Seiichi Uchida received B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Kyushu University in 1990, 1992 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to 1996, he joined SECOM Co., Ltd., Japan. Currently, he is a professor at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. His research interests include sequential pattern recognition, character recognition,  image processing, optimization, and bioimage-informatics. He received  2007 IAPR/ICDAR Best Paper Award and 2010 ICFHR Best Paper Award, in addition to many domestic awards from Japanese academic societies. He is a workshop chair of ICDAR2015 and ACPR2015 and has been a general co-chair of CBDAR2009, a program chair of DAS2013, an area chair of ICPR2012,  and a regular program committee member of ICPR, ACCV, ICDAR, S+SSPR, DAS, ICFHR and CBDAR. Recently, he wrote a book chapter titled "Text Localization and Recognition in Images and Video" for "Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition", Springer-Verlag.