Edward M. Riseman

Infobox_Scientist
name = Edward M. Riseman


caption =
birth_date = birth date|1942|8|15
birth_place = Washington, D.C.
death_date = death date and age|2007|2|26|1942|8|15
death_place = Leeds, Massachusetts
residence = United States
nationality = American
field = Computer Science
work_institution = University of Massachusetts, Amherst
alma_mater = Cornell University
Clarkson College

doctoral_advisor =

Edward M. Riseman (August 15, 1942 in Washington, D.C. - February 26, 2007 in Leeds, Massachusetts) was an American computer scientist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Riseman was a pioneer in the field of computer vision and artificial intelligence who made significant contributions to image database and content-based image retrieval, including the design of one of the first knowledge-based image understanding systems that handled very complex natural images. He was a co-author on the landmark paper on a four step process for extracting straight lines from intensity images. cite journal
author = Burns, J.B.
coauthors = Hanson, A.R.; Riseman, E.M.
year = 1986
title = Extracting straight lines
journal = IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
volume = 8
issue = 4
pages = 425-455
url = http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=5995
accessdate = 2008-05-05] Riseman was a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a member of the Pattern Recognition Society.

Biography

Education

Edward Riseman received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson College in 1964. He moved to Cornell University and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1966 and 1969, respectively.

Career

Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Edward Riseman joined the faculty of University of Massachusetts as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to a full professor in 1978, and served as the chairman of the Computer Science department from 1981 to 1985. During his tenure at the University of Massachusetts, Riseman was the advisor to 38 Ph.D. graduates.

References

External links

* [http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~riseman/home.html Home Page]
* [http://www.cs.umass.edu/csinfo/announce/riseman_memoriam.html Memoriam]