Email: pff (at) cs.uchicago.edu Phone: (773) 834-4545 Office: Ryerson 162B Address:  1100 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637

I am visiting Cornell University for the 2009-2010 academic year.

My main research interests are in computer vision, geometric algorithms and AI.

Papers

Object detection with part-based models
Fast exact distance transforms
Belief propagation for early vision
Image segmentation

Winter 2009: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CMSC 25000)
Winter 2009: Theory of Algorithms (CMSC 27200)
Fall 2008: Statistical Models for Image Analysis (CMSC 35900)
Spring 2008: Computer Vision (CMSC 25040/35040)

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Editorial Board, International Journal of Computer Vision
Program co-chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
Area chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009, 2010
Area chair, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008
Area chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007