Andrew Blake graduated in
1977 from Trinity College, Cambridge with a B.A. in Mathematics and
Electrical Sciences. After a year as a Kennedy Scholar at MIT and two
years in the defence electronics industry, he studied for a doctorate
at the University of Edinburgh which was awarded in 1983. Until 1987
he was on the faculty of the department of Computer Science at the
University of Edinburgh and a Royal Society Research Fellow. From 1987
to 1999, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Engineering
Science in the University of Oxford, where he
ran the Visual Dynamics Research
Group, became a Professor in 1996, and and was a Royal Society Senior
Research Fellow for 1998-9. In 1999 he
moved to
Microsoft Research Cambridge
as Senior Research Scientist, leading the
Vision Group.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
in 1998, and Fellow of the Royal Society
in 2005.
In 2006 the Royal Academy of Engineering awarded him its
Silver
Medal.
His main
research activities
are 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. He has served as programme chairman for the
International Conference on Computer Vision in 1995 and 1999, and is
on the editorial boards of the journals "Image and Vision
Computing", the "International Journal of Computer Vision" and
"Computer Vision and Image Understanding". Current
research
spans image interaction, stereo vision and motion tracking.
Detailed accounts are available from publication lists, both newer papers from Microsoft Research and older papers from Oxford University. Recent research work with colleagues at Microsoft Research has been written up in the BBC's Science and Technology section and in the Guardian newspaper.
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