Kirk Martinez is a professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton UK. He gained a BSc in Physics from the University of Reading and a PhD in Image Processing in the department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. Beside other research field, for digital heritage studies Kirk has pioneered the digital imaging of paintings together with The National Gallery in London. He was an advisor on the imaging and image processing required for the Archimedes Palimpsest and he is one of the founders of the Electronics and the Visual Arts: EVA Conferences. He is the co-founder of the VIPS open source image processing software package.