I'm a Professor in the ECSE (Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering) department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where my students and I research topics in computer vision, the study of algorithms for automatically understanding images. After many years of teaching image processing courses, I became particularly interested in the computer vision algorithmsbehind Hollywood visual effects (VFX), which are the topic of my first book. While writing the book, I was able to visit several VFXcompanies in California and see lots of behind-the-scenes material from movies and TV- a change from the typical professor lifestyle! For more information, please visit my book blog, http://cvfxbook.com, and my professional page, http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~rjradke/research.htm.