Jitendra Malik (born 1960) is a researcher in computer vision, the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
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.[2] Malik also coinvented Perona–Malik diffusion, a popular noise reduction technique for images,[3] and pioneered the use of shape context in object recognition.[4]
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.[1] In 1985 he earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University under the supervision of Thomas Binford.[1][5] He was appointed to the Chick professorship in 2002, and is a fellow of both the IEEE[1] and the Association for Computing Machinery.[6]