Arcangelo DISTANTE received the degree in Computer Science from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1976. He joined the National Nuclear Physics Institute until 1983 where he worked on various theoretical and computation aspects of 3D reconstruction and pattern recognition of nuclear events. Since 1984 he has been working with the Institute for Signal and Image Processing (IESI) of Italian National Research Council (CNR). Currently he is the coordinator of the Robot Vision Group and the Director of the Institute of Intelligent System for Automation (issia - CNR). In 1996 he joined the University of Lecce where he is associate professor in Theory and Practice of Image Processing at the Faculty of Engineering. His current research deals with computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, neural computation, robot navigation and architectures for computer vision. Dr. Arcangelo DISTANTE is a member of IAPR and SPIE.