====== Curriculum Vitae ====== [[people:adelson:|Edward H. Adelson]] ---- === Coordinates: === Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences\\ Massachusetts Institute of Technology\\ 43 Vassar St., Building 46-4115\\ Cambridge, MA 02139\\ Phone: (617) 253-0645\\ email: a d e l s o n @ c s a i l . m i t . e d u\\ Web: http://persci.mit.edu/people/adelson\\ === Secondary Office: === Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)\\ 32 Vassar St., Building 32-D424\\ Cambridge, MA 02139\\ \\ ---- ==== Education ==== 1974-1979. Ph. D. in Experimental Psychology, University of Michigan\\ Dissertation: The response of the rod system to bright flashes of light\\ 1970-1974. B. A. in Physics and Philosophy, Yale University\\ ---- ==== Positions held: ==== 2007 - Present: John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive\\ 1997 - 2007: Professor of Vision Science, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT\\ 1994 - 1997: Associate Professor of Vision Science, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT\\ 1987 - 1994: Associate Professor of Vision Science, Media Laboratory, MIT\\ 1981 - 1986: Staff scientist (MTS), RCA Laboratories; research on basic and applied problems in human and machine vision\\ 1979 - 1981: Post-doctoral fellow at NYU; research in computational and psychophysical problems in motion perception\\ ==== Honors and Awards: ==== 2010 - Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences\\ 2007 - Member, National Academy of Sciences\\ 2005 - Longuet-Higgins Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Vision that have Withstood the Test of Time, IEEE Computer Society\\ 1992 - Rank Prize in Opto-electronics (with J. A. Movshon, W. Newsome, and S. Zeki)\\ 1984 - Adolph Lomb Medal, Optical Society of America\\ 1983 - Outstanding Achievement Award, RCA Laboratories\\ 1980 - Marquis Award, University of Michigan\\ ---- ===== Masters Theses Supervised ===== Tappen, Marshall, Recovering Shading and Reflectance from a Single Image; M.S., MIT, 2002\\ Neviett, William, Early Visual Features as Determinants of Perceived Texture Similarity, M.S., MIT, 1995\\ Niyogi, Sourabh, Kinetic Occlusion, S.M., EECS, MIT, 1995\\ Nagarajan, Ram, Very Low Bit Rate Object Based Image Compression Using Nonlinear Geometric Transforms, M.S., MIT, 1995\\ Desai, Ujjaval, Coding of Segmented Image Sequences, M.Eng. MIT, 1994\\ Chou, G. T., Visual Motion Perception: Uncertainty, Estimation, and Control, M.S., MIT, 1993\\ Sinha, Pawan, The Perception of Shading and Reflectance, M.S., MIT, 1992\\ Sokolov, Michael, Visual Motion: Algorithms for Analysis and Application, M.A., MIT, 1990\\ Simoncelli, Eero, Orthogonal Sub-band Image Transforms, M.S., MIT, 1988\\ ---- ===== Doctoral Theses Supervised ===== Sharan, Lavanya, The Perception of Material Qualities in Real-World Images, MIT, 2009\\ Li, Yuanzhen, Perceptually Inspired Image Estimation and Enhancement, MIT, 2009\\ McDermott, Joshua H., Empirical Constraints on the Evolutionary Origins of Music, MIT, 2007\\ Tappen, Marshall F., Learning Continuous Models for Estimating Intrinsic Component Images, MIT, 2006\\ Fleming, Roland W., Human Visual Perception Under Real-world Illumination, MIT, 2003\\ Dror, Ron, Surface Reflectance Recognition and Real-World Illumination Statistics, MIT, 2002\\ Weiss, Yair, Bayesian motion estimation and segmentation, MIT, 1998\\ Wang, John Y. A., Layered Image Representation: Identification of Coherent Components in Image Sequences, MIT, 1996\\ Simoncelli, Eero, Distributed Analysis and Representation of Visual Motion, MIT, 1993\\ Freeman, William, Steerable Filters and Local Analysis of Image Structure, MIT, 1992. ---- ===== Publications ===== ---- publist ---- cols : title, authors, citation, year, summary_page, www_url, pdf_url sort : ^year filter : type=publication filter : keyword=adelson years : false ---- //Last updated 3/10/2011/