A. N. Rajagopalan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He co-authored the book Depth from Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach in 1998. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Technical University of Munich in 2007 8, is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He also received the Outstanding Investigator Award from the Department of Atomic Energy, India in 2012.