Anand Deshpande is currently serving as the Principal and Director of the Angadi Institute of Technology and Management (AITM), India. He received his PhD in Electronics and Communication and a Master of Technology degree in Digital Communication and Networking from Visvesvaraya Technological University, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Karnatak University, Dharwad. His research work has been published in international journals, international conferences, and books, and he has filed patents in several areas. Dr. Deshpande is a reviewer for a number of journals published by the IEEE, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Springer. His research interests include artificial intelligence, image and video analytics, data analytics, and machine vision.Vania Vieira Estrela is currently a member of the faculty in the Department of Telecommunications at Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Brazil. Professor Estrela obtained her BSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), an MSc in ECE from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) and Northwestern University, and her PhD in ECE from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). She has taught at DeVry University, State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro (UENF), and the West Zone State University, Brazil. Her research interests include signal/image/video processing, inverse problems, computational and mathematical modeling, stochastic models, multimedia, electronic instrumentation, computational intelligence, automated vehicles, machine learning, and remote sensing. She is an Editor for the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, International Journal on Computational Science & Applications, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and a member of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Navid Razmjooy holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Control and Automation) from Tafresh University, an MSc with honors in Mechatronics Engineering from the Isfahan Branch of Islamic Azad University (IAU), and a BSc from the Ardabil Branch of IAU. His research interests include renewable energies, control, interval analysis, optimization, image processing, machine vision, soft computing, data mining, evolutionary algorithms, and system control. He is a senior member of the IEEE and Young Researchers Club of IAU. Dr. Razmjooy has published five books and more than 120 papers in English and Farsi in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is a reviewer for several national and international journals and conferences.
