Scholar
Andrew Blake
Google Scholar ID: tDgCcOEAAAAJ
AI Consultant
Citations & Impact
Citations
9,118
H-index
31
i10-index
77
Publications
20
Co-authors
84
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Authored several books on topics such as visual reconstruction, active vision, active contours, and Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing. Won the European Conference on Computer Vision prize twice (with R. Cipolla in 1992 and M. Isard in 1996), the IEEE David Marr Prize (with K. Toyama) in 2001, the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2006, and the IET Mountbatten Medal in 2007. Named Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision by the IEEE in 2009. Received the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Gold Medal with colleagues at Microsoft Research for the machine learning behind the Microsoft Kinect 3D camera in 2011.
Research Experience
- An academic for 18 years, initially at the University of Edinburgh and later as Professor of Information Engineering at Oxford University. Joined Microsoft in 1999 to start a Computer Vision group, became Director of Microsoft’s Cambridge Laboratory in 2010, and has been an AI consultant since 2017, advising the CEO of Siemens AG (2015-2019) and establishing Samsung’s AI laboratory in Cambridge, UK (2018).
Education
- Trained in mathematics and electrical engineering at Cambridge UK and MIT, and earned a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh.
Background
- A pioneer in AI vision, focusing on the theory and algorithms that allow computers to behave as seeing machines, including segmentation as optimization, visual tracking as probabilistic inference, and real-time, 3D vision.
Miscellany
- Honorary Professor of Machine Intelligence at the University of Cambridge since 2007, Fellow of Clare Hall, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 1998. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005 and chaired the 2019 Royal Society report on the Dynamics of Data Science Skills.
