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Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...

, The Azriel Rosenfeld Award, or Azriel Rosenfeld Life Time Achievement Award was established at ICCV 2007 in Rio de Janeiro to honor outstanding researchers who are recognized as making significant contributions to the field of Computer Vision over longtime careers. This award is in memory of the late computer scientist and mathematician Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld

Azriel Rosenfeld

Professor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science,...

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Recipients

The first Azriel Rosenfeld Award was presented in 2007 at the ICCV in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Takeo Kanade

Takeo Kanade

is a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision. He is currently U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon University...

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The second Azriel Rosenfeld Award was presented in 2009 at the ICCV in Kyoto Japan, to Berthold K.P. Horn.

The third Azriel Rosenfeld Award was presented in 2011 at the ICCV in Barcelona, Spain, to Thomas Huang

Thomas Huang

Thomas Shi-Tao Huang is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . Huang is one of the leading figures in computer vision, pattern recognition and human computer interaction.-Biography:...

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