Andrew Zisserman is a British computer scientist and a professor at the University of Oxford, and a world-renowned researcher in computer vision.
Education
Zisserman received the Participant III of the Mathematical Tripos, and his Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical physics from the Sunderland Polytechnic. According to Fitzgibbon (2008) this publication was "one of the first treatments of the energy minimization approach to include an algorithm (called “graduated non convexity”) designed to directly address the problem of local minima, and furthermore to include a theoretical analysis of its convergence.".
Career
In 1984 he started to work in the field of computer vision at the Edinburgh university. Together with Andrew Blake they wrote the book Visual reconstruction published in 1987, which is considered one of the seminal works in the field of computer vision. In 1987 he moved back to England to the University of Oxford, where he joined Mike Brady"s newly founded robotics research group as a University Research Lecturer, and started to work on multiple-view geometry.
According to Fitzgibbon (2008) his "geometry was successful in showing that computer vision could solve problems which humans could not: recovering 3D structure from multiple images required highly trained photogrammetrists and took a considerable amount of time.
However, Andrew"s interests turned to a problem where a six-year-old child could easily beat the algorithms of the day: object recognition."
Zisserman is an Inter-Services Intelligence Highly Cited researcher He is the only person to have been awarded the Marr Prize three times, in 1993, in 1998, and in 2003.
In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2008 he was awarded BMVA Distinguished Fellowship.