Jitendra Malik
UC Berkeley professor known for foundational computer vision work such as normalized cuts and R-CNN, and for learning-based legged and dexterous robot control.
UC Berkeley · United States
- Rank
- #3
- Score
- 74.3
- Citations
- 176,426
- h-index
- 151
- Robotics papers 2023–2025
- 15
Source: OpenAlex author record, as of 2026-10-19. How we rank · Homepage
Photo: Office of Naval Research from Arlington, United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
About
Jitendra Malik is known for foundational computer vision work, including normalized cuts for image segmentation and R-CNN for object detection. His recent robotics work trains legged robots and dexterous hands with learning in simulation and transfers it to real hardware.
Representative work
Selected highly cited papers, linked to their publisher or arXiv versions:
- Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation (2014)
- Normalized cuts and image segmentation (2000)
- Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion (1990)
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Who is Jitendra Malik?
Jitendra Malik is a UC Berkeley professor known for foundational computer vision work such as normalized cuts and R-CNN, and for learning-based legged and dexterous robot control.