Cheng-Lin Liu received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, the M.E. degree in electronic engineering from Beijing Polytechnic University (currently Beijing University of Technology), Beijing, China, the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent control from the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1989, 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and later at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology from March 1996 to March 1999. From 1999 to 2004, he was a research staff member and later a senior researcher at the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. From 2005, he has been a Professor at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and is now the director of the laboratory.

His research interests include pattern recognition, image processing, neural networks, machine learning, and especially the applications to character recognition and document analysis. He has contributed many effective methods to different aspects of handwritten document analysis, including image pre-processing, page segmentation, feature extraction, classifier design, and character string recognition. His algorithms have yielded superior performance, and have been transferred to industrial applications including mail sorting, form processing and Web document retrieval. He has published over 300 technical papers in journals and conferences, including IEEE T-PAMI, IJCV, Pattern Recognition, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-IP, ICPR, ICDAR, CVPR, ICDM, AAAI and IJCAI. He won the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award of 2005, and received the Outstanding Youth Fund of NSFC in 2008. He is an associate Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Journal and Acta Automatica Sinica, an associate editor of International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Cognitive Computation, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, CAAI Trans. Intelligence Technology, CAAI Trans. Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics. He is a Vice President of Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the 2nd Vice President of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is a Fellow of the CAA, CAAI, IAPR and the IEEE.

Jie Yang received a bachelor’s degree in Automatic Control in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where a master’s degree in Pattern Recognition & Intelligent System was achieved three years later. In 1994, he received Ph.D. at Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany. Now he is the Professor and Director of Institute of Image Processing and Pattern recognition in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the principal investigator of more than 30 national and ministry scientific research projects in image processing, pattern recognition, data mining, and artificial intelligence. He has published six books，more than five hundreds of articles in national or international academic journals and conferences. Up to now, he has supervised 5 postdoctoral, 36 doctors and 66 masters, awarded eight research achievement prizes from ministry of Education, China and Shanghai municipality. Two Ph.D. dissertation he supervised was evaluated as “National Best Ph.D. Dissertation” in 2009, in 2017, in 2019.  He has owned 48 patents.

Linlin Shen received the BSc and MEng degrees from Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. He was a Research Fellow with the University of Nottingham, working on MRI brain image processing. Prof. Shen is currently the “Pengcheng Scholar” Distinguished Professor at School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. He is also an Honorary professor at School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK and Visiting Professor at School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. He serves as the director of Computer Vision Institute, AI Research Center for Medical Image Analysis and Diagnosis and China-UK joint research lab for visual information processing. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IET journal of Cognitive Computation and Systems. He is listed as the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier, and listed in a ranking of the top 2% of scientists in the world by Stanford University. He received the Most Cited Paper Award from the journal of Image and Vision Computing. His cell classification algorithms were the winners of the International Contest on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunofluorescence Images held by ICIP 2013 and ICPR 2016.

Shi Zhenghao, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Member of the Academic Committee of Xi'an University of Technology, Outstanding Member of CCF, IEEE Senior Member, "500 Elite Talents" of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, Executive Director of Shaanxi Computer Society, Chairman of the "Computer Vision Technology Professional Committee" of Shaanxi Computer Society, Vice Chairman of the "Biomedical Intelligent Computing Professional Committee" of Shaanxi Computer Society, Head of the "Intelligent Image Processing and Application" research team at Xi'an Technological University, with main research directions in machine vision, medical image processing, and machine learning. Published 60 academic papers as first author or corresponding author, authorized 15 invention patents (including 1 South African invention patent), won 2 second prizes of Shaanxi Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first), 1 second prize of Xi'an Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first), and 3 second prizes of Shaanxi Higher Education Science and Technology Award (ranked first). Firstly, One second prize for scientific and technological progress from Shaanxi Computer Society (ranked first), one first prize for technological invention from Shaanxi Computer Society (ranked first), and the "Wiley China Open Science High Contribution Author" award.