简介：

       Digital Image Processing is a mainstream field of research and application in areas ranging from medicine, biotechnolgy, and environmental monitoring, to industrial inspection, biometrics, robotics, and visual aspects of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This talk is an overview of the field, its history, and major current applications. Principles of how image processing technology is commercialized will also be discussed and illustrated with products that have resulted from academic research, and which have been commercially successful. Because of the recent focus of the Chinese government on innovation and its strategic importance in building a modernized economy, this talk should also be of interest to individuals working in research areas that have the potential for becoming innovative technologies with commercial applications.

 

       R. C. Gonzalez received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Miami in 1965 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1967 and 1970, respectively.

       He is the founder of the Image & Pattern Analysis Laboratory and the Robotics & Computer Vision Laboratory at UTK. He founded Perceptics Corporation in 1982 and was its president until 1992. The last three years of this period were spent under a full-time employment contract with Westinghouse Corporation, who acquired the company in 1989. From 1994-1997 he was a Distinguished Professor and Head of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UTK.

       Under his direction, Perceptics became a leader in image processing, computer vision, and laser disk storage technology. In its initial 10 years, Perceptics introduced a series of innovative products, including: The world's first commercially-available computer vision system for automatically reading the license plate on moving vehicles; a series of large-scale image processing and archiving systems used by the U.S. Navy at 6 different manufacturing sites throughout the U.S. to inspect the rocket motors of missiles in the Trident II Submarine Program; the market leading family of imaging boards for advanced Macintosh computers; and a line of laser disk products with data storage capabilities that exceed one trillion bytes.

       Gonzalez is author or co-author of over 100 technical articles, two edited books, and four textbooks in the fields of pattern recognition, image processing, and robotics. His books are used in more than 1,000 universities and research institutions throughout the world. He is listed in the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in Engineering, Marquis Who's Who in the World, and in 10 other national and international biographical citations. He is the co-holder of two U.S. Patents, and has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and the International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences. He is a member of numerous professional and honorary societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is a fellow of the IEEE.