Remco Veltkamp is associate professor at Utrecht University, and principal investigator of the Multimedia and Geometry Group. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research focuses on the algorithmic aspects of multimedia retrieval and geometric pattern recognition. Aspects like the algorithmic design and analysis, and experimental verification play an important role in his work. His Ph.D. dissertation has been published as a book, and he has written over 40 refereed papers on indexing, music retrieval, shape matching, shape reconstruction, geometric constraint management, and variational curve and surface design. He is editor of Pattern Recognition and the International Journal on Shape Modelling, and is organiser of the Dagstuhl Seminars on Content-Based Retrieval.