Lawrence Roberts is an author of one of the first articles on computer vision - legendary "Machine Perception of Three-Dimensional Solids". His approach become classical and his algorithms are widely used:
- homogeneous coordinate system;
- cross operator for edge detection.
His homepage: http://packet.cc/
Wikipedia entry is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist)
Some links
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/roberts-harry?p_p_id=15&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=normal
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/roberts-wallace?p_p_id=15&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=normal
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