Prof. Vitaly Kober received his M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in applied mathematics from the Air-Space University of Samara, Samara, Russia, in 1984, and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in digital image processing from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in 1992 and 2004, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Center of Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Mexico, and Chelyabinsk State University, Russia. He is also a Senior Researcher with the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include signal and image processing and pattern recognition.