Nationality Indian Residence Kolkata | Fields Computer Science | |
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Native name Bengali: বিদ্যুৎ বরণ চৌধুরী Born December 7, 1950 (age 66) ( 1950-12-07 ) Institutions Indian Statistical Institute Notable awards IEEE Life Fellow (2016),
IEEE Fellow (2001),
IAPR Fellow (1998),
TWAS Fellow (2011) Books Object-Oriented Programming: Fundamentals And Applications Alma maters University of Calcutta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Known for Optical character recognition, Computer vision, Pattern recognition, Natural language processing | ||
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (B. B. Chauduri) is a senior Scientist and Professor of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), whose primary research contributions to the fields of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition. He is the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of ISI. Currently, he is the J.C. Bose Fellow and INAE Distinguished Professor at ISI.
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He is also Vice-President of the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR).
Education
Chaudhuri received his B.Sc. (Hons.), B. Tech. and M. Tech. degrees from University of Calcutta, India in 1969, 1972 and 1974, respectively and Ph.D. Degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980. He did his Post-Doc work during 1981-82 from Queen's University, U.K.
Awards and Recognition
Chaudhuri is a Life Fellow of IEEE. He is also Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), The World Academy of Science (TWAS), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), National Academy of Sciences (NASI), and Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE).
According to Google Scholar, as of 11 Feb. 2017, Chaudhuri's work has been cited 9,731 times.
Chaudhuri's interview on some of his works has been reported in national (Indian) newspaper as well.