About the Author: Jan Flusser is a professor of Computer Science and a director of the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. His research interest covers moments and moment invariants, image registration, image fusion, multichannel blind deconvolution, and super-resolution imaging. He has authored and coauthored more than 200 research publications, including the monograph Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition (Wiley, 2009), and has delivered 20 tutorials and invited/keynote talks at major conferences. His publications have received about 10,000 citations. Jan Flusser received several scientific awards and prizes, such as the Award of the Chairman of the Czech Science Foundation (2007), the Prize of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2007), the SCOPUS 1000 Award presented by Elsevier (2010), and the Felber Medal of the Czech Technical University for excellent contribution to research and education (2015).
Tomás Suk received a Ph.D degree in computer science from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is a senior research fellow with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. His research interests include invariant features, moment and point-based invariants, color spaces, geometric transformations, and applications in botany, remote sensing, astronomy, medicine, and computer vision. He has authored and coauthored more than 30 journal papers and 50 conference papers in these areas, including tutorials on moment invariants held at the conferences ICIP'07 and SPPRA'09. He coauthored the monograph Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition (Wiley, 2009). His publications have received about 1000 citations. In 2002 he received the Otto Wichterle Premium of the Czech Academy of Sciences for young scientists.
Barbara Zitová received her Ph.D degree in software systems from the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2000. She is a head of Department of Image Processing at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. She teaches courses on Digital Image Processing and Wavelets in Image Processing. Her research interests include geometric invariants, image enhancement, image registration, image fusion, medical image processing, and applications in cultural heritage. She has authored/coauthored more than 70 research publications in these areas, including the monograph Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition (Wiley, 2009). In 2003 Barbara Zitová received the Josef Hlavka Student Prize, the Otto Wichterle Premium of the Czech Academy of Sciences for young scientists in 2006, and in 2010 she was awarded by the SCOPUS 1000 Award for receiving more than 1000 citations of a single paper.