Remembering Sung Kah Kay
The next time you use your digital camera, please remember my friend, Dr. Sung Kah Kay. Dr. Sung, Singaporean son, was the first person in the world to create an effective algorithm for face detection. This is the ability to analyze a digital image to determine which pixels form a human face, and is the reason faces appear nice and sharp in your photos. He invented this in 1996 for his PhD thesis at MIT, but it was only about nine years later that digital cameras started to i