Petros Daras received the Diploma in electrical and computer engineering and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1999, 2002, and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Research Director and the Chair of the Visual Computing Lab coordinating the research effort of more than 80 scientists and engineers. His main research interests include visual content processing, multimedia indexing and machine learning. His involvement with those research areas has led to the coauthoring of more than 300 articles in refereed journals and international conferences.