Jitendra Malik
Encyclopedia
Jitendra Malik is a researcher in computer vision
, the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
.
Two of Malik's research results have been awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize
for fundamental contributions to computer vision that have stood the test of time. In 2007, he won the prize for his work on image segmentation and segmentation-based object categorization, and in 2008 he won it for video tracking
of people. Malik also coinvented Perona–Malik diffusion
, a popular noise reduction
technique for images, and pioneered the use of shape context
in object recognition
.
Malik was born in Mathura, India
. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
in 1980, and received a gold medal as the best graduating student there in electrical engineering. In 1985 he earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University
under the supervision of Thomas Binford
. He was appointed to the Chick professorship in 2002, and is a fellow
of both the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery
.
Computer vision
Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...
, the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
.
Two of Malik's research results have been awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize
Longuet-Higgins Prize
Longuet-Higgins Prize is an award given annually by the IEEE Computer Society on the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , for 'fundamental contributions in Computer Vision'. The award recognizes CVPR papers from ten years ago with fundamental impact on computer vision research....
for fundamental contributions to computer vision that have stood the test of time. In 2007, he won the prize for his work on image segmentation and segmentation-based object categorization, and in 2008 he won it for video tracking
Video tracking
Video tracking is the process of locating a moving object over time using a camera. It has a variety of uses, some of which are: human-computer interaction, security and surveillance, video communication and compression, augmented reality, traffic control, medical imaging and video editing...
of people. Malik also coinvented Perona–Malik diffusion
Anisotropic diffusion
In image processing and computer vision, anisotropic diffusion, also called Perona–Malik diffusion, is a technique aiming at reducing image noise without removing significant parts of the image content, typically edges, lines or other details that are important for the interpretation of the image...
, a popular noise reduction
Noise reduction
Noise reduction is the process of removing noise from a signal.All recording devices, both analogue or digital, have traits which make them susceptible to noise...
technique for images, and pioneered the use of shape context
Shape context
Shape context is the term given by Serge Belongie and Jitendra Malik to the feature descriptor they first proposed in their paper "Matching with Shape Contexts" in 2000. Shape context can be used in object recognition.-Theory:...
in object recognition
Object recognition
Object recognition in computer vision is the task of finding a given object in an image or video sequence. Humans recognize a multitude of objects in images with little effort, despite the fact that the image of the objects may vary somewhat in different view points, in many different sizes / scale...
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Malik was born in Mathura, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a Central deemed University located in Uttar Pradesh, about 15 km north-west of the city of Kanpur in the Kalyanpur suburb....
in 1980, and received a gold medal as the best graduating student there in electrical engineering. In 1985 he earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
under the supervision of Thomas Binford
Thomas Binford
Thomas Oriel Binford has been a leading researcher in image analysis and computer vision since 1967. He is known for pioneering a model-based approach to computer vision in which complex objects are represented as collections of generalized cylinders...
. He was appointed to the Chick professorship in 2002, and is a fellow
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
of both the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
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External links
- Home page at UC Berkeley