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B.Sc., University of Bombay, India, 8/57

B. Eng., University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 6/60

M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 8/61

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 10/64

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Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, September 1990 - present

John J. McKetta Energy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, September 1981 to August 1990

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1972 to present Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1968-1972

Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, September 1969-June 1970

Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Dynamical Systems, Brown University, Providence, R.I., February 1968-June 1968

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 1964-August 1968

Research Assistant, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, June 1961-August 1964

Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, September 1960-May 1961

Research Assistant, Marconi's Research Laboratory, Chelmsford, England, Summer 1959

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and IEEE Computer Society

Eta Kappa Nu

Pattern Recognition Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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ACM Steering Committee for Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Sensor Networks, 2004-present

International Association for Pattern Recognition Fellow Committee, 2002-present

IEEE Transactions on Networks Steering Committee, 2002-04

Chairman, IEEE Transactions on Networks Steering Committee, 2003-04

IEEE Computer Society Fellow Committee, 2001-03

International Association for Pattern Recognition Education Committee, 2001-03

IEEE Prize Papers/Scholarship Award Committee, 1999-02

Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Transactions Operation Committee, Publications Board, 2001

IEEE Computer Society Publications Board, 2000-02

IEEE Computer Society representative to the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 1985-2003

IEEE Computer Society Fellow Committee 1997-98

President, International Association for Pattern Recognition, 1992-1994

Treasurer, International Association for Pattern Recognition, 1989-1992

Chairman, IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1987-1989

IEEE Transnational Relations Committee, 1984-87

ADCOM of Circuits and Systems Society, 1972-1975

Chairman, Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1974-1976

Associate Editor, Image Understanding and Computer Vision, 1991-present

Associate Editor, Intl. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 1993-present

Member, Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 1993-present

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 1991-present

Member, Editorial Board, Image and Vision Computing, 1982-present

Associate Editor, Machine Vision and Applications, 1988-2004

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1992-1996.

Guest Editor, Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Range Image Understanding, Vol. 3, No.10, April 1992 (with B. C. Vemuri)

Associate Editor, Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 1984-1991 Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Journal, 1980-1990

Editor, IEEE EXPERT, 1986-1989

Co-Guest Editor for first issue of the IEEE Computer Society IEEE Expert, February 1986

Editor, Selected Reprint Series, IEEE Press, 1985-88

Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Press, 1984-88

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Motion and Time Varying Imagery, Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 1983

Co-Editor, Special Issue on Motion of the IEEE Computer Society Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1980

Co-Editor, Special Issue on Digital Filtering and Image Processing of the Circuits and Systems Society Transactions on Circuits and Systems, March 1975

Associate Editor for Digital Signal Processing, Transactions of the Circuits and Systems Society, June 1973-75

Editor, Newsletter of the Circuits and Systems Society, 1971-72

International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Como, Italy, 2005

ACM 2nd Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Sensor Networks, New York, NY, 2004

17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 2004

First ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance, Berkeley, CA, 2003

1st Iberian Conference on pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2003

IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Miami, Florida, 2003

IEEE Workshop on Multi-object Tracking, Madison, Wisconsin, 2003

Co-General Chairman, Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Orlando, Florida, 2002

IAPR Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2002

1st International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Padova, Italy, 2002

Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Australia, 2002

IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum, Methods and Applications, 2001

Co-chairman, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Human Motion, Austin, TX, 2000

First International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Palma de Mallorca, 2000

4th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Taipei, Taiwan 2000 IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum, Fort Collins Colorado, 1999

Co-chairman, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Motion of Nonrigid and Articulate Objects, Austin, TX, 1994

Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society 2nd CAD-Based Vision Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994

General Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, NY, June 1993

Conference Co-Chairman, SPIE Conference on Sensor Fusion and Aerospace Applications, Orlando, Florida, April 1993

Program Chairman, Computer Vision Conference, 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Atlantic City, NJ, June 1990

IEEE Workshop on Interpretation of 3D Scenes, Austin, TX, November 1989

Director, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision, Grenoble, France, June 1989

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA, 1985

Program Chairman, First Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Denver, CO, 1984

Inter-Disciplinary ACM Workshop on Motion: Representation and Perception, Toronto, Canada, 1983

General Chairman, Computer Society Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Conference, Dallas, TX, 1981

Program Chairman, Workshop on Computer Analysis of Time Varying Imagery, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Philadelphia, PA, April 1979

Chairman, Twelfth Midwest Symposium on Circuit Theory, Austin, TX, 1969

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IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, "For inspiring graduate students to achieve excellence through mentoring, teaching and guidance of research in computer vision and signal processing," June 2005.

