Curriculum Vitae

Edward H. Adelson

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Computer Science and AI Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32 Vassar St., Building 32-310
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-0645
email: adelson@csail.mit.edu

Web: http://persci.mit.edu/people/adelson

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 Science
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

2020 - Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science
2019 - IEEE Fellow
2013 - IEEE Computer Society Helmholtz Award
2010 - Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2006 - Member, National Academy of Sciences
2005 - IEEE Computer Society Longuet-Higgins Award
1992 - Rank Prize in Opto-electronics
1984 - Adolph Lomb Medal, Optical Society of America
1983 - Outstanding Achievement Award, RCA Laboratories
1980 - Marquis Award, University of Michigan

Sharan, Lavanya, Image statistics and the Perception of Surface Reflectance, M.S., MIT, 2005
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

Yuan, Wenzhen, Tactile Measurement with a GelSight Sensor, MIT 2018
Li, Rui, Touching is Believing: Sensing and Analyzing Touch Information with GelSight, MIT 2015
Isola, Phillip, The Discovery of Perceptual Structure from Visual Co-occurrences in Space and Time, MIT 2015
Twarog, Nathaniel, Higher-Dimensional Computational Models of Perceptual grouping and Silhouette Analysis and Representation, MIT, 2012
Liu, Ce, Beyond pixels: exploring new representations and applications for motion analysis, MIT, 2009
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.

