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Native name
  
傅京孫


Name
  
King-Sun Fu

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Born
  
October 2, 1930Nanking (Now Nanjing) (
1930-10-02
)

Institutions
  
Purdue UniversityBoeing Airplane Company (1959 - 1960)Seattle University (1960)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961)IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1961)University of California, Berkeley (1967, 1972)Stanford University (1972)National Science Foundation (1972 - 1978)Engineering Committee of the Council (1976 - 1979)National Science Foundation (1978 - 1981)

Alma mater
  
National Taiwan University (B.S.,1953)University of Toronto (M.A., 1955)University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D, 1959)

Thesis
  
An Approximation Method for Both Magnitude and Phase by Rational Functions (1959)

Known for
  
IAPR KING-SUN FU PRIZEThe First President of IAPR

Died
  
April 29, 1985, Washington, D.C., United States

Education
  
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1959)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
Syntactic Methods in Pattern R, Robotics: Control - Sensing, Sequential Methods in Pattern R, Statistical Pattern Classifica

Similar People
  
Herbert Freeman, Thomas M Cover, Shi‑Kuo Chang, Andrew B Whinston

Doctoral advisor
  
M.E. Van Valkenburg

Dr. King-Sun Fu (Chinese: 傅京孫; October 2, 1930—April 29, 1985) was a Goss Distinguished Professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was instrumental in the founding of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to- and a pioneer in- the field of pattern recognition (within computer image analysis) and machine intelligence. In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to Azriel Rosenfeld.

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Biography

Fu was born on October 2, 1930 in Nanking (now Nanjing), one of China's historical capitals.

He received B.S. from National Taiwan University in 1953, M.A. from University of Toronto in 1955, and Ph.D from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1959.

Fu died on April 29, 1985 in Washington, DC.

Academic life

Fu and others organized the First International Conference Pattern Recognition (ICPR) in 1973 and served as Chairman. The conference later evolved into the formation of the International Association for Pattern Recognition by 1976 and was elected to be its President.

He reorganized the Pattern Recognition Committee and was its first Chairman in 1974, which led to the founding of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and he served as its first Editor-in-Chief in 1978.

King-Sun gave invited lectures in China almost every year over the past decades and was a Member of the Academia Sinica in 1978. He was instrumental in establishing the Microelectronics and Information Science and Technology Research Center at the National Chiao Tung University in 1984.

Selected works

  • 1968. Sequential Methods in Pattern Recognition. Academic
  • 1970. Sequential Methods in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. New York: Academic
  • 1974. Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition. New York: Academic.
  • 1980. Statistical Pattern Classification Using Contextual Information. Wiley
  • 1982. Syntactic Pattern Recognition and Applications. Prentice-Hall
  • References

    King-Sun Fu Wikipedia


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