Takeo Kanade

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Takeo Kanade

Takeo Kanade ( Japanese 金 出 武雄 , Kanade Takeo ; born October 24, 1945 in Kasuga , Hikami-gun (today: Tamba ), Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in robotics and machine vision . He received his doctorate from Kyoto University . Since 1980 he has been doing research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , where he has been a professor since 1985 and headed the Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001.

In 2004 he was appointed a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2008 he received the Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science for his exceptional achievements in the field of machine vision, which demonstrated its functionality in the real world. In 2016 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize . He became known for the Lucas-Kanade method for estimating the optical flow from two images and the Zitnick-Kanade method for calculating the deviation .

In 2010 he received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award .

literature

  • Takeo Kanade, Michael A. Smith: Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization (Kluwer International Series in Video Computing) . Springer Netherlands, 2004, ISBN 978-1-4020-7426-4 .
  • Takeo Kanade, Yangsheng Xu: Space Robotics: Dynamics and Control . Kluwer Academic Pub, 1992, ISBN 978-0-7923-9265-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Takeo Kanade's biography
  2. ^ Takeo Kanade in the Franklin Institute laureates list
  3. Kyoto Prize 2016