Takeo Kanade

Takeo Kanade (Japanese金 出 武雄, Takeo Kanade, born October 24, 1945 in Kasuga, Hikami -gun (now Tamba ), Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese computer scientist with a focus on robotics and computer vision. He earned his doctorate at the University of Kyoto. Since 1980 he has been researching at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he is a professor since 1985 and from 1992 to 2001 who was in charge of the Robotics Institute.

In 2008 he received the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute for his outstanding achievements in the field of machine vision, who have shown their functionality in the real world. He became known among other things for the Lucas- Kanade method to estimate optical flow from two images and the Zitnick - Kanade method to calculate the deviation.