The next time you use your digital camera 📸, spare a thought for the late Dr. Sung Kah Kay (middle, in white).
Dr. Sung — Singaporean son and former Assistant Professor at #NUSComputing, created the face-detection algorithm used by digital cameras. It analyzes digital images to determine which pixels form a human face and is the reason why faces appear sharp in photos.
He invented this in 1996 for his Ph.D. thesis at MIT, but digital cameras only started to incorporate face detection 9 years later. Tragically, in a perverse twist of fate, Dr. Sung was killed when flight SQ 006 crashed at Taipei’s airport on the typhoon-battered night of 31st October 2000.
➡️Read more here: https://tsim17.wixsite.com/terencesim/single-post/remembering-sung-kay-kay
#nuscomputing #digitalcamera #tech
Dr. Sung — Singaporean son and former Assistant Professor at #NUSComputing, created the face-detection algorithm used by digital cameras. It analyzes digital images to determine which pixels form a human face and is the reason why faces appear sharp in photos.
He invented this in 1996 for his Ph.D. thesis at MIT, but digital cameras only started to incorporate face detection 9 years later. Tragically, in a perverse twist of fate, Dr. Sung was killed when flight SQ 006 crashed at Taipei’s airport on the typhoon-battered night of 31st October 2000.
➡️Read more here: https://tsim17.wixsite.com/terencesim/single-post/remembering-sung-kay-kay
#nuscomputing #digitalcamera #tech