The JJ Thomson Medal is awarded to Professor Alan Bovik HonFRPS for pioneering the use of visual neuroscience to create globally pervasive systems that control nearly all streaming video, television, and social media. His breakthrough inventions include the Structural Similarity and Visual Information Fidelity theories and algorithms, which delivered dramatic leaps in quality prediction performance. These are used today to control the quality of nearly all streaming and social media pictures and videos in the US and worldwide.
