Celso Setsuo Kurashima Received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU), Brazil, in 1987, and received the M.Sc. degree, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 1999, and 2005, respectively. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Brazil. He was with LSI-TEC, Brazil, as research engineer, from 2003 to 2006. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA, from 2001 to 2002. From 1987 to 1999, he was with NEC Brazil, where he worked as development engineer for over than ten years. He also was a Research Student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Titech), Tokyo, Japan. He has experience in PCM circuits, low bit-rate speech coding algorithms, and video coding techniques. His research interests include immersive visual communications, interactive 3D video technology, and multimedia signal processing. Dr. Kurashima is member of IEEE since 1999 and member of ACM SIGGRAPH since 2001.