Edward H. Adelson

Edward H Adelson received the BA degree in physics and philosophy from Yale University, and the PhD degree in experimental psychology from the University of Michigan. After a postdoc at New York University (NYU), he worked on human and computer vision at RCA Sarnoff Labs in Princeton, New Jersey. He joined the MIT Media Lab in 1987, and moved to the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1995. He is now the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science at MIT, in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

He is an Optica Fellow and recipient of the 1984 Adolph Lomb Medal “for his contributions to understanding in three different areas of physiological and visual optics, namely: temporal responses of the human visual system, color vision, and artificial vision.” He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. Adelson has over 100 publications on topics in human vision, machine vision, computer graphics, neuroscience, and computational photography. He is well known for contributions to multiscale image representation (such as the Laplacian pyramid) and basic concepts in early vision such as steerable filters and motion energy models.