Andrew Blake Principal
Research Scientist, Microsoft Research Cambridge
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 to lead 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 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.)
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.
Publications
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