Peter Schelkens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Peter Schelkens is currently a Professor in the Department and Electronics and Informatics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also holds a post-doctoral fellowship with the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO), Belgium, is director of the VUB section of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), and is a scientific advisor to the DESICS division of the Inter-university Microelectronics Institute (IMEC). Alongside these posts, he coordinates a research team in the field of image/video compression and multimedia communication that is working on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG2000), WG11 (MPEG) and DVB standardization activities, and he is the Belgian head of delegation for the ISO/IEC JPEG standardization committee. Professor Schelkens is author/co-author of several scientific publications and patents, and has participated in several national and international projects. He is Editor of the International Journal of Signal and Image Systems Engineering (IJSISE) and is active in several Belgian research networks.
Athanassios Skodras, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Athanassios Skodras is Head of Computer Science in the School of Science & Technology at the Hellenic Open University. He also teaches source coding at postgraduate level at the University of Patras. He is the national representative for the standardization body and has been working on the JPEG2000 standard since 1998. He has co-authored a number of well-cited journal and conference papers on JPEG, namely "The JPEG2000 Still Image Coding System: An Overview" for the IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics and "The JPEG2000 Still Image Compression Standard" in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Professor Skodras has authors/co-authored six books in Greek, and is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing.
Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
Touradj Ebrahimi is currently a Professor at the ??cole Technique F??d??rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he is active in research and teaching in the fields of media technologies and interactivity. In addition to this, he is a member of the advisory board for a number of international laboratories, an expert at the European Commission for Research Programs in IT, Head of the Swiss Delegation of various standard committees, including MPEG and JPEG, and Associate Editor for the publications IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Optical Engineering Magazine (SPIE) and Image Communication Journal (EURASIP). In addition to this, he has authored over 100 chapters and articles in books, scientific journals and conference proceedings, holds 10 patents, and has been awarded the ISO Certificate for outstanding contributions to JPEG2000 standardization.
