Rastislav Lukac received the M.S. (Ing.) and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from the Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. From February 2001 to August 2002, he was an assistant professor with the Department of Electronics and Multimedia Communications at the Technical University of Kosice. From August 2002 to July 2003, he was a researcher with the Slovak Image Processing Center in Dobsina, Slovak Republic. From January 2003 to March 2003, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. From May 2003 to August 2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Since September 2006, he has been a senior image processing scientist and software developer at Epson Edge, Epson Canada Ltd., Toronto, Canada. He is a contributor to four books, and he has published over 200 papers in the areas of digital camera image processing, color image and video processing, multimedia security, and microarray image processing.

Dr. Rastislav Lukac
e-mail: lukacr AT ieee.org
e-mail: lukacr AT colorimageprocessing.com
web: http://www.colorimageprocessing.com

Dr. Lukac is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), and IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Consumer Electronics, and IEEE Signal Processing societies. He is an editor of the book Color Image Processing: Methods and Applications (Boca Raton, FL., CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, 2006). He is a guest editor of the Real-Time Imaging, Special Issue on Multi-Dimensional Image Processing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Special Issue on Color Image Processing, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Special Issue on Applied Color Image Processing, and International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Facial Image Processing and Analysis. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. He serves as a technical reviewer for various scientific journals, and he participates as a member of numerous international conference committees. In 2003, he was the recipient of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization / National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NATO/NSERC) Science Award.