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Name: Gerard Medioni
Email:
medioni@usc.edu
Title: Professor
Office: PHE 212
Personal Website: http://iris.usc.edu/~medioni
Research Interests:
My research interests span a broad spectrum of the Image Understanding field. The issues of representation and matching lie at the core of it, leading to the following questions: how can we infer descriptions of objects (world-centered) from images (viewer-centered)? how can we “recognize” objects we have never seen before? In addition, I am interested in the design and implementation of very reliable vision systems to accomplish difficult tasks, using imperfect modules. I am also interested in establishing bridges between Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.
Biographical Information:
Professor Gerard Medioni received the Diplôme d’Ingenieur from ENST, Paris in 1977, a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1980 and 1983 respectively. He has been at USC since then, and is currently Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, co-director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), and co-director of the USC Games Institute. He served as Chairman of the Computer Science Department from 2001 to 2007. Professor Medioni has made significant contributions to the field of computer vision. His research covers a broad spectrum of the field, such as edge detection, stereo and motion analysis, shape inference and description, and system integration. He has published 3 books, over 50 journal papers and 150 conference articles, and is the recipient of 8 international patents.

Prof. Medioni is associate editor of the Image and Vision Computing Journal, associate editor of the Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Journal, and associate editor of the International Journal of Image and Video Processing.

Prof. Medioni served at program co-chair of the 1991 IEEE CVPR Conference in Hawaii, of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Computer Vision in Miami, general co-chair of the1997 IEEE CVPR Conference in Puerto Rico, conference co-chair of the 1998 ICPR Conference in Australia, general co-chair of the 2001 IEEE CVPR Conference in Kauai, general co-chair of the 2007 IEEE CVPR Conference in Minneapolis, and general co-chair of the 2009 IEEE CVPR Conference in Miami. He is a Fellow of IAPR, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of AAAI.