Prof. MA Songde received the B.S. degree in Automatic control from Tsinghua University, P.R.China in 1968. He received the Ph.D degree in 1983 and the "Doctorat d'Etat es Science" degree in 1986 from University of Paris 6 in image processing and Computer Vision. He was an invited researcher in the computer vision laboratory of University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 1983 and an invited researcher in the robot vision laboratory in INRIA, France in 1984-1986. Since 1986, he has been a researcher professor in the National Pattern Recognition Laboratory of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been the president of the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1996. He is the chief editor of the Chinese Journal on Automation, associate editor of the International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artifitial Intelligence. He is the author or co-author of over 200 papers in the International Journals or Conferences. He obtained the Best Paper Award and Best Technique Award in Eurographic'85 and the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989. His current research interests include image processing, 3D computer vision, and multimedia technology. Prof Ma Songde is an IEEE Senior member.

My lab is part of the Perceptual Science Group in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and focuses on topics in human and machine vision, including mid-level vision, lightness perception, motion analysis, perceptual organization, and image data compression.

Michitaka Hirose is an professor of systems engineering in the Department of Mechano-Informatics at the University of Tokyo.
His research interests include human interface, interactive computer graphics and virtual reality. Hirose received BE, ME and Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979 and 1982 respectively. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, SICE and JSME.

Sun-Yuan Kung was born in Taiwan on January 2, 1950. He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1971; M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1974; and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1977. From 1977 to 1987, he was on the faculty of Electrical Engineering-Systems at the University of Southern California. In 1984, he was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and later in the same year, a visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology. Since September 1987, he has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. He currently serves on the IEEE Technical Committees on VLSI Signal Processing and Neural Networks and an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. Membership in Societies: IEEE (Fellow), ACM (Member).