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Andrew Blake
University of Oxford & Microsoft Research
Membership Number: 12
Address: Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 19 Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom.
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URL: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~ablake

Biographical Sketch
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.

University of Oxford – Robotics Research Group (RRG) of the Department of Engineering Science.
The Department of Engineering Science is large by the standards of most UK universities. It currently comprises 65 academic staff, 100 research assistants, more than 200 research students, and more than 600 undergraduate students. It publishes some 300 scientific papers annually and attracts research support from over 140 companies and agencies. It has consistently achieved top UK government ratings for research excellence. It enjoys the position of a premier graduate school, attracting numerous top-quality graduate students each year, many on scholarships such as the Rhodes, Commonwealth etc. The department provides excellent mechanical, electrical and computing technician services, and access to first class library facilities.

The RRG is one of the largest and best known in its field in Europe, with five faculty and around seventy researchers in total. The group has been involved in a number of previous Esprit BRA's (FIRST, INSIGHT, SECOND, INSIGHT-II, VIVA,IMPACT) as well as ACTS Project AC074 VANGUARD. It is currently involved in the EC LTR Project Vibes, and the EC development project SCREEN. Its faculty have consulted widely for major companies such as Siemens, IBM, GE and Sharp, and enjoy extensive industrial support for their research. Government support has included substantial grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Department of Trade and Industry and the UK Defence Research Agency. The RRG has extensive experience with standard computer vision and image processing techniques through applications ranging from satellite images (determining rural areas) through to inspection of agricultural products (detecting weeds). Members of the RRG have won many major prizes: the Marr Prize (ICCV) five times, SPIE Medical Image Analysis prize, and the UK best thesis award in Computer Science four times. Members of the group have started several companies (e.g. Guidance Control Systems, Mirada Solutions Ltd., Oxford Biosignals Ltd.) and have been awarded many patents. Members of the RRG have authored numerous monographs: Numerous research monographs and edited collections of articles. The most recent of these include Mammographic Image Analysis (Brady & Highnam, Kluwer), Active Contours (Blake & Isard, Springer); Analogue Neural VLSI (Tarassenko, with Prof. A. Murray - Edinburgh); A Guide to Neural Computing Applications (Tarassenko); Vision Algorithms: Theory and Practice (Zisserman, Triggs and Szeliski; Springer); Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision (Hartley and A. Zisserman; CUP. Recently, the Medical Vision Laboratory, which forms part of the RRG, was awarded an £8M EPSRC-MRC Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (IRC) , which Professor Brady directs. Dr. Alison Noble has won a MRC career development award, the only one in a department of engineering. Professor Brady has been elected FRS, FREng, FIEE, and was awarded the Institution of Electrical Engineers’ Faraday Medal – its highest award – largely for his work on medical image analysis, and the US IEEE Millennium Medal for the UK. Professors Zisserman and Murray have been awarded personal chairs, and Dr. Fitzgibbon has a Royal Society Research Fellowship.


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