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Professor J.K. Aggarwal is the recipient of the 2007 Okawa Prize. The Okawa Prize is awarded each year by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunication of Japan. The Okawa Prize is intended to pay tribute to and make public recognition of persons who have made outstanding contributions to the research, technological development, and business in the information and telecommunication fields, internationally. The winner is awarded a certificate, a gold medal, and 10 million yen. Each year the Okawa Foundation awards two prizes, one to a person of Japanese origin and one to a non-Japanese person. The citation for Professor Aggarwal reads "For Outstanding Contribution to Conception and Pioneering Research of Dynamic Scene Analysis and Multisensor Fusion in Computer Vision Systems." The other winner of the 2007 Okawa Prize is Professor Takeo Kanade of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg.
J.K.
Aggarwal has served on the faculty of
The University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering in
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since
1964. He is currently one of the Cullen Professors of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Professor
Aggarwal earned his B.Sc. from University of Bombay, India
in 1957, B. Eng. from University of Liverpool, Liverpool,
England, 1960, M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois, in 1961 and 1964 respectively.
His
research
interests include image processing, computer
vision and pattern recognition.
The current focus of research is on the automatic recognition
of human activity and interactions in video sequences, and
on the use of perceptual grouping for the automatic recognition
and retrieval of images and videos from databases.
A
fellow of IEEE (1976) and IAPR (1998), Professor Aggarwal
received the Best Paper Award of the Pattern Recognition Society
in 1975, the Senior Research Award of the American Society
of Engineering Education in 1992 and the IEEE Computer Society
Technical Achievement Award in 1996. He is the recipient of
the 2004 K. S. Fu Prize of the IAPR and the 2005 Leon K. Kirchmayer
Graduate Teaching Award of the IEEE. He is the author or editor
of 7 books and 52 book chapters, author of over 200 journal
papers, as well as numerous proceeding papers and technical
reports.
He
has served as the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1987-1989),
Director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor
Fusion for Computer Vision, Grenoble, France (1989), Chairman
of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition (1993), and the President of the International
Association for Pattern Recognition (1992-1994). He is a life
fellow of IEEE and Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society.
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