Prof. Dr. Rafael Medina-Carnicer received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Sevilla (Spain) in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree from the University Politecnic of Madrid (Spain) in 1992. He was the founder of the Artificial Vision Group of Cordoba University in 1998 and currently is this group's leader. Since then, he has worked with the Department of Computing and Numerical Analysis of Cordoba University, where he is currently a full professor. His research is focused mainly on computer vision and image processing. He has co-authored more than one hundred papers in conferences, books, and top-ranked journals. He has advised many Ph.D. students and led more than fifteen projects, both industrial and scientific. As a teacher, he has taught for more than thirty years. He is also the leader of the Artificial Vision Group at the Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba (IMIBIC).