Thierry Bouwmans is an Associate Professor at the University of La Rochelle, France. His research interests consist mainly in the detection of moving objects in challenging environments. He has recently authored more than 100 papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the field of background modeling and foreground detection, and has co-editedtwo books in CRC Press (background/foreground separation for video surveillance, robust PCA via decomposition in low rank and sparse matrices). His research investigated particularly the use of fuzzy concepts, discriminative subspace learning models and robust PCA in video surveillance. It also concern full exhaustive surveys on mathematical tools used in foreground/background separation. He has been the lead guest editor of the special issue on “Background Modeling for Foreground Detection in Real-World Dynamic Scenes” in the journal Machine Vision and Applications. He has been the invited talk in the International Workshop on Background Models Ch