Dr. Herbert Freeman
Professor Emeritus,
Computer Engineering
(Former CAIP Director)

Education

B.S., Union College, Schenectady, NY
M.S., Columbia University
D.Sc., Columbia University

Research Interests

Machine Vision
Computer Image Processing
Pattern Recognition
Computer Graphics
Handwriting Recognition
Analysis of line drawing data

Awards and Recognitions

In the Early 1950's, was the designer the of the Sperry Corporation's first digital computer, the SPEEDAC.

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Election to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Elctronic Engineers

Guggenheim Fellow

Programme chairman, World Congress of the International Federation for Information Processing in Stockholm, Sweden

Founding member and past president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition(IAPR)

Election to Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition

Kin-Sun Fu Prize, International Association for Pattern Recognition

Elected Honorary President of the Institut fur Bilverarbeitng and Angewandte Informatik in Leipzig Germany

Awarded "Medaglia Teresiana" Medal by University of Pavia, Italy for "Fundamental and pioneering contributions to the field of patter recognition"

Golden Core Awarded, IEEE Compouter Society

Election to Fellow, Assoication for Computing Machinery

Patent No. 5,684,940, "Computer Implemented Method and Apparatus for Automatically Labeling Area Regions of Maps Using Two-Step label Placing Procedure for Curved labeling of Point Features"

Honorary Chairman, SSPR98 Conference, Sidney, Australia

Computer Pioneer Award presented by the IEEE Computer Society

He has held visting positions at M.I.T., the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Pisa, Stanford Univerity, and the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.