Jan Johan Koenderink (born 10 February 1943,

Stramproy Stramproy ( li, Rooj, is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Weert. History The village was first mentioned in 1299 as Stramprode. Stramproy developed in the early middle ages on the edge of the Peel ...

) is a Dutch

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate ca ...

and

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how ...

known for his researches on

visual perception Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum refl ...

computer vision Computer vision is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate t ...

, and

geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is c ...

. Koenderink earned a bachelor's degree from

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollm ...

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

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in 2008; since then, he has held fellow or visiting professor positions at Utrecht, the

Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...

, the

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, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Koenderink is the author of the books ''Color for the Sciences'' (MIT Press, 2010), on

colorimetry Colorimetry is "the science and technology used to quantify and describe physically the human color perception". It is similar to spectrophotometry, but is distinguished by its interest in reducing spectra to the physical correlates of color ...

, and ''Solid Shape'' (MIT Press, 1990), on differential geometry. In 1987, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven awarded Koenderink an honorary doctorate. Koenderink became a fellow of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

in 1990, and of the

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts ( nl, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, or KVAB) is one of an independent learned society of science and arts of the Flemish Community in Belgium. ...

in 2010. Koenderink is the 2013 recipient of the

Azriel Rosenfeld Award In computer vision, the Azriel Rosenfeld Award, or Azriel Rosenfeld Life Time Achievement Award was established at ICCV 2007 in Rio de Janeiro to honor outstanding researchers who are recognized as making significant contributions to the field of ...

for lifetime achievement in computer vision. In 2017, Koenderink, along with Andrea Van Doorn, was awarded the Kurt-Koffka medal from

Justus Liebig University Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

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Gestalt ReVision co-PI: Jan Koenderink
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koenderink, Jan 1943 births Living people Dutch mathematicians Dutch psychologists Utrecht University alumni Utrecht University faculty Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Weert