• 3D Shape Perception from Monocular Vision, Touch, and Shape Priors Shaoxiong Wang, Jiajun Wu, Xingyuan Sun, Wenzhen Yuan, William T. Freeman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Edward H. Adelson, arXiv:1808.03247v1 [cs.CV], 2018. Abstract PDF
• More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp using Vision and Touch Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Dinesh Jayaraman, Justin Lin, Wenzhen Yuan, Jitendra Malik, Edward H. Adelson, and Sergey Levine, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 3 no. 4 (2018) arXiv:1805.11085, 2018. Abstract PDF
• GelSlim: A High-Resolution, Compact, Robust, and Calibrated Tactile-sensing Finger Elliott Donlon, Siyuan Dong, Melody Liu, Jianhua Li, Edward Adelson and Alberto Rodriguez, arXiv:1803.00628v2 [cs.RO], 2018. Abstract PDF
• ViTac: Feature Sharing between Vision and Tactile Sensing for Cloth Texture Recognition Shan Luo, Wenzhen Yuan, Edward Adelson, Anthony G. Cohn and Raul Fuentes, Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on arXiv:1802.07490v2 [cs.RO], 2018. Abstract PDF
• Active Clothing Material Perception using Tactile Sensing and Deep Learning Wenzhen Yuan, Yuchen Mo, Shaoxiong Wang, and Edward H. Adelson, Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on arXiv:1711.00574v2, 2018. Abstract PDF
• GelSight: High-Resolution Robot Tactile Sensors for Estimating Geometry and Force Wenzhen Yuan, Siyuan Dong and Edward H. Adelson, Sensors 2017, 17(12), 2762; https://doi.org/10.3390/s17122762, 2017. Abstract PDF
• The Feeling of Success: Does Touch Sensing Help Predict Grasp Outcomes? Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Manu Upadhyaya, Wenzhen Yuan, Justin Lin, Edward H. Adelson, Sergey Levine, arXiv:1710.05512v1 [cs.RO], 2017. Abstract PDF
• Improved GelSight Tactile Sensor for Measuring Geometry and Slip Siyuan Dong, Wenzhen Yuan, Edward Adelson, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017. Abstract PDF
• Connecting Look and Feel: Associating the visual and tactile properties of physical materials Wenzhen Yuan, Shaoxiong Wang, Siyuan Dong, Edward Adelson, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2017, pp. 4494-4502, 2017. Abstract PDF
• Visual wetness perception based on image color statistics Masataka Sawayama, Edward H Adelson, Shin'ya Nishida, Journal of Vision June 2017, Vol.17, 7. doi:10.1167/17.5.7, 2017. Abstract PDF
• Tracking objects with point clouds from vision and touch Gregory Izatt, Geronimo Mirano, Edward Adelson, Russ Tedrake, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017. Abstract PDF
• Shape-independent Hardness Estimation Using Deep Learning and a GelSight Tactile Sensor Wenzhen Yuan, Chenzhuo Zhu, Andrew Owens, Mandayam A Srinivasan, Edward H Adelson, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017. Abstract PDF
• Shape-independent Hardness Estimation Using Deep Learning and a GelSight Tactile Sensor Wenzhen Yuan, Chenzhuo Zhu, Andrew Owens, Mandayam A. Srinivasan and Edward H. Adelson, Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 951-958 arXiv:1704.03955v1 [cs.RO], 2017. Abstract PDF
• Connecting Look and Feel: Associating the visual and tactile properties of physical materials Wenzhen Yuan, Shaoxiong Wang, Siyuan Dong, Edward Adelson, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017. Abstract PDF
• High-resolution surface measurement systems and methods Edward H Adelson, Micah K Johnson, US Patent 9,538,056, 2017, 2017. Abstract
• Can you see what you feel? Color and folding properties affect visual–tactile material discrimination of fabrics. B Xiao, W Bi, X Jia, H Wei, EH Adelson, Journal of vision, 2016;16(3):34. doi: 10.1167/16.3.34., 2016. Abstract PDF
• Learning Visual Groups From Co-occurrences in Space and Time. Isola, P., Zoran, D., Krishnan, K., Adelson, E.H., International Conference on Learning Representations, Workshop paper, 2016, 2016. Abstract PDF
• Visually Indicated Sounds Owens, A., Isola, P., McDermott, J., Torralba, Adelson, E.H., Freeman, W.T., IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016, 2016. Abstract PDF
• Estimating object hardness with a gelsight touch sensor Wenzhen Yuan, Mandayam A Srinivasan, Edward H Adelson, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. IEEE, 2016., 2016. Abstract PDF
• Motion, Early Vision, and the Plenoptic Function Edward H Adelson, Frontiers in Optics 2016, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper FTh4I.3., 2016. Abstract PDF
• Band-Sifting Decomposition for Image-Based Material Editing. I Boyadzhiev, K Bala, S Paris, E Adelson, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 34 (5), 163, 2015. Abstract PDF
• Learning Ordinal Relationships for Mid-Level Vision. Zoran, D., Isola, P., Krishnan, K., Freeman, W.T., Adelson, E.H., International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 7-13 Dec. 2015., 2015. Abstract PDF
• Sparkle Vision: Seeing the World through Random Specular Microfacets. Zhang, Z., Isola, P., Adelson, E. H., 4th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays, 2015 arXiv:1412.7884 [cs.CV], 2015. Abstract PDF
• Discovering States and Transformations in Image Collections. Isola, P., Lim, J. J., Adelson, E. H., IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015, 2015. Abstract PDF
• Measurement of Shear and Slip with a GelSight Tactile Sensor Wenzhen Yuan, Rui Li, M.A. Srinivasan, and E.H. Adelson, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (accepted), 2015. Abstract PDF
• Accuracy and Speed of Material Categorization in Real-world Images Sharan, L., Rosenholtz, R., Adelson. E. H., Journal of Vision, Vol.14, No. 9, Article 12, 2014. Abstract PDF
• Localization and Manipulation of Small Parts Using GelSight Tactile Sensing Rui Li, R. Platt Jr., Wenzhen Yuan, A. ten Pas, N. Roscup, M. A. Srinivasan, and E. H. Adelson, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014. Abstract PDF
• Looking against the light: How perception of translucency depends on lighting direction Xiao, B., Walter. B., Gkioulekas, I., Zickler, T., Adelson. E. H., Bala, K., Journal of Vision, 2014. Abstract PDF
• Crisp Boundary Detection Using Pointwise Mutual Information Isola, P., Zoran, D., Krishnan, Adelson. E. H., European Conference on Computer Vision, 2014. Abstract PDF
• Lump Detection with a GelSight Sensor Xiaodan Jia, Rui Li, M.A. Srinivasan, and E.H. Adelson, IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2013. Abstract PDF
• Sensing and Recognizing Surface Textures Using a GelSight Sensor Rui Li and E.H. Adelson, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013. Abstract PDF