K. S. Fu Prize, International Association for Pattern Recognition, "For pioneering contributions towards establishing the fundamental of structure and motion from image sequences and their applications to robot vision and human motion," August, 2004.

Honorable Mention of the Pattern Recognition Society Award for Outstanding Contribution, September 2003 for the paper entitled "Image retrieval via isotropic and anisotropic mappings, (Qasim Iqbal), Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35, No.12, pp.2673-2686 , 2002.

Fellow, International Association on Pattern Recognition, 1996.

IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, for "pioneering contributions towards establish-ing fundamentals of structure extraction and computational motion from image sequences," 1996.

Honorable Mention of the Pattern Recognition Society Award for Outstanding Contribution, November 1993, for the paper entitled "Applying Perceptual Organization to the Detection of Man-made Objects in Non-Urban Scenes," (with H.Q. Lu), Pattern Recognition, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 835-853, 1992.

American Society of Engineering Education, Senior Research Award, 1992.

Phillips Award for Best Paper at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nice, France (1992), for the paper "Extraction and Interpretation of Semantically Significant Line Segments for a Mobile Robot," (with Xavier Lebegue).

IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Award, 7th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (1991), for the paper "Multi-Sensor Image Interpretation Using Laser Radar and Thermal Images," (with Chen-Chau Chu).

Alumni Honor Award of the College of Engineering, the University of Illinois, April 1987.

1986 Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Illinois, Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Association.

Honorable Mention of the Pattern Recognition Society Award for Outstanding Contribution, May 1988, for the paper entitled "Determining Motion Parameters Using Intensity Guided Range Sensing," (with M. Magee), Pattern Recognition, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp.169-180, 1986.

Honorable Mention of the Pattern Recognition Society Award for Outstanding Contribution, December 1986, for the paper entitled "Analysis of a Model for Parallel Image Processing," (with S. Yalamanchili), Pattern Recognition, Vol. 18,No. 1, pp. 1-16, 1985.

Among the 100 Top Innovations of the Year by Science Digest for the research on "Computerized Visual Analysis for Cryopreservation of Living Cells," Science Digest, December 1985, (with K. R. Dil-ler).

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1976.

Best Paper Award, Pattern Recognition Society for the paper entitled, "Finding the Edges of the Surfaces of Three-Dimensional Curved Objects by Computer," (co-author J. W. McKee), 1975.

IEEE Life Fellow, January 2002

IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, 1997

IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding service as General Chair of the 2002 Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, December 2002.

IEEE Recognition for Valued services and contributions as member of the IEEE Prize Paper/Scholarship Awards Committee, 1999-2002.

IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for diligent and dedicated service on the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board in 1998 and 1999, February 2000.

IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding service as a member of the Publications Board of the IEEE Computer Society in 1998, February 1999.

IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for Thoughtful and conscientious evaluation of Fellow candidates during service on the Fellow Evaluations Committee, November 1998.

IEEE Computer Society, Meritorious Service Award for service to the Computer Society as a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, January 1997.

IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award for technical and administrative leadership as Chairman of the Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, November 1989.

TAB Pioneer Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Activities Board, presented in recognition of service with distinction on COMPUSAT '88 Team, February-October 1988.

IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for excellence as guest editor of the first issue of IEEE EXPERT, Spring 1986; December 1988.

IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for service as Program Chairman of the First Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Denver, Colorado, December 1984; June 1986.

Dean’s Fellowship Spring 1999

Outstanding Graduate Teacher, Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992

The Billy and Claude Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award of the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, November 1986.

This annual award is given to the engineering faculty member who has made the most significant contributions and furthered the engineering profession through noteworthy published research while at UT-Austin.

Meritorious Faculty Award of the College of Engineering for the years 1966-67, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1979-80, 1980-81, and 1984-85.

University Research Institute - Faculty Research Assignment for the years 1968-69, 1976-77, 1982-83 and 1994-95.

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Quebec 2002



Miscellaneous

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