D.S. Guru received his B.Sc, M.Sc and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Mysore, Mysore, India, in 1991, 1993 and 2000 respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore, India. He was a fellow of BOYSCAST and a visiting research scientist at Michigan State University. He has authored 65+ journals and 200+ peer reviewed conference papers at international and national levels. His area of research interest covers image retrieval, object recognition, shape analysis, sign language recognition, biometrics and symbolic data analysis.
Vinay Kumar N received his B.Sc, M.S and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Mysore, Mysore, India, in 2009, 2012 and 2019 respectively. He is currently a Senior Data Scientist in the NTT Data, Bangalore, India. He was a DST-INSPIRE fellow and a DST-SERB awardee for the year 2017. He has authored 25+ journals and peer reviewed conference pa