• Recognizing Materials Using Perceptually Inspired Features Sharan, L., Liu. C., Rosenholtz, R., Adelson. E. H., International Journal of Computer Vision, 2013. Abstract PDF
• Understanding the Role of Phase Function in Translucent Appearance Gkioulekas, I., Xiao, B., Zhao, S., Adelson, E.H., Zickler, T., and Bala, K., ACM Trans. Graph., 2012. Abstract PDF
• Shapecollage: occlusion-aware, example-based shape interpretation Forrester Cole, Phillip Isola, William T. Freeman, Frédo Durand, and Edward H. Adelson, ECCV, 2012. Abstract PDF
• Playing with Puffball: simple scale-invariant inflation for use in vision and graphics Nathaniel R. Twarog, Marshall F. Tappen and Edward H. Adelson, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, 2012. 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
• Shape Estimation in Natural Illumination Micah K. Johnson and Edward H. Adelson, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Analysis of contour motions. C. Liu, W.T. Freeman and E.H. Adelson, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2006. 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
• Compressing and Companding High Dynamic Range Images with Subband Architectures Yuanzhen Li, Lavanya Sharan, and Edward H. Adelson, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 24(3): 836-844, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Junctions and Cost Functions in Motion Interpretation McDermott, J., & Adelson, E. H., Journal of Vision, 4(7): 552-563, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Motion Illusions as Optimal Percepts Weiss, Y., Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., Nature Neuroscience, 5(6):598-604, 2002. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Synchrony Does Not Promote Grouping in Temporally Structured Displays Farid, H., and Adelson, E. H., Nature Neuroscience, 4(9):875-876, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Adventures with Gelatinous Ellipses: Constraints on Models of Human Motion Analysis Weiss, Y., and Adelson, E. H., Perception, 29: 543-566, 2000. 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
• 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
• Filtering Reveals Form in Temporally Structured Displays (Technical Comment) E.H. Adelson and H. Farid, Science, 286:2231, 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Perceptual Organization and the Judgment of Brightness Adelson, E. H., Science, 262:2042-2044, 1993. Abstract PDF
• 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
• Layered Representation for Image Sequence Coding Wang, J. Y. A., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of ICASSP, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 221-224, 1993.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vision with Equiluminant Colour Contrast Cavanagh, P., Adelson, E. H., and Heard, Perception, 21:219-226, 1992.
• Subband Transforms Simoncelli, E., and Adelson, E. H., Subband Image Coding, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 143-192, 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.
• Layered Representations for Image Coding Adelson, E. H., MIT Media Laboratory Vision and Modeling Technical Report, 1991. Abstract PDF
• 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.
• Motion Without Movement Freeman, W. T., Adelson, E. H., and Heeger, D. J., ACM Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 25(4):27-30, 1991.
• 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
• Mechanisms for Motion Perception Adelson, E. H., Optics and Photonics News, 2(8):24-30, 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
• 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
• The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision Edward H. Adelson and James R. Bergen, Chapter in Computational Models of Visual Processing (M. Landy and J. A. Movshon, Eds., MIT Press, 1991): pp. 3-20, 1991. Abstract PDF
• The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision Adelson, Edward H., and James R. Bergen, Chapter in Computational Models of Visual Processing (M. Landy and J. A. Movshon, Eds., MIT Press, 1991): pp. 3-20, 1991. Abstract PDF
• 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.
• 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.
• Ordinal Characteristics of Transparency Adelson, E. H., and Anandan, P., AAAI Workshop on Qualitative Vision, Boston, MA, pp. 77-81, 1990. Abstract PDF
• Non-separable Extensions of Quadrature Mirror Filters to Multiple Dimensions Simoncelli, E. P., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of IEEE, 78:652-664, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Early Vision and Texture Perception Bergen, J. R., and Adelson, E. H., Nature, 333:363-364, 1988. Abstract PDF
• 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
• Subband Coring for Image Noise Reduction Adelson, E. H., Internal Report: RCA Sarnoff Labortories, Princeton, NJ, 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
• 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
• Merging Images Through Pattern Decomposition Burt, P. J., and Adelson, E. H., Proceedings of SPIE , San Diego, CA, pp. 18-23, 1986.
• 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-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
• 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 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
• 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.
• 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
• What Is Iconic Storage Good For? Adelson, E. H., Brain Sciences, 6:11-12, 1983.
• 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
• Phenomenal Coherence of Moving Visual Patterns Adelson, E. H., and Movshon, J. A., Nature, 300:523-525, 1982. Abstract PDF
• Modeling the Human Visual System Adelson, E. H., Carlson, C. R., and Pica, A. P., RCA Engineer, 27:56-64, 1982.
• Saturation and Adaptation in the Rod System Adelson, E. H., Vision Research, 22:1299-1312, 1982. Abstract PDF
• The Delayed Rod Afterimage Adelson, E. H., Vision Research, 22:1313-1328, 1982. Abstract PDF
• Looking at the World Through a Rose-Colored Ganzfeld Adelson, E. H., Vision Research, 21:749-750, 1982. Abstract PDF
• 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
• A Non-linear Scale for Plotting Color Matching Functions Adelson, E. H., Journal of the Optical Society of America, 71:201-203, 1981.
• The Psychophysics of Iconic Storage Adelson, E. H., and Jonides, J., Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 6:486-493, 1979.
• Visual Persistence Without the Rods Adelson, E. H., Perception and Psychophysics, 26:245-246, 1979.
• Iconic Storage: The Role of Rods Adelson, E. H., Science, 201:544-546, 1978. Abstract PDF

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