Svetlana Lazebnik (born 1979) is a Ukrainian-American researcher in

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

who works as a professor of computer science and Willett Faculty Scholar at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

. Her research involves interactions between image understanding and

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...

, including the automated captioning of images, and the development of a benchmark database of textually grounded images.

Education and career

Lazebnik was born in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

in 1979 to a family of Ukrainian Jews, and emigrated with her family to the US as a teenager. She majored in computer science at

DePaul University DePaul University is a private university, private, Catholic higher education, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-centu ...

, minoring in mathematics and graduating with the highest honors in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. in 2006 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, with the dissertation ''Local, Semi-Local and Global Models for Texture, Object and Scene Recognition'' supervised by Jean Ponce. After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois, she became an assistant professor at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

in 2007. She returned to the University of Illinois as a faculty member in 2012. She is a co-editor-in-chief of the '' International Journal of Computer Vision''.

Recognition

Lazebnik was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to computer vision". With

Cordelia Schmid Cordelia Schmid is computer vision researcher, currently Head of the THOTH project team at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), Montbonnot, France. Schmid obtained a degree in Computer Science from the Unive ...

and Jean Ponce, she won the

Longuet-Higgins Prize The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is an annual conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, which is regarded as one of the most important conferences in its field. According to Google Scholar Metrics (2022 ...

in 2016 for the best work in computer vision from ten years earlier, for their work on spatial pyramid matching.

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