Rui Song received his Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Xidian University, Xián, China in 2009. He is currently a professor and Ph.D. advisor at the State Key Laboratory of Integrate Service Network, School of Tele-communications at Xidian University. His research interests include image and video coding algorithms and VLSI architecture design, intelligent image processing, and understanding and reconstruction of 3D scenes.