Roumen Kountchev, Ph.D., D. Sc. is a professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria.His scientific areas of interest are: digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. Prof. Kountchev has 400 papers published in magazines and conference proceedings; 20 books; 48 book chapters; 20 patents. He had been the principal investigator of 52 research projects. At present, he is a member of the Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and the President of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of IAPR). Editor in Chief of International Journal of Image Processing and Vision Science. Editorial board member of: International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; International Journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science Journal; International Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and International Journal Intelligent Decision Technologies; International Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health. Member of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and International Engineering and Technology Institute. He has been a plenary speaker at more than 30 international scientific conferences and symposia.