12 Facts About Pietro Perona

Pietro Perona was born on 3 September 1961 and is an Italian-American educator and computer scientist.

Pietro Perona is the Allan E Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering.

Pietro Perona is known for his research in computer vision and is the director of the Caltech Computational Vision Group.

Pietro Perona's dissertation was titled Finding Texture and Brightness Boundaries in Images, and his adviser was Jitendra Malik.

In 1990, Perona was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.

Pietro Perona has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1991, and he was named Allan E Puckett Professor in 2008.

Pietro Perona's research focuses on the computational aspects of vision and learning.

Pietro Perona developed the anisotropic diffusion equation, a partial differential equation that reduces noise in images while enhancing region boundaries.

Pietro Perona is currently interested in visual recognition and in visual analysis of behavior.

Pietro Perona pioneered the study of visual categorization for which he was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2013.

Pietro Perona is the recipient of the 2010 Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision, the 2003 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition best paper award, and a 1996 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Pietro Perona has been quoted or had his research featured in various national media outlets, including the New York Times, Science Friday, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times.