Azriel Rosenfeld

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name = Azriel Rosenfeld


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birth_date = birth date|1931|2|19|mf=y
death_date = death date and age|2004|2|22|1931|2|19|mf=y
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field = Computer Scientist
work_institution = University of Maryland, College Park
doctoral_advisor = Ellis Kolchin (mathematician, Columbia University)
doctoral_students = Narendra Ahuja
Ramalingam Chellappa
Larry Davis
Charles Dyer
Jan-Olof Eklundh
known_for = pioneering contributions to digital image analysis
prizes = King-Sun Fu Prize (1988)
Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE (1995)Professor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 - February 22, 2004) 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, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology. He held a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University (1957), rabbinic ordination (1952) and a Doctor of Hebrew Literature degree (1955) from Yeshiva University, and honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from Linkoping University, Sweden (1980) and Oulu University, Finland (1994), an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Yeshiva University (2000), and an honorary degree from the Technion (posthumously in 2004). He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994).

Professor Rosenfeld was widely regarded as a leading researcher in the world in the field of computer image analysis. Over a period of nearly 40 years he made many 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.

Professor Rosenfeld’s research on digital image analysis (specifically on digital geometry and digital topology, and on the accurate measurement of statistical features of digital images) in the 1960’s and 1970’s formed the foundation for a generation of industrial vision inspection systems that have found widespread applications from the automotive to the electronics industry.

Professor Rosenfeld was a "ba'al koreh" (Torah Reader) at [http://www.yise.org Young Israel Shomrai Emunah of Greater Washington] for many years until he moved to Baltimore in 2001.

In honor of the memory of Professor Rosenfeld, ICCV gives the biennial Azriel Rosenfeld award to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding life-time contribution to the field of imageunderstanding or computer vision. The first Azriel Rosenfeld Award was presented in 2007 at the ICCV in Rio, to Takeo Kanade.

External links

* [http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~ar/ In memoriam (source for the text above)]
* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=37407 PhD students of Azriel Rosenfeld]

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NAME=Rosenfeld, Azriel
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH=February 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH=, , U.S.
DATE OF DEATH=February 22, 2004
PLACE OF DEATH=, U.S.