BCS and CSAIL professor Ted Adelson is this year's winner of the 2023 Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award, given out by the IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Community (PAMI TC). The award recognizes Adelson's significant contributions to the field of Computer Vision throughout his long career. The award is given to researchers who have influenced the field in an extraordinary way. Previous awardees include BCS professor Thomas Poggio.

Adelson is the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Adelson has published widely in the areas of human vision, computer vision, and computer graphics. He is well known for contributions to multiscale image representation (such as the Laplacian pyramid) and basic concepts in early vision, such as motion energy and steerable filters. Adelson has recently developed a novel technology for artificial touch sensing called GelSight, which converts touch to images and enables robots to have tactile sensitivity exceeding that of human skin.