DAO Minh-Son received the Ph.D. degree from the International Doctoral School in Information and Communication Technology of the University of Trento, Italy, in February 2005. He worked as scientist at GraphiTech, Italy, from 2005 to 2007. He has been a JSPS Post- Doc at the Media Integrated Communication Lab (MICL), Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he has been a member of the MultiMedia Signal Processing and Understanding LAB (mmLAB), University of Trento, Italy . From 2013 to 2015, he has been a senior researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan. He is currently a Principal Lecturer of the Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), Brunei Darussalam, and the Director of the ELEDIA @ UTB.