Takeo Kanade

Takeo Kanade
Kanade at the 2016 Kyoto Prize Presentation Ceremony
Born (1945-10-24) October 24, 1945 (age 79)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKyoto University
Known forLucas–Kanade method
Tomasi-Kanade method
Face Detection
Virtualized Reality
AwardsNAE Member (1997)
Bower Award (2008)
Kyoto Prize (2016)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer vision
Robotics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Kyoto University
ThesisPicture processing system by computer complex and recognition of human faces (1974)
Academic advisorsMakoto Nagao

Takeo Kanade (金出 武雄, Kanade Takeo, born October 24, 1945 in Hyōgo) is a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision. He is U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. He has approximately 300 peer-reviewed academic publications and holds around 20 patents.[1]