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degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Seoul, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Texas at Austin, in 2000. He is a full professor in
the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei
University. His research interests include image/video quality
assessment, computer vision, graphics, cloud computing, multimedia communications, and wireless networks. He has been an
associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters and Journal
of Electronic Imaging as well as chair of the IEEE P3333.1
Quality Assessment Working Group. He currently serves as a
member of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical
Committee (TC) and the IEEE IVMSP TC and the APSIPA
IVM TC vice chair.
Lei Zhang (cslzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk) received his B.S.
degree from Shenyang Institute of Aeronautical Engineering,
China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern
Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. He is a chair professor in
the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University. His research interests include computer vision,
pattern recognition, image and video analysis, and biometrics.
He has published more than 200 papers in those areas, and, as
of 2017, his publications have been cited more than 26,000 times
in the literature. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, and
Image and Vision Computing and was selected as a Web of
Science Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters.
Alan C. Bovik (bovik@ece.utexas.edu) received the B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois in 1980,
1982, and 1984, respectively. He is a Cockrell Family Regents
Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
He received the 2017 Edwin H. Land Medal from the Optical
Society of America, a 2015 Prime-Time Emmy Engineering
Award, and the 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Society
Award. He has published The Handbook of Image and Video
Processing, Modern Image Quality Assessment, and The
Essential Guide to Image and Video Processing. He cofounded
and was the longest-serving editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing. He also created the IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing in Austin, Texas, in 1994. He is
a Fellow of the IEEE.

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