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Josef Kittler
University of Surrey
Membership Number: 30
Address: Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Proc., University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
Email: j.kittler@eim.surrey.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1483 689294
Fax: +44 (0)1483 686031
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Biographical Sketch
Prof. Josef Kittler (BA in Electrical Engineering, 1971, Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition, 1974, and ScD in 1991, all from University of Cambridge) joined the University of Surrey in 1986. He has more than 30 years of experience in pattern recognition and computer vision. He contributed to the methodology of attribute selection, contextual decision making and, most recently, to multiple expert fusion and statistical hypothesis testing with many applications in image processing and computer vision. He participated in a number of EU projects in computer vision (VAP, VAP2, RETINA,SAM) image communication (SCALAR), visual inspection (AVIS, ASSIST), and personal identity verification (M2VTS, BANCA).

He serves regularly as a member the scientific programme committees of international conferences on pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision. He has published more than 400 papers, including more than 130 in international journals. He is on the editorial board of several international scientific journals, including Image and Vision Computing, Machine Vision and Applications, Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Analysis and Applications, and International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

University of Surrey
The Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) of the University of Surrey (UniS) is one of the UK largest group in image analysis and computer vision. Research in the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) focuses on image interpretation and understanding. The Centre enjoys international reputation for its contributions to engineering science of image processing and to machine perception system design methodology. In many research topics it is acknowledged as a leading player, including sensory data representation and, in particular, the identification of significant attributes for sensory data interpretation. Its expertise includes

- contextual decision

- percpetual grouping based on the Hough transform and hypothesis testing

- scene evolution modelling and control of perception

- self optimisation of computer vision systems

- 3D modelling

The Centre successfully participated in a number of EU projects in computer vision (VAP, VAP2, RETINA, SAM) image communication (SCALAR), visual inspection (AVIS, ASSIST), personal identity verification (M2VTS). As part of the M2VTS project CVSSP recorded a large multimodal database for research in biometric personal identity verification.


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