Michael J. B. Duff

Michael J. B. Duff FIEE FIAPR (17 January 1933 - 29 December 2021) He then spent two years at EMI's infra-red group before returning to UCL as a research assistant in the Automatic Methods Group developing 'Digiscat' to measure the scattering of particle tracks in nuclear emulsions, bubble and spark chamber photographs.

In 1967, he developed the UCPR1 image-processing computer, an early system designed for automated visual data processing. In 2000, he was named the first Distinguished Fellow of the BMVA. He was editor-in-chief of the IAPR newsletter from 1999 to 2002. His wife Susan managed the IAPR secretariat from 1992 to 2004. including a book:

Selected other works include: M.J.B. Duff, B.M. Jones, L.J. Townsend, "Parallel processing pattern recognition system UCPR1", in Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Volume 52, Issue 2, 1967, Pages 284-288, https://doi.org/10.1016/0029-554X(67)90232-7 M. J. B. Duff, "Review of the CLIP image processing system," in Managing Requirements Knowledge, International Workshop on, ANAHEIM, 1978, pp. 1055, doi: 10.1109/AFIPS.1978.166. Duff, M.J.B. (1981). "The Elements of Digital Picture Processing", in: Onoe, M., Preston, K., Rosenfeld, A. (eds) Real-Time Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3893-2_1 Wood, A. M., Duff, M. J. B. (Ed.), & Levialdi, S. (Ed.) (1981). "The Interaction between Hardware, Software, and Algorithms", in Languages and Architectures for Image Processing (pp. 1-11). Academic Press. Taylor, CJ., Kittler, J. (Ed.), & Duff, MJB. (Ed.) (1985). "Serial architectures for image processing". In Image Processing System Architecture (pp. 39-48). Research Studies Press. M J B Duff, "The Clip parallel processor", The Computer Bulletin, Volume 27, Issue 4, December 1985, Pages 26–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/combul/27.4.26 Duff, M.J.B. (2001). "Thirty Years of Parallel Image Processing", in: Palma, J.M.L.M., Dongarra, J., Hernández, V. (eds) Vector and Parallel Processing — VECPAR 2000. VECPAR 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44942-6_35

Personal life Married Susan (nee Jones) in 1963. Daughter Charlotte and son Robert. Four grandchildren - Harry, Sam, Rachel and Sophie.