David Forsyth is a South African computer scientist and full professor at the University of Illinois.
In 2013, he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is married to Margaret Fleck, who is also a professor at the University of Illinois, and has three children.
I used this book to supplement a course in computer vision. The exposition leaves much to be desired. The authors handwave nontrivial mathematical results, without acknowledgement. Errors are also abundant (least squares solution is wrong on p.294, derivative of minimization criteria is wrong on p. 301).