Edward Adelson

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Edward Adelson
Born
Edward Howard Adelson
Alma mater
RCA Laboratories
MIT
MIT Media Lab
ThesisThe response of the rod system to bright flashes of light (1979)
Doctoral advisorJohn Jonides
Doctoral studentsEero Simoncelli
William T. Freeman
Roland William Fleming

Edward Howard Adelson (born 1952) is an American neuroscientist who is currently the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]

Education and career

Adelson attended

RCA Laboratories as a staff scientist for five years. One of his most notable research outcomes is the Laplacian pyramid for visual image coding.[2]
Adelson has over 100 publications on topics in human vision, machine vision, computer graphics, neuroscience, and computational photography.

Awards

During his time at RCA Laboratories, Adelson won the 1984

IEEE Computer Society.[6] In 2020, he received the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science.[7]
In 2022, Adelson received the Kurt Koffka Medal for "advancing the fields of perception or developmental psychology to an extraordinary extent".[8]

Adelson is also a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae". Perceptual Science Group @ MIT. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
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  4. ^ "Edward H. Adelson". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  5. ^ "Psychologists Elected to National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts & Sciences". American Psychological Association. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  6. ^ "Awards – iccv2013". www.pamitc.org. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  7. ^ "2020 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science – Edward Adelson". Vision Sciences Society. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  8. ^ "Kurt-Koffka-Medaille".
  9. ^ "SEP Fellows". Society of Experimental Psychologists. Retrieved August 6, 2022.

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