Berthold K.P. Horn

Berthold Klaus Paul Horn
Born (1943-12-08) December 8, 1943 (age 80)
Other namesBerthold K.P. Horn
Berthold Horn
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupation(s)Professor, researcher
RelativesPeter Horn (brother)
AwardsElected to the National Academy of Engineering
Azriel Rosenfeld Award
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Witwatersrand
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisShape from Shading: A Method for Obtaining the Shape of a Smooth Opaque Object from One View (1970)
Doctoral advisorMarvin Minsky
Academic work
Doctoral studentsMatthew T. Mason
Marc Raibert
Shahriar Negahdaripour

Berthold Klaus Paul Horn (born December 8, 1943) is an American scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also Principal Investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.[1]

Horn is the author of two books and over 300 articles. His research is focused on Machine Vision, Computational Imaging, Suppressing Traffic Flow Instabilities and Indoor Navigation.

Horn was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to computer vision, including the recovery of three-dimensional geometry from image intensities.[2] He received the Azriel Rosenfeld Award by IEEE in 2009.[3]

  1. ^ "Local Students Build Robots for MIT Research". 21 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Dr. Berthold K.P. Horn".
  3. ^ "Horn is 2010 IEEE Azriel Rosenfeld Award recipient".

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