M. Reha Civanlar received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, all in electrical engineering. From 1984 to 1987, he was a Researcher in the Center for Communications and Signal Processing, NCSU, where he worked on image restoration, reconstruction, and coding, and data communications systems. In 1988, he joined the Pixel Machines Department, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, where his work focused on parallel architectures and algorithms for image and volume processing. Since 1991, he has been a member of the Visual Communications Research Department of AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, NJ, working on various aspects of video communications. In 1999, he became a Department Head. His current research interests include packet video systems, networked video and multimedia applications, with particular emphasis on the Internet, video coding, and digital data transmissions. He has numerous publications, several contributions to the international multimedia communications standards, and more than 20 patents either granted or pending. Dr. Civanlar is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and EURASIP Image Communications. He is a member of the IMDSP and MMSP technical committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a recipient of the 1985 Senior Award of the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society, a Fulbright Scholar, and a member of Sigma Xi.

Juan Carlos De Martin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Information Engineering at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy.
His research focus is on multimedia processing and transmission.
Between 1993 and 1995 Dr. De Martin was a Visiting Scholar at the Signal Compression Laboratory of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 1996 and 1998 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments' Media Technologies Laboratory in Dallas, USA.
Between 1998 and 2005 he was a researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Information and Telecommunications Engineering (IEIIT) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Torino, where he led the research group on multimedia communications.
Juan Carlos De Martin is the author of over 70 international scientific publications and of several patents. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE); he is also a member of the IEEE Multimedia Communications and of the IEEE Signal Processing Education Technical Committees. Dr. De Martin is an Expert Evaluator of Research Programs for the Italian Ministry of University and Research and for the Ministry of Productive Activities.

Alexander D. Gelman (ME, PhD, Electrical Engineering, City University of New York) is Chief Scientist at Panasonic Princeton Research Laboratory managing research programs in consumer communications and networking. From 1984-1998, he was with Bellcore, as Director, Residential Internet Access Architectures Research. Alex pioneered the DSLAM/Router architecture for DSL-based Broadband Access, served as advisor for Bell Atlantic on the ADSL trial, and architected Telia's DSL Multimedia and Internet Access trial. He has numerous publications and holds some of the earliest DSL system patents (e.g., on xDSL-based Access Router). Alex organized ComSoc conferences and workshops, and served in various editorial roles in IEEE Communications Magazine, JSAC, and JCN. Alex has served on the inaugural Steering Committees for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and the ICME. He initiated the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conferences, ComSoc.s Power Line Communications technical activities, the creation of ComSoc.s Standards Board, and the sponsorship of standardization in the areas of PLC and cognitive radio. Alex served as Chair of the Multimedia Technical Committee, VP-Society Relations, and VP-Membership Development. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of IEEE Standards Association, on the IEEE Transnational Committee, and as ComSoc.s Director of Standards.

Jerry D. Gibson is Professor of Media Arts & Technology and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author of the books Digital Compression for Multimedia (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1998) and Introduction to Nonparametric Detection with Applications (Academic Press, 1975 and IEEE Press, 1995) and author of the textbook, Principles of Digital and Analog Communications (Prentice-Hall, second ed., 1993). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Mobile Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 1999), Editor-in-Chief of The Communications Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 2002), and Editor of the book, Multimedia Communications: Directions and Innovations (Academic Press, 2000).
Dr. Gibson was Associate Editor for Speech Processing for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1981 to 1985 and Associate Editor for Communications for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1988-1991. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1996, and a member of the Speech Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1992-1994. Dr. Gibson served as Technical Program Chair of the 1999 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Technical Program Chair of the 1997 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, and General Co-Chair of the 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. Currently, he serves on the Steering Committee for the Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. He is an elected Member-at-Large on the Communications Society Board of Governors for 2005-2007, and he serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
In 1990, Dr. Gibson received The Fredrick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and in 1992, was elected Fellow of the IEEE 'for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive prediction and speech waveform coding.' He was co-recipient of the 1993 IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Paper Award for the Speech Processing area.
His research interests include data, speech, image, and video compression, multimedia over networks, wireless communications, information theory, and digital signal processing.

Levent Onural was born in Izmir, Turkey in 1957. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985. He was a Fulbright scholar between 1981 and 1985. After a Research Assistant Professor position at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of State University of New York at Buffalo, he joined the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, where he is a Professor at present.
His current research interests are in the areas of image and video processing with emphasis on very low bit rate video coding, texture modeling, non-linear filtering, holographic TV and signal processing aspects of optical wave propagation. He has published more than 100 papers and received about 500 citations. He and his team have contributed to MPEG-4 activities through COST211 Analysis Model. Currently, he is the Coordinator of EC funded 3DTV Project.
Dr. Onural is a senior member of IEEE. He was the general co-chair of IEEE 2000 International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP'2000. Dr. Onural was the Director of IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa and Middle East), and a member of IEEE Board of Directors, which is the highest board of IEEE, between 2001-2003. He was a member of IEEE Assembly in 2001-2002. He served as the 2003 Secretary of IEEE, and he was a member of IEEE Executive Committee in 2003. Levent Onural was nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors to the position of 2005 IEEE President-elect (2006 IEEE President); he is the first person from outside of North America nominated for this position in 120 years of history of IEEE. Levent Onural is a recipient of IEEE Third Millenium Medal. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

M. Oguz Sunay has been a faculty at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Koc¸ University,Istanbul, Turkey since January 2001. From 1996 to 1998 he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center, Irving, Texas, USA and from 1998 to 2001 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Whippany, New Jersey, USA. He received his BSc degree from METU, Ankara, Turkey and his MSc and PhD degrees from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His current research interests include cross-layer, spectrally efficient design of wireless air interfaces, adaptive resource allocation techniques for wireless packet data transmission, intelligent antennas and hybrid- ARQ techniques. He has authored numerous articles in these areas at refereed journals and international conferences and has over 10 issued and pending US and European patents. He has served and contributed in various telecommunications standards bodies on cdma2000, 1xEV-DO and 1xEV-DV. Dr Sunay was a guest co-editor for the January 2000 issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine, titled 'Telecommunications at the Start of the New Millennium'. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters in the area of wireless communications. He is listed in Marquis' Who is Who in the World.