Andrew Blake (mathematician)

Andrew Blake (* 1956 ) is a British mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in computer vision. He is Director of Microsoft Research at 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 was a Kennedy scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for two years in the defense industry (electro-optics group Ferranti in Edinburgh) before continuing his studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1983. Until 1987 he was a Royal Society Research Fellow and Lecturer in Computer Science and then went to Oxford University as a Fellow of Exeter College , where he became Professor in 1996. In 1998/99 he was Royal Society Senior Research Fellow and in 1999 visiting professor at Oxford. From 1999 he was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge, where he led the computer vision group. In 2008 he became deputy director and in 2010 director of the laboratory. In 2002 he became Principal Research Scientist, 2005 Partner and 2010 Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft. In 2015 he became director of the Alan Turing Institute.

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 Cambridge University.

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

In 2011 he and colleagues at Microsoft Research received the MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for learning algorithms in Kinetic Human Motion Capture from Microsoft. In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from Edinburgh and 2013 from the University of Sheffield. For 2016 he was awarded the Lovelace Medal .

Fonts

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

Web links

• Biography at Microsoft Research
• Author profile in the database zbMATH