Josef Kittler

Biography

Josef Kittler received his B.A. in Electrical Engineering (1971), Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition (1974), and ScD (1992), all from University of Cambridge. He joined Surrey University in 1986 and became Distinguished Professor in 2004.

He founded Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) in 1986 at University of Surrey and served as President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition during 1994-1996. He is Series Editor of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

On combining classifiers

They proposed the algebraic combination methods under the probabilistic framework used in ensembles of classifiers. In detail, denote h i j ( x ) the probability of instance x belonging to class c j output from the learner h i , then the median rule generates the combined output according to H j ( x ) = m e d i a n ( ( h i j ( x ) ) , where the median operator is over base classifier i .

Awards and honors

IAPR Fellow (1998).

"For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for outstanding leadership in IAPR".

IEE/IET Fellow (1999).

IET fellowship honors those who "Lead by example. Inspire the next generation. Help to shape the profession."

FREng (2000).

Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows represent "the nation's best engineering researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business and industry leaders."

KS Fu Prize (2006).

This biennial prize is given to a living person "in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition".

IET Faraday Medal (2008).

The most prestigious of the IET Achievement Medals.

EURASIP Fellow (2009).

"For contributions to pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision".

Books

Pierre A Devijver; Josef Kittler (1982). Pattern recognition: a statistical approach. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0136542360. 

Articles

Josef Kittler; Robert P.W. Duin; et al. (1998). "On combining classifiers". IEEE TPAMI. IEEE. 20 (3): 226–239. doi:10.1109/34.667881. Retrieved 27 January 2015. 

Josef Kittler; Alkoot, F.M. (2003). "Sum versus vote fusion in multiple classifier systems.". IEEE TPAMI. IEEE. 25 (1): 110–115. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1159950. Retrieved 27 January 2015. 

Chi Ho Chan; Josef Kittler; et al. (2015). "Full ranking as local descriptor for visual recognition: A comparison of distance metrics on s n ". Pattern Recognition. 48 (4): 1328–1336. doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2014.10.010. Retrieved 27 January 2015.