Josef Kittler is a British scientist and Distinguished Professor at

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, specialising in

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and machine intelligence.

Biography

Josef Kittler received his B.A. in Electrical Engineering (1971), PhD in Pattern Recognition (1974), and ScD (1992), all from

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. He joined

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in 1986 and became Distinguished Professor in 2004. He founded Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) in 1986 at

and served as president of the

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during 1994–1996. He is Series Editor of Springer

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Academic works

On combining classifiers

They proposed the algebraic combination methods under the probabilistic framework used in ensembles of classifiers. In detail, denote

h^j_i(x)

the probability of

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x

belonging to class

c_j

output from the

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h_i

, then the

median The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a Sample (statistics), data sample, a statistical population, population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as the “ ...

rule generates the combined output according to

H^j(x) = median((h^j_i(x))

, where the median operator is over base classifier

i

Awards and honours

* IAPR Fellow (1998). : "For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for outstanding leadership in IAPR". * IEE/IET Fellow (1999). : IET fellowship honours those who "Lead by example. Inspire the next generation. Help to shape the profession." *

FREng Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from arou ...

(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 The Faraday Medal is a top international medal awarded by the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (previously called the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)). As one of the world's most prestigious awards in engineering, it ...

(2008). : The most prestigious of the IET Achievement Medals. * EURASIP Fellow (2009). : "For contributions to pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision".

Selected works

Books

Articles

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References

External links

Google Scholar

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is 79. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kittler, Josef Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Surrey British scientists Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering