**About the Editor**

**Krzysztof Okarma** (Dr Hab., Assoc. Prof.) was born in Szczecin on Mar 22, 1975, graduated from the secondary school no. 4 in Szczecin with honors in 1994 and Szczecin University of Technology (currently West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin—ZUT) in 1999 with honors (electronics and telecommunication) and 2001 (computer science). Since 1999, he has worked with ZUT as an assistant, PhD student, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. Currently he is the Head of Department of Signal Processing and Multimedia Engineering and Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering (since 2016). He defended the PhD thesis in electrical engineering (specialty: signal processing) in 2003 and obtained the habilitation in automation and robotics (specialty: applied computer science) in 2013. The topic of his habilitation was related to image quality assessment methods, particularly applications of combined metrics. He was the auxiliary supervisor of one PhD candidate, reviewer of one habilitation and five PhD theses (including one in Lithuania) and currently is a supervisor in four projects registered for PhD degree conferment procedures. He is an author or co-author of 2 granted patents and over 200 journal and conference papers (including 25 papers in JCR journals, 10 conference papers included in CORE database and over 50 other conference papers indexed in Web of Science or Scopus databases). His papers were cited more than 300 times according to Web of Science (h-Index 10) and more than 500 times according to Scopus (h-Index 13). He was the guest editor in two Special Issues in JCR-indexed journals and a member of scientific boards of two other JCR-indexed journals and several international conferences. Currently he is the chairman of the Board of Control in the Polish chapter of IAPR (Association for Image Processing). He has also been the supervisor of over 50 master's and engineering theses and the reviewer of over 300 papers for international journals and conferences.
