**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Donato Impedovo** is an associate professor with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari (Italy). He received a M.Eng. degree cum laude in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. His research interests lay in the field of signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and biometrics. He is co-author of more than 100 articles in these fields in both international journals and conference proceedings. He received the distinction award in May 2009 at the International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems (CORES – endorsed by IAPR), and the first prize of the first Nereus-Euroavia Academic competition on GMES in October 2012. Prof. Impedovo is also involved in research transfer activities as well as in industrial research; he has managed more than 30 projects funded by public institutions as well as by private SMEs. He serves as reviewer and rapporteur for the EU and national project evaluation. Prof. Impedovo is IEEE Access Associate Editor and serves as reviewer for many international journals including IEEE T-SMC, IEEE T-TETC, IEEE T-IFS, Pattern Recognition, Information Science, and many others. He was the general co-chair of the International Workshop on Smart Cities and Smart Enterprises (SCSE2018), the International Workshop On Artificial Intelligence With Application In Health (WAIAH2017), the International Workshop on Emergent Aspects in Handwritten Signature Processing (EAHSP 2013), and the International Workshop on Image-Based Smart City Application (ISCA 2015). He was an Editor of the Special Issue entitled "Behavioral Biometrics for eHealth and Well-Being" of IEEE Access in 2020, the Special Issue entitled "Artificial Intelligence Applications to Smart City and Smart Enterprise" of MDPI Applied Sciences in 2019, the Special Issue on "eHealth and Artificial Intelligence" of MDPI Information jornal in 2018, the Special Issue on "Handwriting Recognition and Other PR Applications" of Pattern Recognition in 2014, and the Special Issue "Handwriting Biometrics" of IET *Biometrics* in 2014. He is a reviewer in the scientific committee and on the program committee of many international conferences in the field of computer science, pattern recognition, and signal processing, such as the ICPR and ICASSP. He is an IAPR and IEEE Senior Member.

**Giuseppe Pirlo** received his degree in Computer Science (cum laude) from the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy, in 1986. Since 1986, he has conducted research in the field of computer science and neuroscience, signal processing, handwriting processing, automatic signature verification, biometrics, pattern recognition, and statistical data processing. Since 1991, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has developed several scientific projects and authored over 250 papers in international journals, scientific books, and proceedings. Prof. Pirlo is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE *Transactions on Human–Machine Systems*. He also serves as a reviewer for many international journals including IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE *T-FS*, IEEE *T-SMC*, IEEE *T-EC*, IEEE *T-IP*, IEEE *T-IFS*, *Pattern Recognition, IJDAR*, and *IPL*. He was the general co-chair of the International Workshop on Smart Cities and Smart Enterprises (SCSE2018); the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Application In Health (WAIAH2017); the International Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Handwriting Signature Processing, Naples, in 2013; the International Workshop on Image-based Smart City Applications, Genoa, in 2015; and the General Co-Chair of the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Bari, in 2012. He is a reviewer in the scientific committee and on the program committee of many international conferences in the field of computer science, pattern recognition, and signal processing, such as ICPR, ICDAR, ICFHR, IWFHR, ICIAP, VECIMS, and CISMA. He is also the editor of several books. He was an editor of the Special Issue "Handwriting Recognition and Other PR Applications" of Pattern Recognition in 2014 and the Special Issue "Handwriting Biometrics" of IET *Biometrics* in 2014. He was the Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Je-LKS entitled "e-Learning and Knowledge Society Steps toward the Digital Agenda: Open Data to Open Knowledge" in 2014. He is currently the Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue of IEEE Transactions "Human–Machine Systems on Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems". Prof. Pirlo is a member of the Governing Board of the Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica (CINI), a member of the Governing Board of the Societa Italiana di e-Learning, and the e-learning Committee of the University of Bari. He is ` currently the Deputy Representative of the University of Bari in the Governing Board of CINI. He is also the Managing Advisor of the University of Bari for the digital agenda and smart cities. He is the Chair of the Associazione Italiana Calcolo Automatico-Puglia. He is also a member of the Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori Pattern Recognition, the International Association Pattern Recognition, the Stati Generali dell'Innovazione, and the Gruppo Ingegneria Informatica.
