About the Reviewers

Ricard Borràs Navarra has always been working around computer vision and machine learning. He started creating machines that apply pattern recognition to quality assortment in the cork production industry. Later, he applied these techniques for human tracking in complex scenarios, creating audience measurement, and people-counter solutions for retail stores.

With the eruption of Kinect, he started working on and deploying augmented reality interactive applications based on this great device. These applications were targeted at the marketing and retail sectors.

All these projects were developed by him as an Inspecta (www.inspecta.es) employee. Also, Ricard has developed several freelance projects based on augmented reality.

Vangos Pterneas is a professional Software Engineer, passionate about natural user interfaces. He has been a Kinect enthusiast ever since the release of the very first unofficial SDKs and has already published a couple of commercial Kinect applications.

He has worked for Microsoft Innovation Center as a .NET developer and consultant and he's now running his own company named LightBuzz. LightBuzz has been awarded the first place in Microsoft's worldwide innovation competition, held in New York.

When he is not coding, he loves blogging about technical stuff and providing the community with open source utilities.