King-Sun Fu
Encyclopedia
Dr. King-Sun Fu was a professor at Purdue University
in West Lafayette, Indiana
. He was instrumental in the founding of IAPR
, served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the field of pattern recognition
(within computer image analysis).
In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR
gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize
to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first
King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to Azriel Rosenfeld
.
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
in West Lafayette, Indiana
West Lafayette, Indiana
As of the census of 2010, there were 29,596 people, 12,591 households, and 3,588 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,381.1 people per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 74.3% White, 17.3% Asian, 2.7% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.03% Pacific...
. He was instrumental in the founding of IAPR
IAPR
The International Association for Pattern Recognition or IAPR is an international non-profit, professional organization concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense.- History :...
, served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the field of pattern recognition
Pattern recognition
In machine learning, pattern recognition is the assignment of some sort of output value to a given input value , according to some specific algorithm. An example of pattern recognition is classification, which attempts to assign each input value to one of a given set of classes...
(within computer image analysis).
In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR
IAPR
The International Association for Pattern Recognition or IAPR is an international non-profit, professional organization concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense.- History :...
gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize
to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first
King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to Azriel Rosenfeld
Azriel Rosenfeld
Professor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science,...
.