**About the Editor**

**Byung-Gyu Kim** has received his BS degree from Pusan National University, Korea, in 1996 and an MS degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1998. In 2004, he received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). In March 2004, he joined the real-time multimedia research team at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, where he was a senior researcher. At ETRI, he developed many real-time video signal processing algorithms and patents and received the Best Paper Award in 2007. From February 2009 to February 2016, he was an associate professor in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering at SunMoon University, Korea. In March 2016, he joined the Department of Information Technology (IT) Engineering at Sookmyung Women's University, Korea, where he is currently a professor. Since 2007, he has served as an associate editor of *Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing* (Springer); *The Journal of Supercomputing* (Springer); *The Journal of Real-Time Image Processing* (Springer); and *International Journal of Image Processing and Visual Communication* (IJIPVC). Since March 2018, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of The *Journal of Multimedia Information System* and associate editor of IEEE Access. In 2019, he was appointed as associate editor and topic editor of *Heliyon Computer Science* (Elsevier), *Journal of Image Science and Technology* (IS &T), *Electronics* (MDPI), *Applied Sciences* (MDPI) and *Sensors* (MDPI). He also has served on the organizing committee of CSIP 2011, as a co-organizer of CICCAT2016/2017 and as a program committee member of many international conferences. He has received the Special Merit Award for Outstanding Paper from the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society at IEEE ICCE 2012, the Certification Appreciation Award from the SPIE Optical Engineering in 2013 and the Best Academic Award from the CIS in 2014. He has been honored as an IEEE senior member in 2015. He is serving as a professional reviewer for many academic journals, including those of IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, Oxford, SPIE, IET and MDPI. He has published over 250 international journal and conference papers and patents in his field. His research interests include image and video signal processing for content-based image coding, video coding techniques, 3D video signal processing, deep/reinforcement learning algorithms, embedded multimedia systems and intelligent information systems for image signal processing. He is a senior member of IEEE and a professional member of ACM and IEICE.
