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Professor Josef Kittler is a distinguished academic at the University of Surrey, where he serves as Professor and heads the Department of Electronics within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. He founded the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), which has grown into a major research hub with over 100 researchers. Kittler joined the university in 1986 after five years at EPSRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and prior research fellowships at Cambridge, Oxford, Southampton, and ENST Paris.
His research spans Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Biometrics, Signal Processing, and Cognitive Vision, with significant contributions to Deep Learning and Ambient Assisted Living. His prolific output includes over 700 scientific publications and the seminal textbook Pattern Recognition: A Statistical Approach (Prentice Hall). As Series Editor of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, he shapes discourse across computer vision and signal processing disciplines.
Professor Kittler's exceptional contributions are recognized through:
- KS Fu Prize (2006) for outstanding pattern recognition research
- Honorary Doctorates from University of Lappeenranta (1999) and Czech Technical University (2007)
- IET Faraday Medal (2008)
- EURASIP Fellow designation (2009)
His leadership extends to serving as President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (1994-1996) and co-founding OmniPerception Ltd., demonstrating sustained impact across academia and industry through the CVSSP research ecosystem.
