Anil K Jain (1946–1988)[1] was a contributor to the field of motion video compression. With his colleague Jaswani R. Jain, Anil published the original paper [2] combining block-based motion compensation and transform coding in December 1981. Subsequently, most of the video compression standards for two-way communications and video broadcast applications were based upon motion compensation and transform coding, including those most widely used today such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (used on DVDs) and the most common Internet video H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
While at University of California, Davis Anil co-founded Optivision, Inc.[3] in the mid 1980s with Professor Joseph Goodman [4] from Stanford. Optivision pioneered both JPEG products for picture capture systems such as the California DMV, and MPEG systems such as Videoconferencing. Jain's work inspired other entrepreneurs such as Brian Hinman who founded PictureTel Corp.. Optivision later, after Jain's untimely death, had an initial public offering primarily thanks to the Optivision optical switching technology.
He received in 1983 the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award.[5]