Professor Xianping Fu is Dean of School of Information Science and Technology at the Dalian Maritime University, Director of Underwater Robot Engineering Research Center, and Leader of High-level Innovation Group in Liaoning Province, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication System from Dalian Maritime University, in 2005. From 2007 to 2008 he was a Postdoctoral in Tsinghua University, China, and from 2008 to 2009 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. His research interests include underwater robot, perception of natural scenes in engineering systems, image/video processing, and object recognition. He is a leading talent in Dalian, and head of the high-level innovation team of underwater robots in Liaoning Province. He is currently a standing Committee member of the Professional Committee on Intelligent Robots, member of the Multimedia, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision Special Committee of the CCF, and the Executive Director of Dalian Computer Society. He has published more than 80 papers, and applied more than 30 patents. He won the RPB International Scholars Research Award, the 7th International Invention Expo Gold Award and many other awards.