Vladimir Frants received the bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the South Russian University of Economics and Service, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2011, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 2013. He is currently working the Ph.D. degree in computer science with The Graduate Center CUNY, New York, NY, USA. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, image processing, and machine learning.