Thomas Shi-Tao Huang (b.1936) - american scientist in the field of image processing. He got Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.
He honored as fellow of IAPR'94, IEEE'79, SPIE'97.
Wikipedia entry is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Huang
His homepage: http://www.ece.illinois.edu/directory/profile.asp?t-huang1
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