Nicu Sebe received his PhD degree from Leiden University in 2001. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His main interest is in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition, in particular content-based retrieval and robust techniques in computer vision. He was co-editing the proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2002. He is also acting as the technical program co-chair for the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2003.
Michael S. Lew received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from