Roumen Kountchev, Ph.D., D.Sc., is a professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His scientific areas of interest are digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition, and neural networks. He has 420 papers published in magazines and conference proceedings; 20 books; 48 book chapters; and 20 patents. At present, he is a member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and the president of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of IAPR). He has been a plenary speaker at more than 30 international scientific conferences and symposia and edited several books published in Springer SIST series and was a co-editor of special issues for Symmetry MDPI.Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is presently working as director of Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised 32 Ph. D. Theses and more than 60 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 3 text books and more than 100 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, SPIE, IOS Press and others. Dr. Patnaik is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published by Inderscience Publishing House, England and also Editor-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published by Springer, Germany. He is the Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, published by Korean Institute of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering. Prof. Patnaik is a Guest Professor to Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha and Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China and visiting professors to some of the B-Schools of Europe and South East Asia. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited various countries such as Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Algeria, Thailand and Vietnam for delivering Key note addresses at various conferences and symposiums. Prof. Wenfeng Wang is Editor-in-Chief of IJANS and IJEEE; EBM of Nature—Scientific Reports; General Chair of the World Conference on Intelligent and 3D Technologies; Reviewer of many SCI journals, including some top ones—Nature Computational Science, Expert System with Applications, Water Research, Science China-Information Sciences, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, etc.; Plenary/Keynote Speaker of many international conferences—AMICR2019, IACICE2020, NAMSP2021, AMMCS2021, ICCEAI2021, AICS2021, 3DIT-MSP&DL2020, CSAMCS 2021, AMMCS2021, ICPEM2021, ATAMI2021, ICRDET2022, etc.Roumiana Kountcheva got her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and in 1992, she got the title Senior Researcher. At present, she is Vice president of TK Engineering, Sofia. She had postgraduate trainings in Fujitsu and Fanuc, Japan. Her main scientific interests are in image processing, image compression, digital watermarking, pattern recognition, image tensor representation, neural networks, CNC, and programmable controllers. She has more than 200 publications and 5 patents (EU and USA). R. She was Plenary Speaker at 23 international scientific conferences and scientific events. She edited several books published in Springer SIST series and was Co-editor of Special issues for Symmetry MDPI. She is Member of international organizations: Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition, International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM), the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and is Honorary Member of the Honorable Editorial Board of the non-profit peer-reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group.
