Intelligent Analysis of Multimedia Information (Advances in Multimedia and Interactive Technologies)

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is currently the Professor and Head of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is serving as the Dean of Research and Development of the institute from November 2013. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology of Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 3 books and the co-editor of 4 books and has more than 135 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got a patent on intelligent colorimeter technology. He was the convener of the AICTE-IEEE National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (CoCoSys-09) in 2009. He was the member of the Young Researchers' Committee of the WSC 2008 Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He served as the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) published by IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA from 17th July 2014 to 06th November 2014. He was the General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICCICN 2014) organized by the Department of Information Technology, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata in association with Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Gwalior and IEEE Young Professionals, Kolkata Section and held at Kolkata, India in 2014. He is the Associate Editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research. He is the member of the editorial board of International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology and ACCENTS Transactions on Information Security (ATIS). He is also the member of the editorial advisory board of HETC Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications . He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of BioInfo Soft Computing since 2013. He is the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Hybrid Intelligent Techniques for Image Analysis and Understanding of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, B. V. He is the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Computational Intelligence and Communications in International Journal of Computers and Applications (IJCA) ; Publisher: Taylor & Francis, UK in 2016. He is the Issue Editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research since January 2016. He is the General Chair of the 2016 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Network Security and Signal Processing (WCNSSP2016) to be held during June 26-27, 2016 at Chiang Mai, Thailand. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, hybrid intelligence and quantum computing. Dr. Bhattacharyya is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA. He is a member of International Rough Set Society and International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong. He is a life member of Computer Society of India, Optical Society of India and Indian Society for Technical Education.

Hrishikesh Bhaumik is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology at RCCIIT. Hrishikesh did his BSc. from Calcutta University in 1997, AMIE in Electronics and Comm. Engg in 2000 and M.Tech in Information Technology from BE College, Shibpur in 2004. He is with RCCIIT for more than thirteen years. Prior to joining RCCIIT he has worked with the Instrumentation Division of Lawrence & Mayo at Mumbai and Nasan Medical Instruments at Pune. In 2008, Hrishikesh received appreciation from Mr. Srikantan Moorty (Sr. Vice President & Head of Education and Research) at Infosys Technologies Ltd. for his contribution to the American Express sponsored project “XML Data Collection Component of Business Process Sniffer Tool” undertaken at Infosys Development Centre in Bhubneswar. He received several sponsorships from ICTP, Italy and acted as a major contributor to the EUIndia Grid project during 2010 to 2012. Hrishikesh has acted as a coordinator and resource person in several AICTE /ISTE sponsored workshops held in different parts of the India. He was previously the Head of Dept. of IT and acted as the Nodal Officer (Academic) of TEQIP II at RCCIIT. He was also the Convenor IIIC at RCCIIT. His research interests include Content Based Video Retrieval Systems, Text Mining and High Performance Computing.

Sourav De did his Bachelors in Information Technology from The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India in 2002. He did his Masters in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India in 2005. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Engineering & Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India since 2006. He served as a Junior Programmer in Apices Consultancy Private Limited, Kolkata, India in 2005. He has more than about 20 research publications in internationally reputed journals, international edited books and international IEEE conferences. He served as reviewer in several International IEEE conferences and also in several international editorial books. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He has been invited in different seminars as an expert speaker. He is a co-author of a proposed book on soft computing. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, image processing and data mining. Dr. De is a member of IEEE, ACM, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and IAENG, Hong Kong. He is a life member of ISTE, India.

Goran Klepac , PhD, University College Professor, works as a head of Strategic unit in Sector of credit risk in Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d., Croatia, Europe. In several universities in Croatia, he lectures subjects in domain of data mining, predictive analytics, decision support system, banking risk, risk evaluation models, expert system, database marketing and business intelligence. As a team leader, he successfully finished many data mining projects in different domains like retail, finance, insurance, hospitality, telecommunications, and productions. He is an author/coauthor of several books published in Croatian and English in domain of data mining. www.goranklepac.com