Jitendra Malik

Professor of Computer Science
Keywords: controls, materials
Research Areas: grouping and ecological statistics, shape matching and object recognition, texture, recognizing humans and their activities, content based image retrieval, machine vision based traffic surveillance, image-based modeling and rendering, stereo drive: stereo vision to drive autonomous vehicles
Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~malik/

Research Description:
Grouping and ecological statistics, shape matching and object recognition, image-based modeling and rendering, recognizing humans and their activities.

Selected Publications:

• C. Bregler, J. Malik and K. Pullen. Twist-based Acquisition and Tracking of Animal and Human Kinematics. International Journal of Computer Vision, 56 (3), pp. 179- 194, February/March 2004.
• D. Martin, C. Fowlkes and J. Malik. Learning to Detect Natural Image Boundaries Using Local Brightness, Color and Texture Cues. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26 (5), pp. 530-549, May 2004.
• S. Belongie, J. Malik and J. Puzicha. Shape Matching and Object Recognition using Shape Contexts. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24 (4), pp. 509-522, April 2002.
• C. Carson, S. Belongie, H. Greenspan and J. Malik. Blobworld: Image Segmenation Using
  Expectation-Maximization and its Application to Image Querying. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24 (8), pp. 1026-1038, August 2002.
• J. Shi and J. Malik. Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22 (8), pp. 888-905, August 2000.
• J. Malik and P. Perona. Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms. Journal of Optical Society of America A, 7 (2), pp. 923-932, May 1990.
• P. Perona and J. Malik. Scale space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 12 (7), pp. 629-639, July 1990.
• P.E. Debevec, C.J. Taylor and J. Malik. Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs: A hybrid geometry – and image-based approach. Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH ’96 Proceedings), pp. 11-20, 1996.
• D. Forsyth, J. Malik and R. Wilensky. Searching for Digital Pictures. Scientific American, 276 pp. 88-93, June 1997.
• J. Malik, B.L. Anderson and C.E. Charowhas. St2 (9), pp. 840-843, September 1999.