David A. Forsyth is a South-African-born American computer scientist and the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science the

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Education

Forsyth holds

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(1984) and

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(1986) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the

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, Johannesburg. He was awarded a

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degree from the

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for research supervisor

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in 1989.

Career and research

Forsyth stayed at Oxford as a

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("Fellow by Examination") until 1991. Then he moved to the

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, and in 1994 he moved to the

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, where he became a full professor before moving to the

in 2004. He co-authored with UIUC CS Professor Jean Ponce, in 2002, "Computer Vision: A Modern Approach", one of the leading publications addressing the topic. He has published over 100 papers on computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. He served as program co-chair for IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 2000, general co-chair for IEEE

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2006, program co-chair for

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2008, program co-chair for IEEE CVPR 2011, general co-chair for IEEE CVPR 2015, Adivisor to the program Commiitee for IEEE CVPR 2024 and is a regular member of the program committee of all major international conferences on computer vision. He served on the NRC Committee on "Protecting Kids from Pornography and other Inappropriate Material on the Internet", which sat for three years and produced a study widely praised for its sensible content. He has received best paper awards at the International Conference on Computer Vision and at the European Conference on Computer Vision. Forsyth's research interest also includes graphics and machine learning; he served as a committee member of ICML 2008.

Awards and honors

In 2013, he was elected a

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of the

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.ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Transforming Science and Society
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, accessed 2013-12-10.

References

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