Ryszard S. Choras received the MSc degree in electronics engineering and the PhD degree in computer engineering both from the Faculty of Electronic of the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland. He received DSc (habilitation) in computer science from the Faculty of Electronics of the Technical University of Warsaw. He is currently Professor in the Institute of Telecommunications & Computer Sciences of the UTP University of Science and Technology , Bydgoszcz, Poland. Ryszard S. Choras. He is currently Full Professor in the Institute of Telecommunications & Computer Science of the UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland. His research experience covers image processing and analysis, image coding, feature extraction and computer vision. At present, he is working in the field of image retrieval and indexing, mainly in low- and high-level features extraction and knowledge extraction in CBIR systems. He is the author of Computer Vision. Methods of Image Interpretation and Identification (2005) and more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings. He is the member of the Polish Cybernetical Society, Polish Neural Networks Society, IASTED, and the Polish Image Processing Association.

Dr. Ryszard S. Choras's research interests include: Image processing and analysis Image coding Feature extraction Computer vision