Ioannis Kompatsiaris Editor

Stefanos Vrochidis is a Senior Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute (CERTH-ITI) in Greece. His research interests include multimedia retrieval, semantic multimedia analysis, multimodal big data analytics, web data mining, multimodal interaction and security applications.

Benoit Huet is Assistant Professor in the Data Science Department of EURECOM, France. His current research interests include large scale multimedia content analysis, mining and indexing, multimodal fusion, and affective and socially-aware multimedia.

Edward Y. Chang has acted as the President of AI Research and Healthcare at HTC since 2012. Prior to his current post, he was a director of research at Google from 2006 to 2012, and a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1999 to 2006. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contribution to scalable machine learning.

Ioannis Kompatsiaris is a Senior Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute (CERTH-ITI) in Greece, leading the Multimedia, Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Lab. His research interests include large-scale multimedia and social media analysis, knowledge structures and reasoning, eHealth, security and environmental applications.