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Researcher

Charless C. Fowlkes

Also known as Charless Fowlkes

Charless Fowlkes is a computer vision researcher whose work covers object recognition and image segmentation. He earned an honors BS at Caltech in 2000 and a computer-science PhD at UC Berkeley in 2005. In 2001 he co-wrote a paper with David Martin, Doron Tal and Jitendra Malik about a database of human-segmented natural images. His work on contextual models for object recognition received the David Marr Prize in 2009, and IEEE gave him the Helmholtz Prize in 2015 for his 2001 paper. He is a professor in computer science at UC Irvine.

Works
186
Citations
27,249
h-index
53

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2000–2005

    Caltech and Berkeley degrees

    He earns an honors BS at Caltech in 2000 and a computer-science PhD at UC Berkeley in 2005.

  2. 2001

    The Berkeley Segmentation Dataset

    He co-writes a 2001 paper with David Martin, Doron Tal and Jitendra Malik on a database of human-segmented natural images. The Berkeley Segmentation Dataset collects 12,000 hand-labeled segmentations of 1,000 Corel dataset images from 30 human subjects.

  3. 2009

    The David Marr Prize

    He receives the David Marr Prize in 2009 for work on contextual models for object recognition.

  4. 2015

    The Helmholtz Prize

    IEEE gives him the Helmholtz Prize in 2015 for his 2001 paper on human-segmented natural images, a contribution to computer vision.

  5. 2019–2022

    Chancellor's Fellow at UC Irvine

    UC Irvine names him a Chancellor's Fellow for a three-year term from July 2019 through June 2022, recognizing his record in research, teaching, mentoring and service.

  6. 2024

    CriSp shoeprint matching

    He co-authors CriSp, a paper on tread depth maps for crime-scene shoeprint matching, which appears at ECCV in September 2024.

  7. June 2026

    Camera control for image generation

    A paper on camera control for text-to-image generation appears at CVPR in June 2026, with him as a co-author.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at UC Irvine

    He is a professor in computer science at UC Irvine.

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  1. Representations for Learning Scene Layout and Inferring Geometric Context from Images | Rafik Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering bu.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. IEEE awards Fowlkes the Helmholtz Prize for paper with enduring impact - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences ics.uci.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. The Berkeley Segmentation Dataset and Benchmark www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Charless Fowlkes Named Chancellor’s Fellow - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences ics.uci.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. charless c. fowlkes - uc irvine - computer vision ics.uci.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Charless Fowlkes - UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences ics.uci.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.