Marcello Pelillo is a Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, where he leads the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab which he established in 1995. He has been the Director of the European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT) and has held visiting research positions at Yale University (USA), University College London (UK), McGill University (Canada), University of Vienna (Austria), York University (UK), NICTA (Australia), Wuhan University (China), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China), South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China). He is an external affiliate of the Computer Science Department at Drexel University (USA) and of the Italian Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition where he has published more than 200 technical papers in refereed journals, handbooks, and conference proceedings. He has been General Chair for ICCV 2017, Program Chair for ICPR 2020, and he is regularly an Area Chair for the major conferences of his field. He is the Chief Editor of Frontiers in Computer Science – Computer Vision, and serves (or has served) on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, IET Computer Vision, Visual Intelligence, etc. He is also on the Advisory Board of Springer’s International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. Prof. Pelillo is Fellow of the IEEE, the IAPR, and the AAIA, and is an IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecturer.