SK Hafizul Islam received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2013 from the Indian Institute of Technology [IIT (ISM)] Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani (IIIT Kalyani), West Bengal, India. He has authored or coauthored 110 research papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Debabrata Samanta is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engg. from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in the area of SAR Image Processing. He is the owner of 17 Indian patents and has authored and coauthored more than 135 research papers in international journals.