Life
He was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (PhD 1984)
He has made numerous fundamental contributions to the field of Digital Image Processing, Digital Video Processing, and Computational Visual Perception. He is well known for his work on robust image processing, wavelets, low-level vision, computational microscopy, digital mammography, and image quality.
He has published more than 500 articles in these areas. He is also the author/editor of The Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Academic Press, 2nd edition, 2005), with Zhou Wang of Modern Image Quality Assessment (Morgan and Claypool, 2006), and he authored/edited the companion books The Essential Guide to Image Processing and The Essential Guide to Video Processing (Academic Press, 2009).
He is a fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He has received a number of major awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, including: the Education Award (2007); the Technical Achievement Award (2005), the Distinguished Lecturer Award (2000); and the Meritorious Service Award (1998). He was named a Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 2008.
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