Azriel Rosenfeld

Azriel Rosenfeld
Born	(1931-02-19)February 19, 1931
Died	February 22, 2004(2004-02-22) (aged 73)
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	United States
Fields	Computer Scientist
Institutions	University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisor	Ellis Kolchin (mathematician, Columbia University)
Doctoral students	Doctoral students Matti Pietikäinen Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb Narendra Ahuja Saibal Banerjee John Canning Ramalingam Chellappa Tsai-Chia Chou Craig Cook Peter Cucka Larry Davis Sven Dickinson David Doermann Zoran Duric Charles Dyer Jan-Olof Eklundh Sandor Fejes Noah Friedland Jinhong Guo Robert Haar Ralph Hartley Kenneth Hayes, Jr. Martin Herman TsaiHong Hong Yubin Hung Robert Kirby Leslie Kitchen Vikrant Kobla Todd Kushner Chia-Hoang Lee Peter Lemkin Robert Lieberman Avraham Margalit Majed Marji David Milgram Doron Mintz David Morgenthaler Roger Nagel Nathan Netanyahu Jo Ann Parikh Shmuel Peleg John Pfaltz Tsaiyun Phillips Zygmunt Pizlo Manjit Ray Wallace Rutkowski William Sacco Anupam Shah Bruce Shapiro C. Allen Sher Christian Shin Saad Sirohey James Snively, Jr. James Strong, III Scott Thompson Gordon VanderBrug Rand Waltzman Kwangyoen Wohn Angela Wu
Known for	pioneering contributions to digital image analysis Azriel Rosenfeld Award
Notable awards	IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1985) King-Sun Fu Prize (1988) Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE (1995)

Professor Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 – February 22, 2004) 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, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology. He held a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University (1957), rabbinic ordination (1952) and a Doctor of Hebrew Literature degree (1955) from Yeshiva University, honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from Linkoping University (1980) and Oulu University (1994), and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Yeshiva University (2000); he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Technion (2004, conferred posthumously). He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994).

Professor Rosenfeld was a leading researcher in the field of computer image analysis. Over a period of nearly 40 years he made many fundamental and pioneering contributions to nearly every area of that field. He wrote the first textbook in the field (1969); was founding editor of its first journal (1972); and was co-chairman of its first international conference (1987). He published over 30 books and over 600 book chapters and journal articles, and directed nearly 60 Ph.D. dissertations.

Professor Rosenfeld's research on digital image analysis (specifically on digital geometry and digital topology, and on the accurate measurement of statistical features of digital images) in the 1960s and 1970s formed the foundation for a generation of industrial vision inspection systems that have found widespread applications from the automotive to the electronics industry.