Curriculum Vitae

Edward H. Adelson

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

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
32 Vassar St., Building 32-D424
Cambridge, MA 02139

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

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

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

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

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.

• Shape Estimation in Natural Illumination Micah K. Johnson and Edward H. Adelson, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011. Abstract PDF
• Microgeometry Capture using an Elastomeric Sensor Micah K. Johnson, Forrester Cole, Alvin Raj, and Edward H. Adelson, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proc. SIGGRAPH, 2011, 2011. Abstract PDF
• Personal Photo Enhancement Using Example Images Neel Joshi, Wojceich Matusik, Edward H. Adelson and David J. Kriegman, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 29(2), 2010. Abstract PDF
• Exploring Features in a Bayesian Framework for Material Recognition Ce Liu, Lavanya Sharan, Edward H. Adelson, and Ruth Rosenholtz, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) pp239 - 246, 2010. Abstract PDF
• Ground truth dataset and baseline evaluations for intrinsic image algorithms R. Grosse, M.K. Johnson, E.H. Adelson, and W.T. Freeman, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009. Abstract PDF
• Retrographic sensing for the measurement of surface texture and shape M.K. Johnson and E.H. Adelson, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. Abstract PDF
• Human-Assisted Motion Annotation C. Liu, W. T. Freeman, E. H. Adelson and Y. Weiss, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008. Abstract PDF
• ScribbleBoost: Adding Classification to Edge-Aware Interpolation of Local Image and Video Adjustments Yuanzhen Li, Edward H. Adelson, Aseem Agarwala, Graphics Forum, 27(4), Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2008. Abstract PDF
• Image Statistics for Surface Reflectance Perception Lavanya Sharan, Yuanzhen Li, Isamu Motoyoshi, Shin'ya Nishida, and Edward H. Adelson., Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 846-865, 2008. Abstract PDF
• Image Mapping Using Local and Global Statistics Yuanzhen Li and Edward H. Adelson, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6806, pp. 680614-680614-11 (2008), 2008. Abstract PDF
• Image Statistics and Surface Perception Edward H. Adelson, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6806, pp. 680602-680602-9 (2008), 2008. Abstract PDF
• Image Statistics and the Perception of Surface Qualities Isamu Motoyoshi, Shin'ya Nishida, Lavanya Sharan, and Edward H. Adelson, Nature, 447:206-209, 2007. Abstract PDF
• Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing Tilke Judd, Fredo Durand, and Edward H. Adelson., ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings), 26(3):19, 2007. Abstract PDF
• Analysis of contour motions. C. Liu, W.T. Freeman and E.H. Adelson, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2006. Abstract PDF
• Estimating Intrinsic Component Images using Non-Linear Regression Marshall F. Tappen, Edward H. Adelson, William T. Freeman, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Volume 2, pp. 1992-1999, 2006. Abstract PDF
• Luminance Re-mapping for the Control of Apparent Material Motoyoshi, I., Nishida, S., and Adelson, E. H., ACM Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Appied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, v. 95, p. 165, 2005. Abstract PDF
• Straightness as a Cue for Luminance Edge Classification Logvinenko A. D., Adelson E. H., Ross D. A., & Somers D., Perception & Psychophysics, 67(1): 120-128, 2005. Abstract PDF
• Recovering Intrinsic Images from a Single Image Tappen, M. F., Freeman, W. T., and Adelson, E. H., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 27(9): 1459-1472, 2005. Abstract PDF
• Compressing and Companding High Dynamic Range Images with Subband Architectures Li, Y., Sharan, L., and Adelson, E. H., ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 24(3): 836-844, 2005. Abstract PDF
• Motion Magnification Liu, C., Torralba, A. B., Freeman, W. T., Durand, F., Adelson, E. H., ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 24(3): 519-526, 2005. Abstract PDF
• Statistical Characterization of Real-world Illumination Dror, R. O., Willsky, A. S., & Adelson, E. H., Journal of Vision, 4(9): 821-837, 2004. Abstract PDF
• The Geometry of the Occluding Contour and its Effect on Motion Interpretation McDermott, J., & Adelson, E. H., Journal of Vision, 4(10): 944-954, 2004. Abstract PDF
• Junctions and Cost Functions in Motion Interpretation McDermott, J., & Adelson, E. H., Journal of Vision, 4(7): 552-563, 2004. Abstract PDF
• Specular Reflections and the Perception of Shape Fleming, R. W., Torralba, A., & Adelson, E. H., Journal of Vision, 4(9): 798-820, 2004. Abstract PDF
