Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb


Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb is an American computer scientist and Professor of the School of Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Brown University. Felzenszwalb received his B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1999. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2003, respectively.

Awards and honors

In 2010, Felzenszwalb was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize for his work in the field of computer vision. In 2013, he was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions to the problem of object recognition in pictures and video. In 2014, he was awarded the Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award by the IEEE for his work with object recognition with deformable models. In 2018, Felzenszwalb received the Longuet-Higgins prize a second time for fundamental contributions to computer vision. In particular, this prize recognized his work with discriminately trained, multiscale, deformable part models. The prize was first awarded in 2005, and Felzenszwalb is among a select group of repeat winners.