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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
David Forsyth received a B.Sc. (Elec. Eng.) from the University of the Witwa-
tersrand, Johannesburg in 1984, an M.Sc. (Elec. Eng.) from that university in
1986, and a D.Phil. from Balliol College, Oxford in 1989. He spent three years
on the faculty at the University of Iowa, ten years on the faculty at the University
of California at Berkeley, and then moved to the University of Illinois. He served
as program co-chair for IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 2000
and in 2011, general co-chair for CVPR 2006, and program co-chair for the Euro-
pean Conference on Computer Vision 2008, and is a regular member of the program
committee of all major international conferences on computer vision. He has served
five terms on the SIGGRAPH program committee. In 2006, he received an IEEE
technical achievement award, and in 2009 he was named an IEEE Fellow.
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Jean Ponce received the Doctorat de Troisieme Cycle and Doctorat d’ Etat
degrees in Computer Science from the University of Paris Orsay in 1983 and 1988.
He has held Research Scientist positions at the Institut National de la Recherche en
Informatique et Automatique, the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the
Stanford University Robotics Laboratory, and served on the faculty of the Dept. of
Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1990 to
2005. Since 2005, he has been a Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris,
France. Dr. Ponce has served on the editorial boards of Computer Vision and
Image Understanding, Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision,
the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, the International Journal of
Computer Vision (for which he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2003 to 2008), and
the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. He was Program Chair of the 1997 IEEE
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and served as General
Chair of the year 2000 edition of this conference. He also served as General Chair
of the 2008 European Conference on Computer Vision. In 2003, he was named an
IEEE Fellow for his contributions to Computer Vision, and he received a US patent
for the development of a robotic parts feeder.