Andrew Fitzgibbon (engineer)
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Andrew Fitzgibbon | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 56–57) Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Citizenship | Ireland |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Stable Segmentation of 2D Curves (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert B Fisher |
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Andrew Fitzgibbon FREng (born 1968) is an Irish researcher in computer vision. Since 2005, he has worked at Microsoft, Cambridge, UK.
Education
Fitzgibbon studied Computer Science and Mathematics (Joint Honours) at University College, Cork, graduating in 1989. He pursued a one-year Masters' in Knowledge Based Systems and Heriot-Watt University. Rather than start a PhD, he began work as a Research Assistant at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, writing computer programs for 3D shape modelling and 3D scanning. In 1992 he registered for a part-time PhD, which was awarded in 1997.
Career and research
In 1996 he moved to the robotics research group at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, working with Andrew Zisserman, and in 1998 their work on Structure from motion, jointly with Phillip Torr, was awarded the Marr Prize. This work led to the foundation of the company 2d3 in 1999, and the product "boujou", which won a Primetime Emmy Award for technical achievement.[1]. In 1999, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and continued to work with Zisserman. Their work on applying machine learning to image-based rendering (with Yonatan Wexler) led to the award in 2003 of a second Marr Prize.
In 2005, he moved to Microsoft Research, and began work on human body tracking, and later contributed to the development of the machine learning component of the human motion capture software in the Kinect system. This work was honoured with the MacRobert Award of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.
Awards and honours
Fitzgibbon is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. He is one of only a few people to have been awarded the Marr Prize more than once, in 1998, and in 2003.
- Marr Prize, 1998, 2003.
- Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, 2001, for boujou.
- British Computer Society Roger Needham Award, 2006.
- Fellow of the British Computer Society, 2012.
- Silver Medal, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2013.[2]
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2014.
- BMVA Distinguished Fellow, 2017.
References
- ^ "2d3 Boujou wins Primetime Emmy Engineering Award". The CGSociety. August 19, 2002.
- ^ "Four engineers: four silver medals". September 2013. Retrieved Dec 4, 2017.
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