Canny is the surname of:
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John Canny
John F. Canny (born in 1958) is an Australian computer scientist, and '' Paul E Jacobs and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering'' in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He has made significant ...
, American computer scientist, namesake of the Canny edge detector
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Nicholas Canny
Nicholas Patrick Canny (born 1944) is an Irish historian and academic specializing in early modern Irish history. He has been a lecturer in Irish history at the University of Galway since 1972 and professor there from 1979 to 2011. He is Emeritu ...
(born 1944), Irish historian
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Paddy Canny (1919–2008), Irish fiddler
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Steven Canny (born 1969), English playwright and BBC executive producer
See also
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Canny edge detector
The Canny edge detector is an edge detection operator that uses a multi-stage algorithm to detect a wide range of edges in images. It was developed by John F. Canny in 1986. Canny also produced a ''computational theory of edge detection'' explain ...
, an image operator which uses a multi-stage algorithm to detect edges
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Uncanny
The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as not simply mysterious, but creepy, often in a strangely familiar way. It may describe incidents where a familiar thing or event is encountered in an unsettling, eerie, or taboo context. ...
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