• Real-world Illumination and the Perception of Surface Reflectance Properties Fleming, R. W., Dror, R. O., and Adelson, E. H., Journal of Vision, 3(5):347-68, 2003. Abstract PDF
• Recovering Intrinsic Images from a Single Image Tappen, M. F., Freeman, W. T., and Adelson, E. H., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems no. 15, 1367-1374, 2003. Abstract PDF
• Motion Illusions as Optimal Percepts Weiss, Y., Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., Nature Neuroscience, 5(6):598-604, 2002. Abstract PDF
• Estimating Surface Reflectance Properties from Images under Unknown Illumination Dror, R. O., Adelson, E. H., and Willsky, A. S., Proceedings of the SPIE 4299: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IV, 2001. Abstract PDF
• Recognition of Surface Reflectance Properties from a Single Image under Unknown Real-World Illumination Dror, R. O., Adelson, E. H., and Willsky, A. S., Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Identifying Objects Across Variations in Lighting, 2001. Abstract PDF
• Statistics of Real-World Illumination Dror, R. O., Leung, T. K., Adelson, E. H., and Willsky, A. S., Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001. Abstract PDF
• Synchrony Does Not Promote Grouping in Temporally Structured Displays Farid, H., and Adelson, E. H., Nature Neuroscience, 4(9):875-876, 2001. Abstract PDF
• On Seeing Stuff: the Perception of Materials by Humans and Machines Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of the. SPIE Vol. 4299, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI, pp. 1-12, 2001. Abstract PDF
• Surface Reflectance Estimation and Natural Illumination Statistics Dror, R. O., Adelson, E. H., and Willsky, A. S., Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision, 2001. Abstract PDF
• How do Humans Determine Reflectance Properties under Unknown Illumination? Fleming, R. W., Dror, R. O., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of the Workshop on Identifying Objects Across Variations in Lighting at CVPR, Hawaii (2001), 2001. Abstract PDF
• Beyond junctions: Nonlocal form constraints on motion interpretation McDermott, J., Weiss, Y., and Adelson, E.H, Perception, 30: 905-923, 2001. Abstract PDF
• Adventures with Gelatinous Ellipses: Constraints on Models of Human Motion Analysis Weiss, Y., and Adelson, E. H., Perception, 29: 543-566, 2000. Abstract PDF
• Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions Adelson, E.H., The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd Ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 339-351 (2000), 2000. Abstract PDF
• Filtering Reveals Form in Temporally Structured Displays (Technical Comment) E.H. Adelson and H. Farid, Science, 286:2231, 1999. Abstract PDF
• Separating Reflections from Images by Use of Independent Components Analysis H. Farid and E.H. Adelson, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 16(9):2136-2145, 1999. Abstract PDF
• Separating Reflections and Lighting Using Independent Components Analysis H. Farid and E.H. Adelson, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 262-267, 1999. Abstract PDF
• Slow and Smooth: A Bayesian Theory for the Combination of Motion Signals in Human Vision Weiss, Y., and Adelson, E. H., MIT AI Memo 1624, 1998.
• The Perception of Shading and Reflectance Adelson, E. H., and Pentland, A. P., Perception as Bayesian Inference, New York: Cambridge University Press, (pp. 409-423), 1996. Abstract PDF
• Noise Removal via Bayesian Wavelet Coring Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., Third IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996. Abstract PDF
• A Unified Mixture Framework for Motion Segmentation: Incorporating Spatial Coherence and Estimating the Number of Models Weiss Y., and Adelson E.H., Proceedings of IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 321-326, 1996. Abstract PDF
• Layered Representations for Vision and Video Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Representation of Visual Scenes, in conjunction with ICCV '95, pp.3-9, 1995. Abstract PDF
• Motion Estimation and Segmentation with a Recurrent Mixture-of-Experts Architecture Weiss Y., and Adelson E. H., Neural Nets for Signal Processing V, pp. 293-303, 1995. Abstract PDF
• Transparent Motion Perception as Detection of Unbalanced Motion Signals III: Modeling Qian, N., Anderson, R. C., and Adelson, E. H., Journal of Neuroscience, 14:7381-7392, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Spatio-Temoral Segmentation of Video Data Wang, J. Y. A., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of SPIE on Image and Video Processing II, 2182:120-131, San Jose, CA, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Representing Moving Images with Layers Wang, J. Y. A., and Adelson, E. H., IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 3(5):625-638, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Mid-Level Vision: New Directions in Vision and Video Adelson, E. H., Wang, J. Y. A., and Niyogi, S. A., Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, Austin, TX, 1994.
