John F. Canny (born in 1958) is an Australian

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, and '' Paul E Jacobs and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering'' in the Computer Science Department of the

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. He has made significant contributions in various areas of

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and

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, including

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robotics Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots. Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer s ...

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, human-computer interaction,

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, computational algebra, and computational geometry.

Biography

John Canny received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Theoretical Physics from the

University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. Its main campus in the Adelaide city centre includes many Sa ...

in South Australia, 1979, a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering, University of Adelaide, 1980, a M.S. and Ph.D. from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

, 1983 and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. In 1987, he received the Machtey Award and the

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. In 1999, he was the co-chair of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry. In 2002, he received the

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Classic Paper Award for the most influential paper from the 1983 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. As the author of "A Variational Approach to Edge Detection" and the creator of the widely used Canny edge detector, he was honored for seminal contributions in the areas of robotics and machine perception.Fall 2002 Archive , EECS at UC Berkeley
Retrieved 20 May 2009.

Publications

Canny has published several books, papers and articles. A selection: * 1986.
A computational approach to edge detection
'. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 8, 1986, pp. 679–698. * 1988.
The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning
'. The ACM Distinguished Dissertation Series, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988. * 1993.
An opportunistic global path planner
. With M. C. Lin. In: ''Algorithmica'' vol. 10, no. 2–4, pp. 102–120, Aug. 1993. * 2007.
MultiView: Improving trust in group video conferencing through spatial faithfulness
(Best Paper Prize). With D. T. Nguyen In: ''Proc. 2007 SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems'' (CHI '07), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2007, pp. 1465–1474.

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Homepage at UC Berkeley {{DEFAULTSORT:Canny, John Researchers in geometric algorithms MIT School of Engineering alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty 1953 births Living people University of Adelaide alumni Australian computer scientists

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