Harry Wechsler

Title: Professor
EMail: wechsler@cs.gmu.edu
Department: Computer Science
Office: Science and Technology II - Room 461
Phone: 703-993-1533
Fax: 703-993-1710
Website: http://cs.gmu.edu/~wechsler/

Harry Wechsler received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1975. He is presently Professor of Computer Science and Director for the Center of Distributed and Intelligent Computation at George Mason University (GMU) http://cs.gmu.edu/~wechsler/DIC_Center/. His research, in the field of intelligent systems, has been in the areas of PERCEPTION: Computer Vision (CV), Automatic Target Recognition (ATR), Signal and Image Processing (SIP), MACHINE INTELLIGENCE: Pattern Recognition (PR), Neural Networks (NN), and Data Mining, EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Animats, and HUMAN-COMPUTER INTELLIGENT INTERACTION (HCII) : Face and Hand Gesture Recognition, Biometrics, Video Tracking and Surveillance, and Interpretation of Human Activities. He was Director for the NATO Advanced Study Institutes (ASI) on "Active Perception and Robot Vision" (Maratea, Italy, 1989), "From Statistics to Neural Networks" (Les Arcs, France, 1993) and "Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications" (Stirling, UK, 1997), and he has served as co-Chair for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition held in Vienna, Austria, in 1996. He authored over 200 scientific papers, his book Computational Vision was published by Academic Press in 1990, and he was the editor for "Neural Networks for Perception" (Vol 1 & 2), published by Academic Press in 1991. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1992 and as an Int. Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Fellow in 1998.