Ioannis Pitas, IEEE fellow, received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of intelligent digital media, image/video processing (2D/3D) and human-centered interfaces. He has published over 700 papers, contributed in 39 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 9 books. He has been invited speaker and/or member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past, he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of eight international journals and he was General or Technical Chair of four international conferences (including ICIP2001). He participated in 67 R&D projects on digital media, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 40 such projects. He has 16500+ citations to his work and h-index 63+ (2013).