Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University's U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, has received the inaugural Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Vision "for his multiple and lasting contributions to the field."

The award is named for the late Azriel Rosenfeld (1931-2004), a much-honored professor and director of the Center for Automation Research atthe University of Maryland. He was widely regarded as a leading researcher in the field of computer image and analysis and made many fundamental andpioneering contributions to nearly every area of that field. His work in digital image analysis and the accurate measurement of statistical featuresof digital images in the 1960s and 1970s formed the foundation for a generation of industrial vision inspection systems that have foundwidespread applications from the automotive to the electronics industries.

Kanade is a former director of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He is the founding director of the National Science Foundation Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center established at the university in 2006.

Kanade received his plaque and other compensation associated with the award at ICCV 2007, the 11th Annual IEEE International Conferenceon Computer Vision, held Oct. 14 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Azriel Rosenfeld Award is sponsored by Microsoft, General Electric, Siemens, IBM and Honeywell.

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