Recent Advances in Computer Vision

Mahmoud Hassaballah was born in 1974 in Qena, Egypt. He received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1997, and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2003, both from South Valley University, Egypt. In April 2008, he joined the Lab of Intelligence Communication at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Ehime University, Japan as a Ph.D. student, where he received a Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng.) in Computer Science in September 2011 for his work on facial features detection. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the South Valley University's Faculty of Computers and Information. His research interests include feature extraction, object detection/recognition, biometrics, image processing, computer vision, machine learning, and data hiding.Khalid Hosny was born in 1966 in Zagazig, Egypt. He is a Professor of Information Technology, Faculty of Computers and Informatics at Zagazig University in Egypt. Prof. Hosny received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the same university in 1988, 1994, and 2000 respectively. From 1997 to 1999 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of Cincinnati in the USA. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, multimedia and computer vision. Prof. Hosny has published more than 60 papers in international journals, and he is an editor and scientific reviewer for more than 30 international journals.