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Demetri Terzopoulos | |
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 Demetri Terzopoulos at theRoyal Society admissions day in London, July 2014 | |
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| Spouse | Noemi Terzopoulos |
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| Thesis | Multiresolution computation of visible-surface representations (1984) |
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Demetri TerzopoulosFRS FRSC[1][2] is a Greek-Canadian-Americancomputer scientist andentrepreneur.[3][4] He is currently aDistinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science in theHenry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles, where he directs the UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory.
Terzopoulos was educated atMcGill University where he was awarded an HonoursBachelor of Engineering degree with Distinction in 1978 and aMaster of Engineering degree, advised bySteven Warren Zucker, in 1980, both inelectrical engineering.[5] He went on to study at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded aPhD degree inArtificial Intelligence in 1984 forcomputer vision research on the computation of visible-surface representations,[6] advised byShimon Ullman andJ. Michael Brady.[7][5] His university education was fully funded by twoNSERC Canada and two Quebec government postgraduatescholarships in addition to two McGill University J.W. McConnell undergraduate scholarships.[5]
Following his PhD studies, Terzopoulos was a research scientist at theMIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a program leader atSchlumberger research centres in Palo Alto, California, and Austin, Texas, Professor of Computer Science and Professor ofElectrical andComputer Engineering at theUniversity of Toronto, and Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at theCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences ofNew York University, where he held a Lucy and Henry MosesEndowed Professorship in Science. He then moved to UCLA, where he has beenChancellor's Professor of Computer Science since 2005 as well asDistinguished Professor, the University of California's highest distinction for faculty members, since 2012.[5]
Since 2016, Terzopoulos has beenCo-Founder andChief Scientist of VoxelCloud, Inc., amultinationalhealthcare AI company with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai. He has held adjunct, visiting, consultancy, part-time, and internship positions atSchlumberger,IBM,Digital Equipment Corporation,Intel,Bell-Northern Research, theNational Research Council of Canada,Ontario Tech University,Paris Dauphine University, andShanghai Jiao Tong University.[5]
Terzopoulos' research interests are primarily incomputer graphics,computer vision,medical imaging,computer-aided design, andartificial intelligence/life. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 scientific publications,[8] including several volumes, spanning these fields,[9][10][11][12][13] 19 of which have been recognized with outstanding paper awards, and has delivered more than 500 invited talks worldwide about his research,among them well over 100 distinguished lectures and keynote/plenary addresses.[5]
Terzopoulos has served on review and advisory committees atDARPA (United States), theNational Science Foundation (United States), theNational Institutes of Health (United States), theNational Academies (United States), theNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), and theMax Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany).[5]
Terzopoulos was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship in 2009.[14] He is or was anACM Fellow, aFellow of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) of London,[1] aFellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC),[2] a Fellow of theCanadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), a Distinguished Fellow of theInternational Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI), a Fellow of theAsia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a member of theEuropean Academy of Sciences, theNew York Academy of Sciences,Sigma Xi, and theHellenic Institute of Advanced Studies (HIAS).[5]
In 2020, theIEEE Computer Society awarded Terzopoulos itsComputer Pioneer Award "for a leading role in developing computer vision, computer graphics, and medical imaging through pioneering research that has helped unify these fields and has impacted related disciplines within and beyond computer science".[15][16]
Terzopoulos was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[1] His certificate of election and candidature reads:
Demetri Terzopoulos is an internationally renowned researcher in both computer vision and computer graphics and his work has helped to unify these two fields. He co-invented the seminal "active contours"algorithm, which is widely used in computer vision. He pioneered the development of deformable models and their application to vision and graphics, as well as to related domains such as medical imaging and computer-aided design. In the field ofartificial life, his ground-breaking work combinesbiomechanics with theories of intelligence, includingmotor control,perception,behaviour,cognition andlearning, to yield remarkably realistic computer simulations of humans and other animals.[1]
In 2013, at theInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Terzopoulos was awarded aHelmholtz Prize[17] for his 1987 ICCV paper withKass andWitkin entitled"Snakes:Active contour models",[18] which received aMarr Prize citation in 1987.
In 2007, at theInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Terzopoulos was awarded the inauguralIEEE PAMI Computer Vision Distinguished Researcher Award for his "pioneering and sustained research on deformable models and their applications".[19][20]Deformable Models, a term he coined in his computer vision and graphics research work, is listed in theIEEE Thesaurus andIEEE Taxonomy (Systems engineering and theory →Modeling →Deformable models).
In 2006, at the78th Academy Awards, Terzopoulos won anAcademy Award for Technical Achievement from theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences withJohn Platt for "their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures"; furthermore, their 1987ACM SIGGRAPH Conference paper entitled"Elastically deformable models"[21] was recognized by the Academy as "a milestone in computer graphics, introducing the concept of physically-based techniques to simulate moving, deforming objects".[22][23][24]
In 2006, Terzopoulos was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by its Academy of Science, whose short citation reads:
Demetri Terzopoulos is an internationally renowned leader in computer vision and computer graphics whose work has contributed fundamentally to the ongoing unification of these two fields. He is famous for pioneering deformable models and for spearheading their application in vision and graphics, as well as in related domains such as medical imaging and computer-aided design.[5]
In 2002, Terzopoulos was inducted as an inaugural Member ofThe European Academy of Sciences with the citation "Elected for outstanding and lasting contributions to computer science and pioneering developments in the field of computer vision"; he resigned from the academy in 2012.[5]
Terzopoulos was awarded aCanadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Fellowship (1989–1995), aNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1996–1998),[25] and aCanada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship (1998–2000).[26] TheCanadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) cited him for his "outstanding contributions to research and education in Image Understanding" with its Young Investigator Award (1998) as well as with its Lifetime Achievement Award for Research Excellence (2015).[27] TheCanadian Human-Computer Communications Society (CHCCS) presented him with its Achievement Award (2023) for his "pioneering and sustained contributions to computer graphics over the course of nearly four decades".[28] He is the recipient of six University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Dean's Excellence Awards.[5]
In 1973, Terzopoulos was awarded theGovernor General's Academic Medal and Centennial Fund Scholarship by theHigh School of Montreal.[5]
Terzopoulos' former students and postdocs have won significant awards for their work, among them theACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1996 toXiaoyuan Tu.[29]
