Michal Šorel received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1999 and 2007, respectively. From 2012 to 2013 he worked on a range of research topics in light-field imaging at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland and the University of Bern, Switzerland. Currently he is a research fellow in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He is a member of the IEEE.
All aspects of digital image processing and pattern recognition; particularly image and video retrieval, forensics, facial expressions recognition and multimodal HCI.
Babak received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the West Bohemia University, Plzen, Czech Rebpublic and the Ph.D. degree from the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was on a postdoctoral position in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He has been awarded by the city of New York (New York Next Idea 2011), České hlava 2011 (category called “Industrie”), and Otto Wichterle award (an honour given by the Czech Academy of Sciences).