Editors

Rastislav Lukac received the M.S. (Ing.) and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from the Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. From February 2001 to August 2002, he was an assistant professor with the Department of Electronics and Multimedia Communications at the Technical University of Kosice. From August 2002 to July 2003, he was a researcher with the Slovak Image Processing Center in Dobsina, Slovak Republic. From January 2003 to March 2003, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. From May 2003 to August 2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Since September 2006, he has been a senior image processing scientist and software developer at Epson Edge, Epson Canada Ltd., Toronto, Canada.  He is a contributor to four books, and he has published over 200 papers in the areas of digital camera image processing, color image and video processing, multimedia security, and microarray image processing.
   Dr. Lukac is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), and IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Consumer Electronics, and IEEE Signal Processing societies. He is a guest coeditor of the Real-Time Imaging, Special Issue on Multi-Dimensional Image Processing, and of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Special Issue on Color Image Processing for Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. He serves as a technical reviewer for various scientific journals, and he participates as a member of numerous international conference committees. In 2003, he was the recipient of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization/National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NATO/NSERC) Science Award.

Konstantinos N. Plataniotis received the B. Engineering degree in computer engineering from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech), Melbourne, Florida, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. From August 1997 to June 1999, he was an assistant professor with the School of Computer Science at Ryerson University. He is currently an associate professor at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering where he researches and teaches image processing, adaptive systems, and multimedia signal processing. He coauthored, with A.N. Venetsanopoulos, a book entitled Color Image Processing & Applications (Springer Verlag, May 2000), he is a contributor to seven books, and he has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in the areas of multimedia signal processing, image processing, adaptive systems, communications systems, and stochastic estimation.
   Dr. Plataniotis is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and a past member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks for Signal Processing. He was the Technical Co-Chair of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2001, and CCECE 2004. He is the Technical Program Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference in Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), the Vice-Chair for the 2006 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2006), and the Image Processing Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Society e-letter. He is the 2005 IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineering Educator Award recipient and the corecipient of the 2006 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award.