| Josef Vaclav Kittler | |
| Fields: | Electronic engineering |
| Workplaces: | Surrey University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge |
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| Awards: | IAPR Fellow (1998) IEE/IET Fellow (1999) FREng (2000) KS Fu Prize (2006) IET Faraday Medal (2008) |
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Josef Kittler is a British scientist and Distinguished Professor at University of Surrey, specialising in pattern recognition and machine intelligence.
Josef Kittler received his B.A. in Electrical Engineering (1971), PhD in Pattern Recognition (1974), and ScD (1992), all from University of Cambridge. He joined Surrey University in 1986 and became Distinguished Professor in 2004.
He founded Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) in 1986 at University of Surrey[1] and served as president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition during 1994–1996. He is Series Editor of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
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"For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for outstanding leadership in IAPR".
IET fellowship honours those who "Lead by example. Inspire the next generation. Help to shape the profession."[6]
Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows represent "the nation's best engineering researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business and industry leaders."[7]
This biennial prize is given to a living person "in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition".[8]
The most prestigious of the IET Achievement Medals.[9]
"For contributions to pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision".
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