Pietro Perona

Research interests

Computational vision: Recognition, human-machine interfaces, multiresolution image analysis, diffusions.
Human vision: Recognition, perception of 3D shape, models of early vision.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, April 1990 U.C. Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept.
Dottore in Ingegneria Elettronica, July 1985, Università di Padova, Italy.

Employment

2006- Executive Officer (Chair), Computation and Neural Systems (CNS) PhD program, Caltech.

1996- Professor of Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology. (Assistant Professor 1991-96.) Computation and Neural Systems and Computer Science.
1999-2006 - Director, National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centerfor Neuromorphic Sensory Systems Engineering. California Institute of Technology.

1991-2000 -- Adjunct Professor, Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informatica

1990-91 Postdoctoral Fellow. MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Academic activities

Associate Editor. International Journal of Computer Vision.

Program Committee. International Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, European Conference on Computer Vision.

Referee. Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Neural Computation, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vision Research, Perception.

Coordinator. NSF-ESPRIT study group on "Geometry Driven Diffusions" 1993-99.

Honors and Awards

National Young Investigator, National Science Foundation 1994-99.

Feynman-Hughes Fellowship, 1996.

Publications: [U. Trier Database] [Google Scholar] [Google Scholar since 2002]