Marc Van Droogenbroeck received the degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. While working toward the Ph.D, he spent two years with the Center of Mathematical Morphology (CMM), School of Mines of Paris, Fontainebleau, France. In April 1994, he joined the New Development Department of Belgacom. He was the Head of the Belgian Delegation within the ISO/MPEG Committee and served as a Representative to the World Wide Web Consortium for two years. In 2003, he was a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO, Sydney, Australia. Since 1998, he has been a Member of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he is a full Professor. His current interests include computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, real-time processing, motion analysis, soccer analysis, driver monitoring, and exoplanet detection.