Professor Andrew Blake
Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Andrew Blake
is Deputy Managing Director at the Microsoft
Research laboratory in Cambridge, where he also leads the Machine Learning
and Perception Group (MLP)
with Prof. Christopher Bishop.
Prior to joining Microsoft he trained
in mathematics and electrical engineering in Cambridge England, and studied for
a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh. He was an academic for 18
years, latterly on the faculty at Oxford University, where he was a pioneer in
the development of the theory and algorithms that can make it possible for
computers to behave as seeing machines. In 1999
he moved to Microsoft Research Cambridge to lead research in Computer Vision.
He has published several books including "Visual
Reconstruction" with A.Zisserman
(MIT press), "Active
Vision" with A. Yuille
(MIT Press) and "Active
Contours" with M.
Isard (Springer-Verlag). He has twice won the prize of the European
Conference on Computer Vision, with R. Cipolla in 1992 and with
M. Isard in 1996, and was awarded the IEEE David Marr Prize (jointly with K. Toyama) in 2001.
In 2006 the Royal Academy of Engineering awarded him its Silver
Medal and in 2007 the Institution of Engineering and Technology presented
him with the Mountbatten
Medal (previously awarded to computer pioneers Maurice Wilks and Tim
Berners-Lee, amongst others.) He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998, Fellow
of the IEEE in 2008, and Fellow of the Royal
Society in 2005.
The vision
team at Microsoft has developed principles and built innovative product
software for image editing and
video processing. They have developed stereoscopic cameras that incorporate a
sense of depth for use in video communication (the i2i
project), and for remote collaboration (the C-Slate
project). More recently work has
started on processing other forms of imaging, collaborating with the MRRC in
the University of Cambridge to improve MRI imaging using probabilistic
inference. Also a new effort has been started in Cambridge working on medical imaging,
feeding image processing innovation into the Microsoft Amalga family of Enterprise Health Systems .
Publications
-- Books -- Favourite Papers