Perceiving the 3D World from Images

Silvio Savarese is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005 and was a Beckman Institute Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005-2008. He joined Stanford in 2013 after being assistant and then associate professor (with tenure) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. from 2008 to 2013. Savarese's research interests include computer vision, object recognition and scene understanding, shape representation and reconstruction, human activity recognition and visual psychophysics. He is recipient of several awards, including the James R. Croes Medal in 2013, a TRW Automotive Endowed Research Award in 2012, an NSF Career Award in 2011 and Google Research Award in 2010. In 2002, Savarese received the Walker von Brimer Award for outstanding research initiative.