Berthold Klaus Paul Horn | |
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| Born | December 8, 1943 |
| Other names | Berthold K.P. Horn Berthold Horn |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, researcher |
| Relatives | Peter Horn (brother) |
| Awards | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering Azriel Rosenfeld Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Witwatersrand Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Shape from Shading: A Method for Obtaining the Shape of a Smooth Opaque Object from One View (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marvin Minsky |
| Academic work | |
| Doctoral students | Matthew T. Mason Marc Raibert Shahriar Negahdaripour |
Berthold Klaus Paul Horn (born December 8, 1943) is an American scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also Principal Investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.[1]
Horn is the author of two books and over 300 articles. His research is focused on Machine Vision, Computational Imaging, Suppressing Traffic Flow Instabilities and Indoor Navigation.
Horn was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to computer vision, including the recovery of three-dimensional geometry from image intensities.[2] He received the Azriel Rosenfeld Award by IEEE in 2009.[3]