About the people behind this server
PRTools started in the Delft Pattern Recognition Group at the Faculty of Applied Physics (later Applied Sciences) of Delft University of Technology, around 1993. This research group had already been working in the field since 1963. Its field of interest covers many areas in pattern recogniton and image processing, as well as robotics. The subgroup concentrating on pattern recognition methodology designed PRTools for educational purposes, as well as a service to colleagues who need a basic software package for building applications or for comparative studies.
In January 2004, the research projects on pattern recognition methodology were moved to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and joined the section on Information and Communication Theory.
- Robert P.W. Duin, initiator and responsible for the versions up to 3.1.7
- Dick de Ridder, chairman of the PRTools4 design team
- Piotr Juszczak
- Carmen Lai
- Pavel Paclik, maintains the prtools.org website
- Elzbieta Pekalska
- David M.J. Tax
Other contributions, evaluation and support:
Marina Skurichina, Alexander Ypma, Serguei Verzakov, Thomas Landgrebe, Ben Kröse, Ferdi van der Heijden, and the early users outside Delft (1994) Lucy Kuncheva and Sarunas Raudys.