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Xiaohui Yuan (xiaohui.yuan@unt.edu) earned his Ph.D.
degree in computer science from Tulane University, New
Orleans, Louisiana, in 2004. He joined the University of North
Texas, Denton, as an assistant professor in 2006 and became
an associate professor in 2012. He has served on the editorial
board of several international journals and as a session chair
at many conferences. His current research interests include
computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence,
and his research findings have been published in more than
70 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Member of the IEEE.
Xiaojin Wu (wfuwxj@163.com) earned his Ph.D. degree
in control science and engineering from Beijing Jiaotong
University, China, in 2011. He is currently with the College of
Information and Control Engineering, Weifang University,
China, and has published more than ten papers in academic
journals. His current research interests include computer
vision, intelligent systems, and image processing.
Tao Ji (jtsdu@126.com) earned his Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Shandong University,
China, in 2006. He is currently a professor with the College
of Information and Control Engineering at Weifang University, China, and has published more than 30 papers in academic journals. His current research interests include
intelligent control and information processing.
Lin Feng (felincity@qq.com) earned her Ph.D. degree
in computer science from the Hefei University of Technology, China, in 2014, where she is currently an associate professor. Her current research interests include vehicular ad
hoc networks, wireless networks, and computer vision.

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