The authors would like to acknowledge the generous assistance, during the preparation of this Guide, of BSI's IST/37 committee and the following individuals: Klaus Jung (Algo Vision Mediatec); Jill Hunter (Amphion Semiconductor); Alexis Tzannes (Aware, Inc.); Kats Ishii (Canon); Simone Levy, Kieran Parkinson, Jean Stride (BSI); Panos Kudumakis (CRL); Jane Clark, Adam Punter, Adam Wright (Elysium Ltd); Touradj Ebrahimi, Diego Santa Cruz (EPFL); Charilaos Christopoulos (Ericsson); Jack Holm (Hewlett-Packard); Andy Walter (IBM); Paulette Goldweber (IEEE); Bernie Brower, Scott Houchin (Kodak); Alpay Beler, Ann Borda (National Museum of Science and Industry); Jean Barda (NETIMAGE); Jim Aldridge, Sheila Hardwick (Police Scientific Development Branch); Marty Boliek, Mike Gormish (Ricoh); Ed Bremner (Technical Advisory Service for Images); Ali Bilgin, Michael Marcellin (University of Arizona); David Taubman (University of New South Wales); Thanos Skodras (University of Patras); Michael Adams (University of Victoria).