Prof. Dr. Manuel Jesus Marín-Jiménez received BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from the University of Granada, Spain. He has worked as a visiting student at the Computer Vision Center of Barcelona (Spain), Vislab-ISR/IST of Lisboa (Portugal), and the Visual Geometry Group of Oxford (UK) and as a visiting researcher at INRIA-Grenoble (Perception team), the Human Sensing Lab (CMU), and Osaka University. He has been the co-author of more than 80 technical papers from international venues and serves as a reviewer of top computer vision and pattern recognition journals. Currently, he works as a full professor at the University of Cordoba (Spain). In addition, he is a member of the Governing Board of AERFAI (the Spanish Association of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis). His research interests include object detection, human-centric video understanding (including biometrics), visual SLAM, and machine learning.