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Avinash Kak (also known as Avi Kak to his friends around the world) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has done pioneering research in image processing, tomography, computer vision, and computer languages.

His research on machine vision and robotics is based on the credo that sensory intelligence for machines must be demonstrated using real data, since practically anything can be shown to work with synthetic data. His laboratory has performed research on sensory intelligence for the machines of the future by considering 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, and task and assembly planning.

With regard to the pathbreaking contributions made by Kak and his collaborators: In 1989, Chen and Kak published 3D-POLY that is still the fastest algorithm for recognizing 3D objects in depth maps. In 1992, Kosaka and Kak published FINALE, which is considered to be a computationally efficient and highly robust approach to vision-based navigation by indoor mobile robots. In 2003, a group of researchers that included Kak developed a tool for content-based image retrieval that was demonstrated by clinical trials to markedly improve the performance of radiologists. This remains the only clinically evaluated system for content-based image retrieval for radiologists.

About his contributions to education, his book Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging, now re-published as a classic in Applied Mathematics by SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics), is still widely used around the world in courses dealing with modern medical imaging. His other co-authored book Digital Picture Processing is also considered to be a classic and has been one of the most widely referenced sources in literature dealing with digital image processing and computer vision. His most recent book, Programming with Objects, presents a comparative approach to the teaching and learning of two object-oriented languages, C++ and Java.

Bibliography

  • Azriel Rosenfeld and Avinash Kak, Digital Picture Processing Academic Press(1982)
  • Avinash Kak and Malcolm Slaney, Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Press(1988)
  • Avinash Kak, Programming With Objects: A Comparative Presentation of Object Oriented Programming with C++ and Java John Wiley and Sons(2003)
  • C. H. Chen and A. C. Kak, "A Robot Vision System for Recognizing 3-D Objects in Low-Order Polynomial Time," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 1535-1563, November/December 1989
  • Akio Kosaka and Avinash Kak, "Fast Vision-Guided Mobile Robot Navigation using Model-Based Reasoning and Prediction of Uncertainties," Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing -- Image Understanding, pp. 271-329, November 1992.
  • Alex Aisen, Lynn Broderick, Helen Winter-Muram, Carla Brodley, Avinash Kak, Christina Pavlopoulou, Jennifer Dy, Chi-Ren Shyu, and Alan Marchiori, "Automated Storage and Retrieval of Thin-Section CT Images to Assist Diagnosis: System Description and Preliminary Assessment," Radiology, Vol. 228, No. 1, pp. 265-270, July 2003
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