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Serge Belongie
Pioneer Centre for AICo-founder and Director
University of CopenhagenProfessor
ELLISPresident
🇺🇸 AmericanBorn 1974
Belongie helped shape how computers recognize objects in images. He co-developed shape contexts, a method for matching object outlines[1], and co-created COCO, a dataset for training and testing object recognition. His work with human experts also helped computers distinguish visually similar species, including birds.
Career & education
Current rolesPioneer Centre for AI2021-presentCo-founder and DirectorUniversity of Copenhagen2021-presentProfessorELLIS2025-presentPresident
Pioneer Centre for AI2021-presentUniversity of Copenhagen2021-presentELLIS2025-presentPreviously
Cornell University2013-2021Full Professor
Cornell University2013-2021Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations252,289As of Nov 1, '26
citations+3,342Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
With Tsung-Yi Lin, Michael Maire, Lubomir Bourdev, Ross Girshick, James Hays, Pietro Perona, Deva Ramanan and others ·A dataset of everyday scenes with individual objects labeled and outlined.
References
- Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contextswww2.eecs.berkeley.edu
He co-developed shape contexts, a method for matching object outlines
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