Andrew Blake
Blake coauthored Visual Reconstruction with Andrew Zisserman in 1987, Active Vision with Alan Yuille in 1992 and Active Contours with Michael Isard in 1998. These works cover ways to recover and follow visual structure. Blake joined Microsoft in 1999 to start a computer-vision group and became director of the Cambridge laboratory in 2010. In 2011 he shared the MacRobert Gold Medal with colleagues for machine learning used in the Kinect camera. He led the Alan Turing Institute from 2015 to 2018 and established Samsung’s Cambridge AI laboratory in 2018.
Timeline
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1987–1998
Books on visual inference
Blake coauthored Visual Reconstruction with Andrew Zisserman in 1987, Active Vision with Alan Yuille in 1992 and Active Contours with Michael Isard in 1998. These works cover ways to recover and follow visual structure.
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1999–2011
Computer vision at Microsoft
Blake joined Microsoft in 1999 to start a computer-vision group and became director of the Cambridge laboratory in 2010. In 2011 he shared the MacRobert Gold Medal with colleagues for machine learning used in the Kinect camera.
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2015–2018
Building AI institutions
He led the Alan Turing Institute from 2015 to 2018 and established Samsung’s Cambridge AI laboratory in 2018.
Sources and credits
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