Biography:Irwin Sobel

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Short description: American computer scientist
Irwin Sobel
BornIrwin Sobel
New York City
OccupationScientist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT
Notable worksSobel operator (1968)
SpouseCeevah Sobel

Irwin Sobel (born September 12, 1940) is a scientist and researcher in digital image processing.

Biography

Irwin Sobel was born in New York City . He graduated from MIT in 1961 and did his Ph.D. research at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Project (SAIL) with thesis Camera Models and Machine Perception.[1] His Ph.D. advisor was Jerome A. Feldman.[2]

Starting in 1973, he spent nine years doing postdoctoral research at Columbia University. After 1982, he worked as a Senior Researcher at HP Labs.[3][4]

Sobel operator

In 1968, Sobel gave a talk entitled "An Isotropic 3x3 Image Gradient Operator"[5] at SAIL; this method became known as the Sobel operator. It was developed jointly with a colleague, Gary Feldman, also at SAIL.

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