Photo Credit: Jesse Winter
Serge Belongie received a B.S. (with honor) in EE from Caltech in 1995 and a Ph.D. in EECS from Berkeley in 2000. While at Berkeley, his research was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. From 2001-2013 he was a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego.
He is currently the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University and an Associate Dean at Cornell Tech. His research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Crowdsourcing and Human-in-the-Loop Computing. He is also a co-founder of several companies including Digital Persona, Anchovi Labs and Orpix. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35” Award and the Helmholtz Prize for fundamental contributions in Computer Vision.
Note: as of 01-Jul-2022, Prof. Belongie has moved to the University of Copenhagen
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Email sjb344@cornell.edu
Lab http://vision.cornell.edu/se3
Address 2 W Loop Rd, New York, NY 10044
Office Hours (Spring 2020) Tu 2-3pm & Th 10-11am, Bloomberg 355.
Teaching
CS 5356: Building Startup Systems [Fall 2014]
CS 5785: Applied Machine Learning [Fall 2019] [Fall 2018] [Fall 2017] [Fall 2016] [Fall 2015] [Spring 2014] [Spring 2013]
CS 6670: Computer Vision [Spring 2015]
Projects
Visipedia. Visipedia is a project focused on capturing and sharing visual expertise. Goals of Visipedia include creation of hyperlinked, interactive images embedded in Wikipedia articles, scalable representations of visual knowledge, large scale machine vision datasets, and visual search capabilities. Toward achieving these goals, Visipedia advocates interaction and collaboration between machine vision and human users and experts.
Anchovi Labs, Inc. Co-founder. Computer vision applied to personal photo album organization. Acquired by Dropbox in September 2012.
Funding and Collaborators
- Google Focused Research Award
- Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
- AOL Connected Experiences Lab (Cx)
- Cornell Lab of Ortnithology
Presentations and Publications
Van Horn, Grant; Aodha, Oisin Mac; Song, Yang; Cui, Yin; Sun, Chen; Shepard, Alex; Adam, Hartwig; Perona, Pietro; Belongie, Serge
The iNaturalist Species Classification and Detection Dataset
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Salt Lake City, UT, 2018.
Other Links
Information for Prospective PhD Students [www]
AI Undergrad Club: [fb] [www]
Grad Vision & Learning: [fb]
Grad Mixed Reality: [fb]
Extended Reality (XR) Collaboratory: [www]