Demetri Terzopoulos

Demetri Terzopoulos is a Greek-Canadian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directs the UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory.

Education

Terzopoulos was educated at McGill University where he was awarded an Honours Bachelor of Engineering degree with Distinction in 1978 and a Master of Engineering degree, advised by Steven Warren Zucker, in 1980, both in electrical engineering. advised by Shimon Ullman and J. Michael Brady. His university education was fully funded by two NSERC Canada and two Quebec government postgraduate scholarships in addition to two McGill University J.W. McConnell undergraduate scholarships. including several volumes, spanning these fields, 19 of which have been recognized with outstanding paper awards, and has delivered more than 500 invited talks worldwide about his research, among them well over 100 distinguished lectures and keynote/plenary addresses. He is or was an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) of London,

Terzopoulos was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. for his 1987 ICCV paper with Kass and Witkin entitled "Snakes: Active contour models", which received a Marr Prize citation in 1987.

In 2007, at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Terzopoulos was awarded the inaugural IEEE PAMI Computer Vision Distinguished Researcher Award for his "pioneering and sustained research on deformable models and their applications". Deformable Models, a term he coined in his computer vision and graphics research work, is listed in the IEEE Thesaurus and IEEE Taxonomy (Systems engineering and theory → Modeling → Deformable models).

In 2006, at the 78th Academy Awards, Terzopoulos won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with John Platt for "their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures"; furthermore, their 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference paper entitled "Elastically deformable models" was recognized by the academy as "a milestone in computer graphics, introducing the concept of physically-based techniques to simulate moving, deforming objects".

In 2006, Terzopoulos was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by its Academy of Science, whose short citation reads: centered Demetri Terzopoulos is an internationally renowned leader in computer vision and computer graphics whose work has contributed fundamentally to the ongoing unification of these two fields. He is famous for pioneering deformable models and for spearheading their application in vision and graphics, as well as in related domains such as medical imaging and computer-aided design. and a Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship (1998–2000). The Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) cited him for his "outstanding contributions to research and education in Image Understanding" with its Young Investigator Award (1998) as well as with its Lifetime Achievement Award for Research Excellence (2015). The Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society (CHCCS) presented him with its Achievement Award (2023) for his "pioneering and sustained contributions to computer graphics over the course of nearly four decades". He is the recipient of six University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Dean's Excellence Awards.