Jay Thornton

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Group Manager, Imaging
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1982

Phone: (617) 621 7522
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Jay Thornton's degree program was Mathematical Psychology. His doctoral work focused on perception and vision, and his thesis concerned channels mediating color vision. After a post doc at the University of Pennsylvania, he worked for Polaroid Corporation, first in the Vision Research Laboratory and then as manager of the Image Science Laboratory. At Polaroid he worked on problems in color reproduction, image quality, image processing, and half toning. At MERL since January 2002, he manages the Computer Human Observation project, and is excited about the computer vision problems that arise when computers analyze, measure, count, detect, and recognize people.

Publications:

*   Rubinstein, M.; Shamir, A.; Avidan, A., "Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 27 , Issue 3, August 2008 (ACM Press, TR2008-064)

Mohan. A.; Huang, X.; Tumblin, J., Raskar, R., "Sensing Increased Image Resulution Using Aperture Masks", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), ISSN: 1063-6919, pp. 1-8, June 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-089)

*   Avidan, S.; Shamir, A., "Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ISSN:0730-0301, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Article 10, July 2007 (ACM Press, TR2007-087)

*   Sunkavalli, K; Matusik, W.; Pfister, H.; Rusinkiewicz, S., "Factored Time-Lapse Video", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ISSN:0730-0301, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Article 101, July 2007 (ACM Press, TR2007-117)

Porikli, F.; Thornton, J., "Shadow Flow: A Recursive Method to Learn Moving Cast Shadows", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), ISSN: 1550-5499, Vol. 1, pp. 891-898, October 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-058)