Mark S. Nixon is Professor in Computer Vision in the ISIS research group at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science. His research interests are in image processing and computer vision. He has helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both parametric and non-parametric), which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis. Amongst previous research contracts, he was Principal Investigator in Southampton's part of the Fuzzy Land Information from Environmental Remote Sensing (FLIERS) project. Currently, he's Principal Investigator with John Carter on the DARPA supported project Automatic Gait Recognition for Human ID at a Distance. He chaired the 9^th British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'98 held at Southampton in September '98 (an issue of Image and Vision Computing containing some of the most highly rated conference papers was published as Volume 18 Number 9). The BMVC'98 Electronic Conference Proceedings remain online via the British Machine Vision Association. Apart from being a programme member/ reviewer for other conferences, he and Professor Josef Kittler chaired a BMVA meeting on Advancing Biometric Technologies. and they later co-chaired the IAPR International Conference Audio Visual Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003) at Surrey. Next year he's co-chairing a BMVA meeting on Spatiotemporal Image Processing with Adrian Hilton, as well as Publications Chair for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004).He also written a book called Introductory Digital Design - a programmable approach, which was published by MacMillan, UK, July 1995. His new textbook, co-written with Dr. Alberto Aguado from the University of Surrey, entitled Feature Extraction and Image Processing was published in Jan. 2002 by Butterworth Heinmann/ Newnes.