Background
Rosenfeld, Azriel was born on February 19, 1931 in New York City. Son of Abraham Hirsh and Ida B. (Chadaby) Rosenfeld.
consultant computer science educator
Rosenfeld, Azriel was born on February 19, 1931 in New York City. Son of Abraham Hirsh and Ida B. (Chadaby) Rosenfeld.
Bachelor, Yeshiva University, 1950. M.H.L., Yeshiva University, 1953. Master of Science, Yeshiva University, 1954.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Yeshiva University, 1955. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1957.
Doctor of Technology (honorary), Linkoping University, Sweden, 1980. Doctor of Technology (honorary), Oulu University, Finland, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Yeshiva University, 2000.
He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994). Professor Rosenfeld was a leading researcher in the field of computer image analysis. Over a period of nearly 40 years he made many fundamental and pioneering contributions to nearly every area of that field
He wrote the first textbook in the field (1969).
Was founding editor of its first journal (1972). And was co-chairman of its first international conference (1987).
He published over 30 books and over 600 book chapters and journal articles, and directed nearly 60 Doctor of Philosophy dissertations. Professor Rosenfeld"s research on digital image analysis (specifically on digital geometry and digital topology, and on the accurate measurement of statistical features of digital images) in the 1960s and 1970s formed the foundation for a generation of industrial vision inspection systems that have found widespread applications from the automotive to the electronics industry.
Professor Rosenfeld was a ba"al koreh (Torah Reader) at Young Israel Shomrai Emunah of Greater Washington for many years until he moved to Baltimore in 2001.
In honor of the memory of Professor Rosenfeld, ICCV gives the biennial Azriel Rosenfeld Award to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding life-time contribution to the field of image understanding or computer vision.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Emanuel R. Piore award 1985), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (Harry Goode Memorial award 1995), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Sys., Man and Cybernetics Society (NorbertWiener award 1995), Washington Academy Sciences (Science Achievement award 1988), American Association for Artificial Intelligence (founding), Association Computing Machinery (founding). Member Mathematics Association American, Machine Vision Association (board directors 1984-1988, President's award 1987), International Association Pattern Recognition (president 1980-1982, K.S. fu award 1988, founding fellow 1994), Association Orthodox Jewish Scientists (president 1963-1965), National Academy Engineering ofMex. (correspondent), Association Intelligent Machinery (information science award 1998).
Married Eve Hertzberg, March 1, 1959. Children— Elie, David, Tova.