After studies in Padua and Berkeley, PAOLO PRANDONI received his Doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in the Audiovisual Communications Laboratory in 1999. His interests have included musical timbre, audio modelling and compres- sion, communication system design and image analysis. He is now the founder and Director of Quividi, a company based in Paris, France, and is a visiting lecturer in signal processing at the EPFL.