Professor Andrew Blake

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Email: ablake@microsoft.com
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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 Researcher working in Machine Learning and Perception, while continuing to be associated with the University of Oxford as Visiting Professor of Engineering.

His main research activities are in computer vision. He has published several books including "Visual Reconstruction" with A.Zisserman (MIT press), "Active Vision" with Alan Yuille (MIT Press) and "Active Contours" with Michael 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". He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Recent research work with colleagues at Microsoft Research is looking at audio-visual control of cameras in video communications systems.