Biography:Longin Jan Latecki
Longin Jan Latecki is a professor of computer science at Temple University, Philadelphia.[1] His research interests encompass computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, and digital geometry.
Education and early career
Latecki earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics with highest honors from the University of Gdańsk in 1985. He later obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1992, followed by a habilitation in computer science in 1996.[2]
Research contributions
Latecki has contributed to shape-based object recognition and robot perception.[3]
His research in digital geometry is encapsulated in his book, Discrete Representation of Spatial Objects in Computer Vision, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1998.[4]
Professional service
Latecki serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition.[5] He is also a member of the editorial board for Computer Vision and Image Understanding.[6] Additionally, he sits on the advisory board of the Journal of Imaging.[7]
He has been actively involved in organizing academic conferences, serving as the chair of the SPIE Conference on Vision Geometry XV in 2007.[8]
Awards and honors
Latecki was awarded the 2000 Olympus Prize, the primary annual award of the German Society for Pattern Recognition (DAGM).[9]
In 2018, he received the Amazon Research Award for his work in image search with target object detection.[10]
References
- ↑ "Prof. Dr. Longin Jan Latecki". http://www.cis.temple.edu/~latecki.
- ↑ "LONGIN JAN LATECKI - Homepage". https://cis.temple.edu/~latecki/.
- ↑ "Google Scholar Profile: Longin Jan Latecki". https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6sQtqo8AAAAJ.
- ↑ Discrete Representation of Spatial Objects in Computer Vision. Computational Imaging and Vision. 11. Springer. 1998. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9002-0. ISBN 978-90-481-4982-7. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-015-9002-0.
- ↑ "Editorial Board – Pattern Recognition". https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/pattern-recognition/about/editorial-board.
- ↑ "Editorial Board – Computer Vision and Image Understanding". https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-vision-and-image-understanding/about/editorial-board.
- ↑ "Editorial Board – Journal of Imaging". https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jimaging/editors.
- ↑ "Vision Geometry XV". https://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Volume/6499.
- ↑ "Former Olympus Award Winners". https://www.dagm.de/award-winners/german-pattern-recognition-award/former-olympus-award-winners.
- ↑ "Longin Jan Latecki - Amazon Research Awards". https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/recipients/longin-jan-latecki.
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