Dr. Punitha P. Swamy is currently associated as a Professor with the Department of Master of Computer Applications at the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Her research interests include Image processing and pattern recognition, content based image retrieval, diversity and re-ranking, spatial reasoning, video analytics - shot segmentation, video summarization, story segmentation, intelligent vehicles - sign board recognition, license plate recognition, data mining, machine intelligence, document image analysis - skew detection and correction, archival and retrieval. Previously, Dr. Punitha was a Post Doctoral Researcher within the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group in the Department of Computing Science, Glasgow, Scotland from 2006-2010. During her tenure at University of Glasgow, she collaborated with many research teams and published many research articles. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Mysore in 2006. Dr. Punitha completed her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, Mysore in 1999 and 2001, respectively. She has published more than 45 research articles in refereed international journals like IEEE Transactions, PR and PRL and Conference Proceedings like SIGIR, ECIR, CIVR, ACM. She has been identified as an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management and as a reviewer for top journals of IEEE Transactions, PRL and for many Conference Proceedings.

Dr. D. S. Guru is associated as an Associate Professor with the Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore. He has completed his Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Mysore in 2000. He has published more than 200 research papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. He has served as a Program Chair for International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, 2009, Mysore. Eleven students have received Doctorate under hissupervision and seven more students are presently under his able guidance. Dr. Guru has been identified as a reviewer for the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters, Journal of Pattern Recognition, Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Journal of Image and Vision Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.