Dr. Ching Suen
Fellow
Current Employer
Concordia University
Election Year
1995
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Applied Science
Department
Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
Keywords
pattern recognition, handwriting, recognition
Dr. Ching Y. Suen has built one of the world's strongest research centres in the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence. He is a prolific writer who has authored and edited 14 books and more than 500 papers on subjects ranging from computer vision and expert systems, to computational linguistics. His research results have created many new frontiers for both academic and industrial scientists. His new concept of pulling the decision power of multiple experts to recognize totally unconstrained handwritten characters has revolutionalized the field of Optical Character Recognition leading to much better performance than before.
Dr. Suen has served as editorin-chief of two journal, and associate editor of 6 prestigious journals, president of 2 professional societies, and founder and Chairman of 10 national and international conferences.
Dr. Suen has served as editorin-chief of two journal, and associate editor of 6 prestigious journals, president of 2 professional societies, and founder and Chairman of 10 national and international conferences.