Some computers can play chess, some can even fool people into thinking they are talking to another person but can a computer see as we see. This will be one topic covered in a lecture to be held in Cambridge this week.
Some computers can play chess, some can even fool people into thinking they are talking to another person but can a computer see as we see. This will be one topic covered in a lecture to be held in Cambridge this week.
Professor Andrew Blake (Pictured), Honorary Professor in Information Engineering will be giving the talk, entitled “Markov Models in Computer Vision”. He is also a senior research scientist with Microsoft research Cambridge.
ֱ̽talk will focus on the way probabilistic modelling has revolutionized computer vision systems. It will explain how one model in particular, the Markov Random Field originally developed in statistical physics has made a come back recently. Probabilistic modelling is based on the theory of probability and uses both maths and logic to solve the problems of computer system vision.
Professor Blake graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1977 before moving on to MIT as a Kennedy Scholar for a further year. He then worked in the defence electronics industry for two years, before studying for a doctorate at the ֱ̽ of Edinburgh.
Until 1987 he was on the Faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the ֱ̽ of Edinburgh and was a Royal Society Research Fellow. He then moved to Oxford ֱ̽ where he ran the Visual Dynamics Research Group. In 1999 he moved to Microsoft Research Cambridge leading the Vision Group.
Professor Blake’s main field of interest is research into computer vision. He has published a wide range of books on this subject and has twice won the prize of the European Conference on Computer Vision. He is also on the editorial board for several leading Computer Vision Journals. His current research focuses on image interaction, stereo vision and motion tracking.
ֱ̽talk is being held at the Department of Engineering on 30 October in lecture room 0, Trumpington Street Site at 5pm. ֱ̽event is free and open to the public, to attend please register by sending an email to Janet Milne: jrm@eng.cam.ac.uk.
There will be refreshments after the talk in lecture room 4 at 6pm, along with a display of posters from students describing current research at the Department in areas related to Professor Blake’s talk.
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