Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (B. B. Chauduri) is a senior

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and the pro-vice-chancellor (academic) of

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in West Bengal, India. He is also adjuncted to Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), where he was a professor for about three decades. He was the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of

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. Moreover, he was a J.C. Bose Fellow and

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Distinguished Professor at

. He was the vice-president of the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR). His primary research contributes to the fields of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition. He is a pioneer of " Indian language script OCR".

Education

Chaudhuri received his BSc (Hons.), BTech and MTech degrees from University of Calcutta, India in 1969, 1972 and 1974, respectively and PhD Degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980. He did his post-doc work during 1981-1982 from

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, U.K, through Leverhulme Overseas Fellowship.

Awards and recognition

Chaudhuri has been elected as a Life Fellow of IEEE "for contributions to pattern recognition, especially Indian language script OCR, document processing and natural language processing". He has become a Fellow of

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(IAPR) "for contributions to character recognition and speech synthesis in Indian language". He is also Fellow of

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(TWAS), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE),

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(NASI), and Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE). In 2011, Chaudhuri received the

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for his contribution in the field of electronics and information technology. Chaudhuri's interview on some of his works has been reported in Indian newspaper as well. He is within world's top 2% scientists and top-10 Indian AI scientists according to a study conducted by

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References

External links

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