Edward Adelson

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]

Edward Adelson
Born
Edward Howard Adelson
Alma materYale University
University of Michigan
AwardsAdolph Lomb Medal (1984)
Rank Prize in Opto-electronics (1992)
IEEE Computer Society Longuet-Higgins Prize (2005) (2010)
IEEE Computer Society Helmholtz Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsVision science
InstitutionsNYU
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

Education and career

Adelson attended Yale University and received bachelor's degrees in physics and philosophy in 1974. He then attended the University of Michigan for his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, graduating in 1979. He was a postdoctoral fellow at NYU from 1979 to 1981, after which he joined 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 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America.[3] He joined the faculty at MIT in 1987, first at the Media Lab before moving to the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1994.[1] In 1992, he received the Rank Prize in Opto-electronics, and in 2005 he received the Longuet-Higgins Prize from the IEEE Computer Society. In 2006, Adelson was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[4] In 2010, he was elected as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5] In 2013, he received the Helmholtz Award from the 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. "Curriculum Vitae". Perceptual Science Group @ MIT. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  2. Burt, Peter J.; Adelson, Edward H. (January 1, 1987). "The Laplacian Pyramid as a Compact Image Code". Readings in Computer Vision: 671–679. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-051581-6.50065-9. ISBN 9780080515816.
  3. "OSA medals, honors, new award". Applied Optics. 23 (9): 1318–1346. May 1, 1984. doi:10.1364/AO.23.001318. ISSN 2155-3165.
  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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