XIE Mei (解梅) graduated from Department of Electronic Engineering of Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering (currently Institute of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Chengdu, China, February 1982. Before 1985 she worked as a Research Assistant at the China Southwest Institute of Electronics Technology. In 1985, she joined with Electrical Engineering Department, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees all in Institute of Electronic Engineering, from UESTC, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. From Sept. 1997 to Sept. 1998, she was with the Digital Signal Processing Lab of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where she worked on the wavelets applications in image processing and digital communications. During the academic years 1998-1999, she was on leave from Hong Kong University as a Postdoctoral Fellow of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas, San Antonio, US, and switched research interest to focus on algorithms and sottware for the detection and segmentation of the mammograms. She is currently a professor at the Institute of Electronic Engineering of UESTC. Her major research interests include digital signal processing, image processing, and computer networks. Her current technical interests include video compression, biology recognition, and wavelet analysis. She is now in charge of several projects, which founded separately by Ministry of Information Industry, National Defense Foundation of China, etc. She has published over 40 academic papers, and accomplished over 5 research projects. Professor Xie has received a number of awards and honors, including: 2nd Class Award of Ministry of Electronic Industry for Science and Technology Progress, UESTC Award for Distinguished Young Faculty, Honor of Excellent Teacher. Prof. Xie is a member of Expert Group of Ministry of Information Industry of China and a