Prof. Nakano was a respected and excellent scientist in the pattern recognition community, and it is a great loss for all of us that he has passed away. But although he is no longer with us, his strong influence on the field of document analysis and character recognition will last for a long time.
Our deepest sympathy goes to Prof. Nakano's relatives in this time of grief.
Prof. Karl Tombre
President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
We want to express our deepest condolence to the death of your husband. It is always very hard to loose someone you are close to, but it is especially hard to loose the husband. We wish you all the strength you need now to go through this hard time.
We have known each other for so many years. It was always so nice to meet in different places around the world and always a great pleasure to talk to Yasuaki and you. There are many moments we remember and cherish.
With your husband, the scientific community looses a very distinguished member, who was highly respected. We personally are loosing someone we considered a friend.
With our deepest sympathy,
Helga and Horst Bunke
In the name of DFKI and all my staff members, I like to express my deep sadness about Prof. Nakano's death. When I had email exchange with him in January this year, he was so optimistic to overcome his esophageal cancer and to participate again in ICDAR.
We are all very sorry and will miss him very much. He was an excellent and influencing researcher and a gentle colleague.
I am with you and wish you the strength to bear this substantial misery.
All my best.
Sincere condolences,
Andreas Dengel
It is with great sadness that I learned of the recent death of Professor Yasuaki Nakano. He was a leader in our international research community who will always be remembered. His impact on the fields of document analysis, pattern recognition, and handwriting recognition will continue to be felt many years from now. As a lasting legacy, I can think of no better tribute for a researcher.
Professor Daniel Lopresti
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
It's with profound sadness to hear that Prof. Nakano passed away. I remember very well the many contributions he made to our community. Most vividly, the conference/workshop he organized at Nagano a few years ago and the tour my wife organized for Prof. & Mrs. Nakano in Quebec city during ICPR in 2002. I miss him.
With deepest sympathy,
Ching Suen
I am shocked at the news of Dr. Nakano's passing away. I have known him for more than 12 years and we always had pleasant conversations during our meetings at international conferences. I also remember Dr. Nakano helping me out when the paper I had submitted did not arrive before the deadline. He want out of his way to find a solution to my problem. The pattern recognition community will miss him tremendously.
My heartfelt condolences to the family of Dr. Nakano
M. Shridhar
Professor & Chair, ECE
University of Michigan-Dearborn
On behalf of Standing Committee Members of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IPPR) Society of the Repulic of China (ROC),
we would like to present our deep condolences to the passing away of our highly respected Professor Nakano.
With best regards,
Yung-Chang Chen
Professor and IEEE Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Tsing Hua University
Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, 300
R.O.C.
I was deeply saddened to hear about the death of Professor Nakano. My thoughts are with you and your family.
As Yasuaki and I met over the years at various conferences in many places around the world I came to appreciate not only his intelligence and innovation in research but his qualities as a friend. He served with me on the IAPR Conferences and Meetings committee and offered his insight and advice in approving conferences on scientific merit. Additionally we served together on the Program Committees of various conferences over the years.
When we last met here at my house in New Zealand, we had a pig roast which seemed to be of great interest to Yasuaki. He kindly sent me picture he had taken of the evening.
I know that you will miss him greatly.
Since it is not possible for me to travel to the funeral, please let me express my deepest sympathy in this way.
Larry Spitz
I want to express my sincere sadness to Dr. Nakano's funeral. Since we met many times and we had a good time to discuss on interesting topics related to recognition problem.
I hope that he will take a peaceful eternal life and God will be with him.
Prof. Young-Bin Kwon
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 156-756, Korea
e-mail: ybkwon@cau.ac.kr
I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Prof. Yasuaki Nakano, a pioneer in the area of document analysis. Prof. Nakano contributed pioneering works in Chinese/Kanji character recognition and form image analysis, and kept active in research activities until his last time. I was impressed by his dedication to research, depth of knowledge, and enthusiasm to young researchers. He will be missed by all of us.
Cheng-Lin Liu
NLPR, Chinese Academy of Sciences
I have come to know the sad demise of Prof Nakano through an e-mail from Prof Hu and Prof Antonacopulos. I met him when he visited our Indian Statistical Institute a few years ago. He was not only a great scholar but also an extremely pleasing personality.
I wish his soul rest in peace and send my heartfelt condolence to you and all other members of your family.
With sincere regards
Prof Bidyut B Chaudhuri
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata-108, India
On behalf of Korean Document Analysis and Pattern Recognition community, I would like to express our deepest condolences to Mrs. Nakano and his family members.
Prof. Yasuaki Nakano was not only a respected scholar of oriental document analysis but also a hearty friend and teacher of many Koreans.
Jin Hyung Kim
Professor, KAIST, Computer Science Department
I am extremely saddened to hear about the untimely passing of Dr. Nakano. His many contributions to Pattern Recognition in general, and to Document Analysis in particular, will continue to influence research for many more decades. We will miss him very much at DAS 2008.
Rangachar Kasturi
I have known Professor Nakano so long that I cannot even remember when I had first met him. Although we have never collaborated, we had many interesting conversations at various conferences, and he was a most gracious host on my last visit to Japan. He made esteemable contributions in so many areas of signal processing and pattern recognition that I have barely touched on! Inventive and modest, he remains an eminent role model for all of us.
I would be grateful if you conveyed my condolences to his family and to his associates.
George Nagy
I am extremely sad to hear about the death of Professor Nakano. I met him and Mrs. Nakano more than 10 times in international conferences and exchanged valuable discussions. I had a chance to co-organize the DAS1998 with him and he was always very careful and warm-hearted person. We will miss him forever.
Seong-Whan Lee
Korea University, Korea