28 Facts About Thomas Huang

Thomas Shi-Tao Huang was a Chinese-born Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer.

Thomas Huang was a researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Thomas Huang was born June 26,1936, in Shanghai, Republic of China.

Thomas Huang studied electronics at the National Taiwan University and received his bachelor's degree in 1956.

Thomas Huang went on to the United States to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Thomas Huang's doctorate included work on the subjective effects of pictorial noise across a spectrum.

Thomas Huang accepted a position on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT, and remained there from 1963 to 1973.

Thomas Huang accepted a position as an electrical engineering professor and director of the Information and Signal Processing Laboratory at Purdue University in 1973, remaining there until 1980.

In 1980 Thomas Huang accepted a chair in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Thomas Huang was involved with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and served as head of the Image Formation and Processing Group of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and co-chair of the Beckman Institute's research track on Human Computer Intelligent Interaction.

Thomas Huang retired from teaching as of December 2014, but continued to be active as a researcher.

Thomas Huang was a founding editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, and of Springer-Verlag's Springer Series in Information Sciences.

Thomas Huang helped to organize the first International Picture Coding Symposium, the first International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding, and the first International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, all of which became repeated events.

Thomas Huang's research tended to focus on the development of general concepts, methodologies, theories, and algorithms which have wide application to multimodal and multimedia signal processing.

Thomas Huang developed approaches for binary document compression that utilized 2-dimensional scanned information, examining the changes from one line of a scan to the next, and detecting transition points at which a subsequent line differs.

In 1984, Tsai and Thomas Huang were the first to present a frequency-domain multi-frame method which related the discrete Fourier transform of observed low-resolution satellite images from the acquisition stage to the continuous Fourier transform of the high-resolution image, using the inverse Fourier transform to obtain a final image with increased resolution.

Thomas Huang worked on wavelet methods of encoding and on fractal coding.

Thomas Huang worked on the 3-D modeling, analysis, and synthesis of images of the human face, hands, and body.

Thomas Huang considered image and speech processing to be fundamentally similar, and worked with speech recognition and sound processing as well as images.

Thomas Huang did important work in multimodal human computer interaction and interface design.

Thomas Huang was one of the first researchers to combine audio and video-based techniques for identification of human affective states.

Thomas Huang hoped to develop more natural and effective ways for humans to interact with a computer or virtual environment using speech and gesture.

Thomas Huang worked on audio-visual recognition of gender, age group, and emotion.

In 2015, Thomas Huang worked with Ann Willemsen-Dunlap in an interdisciplinary project to develop a 3-D computer-generated avatar, capable of showing appropriate emotions, to be used in online communication of medical information to patients.

Thomas Huang explored the use of high-performance computing and big data to develop better techniques for deep learning.

Thomas Huang was married to Margaret, who preceded him in death by three months.

Thomas Huang died peacefully in Indiana on April 25,2020, at the age of 83.

Thomas Huang received numerous honors and awards in his career, including:.