Rate My Professor John Canny

Canny's research interests encompass artificial intelligence, control and intelligent systems, robotics, graphics, human-computer interaction, and security. He created the widely used Canny edge detector, detailed in his paper "A Computational Approach to Edge Detection" (1986), which received the AAAI Classic Paper Award in 2002. Key publications include "MultiView: Improving trust in group video conferencing through spatial faithfulness" (2007, Best Paper Prize at CHI), "Camera phone based motion sensing: Interaction techniques, applications and performance study" (2006), "Collaborative filtering with privacy" (2002), the edited book "Nonholonomic Motion Planning" (1993), and "Generalized characteristic polynomials" (1990). His work extends to projects such as the Berkeley Institute of Design, Livenotes for collaborative learning, Flexonics mechatronic devices fabricated via inkjet printing, Multiview display systems, ubicomp privacy tools, activity-based computing, Glaze for location-based services, and the Virtual Development Center. Canny has been honored with the ACM Fellowship (2020), Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (1988), NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989), and Okawa Research Grant (2003). He is affiliated with the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Berkeley Institute of Design, CITRIS People and Robots, Berkeley Deep Drive, and Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.