Tamas Sziranyi received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, in 1991 and 2001, respectively. He has been a research scientist with Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) since 1992, where he leads the Machine Perception Research Laboratory since 2006. He is currently a full-time professor with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His research activities include machine perception, pattern recognition, texture and motion segmentation, Markov random fields and stochastic optimization, remote sensing, surveillance, intelligent networked sensor systems, graph-based clustering, and digital film restoration.