• Applying Mid-Level Vision Techniques for Video Data Compression and Manipulation Wang, J. Y. A., Adelson, E. H., and Desai, U., Proceedings of SPIE on Digital Video Compression on Personal Computers: Algorithms and Technologies, 2187:116-127, San Jose, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Analyzing and Recognizing Walking Figures in XYT Niyogi, S. A., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, WA, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Analyzing Gait with Spatiotemporal Surfaces Niyogi, S. A., and Adelson, E. H., Workshop on Non-Rigid Motion and Articulated Objects, Austin, TX, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Perceptually Organized EM: A Framework for Motion Segmentation that Combines Information about Form and Motion Weiss, Y., and Adelson, E. H., MIT Media Lab Perceptual Computing Section TR, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Transparent Motion Perception as Detection of Unbalanced Motion Signals I: Psychophysics Qian, N., Anderson, R. C., and Adelson, E. H., Journal of Neuroscience, 14:7357-7366, 1994. Abstract PDF
• Recovering 3-D Shapes from 2-D Line-Drawings Pawan Sinha and Edward Adelson, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Robotics, 1993. Abstract PDF
• Recovering Reflectance in a World of Painted Polyhedra Sinha, P., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision, Berlin, pp. 156-163, 1993. Abstract PDF
• Layered Representation for Motion Analysis Wang, J. Y. A., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, pp. 361-366, 1993. Abstract PDF
• Layered Representation for Image Sequence Coding Wang, J. Y. A., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of ICASSP, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 221-224, 1993.
• Verifying the Consistency of Shading Patterns and 3-D Structures Sinha, P., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision, New York, NY, pp. 71-81, 1993. Abstract PDF
• Perceptual Organization and the Judgment of Brightness Adelson, E. H., Science, 262:2042-2044, 1993. Abstract PDF
• Vision with Equiluminant Colour Contrast Cavanagh, P., Adelson, E. H., and Heard, Perception, 21:219-226, 1992.
• Single Lens Stereo with a Plenoptic Camera Adelson, E. H., and Wang J. Y. A., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 14(2): 99-106, 1992. Abstract PDF
• Directionally Selective Complex Cells and the Computation of Motion Energy in Cat Visual Cortex Emerson, R. C., Bergen, J. R., and Adelson, E. H., Vision Research, 32:203-218, 1992. Abstract PDF
• Shiftable Multiscale Transforms Simoncelli, E. P., Freeman, W. T., Adelson, E. H., and Heeger, D. J., IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 38:587-607, 1992. Abstract PDF
• The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision Adelson, E. H., and Bergen, J. R., Computational Models of Visual Processing, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. Abstract PDF
• The Design and Use of Steerable Filters Freeman, W. H., and Adelson, E. H., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 13:891-906, 1991. Abstract PDF
• Computing Optical Flow Distributions Using Spatio-Temporal Filters Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., MIT Media Laboratory Vision and Modeling Technical Report, 1991. Abstract PDF
• Mechanisms for Motion Perception Adelson, E. H., Optics and Photonics News, 2(8):24-30, 1991. Abstract PDF
• Probability Distributions of Optical Flow Simoncelli, E. P., Adelson, E. H., and Heeger, D. J., IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Maui, HI, 1991. Abstract PDF
• Motion Without Movement Freeman, W. T., Adelson, E. H., and Heeger, D. J., ACM Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 25(4):27-30, 1991.
• A Stereoscopic Camera Employing a Single Main Lens Adelson, E. H., and Wang, J. Y A., Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Maui, HI, pp. 619-624, 1991.
• Layered Representations for Image Coding Adelson, E. H., MIT Media Laboratory Vision and Modeling Technical Report, 1991. Abstract PDF
• Pyramids and Multiscale Representations Adelson, E. H., Simoncelli, E. P., and Freeman, W. T., Representations of Vision, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-16, 1991.
• Subband Transforms Simoncelli, E., and Adelson, E. H., Subband Image Coding, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 143-192, 1991. Abstract PDF
• Steerable Filters for Early Vision, Image Analysis, and Wavelet Decomposition Freeman, W. T., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision, Osaka, Japan, 1990.
• Subband Image Coding with Hexagonal Quadrature Mirror Filters Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of Picture Coding Symposium, Cambridge, MA, pp. 10.7-1-10.7-5, 1990.
