Krystian Mikolajczyk
Krystian Mikolajczyk is a professor at Imperial College London, where his research covers computer vision and machine learning. He completed a PhD at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 2002 and then held research posts in Grenoble, Oxford and Darmstadt. In 2003 he and Cordelia Schmid published 'A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors' at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference. He joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in 2005 and moved to Imperial College London as a Reader in Computer Vision in 2015. He received the 2014 Longuet-Higgins Prize from the IEEE Computer Society's technical committee on pattern analysis and machine intelligence.
- Now at
- Imperial College London
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- Citations
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Timeline
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2002–2005
Research posts after a Grenoble PhD
He completes undergraduate study at AGH in Krakow and a PhD at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 2002. He then works as a research assistant at INRIA in Grenoble, at Oxford University and at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
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2003
A performance evaluation of local descriptors
He and Cordelia Schmid publish 'A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors' at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2003.
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2005–2015
Lecturer at the University of Surrey
He joins the University of Surrey as a lecturer in 2005.
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2012–2013
Co-chairing two conferences
He co-chairs the British Machine Vision Conference in 2012 and the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance in 2013.
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2014
A Longuet-Higgins Prize
He receives the 2014 Longuet-Higgins Prize from the IEEE Computer Society's technical committee on pattern analysis and machine intelligence.
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2015
A reader in computer vision
In 2015 the Intelligent Systems and Networks Group at Imperial College London welcomes him as a Reader in Computer Vision.
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2021
Promotion to professor
He is promoted to Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in the College's 2021 promotions round.
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Since 2021
Professor at Imperial College London
He is a professor at Imperial College London. His research covers computer vision and machine learning for 3D vision, recognition, retrieval and matching.
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- Welcome to Dr Gyorgy and Dr Mikolajczyk | Imperial News | Imperial College London
- Krystian Mikolajczyk - The Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Krystian Mikolajczyk | About | Imperial College London
- A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors | ML Anthology
- Celebrating EEE's academic promotions: Professor Krystian Mikolajczyk | Imperial News | Imperial College London
- Krystian Mikolajczyk | Research | Imperial College London