Peter N. Belhumeur

Computer Science

Peter N. Belhumeur is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University and the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Visual Appearance (VAP LAB). His research focus lies somewhere in the mix of computer vision and machine learning. 

  • Professor of computer science, Columbia University, 2002
  • Professor of electrical engineering, Yale, 2001
  • Associate professor of electrical engineering, Yale, 1998
  • Assistant professor of electrical engineering, Yale, 1994
  • Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award, 2011
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  • National Science Foundation Career Award
  • Siemens Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Olympus Prize at the European Conference of Computer Vision.
  • "Articulated pose estimation using hierarchical exemplar-based models," AAAI'16 Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016. (J. Liu, Y. Li, P. Allen, P. Belhumeur) [PDF]
  • "Part-pair representation for part localization," European Conference on Computer Vision, 2014. (J. Liu, Y. Li, P.N. Belhumeur) [PDF]
  • "Birdsnap: Large-scale fine-grained visual categorization of birds," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2014. (T. Berg, J. Liu, S.W. Lee, M.L. Alexander, D.W. Jacobs, P.N. Belhumeur) [PDF]
  • "Localizing parts of faces using a consensus of exemplars," IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 2013. (P.N. Belhumeur, D.W. Jacobs, D.J. Kriegman, N. Kumar) [PDF]
  • "From Bikers to Surfers: Visual Recognition of Urban Tribes," British Machine Vision Conference, 2013. (I.S. Kwak, A.C. Murillo, P.N. Belhumeur, D.J. Kriegman, S.J. Belongie) ​[PDF]
  • "How reliable are your visual attributes?," SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013. (W.J. Scheirer, N. Kumar, V.N. Iyer, P.N. Belhumeur, T.E. Boult) [PDF]
  • "Compressive structured light for recovering inhomogeneous participating media," IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 2013. (J. Gu, S.K. Nayar, E. Grinspun, P.N. Belhumeur, R. Ramamoorthi) [PDF]
  • "Bird part localization using exemplar-based models with enforced pose and subcategory consistency," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2013. (J. Liu, P.N. Belhumeur) [PDF]
  • "How do you tell a blackbird from a crow?," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2013. (T. Berg, P.N. Belhumeur) [PDF]
  • "Poof: Part-based one-vs.-one features for fine-grained categorization, face verification, and attribute estimation," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2013. (T. Berg, P.N. Belhumeur) [PDF]