Jianbo Shi

Jianbo Shi is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He leads research in computer vision with additional interests in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

• Key projects: First Person Vision, Human Recognition, Image Segmentation, Medical Imaging
• Developed Normalized Cuts algorithm for image segmentation

Research Interests: Focus on first-person vision for social interaction modeling, human behavior analysis through motion and pose estimation, and advanced segmentation techniques using spectral graph theory. His work bridges AI with robotic applications and medical imaging solutions.

Scientific Contributions:

• Received IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize (2007)
• NSF CAREER Award (2005) for foundational work in vision algorithms

Academic Legacy:

• Advised 12+ PhD students including Stella Yu (Computational Models of Perceptual Organization) and Katerina Fragkiadaki (Multi-Granularity Human Interaction Models)
• Developed CIS581 (Computer Vision & Computational Photography) and CIS580 (Machine Perception) courses

Software Contributions: Created publicly available Normalized Cuts MATLAB code for image segmentation and data clustering applications.