Anil K. Jain

Anil K. Jain (January 21, 1946 – November 14, 1988) was an Indian-American electrical engineer and Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, known for his contributions on "two-dimensional stochastic models for images provid[ing] a firm theoretical foundation for a number of algorithms of spectral analysis, adaptive image estimation and image data compression",

In 1988 Jain was recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE.

Image processing textbook Jain wrote an influential textbook, Fundamentals of Image Processing, published in 1988 by Prentice Hall . 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 University of California, Davis, Jain co-founded Optivision, Inc. in the mid-1980s with Professor Joseph Goodman 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, Polycom, and 2Wire. Optivision later, after Jain's untimely death, had an initial public offering primarily thanks to the Optivision optical switching technology.