Dr. Michalis Vrigkas is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Macedonia at the Department of Communication and Digital Media, Kastoria, Greece. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece, and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the same institution. In the past, he has spent two years at the University of Houston, TX, USA where he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Computational Biomedicine Lab and at the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation & Statistics. He has participated in several EU and National funded ICT research projects, while in recognition his research and scientific activity he has received several international achievements and awards. His research covers a wide range of topics such as Computer Vision, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Image and Video Processing, Image Analysis, and Machine Learning.