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Pietro Perona

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Professor at CaltechAmazon Fellow at Amazon Web Services

🇮🇹 Italian

Perona helped shape modern computer vision. He co-created a classic method for removing noise from images while preserving important edges, and his datasets and laboratory helped establish how researchers train and compare systems that recognize objects.

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Background

Current roles
Professor 1991-present
Amazon Fellow 2017-present
Previously
1990-1991Postdoctoral fellow,
Born1961
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 24, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26201,767192,212182,657Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
201,767citations as of Sep 1, '26+1,297 since Aug 1, '26
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