Andreas Dengel is a scientific director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern. In 1993, he became a professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern, where he holds the position of the chair of Knowledge-Based Systems, and since 2009, he has been appointed a professor (Kyakuin) at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the Osaka Prefecture University. He received his diploma in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern and his Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart. He has also worked at IBM, Siemens and Xerox Parc. Andreas is a member of several international advisory boards, has chaired major international conferences, and founded several successful start-up companies. Moreover, he is a co-editor of international computer science journals and has written or edited 12 books. He is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has supervised more than 170 Ph.D. and master’s theses. Andreas is an IAPR Fellow and has received prominent international awards. His main scientific emphasis is in the areas of pattern recognition, document understanding, information retrieval, multimedia mining, semantic technologies and social media.