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Jan Johan Koenderink (born 1943, Stramproy) is a Dutch mathematician and psychologist known for his researches on visual perception, computer vision, and geometry.
Koenderink earned a bachelor's degree from Utrecht University in 1964, a master's in 1967, and a Ph.D. in 1972. He was a full professor of physics and astronomy at Utrecht University from 1978 until his mandatory retirement in 2008; since then, he has held fellow or visiting professor positions at Utrecht, the Delft University of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
He is the author of the books Color for the Sciences (MIT Press, 2010), on colorimetry, and Solid Shape (MIT Press, 1990), on differential geometry.
In 1987, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven awarded him an honorary doctorate. He became a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990, and of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2010. He is the 2013 recipient of the Azriel Rosenfeld Award for lifetime achievement in computer vision.