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Reinhard Klette is professor of information technology in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). His research interests are directed toward theoretical and applied subjects in image data computing, robot vision, visualization, pattern recognition, image analysis, and image understanding. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers on topics in computer science, and books about parallel processing, image processing, and shape recovery based on visual information. He has been a plenary speaker at conferences in Europe, America and Australasia. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Azriel Rosenfeld was a tenured Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and the Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology.
Dr. Rosenfeld was widely regarded as the leading researcher in the world in the field of computer image analysis. Over a period of nearly 40 years, he made fundamental and pioneering contributions to nearly every area of that field. He wrote the first textbook in the field (1969), was founding editor of its first journal (1972), and was co-chairman of its first international conference (1987). He published over 30 books and over 600 book chapters and journal articles, and directed nearly 60 Ph.D. dissertations.
Dr. Rosenfeld’s research on digital image analysis (specifically on digital geometry and topology and the accurate measurement of statistical features of digital images) in the 1960s and 1970s formed the foundation for a generation of industrial vision inspection systems that have found widespread applications from the automotive to the electronics industry.
He was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1971), won its Emanuel Piore Award in 1985, and received its Third Millennium Medal in 2000; he was a founding Fellow of both the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1990) and the Association for Computing Machinery (1993). He was a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1988) and won its Mathematics and Computer Science Award in 1988. He was a founding Director of the Machine Vision Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (1985–1988), won its President’s Award in 1987, and was a certified Manufacturing Engineer (1988). He was a founding member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1965), served as its Chairman (1985–7), and received the society’s Meritorious Service Award in 1986, its Harry Goode Memorial Award in 1985, became a Golden Core member of the Society in 1996, and received its Distinguished Service Award for Lifetime Achievement in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 2001. Dr. Rosenfeld received the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society’s Norbert Wiener Award in 1995, and he received an IEEE Standards Medallion in 1990 and the Electronic Imaging International Imager of the Year Award in 1991. He was a founding member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (1978–1985), served as its President (1980–1982), won its first K.S. Fu Award in 1988, and became one of its founding Fellows in 1994. In 1998, he received the Information Science Award from the Association for Intelligent Machinery. He was a Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (1988–92) and was a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Mexico (1982).