Vladimir A. Kovalevsky received his diploma in physics from Kharkiv University (Ukraine) in 1950,[1] his first doctoral degree in technical sciences from the Central Institute of Metrology (Leningrad) in 1957 and his second doctoral degree in computer science from the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev) in 1968.
Over a period of nearly 40 years, Vladimir A. Kovalevsky made many fundamental and pioneering contributions to nearly every area of the above-mentioned fields.
He developed the statistically founded correlation method of recognizing optical patterns and the department “Pattern Recognition” at the Institute of Cybernetics, Kiew, has constructed in 1968 the optical character reading machine “Chars” implementing this method.
[6][7] He suggested 1989 using topological knowledge, especially those of abstract cell complexes, in image processing.
This has improved the definitions and the processing of boundaries and edges in two- and three-dimensional digital images.