Stephen J. Maybank

Timeline

1. 1976–2003

   Mathematics and research

   At King's College Cambridge, he earns a first-class mathematics BA in 1976 and completes Part III of the Mathematical Tripos with distinction in 1977. He completes a computer science PhD at Birkbeck in 1988. GEC employs him as a research scientist from 1980 to 1995, including a secondment to Oxford from 1993 to 1995; Reading appoints him as a lecturer in 1995 and promotes him to reader in 1999.

2. 1992–1993

   Camera calibration and reconstruction

   With Olivier D. Faugeras and Quang-Tuan Luong, he coauthors the 1992 ECCV paper “Camera Self-Calibration: Theory and Experiments.” His 1993 book, “Theory of Reconstruction from Image Motion,” explains how image motion can reveal camera movement and object shape.

3. 2004–2020

   Professor at Birkbeck

   In 2004, he becomes a professor at Birkbeck and holds the post through September 2020. His research includes camera calibration, structure from motion, image processing, optical flow, and computer vision.

4. 2008

   A Koenderink Prize

   At ECCV in 2008, he receives the Koenderink Prize.

5. 2011

   Fellow of the IEEE

   The IEEE names him a Fellow in 2011.

6. 2017–2026

   Deep learning for vision

   With collaborators, he coauthors a 2017 CVPR paper titled “Spatio-temporal self-organizing map deep network for dynamic object detection from videos.” In 2020, he coauthors the arXiv survey “Knowledge Distillation: A Survey,” which describes how a small student model learns from a large teacher model. A 2026 paper lists him among the coauthors of “Ocean: Object-aware Anchor-free Tracking with Matching-relation Learning.”

7. 2019

   Election to Academia Europaea

   Academia Europaea elects him to its Informatics section in 2019.

8. As of October 2026

   Emeritus professor at Birkbeck

   As of October 2026, he is an emeritus professor of computer science at Birkbeck.