Alan HanjalicAlan Hanjalic is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Multimedia Information Retrieval lab at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Research interests and expertise of Dr. Hanjalic are in the area of multimedia signal processig, with focus on multimedia information retrieval. He (co-) authored and (co-)edited more than 100 publications, among which the books titled Image and Video Databases: Restoration, Watermarking and Retrieval (Elsevier, 2000) and Content-Based Analysis of Digital Video (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004) and several journal special issues, among which those in the Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Dr. Hanjalic was a keynote speaker at the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2007 and is an elected member of the IEEE TC on Multimedia Signal Processing. He has been on editorial boards of several journals in the field of multimedia, among which the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. He has held key positions in the organizing committees in major multimedia conferences, such as ACM Multimedia (General Chair, Program Chair), IEEE ICME (Program Chair), ACM CIVR (Program Chair), ACM ICMR (Program Chair) and the WWW conference (Track Chair). Read More Read Less