Dr. Anthony Vetro has been with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs for the past 12 years and is currently a Group Manager with responsibility for research and development in the in the area of multimedia and information coding. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, and has published more than 100 papers on topics such as video coding, display processing and multimedia adaptation. He has also been an active member of the MPEG and JVT standardization committee for several years, where he is currently serving as an editor for multiview video coding amendment of the H.264/AVC standard. Dr. Vetro is also active in various IEEE conferences, technical committees and editorial boards. He is currently Chair of the Technical Committee on Multimedia Signal Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and serves on the steering committees for ICME and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He served as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Conference Chair for ICCE 2006 and Tutorials Chair for ICME 2006, and has been a member of the Publications Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics since 2002. He is also a member of the Technical Committees on Visual Signal Processing & Communications and Multimedia Systems & Applications of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Vetro has also received several awards for his work on transcoding, including the 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems CSVT Transactions Best Paper Award. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.