Guillermo Sapiro
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Guillermo Sapiro (born 1966) is a Uruguayan
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,
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and
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who has made notable contributions to
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. He worked at The University of Minnesota for 15 years before becoming a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at
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where he spent over 12 years before moving to
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as a Distinguished Augustine Family Professor. He is also a Distinguished Engineer at
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He has also worked at Hewlett Packard Labs (
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) researching image processing and is known for being one of the people who originally developed the LOCO-I Compression Algorithm for lossless image compression (that was used in
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's
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image file format for various
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expeditions) while he was working there. He has also made significant contributions towards the development of the rotobrush tool in
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, which has been included in After Effects since version CS5.
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makes use of his research in various projects like
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and also frequently hires his students. He also teaches a
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through
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on image and
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. The title of the course is "Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital." He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineer, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of SIAM. He is also the only scientists to have received the Test-of-Time-Award both in machine learning and in computer vision. He lives with his wife, older son, younger daughter, and a golden doodle named Inti.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sapiro, Guillermo 1966 births Living people Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Israeli computer scientists Israeli electrical engineers Uruguayan computer scientists Duke University faculty University of Minnesota faculty Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers