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Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
Indian computer scientist (born 1950) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (B. B. Chauduri) is a senior computer scientist and the pro-vice-chancellor (academic) of Techno India University in West Bengal, India. He is also adjuncted to Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), where he was a professor for about three decades. He was the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of ISI. Moreover, he was a J.C. Bose Fellow and INAE[1] Distinguished Professor at ISI.
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Bengali: বিদ্যুৎ বরণ চৌধুরী | |
![]() Chaudhuri in ISI at his Office, 2015 | |
Born | 1950 (age 73–74) |
Nationality | Indian |
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Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Indian Statistical Institute |
Website | www |
He was the vice-president of the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR).[2]
His primary research contributes to the fields of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition.[3] He is a pioneer of "Indian language script OCR".[3]