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Horst Bunke

Also known as Horst Otto Bunke

Horst Bunke is an emeritus professor at the University of Bern, and IAPR honored his work on structural pattern recognition and handwriting recognition several times. He received a Dr. rer. nat. from Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1979, with a dissertation on sequential and parallel programmed graph grammars. From March 2000 to September 2000 he served as IAPR president. In 2009 he received the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis. The King-Sun Fu Prize, awarded in 2010, recognized his work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition.

Timeline

  1. 1979

    A doctorate on graph grammars

    He receives a Dr. rer. nat. from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1979, with a dissertation on sequential and parallel programmed graph grammars.

  2. 1992

    Editing a Bern workshop

    He edits the proceedings of the 1992 International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition in Bern.

  3. 1996

    An IAPR Fellow

    IAPR names him a Fellow in 1996 for contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR.

  4. March 2000–September 2000

    Serving as IAPR president

    From March 2000 to September 2000, he serves as IAPR president.

  5. 2001

    Co-editing a hidden Markov book

    Hidden Markov Models: Applications in Computer Vision, co-edited with Terry Caelli, appears in 2001.

  6. 2009

    The IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award

    At ICDAR 2009 the award goes to him for contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis.

  7. 2010

    The King-Sun Fu Prize

    Work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition earns him the IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize in 2010.

  8. As of October 2026

    Emeritus professor at Bern

    He is an emeritus professor in the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bern.

Sources and credits

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  1. Horst Bunke - The Mathematics Genealogy Project mathgenealogy.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. CiNii Books 著者 - Bunke, Horst O. ci.nii.ac.jp. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. IAPR - ICPR History old.iapr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. ICDAR iapr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. K.S. Fu Prize 2010 Awarded to Prof. Horst Bunke – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. About us: Prof. em. Dr. Horst Bunke - Institute of Computer Science inf.unibe.ch. Checked 14 October 2026.