Intelligent Analysis of Multimedia Information

Hrishikesh Bhaumik is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology at RCCIIT. Hrishikesh did his BSc. from Calcutta University in 1997, AMIE in Electronics and Comm. Engg in 2000 and M.Tech in Information Technology from BE College, Shibpur in 2004. He is with RCCIIT for more than thirteen years. Prior to joining RCCIIT he has worked with the Instrumentation Division of Lawrence & Mayo at Mumbai and Nasan Medical Instruments at Pune. In 2008, Hrishikesh received appreciation from Mr. Srikantan Moorty (Sr. Vice President & Head of Education and Research) at Infosys Technologies Ltd. for his contribution to the American Express sponsored project “XML Data Collection Component of Business Process Sniffer Tool” undertaken at Infosys Development Centre in Bhubneswar. He received several sponsorships from ICTP, Italy and acted as a major contributor to the EUIndia Grid project during 2010 to 2012. Hrishikesh has acted as a coordinator and resource person in several AICTE /ISTE sponsored workshops held in different parts of the India. He was previously the Head of Dept. of IT and acted as the Nodal Officer (Academic) of TEQIP II at RCCIIT. He was also the Convenor IIIC at RCCIIT. His research interests include Content Based Video Retrieval Systems, Text Mining and High Performance Computing.

Sourav De did his Bachelors in Information Technology from The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India in 2002. He did his Masters in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India in 2005. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Engineering & Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India since 2006. He served as a Junior Programmer in Apices Consultancy Private Limited, Kolkata, India in 2005. He has more than about 20 research publications in internationally reputed journals, international edited books and international IEEE conferences. He served as reviewer in several International IEEE conferences and also in several international editorial books. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He has been invited in different seminars as an expert speaker. He is a co-author of a proposed book on soft computing. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, image processing and data mining. Dr. De is a member of IEEE, ACM, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and IAENG, Hong Kong. He is a life member of ISTE, India.

Goran Klepac, PhD, University College Professor, works as a head of Strategic unit in Sector of credit risk in Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d., Croatia, Europe. In several universities in Croatia, he lectures subjects in domain of data mining, predictive analytics, decision support system, banking risk, risk evaluation models, expert system, database marketing and business intelligence. As a team leader, he successfully finished many data mining projects in different domains like retail, finance, insurance, hospitality, telecommunications, and productions. He is an author/coauthor of several books published in Croatian and English in domain of data mining. www.goranklepac.com [Editor]