Charles R. Dyer, Ph.D.
Charles (Chuck) Dyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in
1979 under the guidance of Professor Azriel Rosenfeld. His thesis was “Augmented
cellular automata for image analysis.”
Chuck has had a distinguished career in academia. After graduating from Maryland he spent three years at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1982 he became a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he is now located. He is Professor of Computer Sciences, and Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. He served as chair of the department from 1990 to 1993.
Chuck is known for his research in the field of computer vision, where he has worked for over thirty years and has published over 130 technical papers. His research has focused mainly on shape and image representations for computer vision, with contributions on topics such as quadtrees, aspect graphs, pyramid algorithms, image-based modeling and rendering, view morphing, object recognition, and motion analysis. He has advised 11 Ph.D. students, many of whom hold academic positions and have their own active research programs, including K. Kutulakos (University of Toronto), H. Plantinga (Calvin College), B. Seales (University of Kentucky), S. Seitz (University of Washington), and C. Stewart (RPI).
His paper, “Photorealistic Scene Reconstruction by Voxel Coloring,” which was co-authored by Steve Seitz and published in the International Journal of Computer Vision, is one of the most influential papers on 3D reconstruction from multiple images written in the past twenty years.
Professor Dyer is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition), and was awarded the Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, University of Oxford for 1999-2000. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1987-1991; was Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2002-2003; and is a member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 2002-date. He was General Co-Chair of the 2003 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, which is the premier U.S. conference on computer vision. He was Program Co-Chair of this same conference in 1996, and has been on the program committees of numerous other conferences.
Chuck lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Deb, and daughter, Allie (age 12). He enjoys running, bicycling, non-fiction reading, and traveling.
