Enrique Vidal is a full professor of Computer Science in the Universitat Politécnica de València (Spain) and a co-founder and former co-leader of the PRHLT Research Center of this university. He has published more than two hundred research papers in the fields of Pattern Recognition and Multimodal Interaction and applications to Language, Speech, Handwritting and Image Processing, and has leaded many important projects in these fields. Dr. Vidal is a member of the IEEE and a fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).