Guest Editorial

"Guest Editorial." IETE Journal of Research, 44(4-5), pp. 147–148

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B B Chaudhuri

B B Chaudhuri received his BSc (Hons), BTech and M Tech degrees from Calcutta University, India in 1969, 1972 and 1974, respectively and PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1980. He joined Indian Statistical Institute in 1978 where he served as the Project Co-ordinator and Head of National Nodal Center for Knowledge Based Computing. Currently, he is the head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit of the institute. His research interests include Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Digital Document Processing including OCR. He has published 150 research papers in reputed International Journals and has authored the books entitled Two Tone Image Processing and Recognition (Wiley Eastern, 1993) and Object Oriented Programming: Fundamental and Applications (Prentice Hall, 1998). He was awarded Sir J C Bose Memorial Award for best engineering science oriented paper in 1986, M N Saha Memorial Award (twice) for best application oriented papers in 1989 and 1991, the Homi Bhabha Fellowship award in 1992 for OCR of the Indian languages and computer communication for the blind, Dr Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 1995 for his outstanding achievements in the fields of Electronics, Informatics and Telematics and C Achuta Menon Prize in 1996 for computer based Indian language processing. He worked as a Leverhulme visiting fellow at Queen's University, U K in 1981–82, a visiting scientist at GSF, Munich and guest faculty at the Technical University of Hannover during 1986–88 and again in 1990–91. He is a Senior member of IEEE, member secretary (Indian Section) of International Academy of Sciences, Fellow of International Association of Pattern Recognition, Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (India), Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (India) and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is serving as associate editor of the journals Pattern Recognition and Vivek.