Kidiyo Kpalma received his PhD in Image Processing from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes (INSA) in 1992 and his HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) in Signal processing and Telecommunications from the University of Rennes 1 in 2009 in France. He is currently Full Professor at INSA where he teaches signals and systems, signal processing and DSP. As a member of the Image department of the Institut d’Electronique et des Technologies du numéRique (IETR), his research interests are image analysis, pattern recognition, image segmentation, image fusion and remote sensing.