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'''Anil K. Jain''' (January 21, 1946 – November 14, 1988)<ref name="AKJ Ob. 1988">[http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4p30063r&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00025&toc.depth=1&toc.id= Anil K Jain Obituary, November 1988]. The Regents of The University of California, 2011.</ref> was an Indian-American electrical engineer and Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the [[Organization:University of California, Davis|University of California, Davis]], known for his contributions on "two-dimensional stochastic models for images provided a firm theoretical foundation for a number of algorithms of spectral analysis, adaptive image estimation and image data compression",<ref name="AKJ Ob. 1988"/> including work on [[Transform coding|transform coding]] for [[Image compression|image compression]] and block-based [[Motion compensation|motion compensation]] for video compression in particular.

== Biography ==
Born in India, Jain received a bachelor's degree in [[Electrical engineering|electrical engineering]] in 1967 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, and a master's degree in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1970 from the [[Organization:University of Rochester|University of Rochester]].<ref name="AKJ Ob. 1988"/><ref name=JainJain/> He had conducted his doctoral research at the [[Organization:University of Southern California|University of Southern California]] under guidance of Richard Bellman.

After graduation Jain continued as postdoctoral fellow and later assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and in the Image Processing Institute of the University of Southern California. In 1974 he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in 1978 he returned to California and became a professor at the University of California, Davis.

In 1983 Jain received  the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/fink_rl.pdf |title=IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE |accessdate={{Format date|2011|1|2}}}}</ref>

In 1988 Jain was recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE.<ref name="AKJ Ob. 1988"/>

== Work ==
Jain's research interests ranged from "digital and image processing, computer vision, fast algorithms, real time digital systems architecture to stochastic processes and communication theory."<ref name="AKJ Ob. 1988"/><ref name="DBLP">{{DBLP|name=Anil K. Jain}}</ref>

=== Image processing textbook ===
Jain wrote an influential textbook, ''Fundamentals of Image Processing'', published in 1988 by Prentice Hall ({{ISBN|978-0133361650}}).<ref name="AKJ Ob. 1988"/>

=== Video compression ===
Anil K. Jain was a contributor to the field of motion video compression. With his colleague Jaswant R. Jain, Anil published the original paper<ref name=JainJain>{{cite journal |last1=Jain |first1=Jaswant R. |last2=Jain |first2=Anil K. |title=Displacement Measurement and Its Application in Interframe Image Coding |journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications |url=http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee398b/handouts/papers/Jain%20-%20Displacement%20Measurement.pdf |volume=29 |issue=12 |date=December 1981 |pages=1799–1808 |issn=0096-2244 |doi=10.1109/TCOM.1981.1094950 |accessdate=2018-01-04|citeseerx=10.1.1.463.1992 }}</ref> combining block-based motion compensation and transform coding in December 1981.

Subsequently, most of the video compression standards for two-way communications and video broadcast applications were based upon motion compensation and transform coding, including those most widely used today such as [[MPEG-1]], [[MPEG-2]] (used on DVDs) and the most common Internet video H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.

=== Optivision and its transform coding products ===
While at [[Organization:University of California, Davis|University of California, Davis]], Jain co-founded Optivision, Inc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.optivision.com/optivision/index.html#profile |title=Optivision, Inc. |accessdate=2010-08-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19971008074138/http://www.optivision.com/optivision/index.html#profile |archivedate=1997-10-08 }}</ref> in the mid-1980s with Professor [[Biography:Joseph W. Goodman|Joseph Goodman]]<ref>[http://engineering.stanford.edu/about/AR99-00/goodman.html Professor Joseph Goodman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803170045/http://engineering.stanford.edu/about/AR99-00/goodman.html |date=2010-08-03 }}</ref> from Stanford. Optivision pioneered both [[JPEG]] transform coding products for picture capture systems such as for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, and video compression systems such as videoconferencing that used the block-based motion-compensated transform coding techniques he developed. Jain's work also inspired other video industry entrepreneurs such as Brian Hinman, co-founder of PictureTel, [[Company:Polycom|Polycom]], and [[Company:2Wire|2Wire]]. Optivision later, after Jain's untimely death, had an initial public offering primarily thanks to the Optivision optical switching technology.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4p30063r&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00025&toc.depth=1&toc.id= Anil K Jain] Obituary, November 1988


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