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Majid Rabbani - received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the UW-Madison in 1983. He is currently an Eastman Kodak Research Fellow and the technology area leader of the image compression and video processing groups in the Imaging science Division of Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories. He is also involved in many educational activities at various academic institutions and at technical Societies. His short courses for NTU, SPIE, IS&T, IEEE, and SID have received several Best Instructor Awards.

He is the recipient of the 1988 Kodak C. E. K. Mees Award (Kodak's highest research honor) and the co-recipient of two Emmy Engineering Awards in 1990 and 1996. He continues to be a key participant at the International JPEG organization since its inception over a decade ago where he is currently the head of the JPEG-2000 Coding Efficiency Subgroup.

His current research interests span the various aspects of digital image and video processing where he has published over 50 technical articles and holds 19 patents. He is the co-author of the book "Digital Image Compression Techniques" published in 1991, the editor of the SPIE Milestone Series on "Image Coding and Compression", published in 1992, and a contributor to several book chapters in the area of image coding and image watermarking. He has organized and chaired numerous conferences in the area of image compression and visual communications. He is a Fellow of SPIE and a Fellow of IEEE.

M. Ibrahim Sezan - received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984. He is currently the Director of Information Systems and Technologies Department at Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Washington. From 1984 to 1996, he was with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, where he headed the Motion and Video Technology Area in the Imaging Research and Advanced Development Laboratories from 1992 to 1996. Dr. Sezan held adjunct faculty positions at University of Rochester, Syracuse University, and Rochester Institute of Technology. During 1988-1992, he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. From 1992 to 1994, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He contributed to the books Image Recovery: Theory and Application (Academic Press, 1987), Mathematics in Signal Processing (Oxford,1987), Handbook of Signal Processing (Marcell Dekker, 1988), Digital Image Restoration (Springer Verlag, 1991), Real-Time Optical Information Processing (Academic Press, 1994), Video Data Compression for Multimedia Computing (Kluwer, 1997), and edited Selected Papers in Digital Image Restoration (SPIE Milestone Series, 1992). He is the co-editor of the book Motion Analysis and Image Sequence Processing, published by Kluwer in 1993. His current research interests include audiovisual information understanding and smart processing with applications to filtering, archiving and navigation of multimedia information. Dr. Sezan is an active participant in the MPEG standards; he actively publishes and teaches in the area of image and video processing.

Gary J. Sullivan - received his Ph.D. and Engineer degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991. He is the Rapporteur/chairman of Advanced Video Coding in the ITU-T, where he has led its Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) [ITU-T Q.6/SG16] for about five years. He was also recently appointed as the Rapporteur/chairman of Video for the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) [ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11]. He is the project leader for the development of the next-generation "H.26L" video coding standard. He is also the editor of ITU-T Recommendation H.263, and he was the chief editor and chairman for the recent H.263+ and H.263++ projects for enhancement of that standard.

He is currently a software design engineer for Microsoft Corporation, were he designed the new DirectX Video Acceleration API/DDI that was recently released as part of DirectX 8. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1999, he was the Manager of Communication Core Research at PictureTel Corporation, the world leader in videoconferencing communication. He was previously a Howard Hughes Fellow and Member of the Technical Staff in the Advanced Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft Corporation and was a radar system software engineer for Texas Instruments.

His research interests and areas of publication include image and video compression, rate-distortion optimization, motion representation, scalar and vector quantization, error and packet loss resilient video coding, and video streaming.

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