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Andrew Zisserman
University of Oxford
Membership Number: 12
Address: Department of Engineering Science, 19 Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom
Email: az@robots.ox.ac.uk
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Biographical Sketch
Prof. Andrew Zisserman joined the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford in 1987, and is a University Research Lecturer. He leads the Visual Geometry Group. He is Principal Investigator at Oxford for EC Esprit Projects Vibes and CogViSys and for two further research grants funded by UK research agencies. He has authored over 90 papers in Photogrammetry and Computer Vision and is author/editor of 8 books. He is on the editorial board of two international Computer Vision journals, and on the IEEE PAMI awards committee. He has recently been program co-chair for the International Conference on Computer Vision, and an area chair for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. He was awarded the IEEE Marr Prize in 1993, together with Drs Forsyth, Mundy and Rothwell, for research on recognizing object classes from single images; and awarded the Marr Prize for the second time in 1998, together with Drs Fitzgibbon and Torr, for research on multiple view geometry.

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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