Jan Koenderink

Jan Johan Koenderink (born 10 February 1943, Stramproy[1]) is a Dutch physicist 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 on a thesis titled Models of the visual system. 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.[2]

Koenderink is the author of the books Color for the Sciences (MIT Press, 2010), on colorimetry,[3] and Solid Shape (MIT Press, 1990), on differential geometry.[4][5]

In 1987, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven awarded Koenderink an honorary doctorate.[2]

Koenderink became a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990,[6] and of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2010.[2]

Koenderink is the 2013 recipient of the Azriel Rosenfeld Award for lifetime achievement in computer vision.[7]

In 2017, Koenderink, along with Andrea Van Doorn, was awarded the Kurt-Koffka medal from Justus Liebig University Giessen.[8]

References

  1. ^ Howard, Ian P. (2012). Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception. Oxford University Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780199877362.
  2. ^ a b c Curriculum Vitae of Jan Koenderink (PDF), May 2014, retrieved 2015-11-28
  3. ^ Centore, Paul (September 2012), "Color for the Sciences", Book review, Color Research & Application, 37 (6): 428–454, doi:10.1002/col.21774.
  4. ^ Lange, Les (May 1993), "Solid Shape", Review, The College Mathematics Journal, 24 (3): 282, doi:10.2307/2686494, JSTOR 2686494.
  5. ^ Review of Solid Shape by Wolfgang Boehm (1991), MR1045203.
  6. ^ Member profile: Jan Koenderink, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, archived from the original on 2015-12-08, retrieved 2015-11-28.
  7. ^ PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society, archived from the original on 2015-12-08, retrieved 2015-11-28.
  8. ^ "Preisverleihung 2017".