Simon Baker is a Senior Researcher in the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. Before joining MSR, he was an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in 1998, an M.A. in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1992 and a B.A. in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1991.

Research Interests

Simon’s research interests lie in the field of computer vision. Currently, he is particularly interested in the areas of video and face recognition. In the past at CMU he has worked on projects in face modeling and tracking, human body modeling and tracking, super-resolution, 3D reconstruction, vision for safe driving, and projector-camera systems.

Below is a list of his publications since joining Microsoft Research. A more complete list is available here. A better sorted list with h-index is (sometimes) available here.

Publications

Krishnan Ramnath, Simon Baker, Iain Matthews, Deva Ramanan. Increasing the Density of Active Appearance Models June 2008
Ralph Gross, Latanya Sweeney, Fernando de la Torre, Simon Baker. Semi-Supervised Learning of Multi-Factor Models for Face De-Identification June 2008
Pablo Hennings-Yeomans, Simon Baker, B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar. Simultaneous Super-Resolution and Feature Extraction for Recognition of Low Resolution Faces June 2008
Iain Matthews, Jing Xiao, Simon Baker. 2D vs. 3D Deformable Face Models: Representational Power, Construction, and Real-Time Fitting October 2007
Shuntaro Yamazaki, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Simon Baker, Takeo Kanade. Coplanar Shadowgrams for Acquiring Visual Hulls of Intricate Objects October 2007
Simon Baker, Daniel Scharstein, J.P. Lewis, Stefan Roth, Michael Black, Richard Szeliski. A Database and Evaluation Methodology for Optical Flow October 2007
Deva Ramanan, Simon Baker, Sham Kakade. Leveraging Archival Video for Building Face Datasets October 2007
Goksel Dedeoglu, Takeo Kanade, Simon Baker. The Asymmetry of Image Registration and Its Application to Face Tracking May 2007

Background

Research Interests

Publications