John Y. A. Wang
John Y. A. Wang helped develop layered representations for moving images, a computer-vision approach that decomposes image sequences into overlapping layers. He earned SB and SM degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in 1987, and he co-authored a 1997 paper at the International Conference on Image Processing on content-based video retrieval and compression. Their 1993 CVPR paper with Edward Adelson described that approach, and Adelson received the IEEE Computer Society's Longuet-Higgins Prize for it in 2005.
Timeline
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1987
MIT electrical engineering degrees
He earns SB and SM degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in 1987.
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1990
A BiCMOS amplifier paper
He co-writes a BiCMOS operational amplifier paper for the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference in Boston in May 1990. His engineering jobs include database work at Oracle and circuit design at Hughes Aircraft and Texas Instruments.
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June 1991
A stereo camera with one lens
In June 1991 he and Edward Adelson present 'A Stereoscopic Camera Employing a Single Main Lens' at CVPR in Hawaii.
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February 1992
Single lens stereo
He and Edward Adelson publish 'Single Lens Stereo with Plenoptic Camera' in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence in February 1992.
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June 1993
Layers for motion analysis
At CVPR, the computer vision conference, he and Edward Adelson publish 'Layered Representation for Motion Analysis' in June 1993. Standard motion methods have trouble with occlusion boundaries, so the paper decomposes image sequences into overlapping layers.
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September 1994
A layered video representation
The paper 'Representing Moving Images with Layers' appears in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in September 1994. Its authors describe a system for representing moving images with sets of overlapping layers.
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1997
Video retrieval and compression
At the 1997 International Conference on Image Processing, he co-authors 'Content-Based Video Retrieval and Compression: A Unified Solution' with HongJiang Zhang and Yucel Altunbasak.
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2005
The Longuet-Higgins Prize
In 2005 Edward Adelson receives the IEEE Computer Society's Longuet-Higgins Prize for the layered-motion work he wrote with John Y. A. Wang.
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