Professor Terzopoulos is the recipient of an Academy Award for Technical Achievement
from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his pioneering work on realistic cloth
simulation for motion pictures. The IEEE has recognized him with its Computer Pioneer Award
and inaugural Computer Vision Distinguished Researcher Award “For his pioneering and sustained
research on Deformable Models and their applications.” ‘Deformable models’, a term he coined,
appears in the IEEE Taxonomy. His many other accolades include an award from the AAAI for
his work on deformable models, a Helmholtz Prize and a Marr Prize citation from the IEEE for
his work on active contours (“snakes”), two citations from the International Medical Informatics
Association and an award from the MICCAI Society for his work on medical image analysis, an
award from the Japanese NICOGRAPH Society for his work on human facial modeling and animation, and awards from the International Digital Media Foundation and from Ars Electronica
for his work on the artificial life simulation of animals. He has been a Killam Research Fellow of
the Canada Council for the Arts, an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow of the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada, and an AI/Robotics Fellow of the Canadian Institute
for Advanced Research. The Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society cited
him for his “outstanding contributions to research and education in Image Understanding” with its
Young Investigator Award as well as with its Award for Research Excellence. The 36 PhD theses
that he has supervised include the winner of the 1996 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award