Matti Pietikäinen (academic)

Matti Kalevi Pietikäinen
NationalityFinnish
Alma materUniversity of Oulu
Known forFundamental contributions to texture analysis and facial image analysis
AwardsIEEE Fellow
IAPR Fellow
AAIA Fellow
Pentti Kaitera Prize
IET Journal's Premium Award
Koenderink Prize
King-Sun Fu Prize
Highly Cited Researcher
Highly Cited Researcher whose h-index is at least 100 in Google Scholar
Scientific career
FieldsComputer vision,
Pattern recognition
InstitutionsUniversity of Oulu,
Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis
Doctoral advisorAzriel Rosenfeld

Matti Kalevi Pietikäinen is a Finnish computer scientist. He is currently Professor (emer.) in the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu. His research interests are in texture-based computer vision, face analysis, affective computing, biometrics, and vision-based perceptual interfaces. He was Director of the Center for Machine Vision Research, and Scientific Director of Infotech Oulu.