Prof. Pedro Couto graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal, in 1999. He obtained a Master's degree in Engineering Technologies in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Vision) in 2007 from UTAD. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the engineering department of the School of Science and Technology at UTAD. He is also the deputy director of the Associated Laboratory Inov4Agro, “Institute for Innovation, Capacity Building, and Sustainability of Agri-Food Production,” and an integrated member of the Center for Research and Technologies in Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB) at UTAD. His main scientific areas of research are computer vision, digital image processing, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers and has participated in more than 20 research projects.