Mohammed BennamounMohammed Bennamoun received his PhD from Queen's University, Canada/ Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia in the area of Computer Vision. He has been a full Professor and the Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineeing (CSSE) at the University of Western Australia (UWA) since 2007. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor at CSSE, a Senior Lecturer at QUT, and a Lecturer at Queen’s. He was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in 2006. He was also a Visiting Professor at several other institutions including CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Telecom Lille1, Helsinki University of Technology, University of Bourgogne and University of Paris 13. He is the co-author of the book “Object Recognition: Fundamentals and Case Studies” published by Springer-Verlag. He published over 140 journal and conference publications, and served as a guest editor for several special issues in international journals. His areas of interest include control theory, robotics, obstacle avoidance, object recognition, artificial neural networks, signal/image processing, and computer vision, and lately, in the development of tools for combining text and image analysis. Read More Read Less