Congratulations to Ruzena Bajcsy - recipient of the 2013 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

"For contributions to computer vision, the active perception paradigm, and medical robotics"

 

A driving force in the field of robotics for over three decades, Ruzena Bajcsy's pioneering work on machine vision and perception has helped robots achieve humanlike performance. During the 1980s, she was the first to recognize that active perception was needed to improve computer vision/information acquisition. Active perception enables mobile robots to actively control camera positions and other image acquisition conditions. Dr. Bajcsy's landmark work on computer vision also includes modeling of deformable objects, elastic model matching, and visual hyperacuity, which has had important implications for medical robotics and imaging. Dr. Bajcsy founded the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory in 1978 at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, she became the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Bajcsy is the NEC Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Award was established in 2002 by the IEEE Board of Directors, and is presented for contributions in the field of robotics and automation. It includes but is not limited to: manufacturing automation; robotics and automation in unstructured environments; sensor design; integration and fusion; robot design; modeling; planning and control; methodologies for robotics and automation, and the quality of the nomination.

Past Recipients:
2012 – Bernard Roth
2011 – Hirochika Inoue
2010 – Toshio Fukuda
2009 – Antal Bejczy
2008 – Paul G. Backes
           Eric T. Baumgartner
           Larry H. Matthies
2007 – Gerd Hirzinger
2006 – George A. Bekey
2005 – Seiuemon Inaba
2004 – Joseph F. Engelberger

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