of research experience. Dr. Prasad has been teaching subjects like speech processing, pattern recognition, computer networks, digital image processing, artificial neural, artificial intelligence and expert systems, computer graphics, object oriented analysis and design through UML, and soft computing. He has supervised 12 PhD and 2 MS students. His research areas are speech recognition and processing, image processing, neural networks, data mining and ad-hoc networks. He has authored two books published by Lambert Academic Publishing and over 50 papers in national and international level journals.K. Srujan Raju is the Professor and Head, Department of CSE, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, India. Prof. Raju earned his PhD in the field of network security and his current research includes computer networks, information security, data mining, image processing, intrusion detection and cognitive radio networks. He has published several papers in refereed international conferences and peer reviewed journals and also he was in the editorial board of CSI 2014 Springer AISC series; 337 and 338 volumes. In addition to this, he has served as reviewer for many indexed journals. Prof. Raju is also awarded with Significant Contributor, Active Member Awards by Computer Society of India (CSI).
