Gian Luca Foresti is a full professor of computer science at the University of Udine and director of the dept. of mathematics, computer science and physics. He was Finance Chair of the 11th IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP05), General Chair of the 16th Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP11) and of the 8th IEEE Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS11). His main interests involve computer vision and artificial intelligence, multisensor data and information fusion, pattern recognition and machine learning. Prof. Foresti is the author of more than 400 papers published in international journals and international conferences. He has been guest editor of a special issue of the proceedings of the IEEE on “Video Communications, Processing and Understanding for Third Generation Surveillance Systems”. In 2002, he was awarded the best IEEE Vehicular Electronics paper, in 2010 and 2019 the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2010) and in 2016 the Best Industry Related Paper Award (BIRPA) at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR16). Prof. Foresti is a Fellow of IAPR, a senior member of IEEE and president of the Italian Association on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (CVPL).