If you are an AI student or graduated, you’ve may passed the course called “Fuzzy Logic”; atherwise, you’ve may heard about it.
“Fuzzy Logic” is about decision making, using uncertain observations. But there is certainty about the measurement of this ambiguity! (Is it confusing? Don’t worry; this is one of million amazing descriptions of this newborn logic!)
Fuzzy Logic was introduced by Prof. Lotfali Asker Zadeh (known as Prof. Lotfi Zadeh) at Berkley, and continued by Prof. Mamdani. These professors are both Iranian. So it is said that Fuzzy Logic was started and ended by Iranians.
I found this web page, when I wanted to find some articles about fuzzy image processing. It is the Homepage of Fuzzy Image Processing belongs to University of Waterloo, which takes the highest rank in Google. It is nice to know that here is managed by Prof. Hamid R. Tizhoosh, who is an Iranian professor too! 🙂
So despite that I am not an extreme nationalist, but I can conclude that Iranians have conquered the top of Fuzzy Logic!
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Here is an abstract about Fuzzy Image Processing, to make us familiar with this issue:
Fuzzy image processing is the collection of all approaches that understand, represent and process the images, their segments and features as fuzzy sets. The representation and processing depend on the selected fuzzy technique and on the problem to be solved.
(From: Tizhoosh, Fuzzy Image Processing, Springer, 1997)
Professor Lotf zadeh was born in Baku!
take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfi_Asker_Zadeh
It seems that Iranians have stolen this honor from Azeris; amazing to know that these professors also refuse to be known as Iranians.
But I don’t wish to clear up this misunderstanding, as a devil 😉