Dr. Vijayan K. Asari is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ohio Research Scholars Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance at the University of Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is the director of the Center of Excellence for Computational Intelligence and Machine Vision (Vision Lab) at UD. Dr. Asari received his BS in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Kerala, India in 1978, MTech and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1984 and 1994, respectively. Prior to joining UD in February 2010, Dr. Asari worked as Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He holds five patents and has published more than 700 research papers, including 142 peer-reviewed journal papers in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition. He has attended more than 200 research meetings for presenting research that include 18 keynote talks, 90 invited talks, and several paper presentations in 30 countries. Dr. Asari has supervised 32 doctoral dissertations and 50 MS theses in electrical and computer engineering. Currently, several graduate students are working with him. Dr. Asari has managed more than USD 27M research funding as PI or Co-PI in several research funding from federal and private agencies. Dr. Asari has received several awards for teaching, research, advising, and technical leadership. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an elected Fellow of SPIE