• Non-separable Extensions of Quadrature Mirror Filters to Multiple Dimensions Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of IEEE, 78:652-664, 1990.
• Ordinal Characteristics of Transparency Adelson, E. H., and Anandan, P., AAAI Workshop on Qualitative Vision, Boston, MA, pp. 77-81, 1990. Abstract PDF
• The Perceptual Buildup of Three-Dimensional Structure from Motion Hildreth, E., Grzywacz, N., Adelson, E. H., and Inada, V., Perception and Psychopysics, 48:19-36, 1990.
• Subband Image Coding with Three-tap Pyramids Adelson, E. H., and Simoncelli, E. P., Proceedings of Picture Coding Symposium, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3.9-1-3.9-3, 1990.
• Steerable Filters Freeman, W. T., and Adelson, E. H., Image Understanding and Machine Vision Digest 14, Optical Society of America, Cape Cod, MA, pp. 114-117, 1989.
• Hexagonal QMF Pyramids Adelson, E. H., and Simoncelli, E. P., Proceedings of the Optical Society of America Topical Meeting on Applied Vision, San Francisco, CA, pp. 5-8, 1989.
• Non-separable QMF Pyramids in Two and Three Dimensions Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., SPIE Proceedings on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Philadelphia, PA, 1989.
• Early Vision and Texture Perception Bergen, J. R., and Adelson, E. H., Nature, 333:363-364, 1988. Abstract PDF
• The Temporal Integration of 3-D Structure from Motion: A Computational and Psychophysical Study Grzywacz, N. M., Hildreth, E. C., Inada, V. K., and Adelson, E. H., Organization of Neural Networks, New York: VCR Velagsgellschaft, 1988.
• Orthogonal Pyramid Transforms for Image Coding Adelson, E. H., Simoncelli, E., and Hingorani, R., SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing II Vol. 845, Cambridge, MA, pp. 50-58, 1987. Abstract PDF
• Merging Images Through Pattern Decomposition Burt, P. J., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of SPIE , San Diego, CA, pp. 18-23, 1986.
• The Analysis of Moving Visual Patterns Movshon, J. A., Adelson, E. H., Gizzi, M. S., and Newsome, W. T., Experimental Brain Research, 11:117-152, 1986. Abstract PDF
• The Extraction of Spatio-Temporal Energy in Human and Machine Vision Adelson, E. H., and Bergen, J. R., Proceedings of Workshop on Motion: Representation and Analysis, Charleston, SC, pp. 151-155, 1986. Abstract PDF
• Subband Coring for Image Noise Reduction Adelson, E. H., Internal Report: RCA Sarnoff Labortories, Princeton, NJ, 1986. Abstract PDF
• Pyramid-Based Computer Graphics Ogden, J. M., Adelson, E. H., Bergen, J. R., and Burt, P. J., RCA Engineer, 30(5):4-15, 1985. Abstract PDF
• Spatiotemporal Energy Models for the Perception of Motion Adelson, E. H., and Bergen, J. R., Journal Optical Society of America A, 2(2):284-299, 1985. Abstract PDF
• Pyramid Methods in Image Processing Adelson, E. H., Anderson, C. H., Bergen, J. R., Burt, P. J., and Ogden, J. M., RCA Engineer, 29(6):33-41, 1984. Abstract PDF
• The Laplacian Pyramid as a Compact Image Code Burt, P., and Adelson, E. H., IEEE Transactions on Communication, COM-31:532-540, 1983. Abstract PDF
• What Is Iconic Storage Good For? Adelson, E. H., Brain Sciences, 6:11-12, 1983.
• A Multiresolution Spline with Application to Image Mosaics Burt, P., and Adelson, E. H., ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2(4):217-236, 1983. Abstract PDF
• Multi-resolution Splining Using a Pyramid Image Representation Adelson, E. H., and Burt, P. J., SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing IV, pp. 204-210, 1983.
• The Perception of Coherent Motion in Two-Dimensional Patterns Adelson, E. H., and Movshon, J. A., ACM Siggraph and Sigart Interdisciplinary Workshop on Motion: Representation and Perception, Toronto, pp. 11-16, 1983. Abstract PDF
• Looking at the World Through a Rose-Colored Ganzfeld Adelson, E. H., Vision Research, 21:749-750, 1982. Abstract PDF
• The Delayed Rod Afterimage Adelson, E. H., Vision Research, 22:1313-1328, 1982. Abstract PDF
• Saturation and Adaptation in the Rod System Adelson, E. H., Vision Research, 22:1299-1312, 1982. Abstract PDF
• Modeling the Human Visual System Adelson, E. H., Carlson, C. R., and Pica, A. P., RCA Engineer, 27:56-64, 1982.
• Phenomenal Coherence of Moving Visual Patterns Adelson, E. H., and Movshon, J. A., Nature, 300:523-525, 1982. Abstract PDF
• A Non-linear Scale for Plotting Color Matching Functions Adelson, E. H., Journal of the Optical Society of America, 71:201-203, 1981.
• Image Data Compression with the Laplacian Pyramid Adelson, E. H., and Burt, P. J., Proceeding of the Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Dallas, TX, pp. 218-223, 1981. Abstract PDF
• Visual Persistence Without the Rods Adelson, E. H., Perception and Psychophysics, 26:245-246, 1979.
• The Psychophysics of Iconic Storage Adelson, E. H., and Jonides, J., Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 6:486-493, 1979.
• Iconic Storage: The Role of Rods Adelson, E. H., Science, 201:544-546, 1978. Abstract PDF

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