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Secretary John McCann
John is a consultant on color and image processing. He graduated from
Harvard College in 1964 with a degree in Biology. He had been working
part-time for Polaroid as an undergraduate. In 1964 under the direction of
Edwin Land he became the manager of the Vision Research Laboratory where
his work on human psychophysics has included research on rods as color
receptors, low-spatial-frequency vision, mathematical models of color
vision and quantitative tests of Retinex theory. As Senior Manager in the
Research Division of Polaroid, he directed the Vision Research Laboratory
until retiring from Polaroid in 1996.
From 1979 to 1996 he managed research on very-large format Polaroid
photography, which includes the 20)(24 cameras, the Museum Camera and
Polaroid Replicas.
Since 1974 he has been studying vision with computer processed digital
images. This activity combines interests in mathematical models of vision
with electronic imaging techniques. This basic research has concentrated
on techniques for calculating color sensations and developing film
recorders that control film exposures so that the photographic image is a
record of color sensations rather than the record of light coming from the
scene. His work has led to 81 publications and 12 patents.
In 1984 he was elected a Fellow of the SPSE. He has served as Vice
President, President and Past-President of the Society of Imaging Science
and Technology. He has served as Trustee and President of the Artists
Foundation, Boston, and as Chairman of the Cultural Committee of the
Polaroid Foundation.
email: mccanns@tiac.net
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