**Meet the editor**

Dr. Sudhakar Radhakrishnan is currently the Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi, India. He is an editorial board member of three international journals and a reviewer of nine international journals. He wrote a book chapter titled 'Wavelet-based Image Compression'

in the book titled *Computational Intelligence Techniques in Handling Image Processing and Pattern Recognition* and wrote two books titled *Research Issues in Image Compression Using Wavelet Variants* and *Practicing Signals and Systems Laboratory Using MATLAB* published by Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), Germany (2010). He edited a book titled *Effective Video Coding for Multimedia Applications* published by InTech, Croatia (2011). He has published 50 papers in international and national journals and conference proceedings. His areas of research include digital image processing, wavelet transforms and digital signal processing.

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