Theodosios Pavlidis (
Greek : Θεοδόσιος Παυλίδης ; born September 8, 1934, in
Thessaloniki ) is a
computer scientist and Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of
Computer Science at the
State University of New York, Stony Brook .
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Education
Pavlidis studied at the
National Technical University of Athens , where in 1957 he received his Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering degree. He continued to study at the
University of California, Berkeley , where he received his
MS in Electrical Engineering in 1962 and his
PhD in
Electrical Engineering in 1964.
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Career
Pavlidis taught at
Princeton University , starting as an
assistant professor in 1964, promoted to
associate professor in 1968
[5] and
full professor in 1975.
[6] In 1980, he joined
AT&T Bell Laboratories in
Murray Hill, New Jersey , as a Member of Technical Staff.
[7] While at Bell Labs, in 1982, he was appointed Senior Editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
[8] and held that position through 1986. Pavlidis resumed teaching in 1986, first as a Leading Professor, and then as a
distinguished professor in 1995, becoming
emeritus in 2001.
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Pavlidis conducted fundamental research in several
computer software technology areas, including
pattern recognition ,
image analysis ,
picture editing ,
OCR ,
computer vision , and
barcodes . He contributed to the
PDF417 two-dimensional barcode ISO standard, allowing for the barcode itself to have very high information density and error correction.
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[9] His work in
computer vision resulted in an algorithm that could scan barcodes that are poorly printed or defaced/dirty.
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Pavlidis has published several books, and numerous articles and papers in leading engineering journals and conference proceedings.
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[13] He is also a named inventor on 15 U.S. issued patents.
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Additional aspects of Pavlidis' career may be found in the sidebar of his
IAPR profile.
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Honors and awards
1979 (1979 ) : Fellow of the
IEEE
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1986 (1986 ) :
IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Certificate for contributions as Editor-in-Chief of PAMI
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1994 (1994 ) : Fellow of the
IAPR for contributions to computer graphics and image processing, and for service to the
IAPR
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1996 (1996 ) :
IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award
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2000 (2000 ) :
IAPR
King-Sun Fu Prize for fundamental contributions to the theory and methodology of structural pattern recognition
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Books
Biological Oscillators: Their Mathematical Analysis . Academic Press, 1973.
Structural Pattern Recognition . Springer-Verlag, 1977.
Algorithms for Graphics and Image Processing . Computer Science Press, 1982.
Interactive Computer Graphics in X . PWS Publishing, 1995.
Fundamentals of X Programming . Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
References
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"SBU - Computer Science Department - Theo Pavlidis" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"Ph.D. Dissertations in EECS at UC Berkeley 1964" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Theodosios Pavlidis" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"King-Sun Fu Prize. IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 24, No. 4, Autumn 2000" (PDF) . Retrieved 2016-05-16 .
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"Faculty Promotions. Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 68, May 7, 1968, p. 99" . 1967. Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"The Faculty. Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 75, May 6, 1975, p.74" . 1974. Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"Alumni of the Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
^ "Opinion". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence . PAMI-4: 1. 1982.
doi :
10.1109/TPAMI.1982.4767187 .
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"NSF Researchers Improve Barcode Scanners; Advances Lead to Widespread Use of the Technology" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
^ Joseph, E.; Pavlidis, T. (1993). "Deblurring of bilevel waveforms". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing . 2 (2): 223–35.
Bibcode :
1993ITIP....2..223J .
doi :
10.1109/83.217225 .
PMID
18296210 .
^ Joseph, E.; Pavlidis, T. (1994). "Bar code waveform recognition using peak locations". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence . 16 (6): 630–640.
doi :
10.1109/34.295907 .
S2CID
17041460 .
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Theodosios Pavlidis publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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Theodosios Pavlidis at
DBLP Bibliography Server
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"Theodosios Pavlidis. USPTO Patent Database" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"Getting to know... Theo Pavlidis, IAPR Fellow. IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 34, No. 1, January, 2012" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"IEEE Fellows Directory" .
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Certificate" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"IAPR Fellows" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"IEEE Computer Society Golden Core" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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"IAPR - IAPR Awards" . Retrieved 2016-05-12 .
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