Biographical sketches of authors

Nalini K. Ratha   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: ratha@us.ibm.com). Dr. Ratha is a research staff member in the Exploratory Computer Vision Group. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Michigan State University in 1996, working in the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory. His research interests include automated biometrics, computer vision, image processing, reconfigurable computing architectures, and performance evaluation.

Jonathan H. Connell   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: jconnell@us.ibm.com). Dr. Connell is a research staff member in the Exploratory Computer Vision Group. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1989 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with Rod Brooks on behavior-based mobile robot control. His research interests include robotics, vision, natural language, and complete artificial intelligence systems.

Ruud M. Bolle   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: bolle@us.ibm.com). Dr. Bolle is the founding manager of the Exploratory Computer Vision Group. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 1984. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AIPR and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. His research interests are focussed on video database indexing, video processing, visual human-computer interaction, and biometrics.