John F. Canny | |
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 John Canny in his office at University of California, Berkeley (2013) | |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide MIT |
| Known for | Canny edge detector |
| Awards | Machtey Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | Ming C. Lin Dinesh Manocha |
John F. Canny (born in 1958) is an Australian computer scientist, and Paul E Jacobs and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He has made significant contributions in various areas of computer science and mathematics, including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, computer security, computational algebra, and computational geometry.