Professor Narendra Ahuja is currently the Donald Biggar Willet Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Beckman Institute, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the Technology Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering in 1998, the Emanuel R. Piore award of the IEEE in 1999, and in 2008 – the TA Stewart-Dyer/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Open Innovation Research Award from Hewlett-Packard. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Maryland Department of Computer Science (2008), Best Paper Award from IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (2006), University Scholar Award (1985), Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984), and President’s Merit Award (1966). He has co-authored the books Pattern Models (Wiley, 1983), Motion and Structure from Image Sequences (Springer-Verlag, 1992), and Face and Gesture Recognition (Kluwer, 2001). Professor Ahuja is on the editorial boards of the journals IEEE Trans. on PAMI; CVGIP; J. of Mathematical Imaging and Vision; J. of Pattern Analysis and Applications…etc.. He is a fellow of IEEE, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Int. Association for Pattern Recognition, Association for Computing Machinery...[more]