Jitendra Malik

Research Areas

Research Centers

Teaching Schedule

Fall 2024

CS 294-277. Robots That Learn, Mo 15:00-16:59, Berkeley Way West 1203

Spring 2025

CS C280. Computer Vision, MoWe 14:00-15:29, Berkeley Way West 1102

Biography

Jitendra Malik is Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also holds appointments in vision science, cognitive science and Bioengineering. He received the PhD degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985 following which he joined UC Berkeley as a faculty member. He served as Chair of the Computer Science Division during 2002-2006, and of the Department of EECS during 2004-2006.

Jitendra's group has worked on computer vision, computational modeling of biological vision, computer graphics and machine learning. Several well-known concepts and algorithms arose in this work, such as anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts, high dynamic range imaging, shape contexts and R-CNN. His publications have received numerous best paper awards, including five test of time awards - the Longuet-Higgins Prize for papers published at CVPR (twice) and the Helmholtz Prize for papers published at ICCV (three times). He received the 2013 IEEE PAMI-TC Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision Award, the 2014 K.S. Fu Prize from the International Association of Pattern Recognition, the 2016 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, the 2018 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI, and the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.

Jitendra Malik is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

Education

1985, Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University
1980, B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Selected Publications

J. Barron and J. Malik, "High-Frequency Shape and Albedo from Shading using Natural Image Statistics," in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011.
J. Lim, P. Arbelaez, C. Gu, and J. Malik, "Context by Region Ancestry," in International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.
C. Bregler, J. Malik, and K. Pullen, "Twist based acquisition and tracking of animal and human kinematics," Intl. J. Computer Vision, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 179-194, Feb. 2004.
C. Carson, S. Belongie, H. Greenspan, and J. Malik, "Blobworld: Image segmentation using expectation-maximization and its application to image querying," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1026-1038, Aug. 2002.
S. Belongie and J. Puzicha, "Shape matching and object recognition using shape contexts," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 509-522, April 2002.
J. Shi and J. Malik, "Normalized cuts and image segmentation (2007 CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize)," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 888-905, Aug. 2000.
J. Malik, B. L. Anderson, and C. E. Chaowhas, "Stereoscopic occlusion junctions," Nature Neuroscience, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 840-843, Sep. 1999.
B. Coifman, D. Beymer, P. McLauchlan, and J. Malik, "A real-time computer vision system for vehicle tracking and traffic surveillance," Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 271-288, Aug. 1998.
P. E. Debevec and J. Malik, "Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs," in Proc. 24th Annual Conf. on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH '97), New York, NY: ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1997, pp. 369-378.
D. Forsyth, J. Malik, and R. Wilensky, "Searching for digital pictures," Scientific American, vol. 276, no. 6, pp. 88-93, June 1997.
P. E. Debevec, C. J. Taylor, and J. Malik, "Modeling and rendering architecture from photographs: A hybrid geometry- and image-based approach," in Proc. 23rd Annual Conf. on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH '96), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1996, pp. 11-20.
P. Perona and J. Malik, "Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 629-639, July 1990.
J. Malik and P. Perona, "Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms," J. Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 923-932, May 1990.