Edward Adelson

As part of the ViTrack team, Professor Adelson led the development of a novel optical technology for artificial touch sensing, which converts touch to images and enables tactile sensitivity beyond that of a human fingertip. He is the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Professor Adelson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is well known for contributions to multiscale image representation (such as the Laplacian pyramid) and basic concepts in early vision such as motion energy and steerable filters.