Chris Poppe received the Master degree in Industrial Sci- ences from KaHo Sint-Lieven, Belgium, in 2002 and received his Master degree in Computer Science from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2004. He joined the Multimedia Lab, Department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS), Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in 2009. His research interests include video coding tech- nologies, video analysis, and multimedia metadata extraction, processing and representation, with a strong focus on standardization processes.