Andrew Blake (scientist)

Andrew Blake ( born 1956 ) is a British mathematician and computer scientist, who deals with computer vision. He is a director of Microsoft Research in Cambridge and professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Blake studied from 1974 at the University of Cambridge ( Trinity College) with a bachelor 's degree in mathematics and electrical engineering in 1977. Afterwards he spent a year as Kennedy Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for two years in the defense industry ( electro-optics group Ferranti in Edinburgh) before he studied at Edinburgh University and received his doctorate there in 1983. By 1987, he was there Royal Society Research Fellow and Lecturer in computer science and then went as a Fellow of Exeter College at Oxford University, where he became a professor in 1996. 1998/99 he was a Royal Society Senior Research Fellow and 1999 Visiting Professor at Oxford. From 1999 he was at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, where he led the group for computer vision. In 2008 he became deputy director in 2010 and director of the Laboratory. In 2002 he was Principal Research Scientist, 2005 Partner and 2010 Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.

Blake is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2005) and the Royal Academy of Engineering ( 1998). In 2000 he became a Fellow of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.

2014 he held the Gibbs Lecture. In 2006 he received the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, he won the 1992 ( with R. Cipolla ) and 1996 ( with Michael Isard ) the price of the European Conference on Computer Vision and received 2001 K. Toyama IEEE David Marr Prize. In 2007 he was awarded the Mountbatten Medal of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. In 2008 he became a Fellow of the IEEE.

In 2011 he was awarded with colleagues at Microsoft Research the MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for learning algorithms with Kinetic Human Motion Capture from Microsoft. In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate in Edinburgh and 2013 at the University of Sheffield.

Writings

  • With Andrew Zisserman Visual Reconstruction, MIT Press 1987
  • With Alan Yuille Active Vision, MIT Press 1992
  • Michael Isard Active Contours, Springer Verlag 1998
  • Publisher with push Meet Kohli, Carsten Rother Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing, MIT Press 2011
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