Andrew Zisserman facts for kids

Andrew Zisserman, born in 1957, is a famous British computer scientist. He is a professor at the University of Oxford. He also works as a researcher in computer vision. Computer vision is a field where computers learn to "see" and understand images and videos. Since 2014, he has also been working with DeepMind, a company that focuses on artificial intelligence.

Andrew Zisserman's Education

Andrew Zisserman studied at the University of Cambridge. He also earned his PhD in theoretical physics from Sunderland Polytechnic. A PhD is a very high university degree.

Andrew Zisserman's Career and Research

In 1984, Andrew Zisserman began working in the field of computer vision. He started at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Early Work in Computer Vision

With another scientist named Andrew Blake, he wrote a book called Visual Reconstruction. This book was published in 1987. It is considered a very important book in computer vision. It helped computers understand images better. The book showed a new way to solve problems where computers had to "see" things.

Moving to Oxford and New Challenges

In 1987, Andrew Zisserman moved to the University of Oxford in England. He joined a new group that studied robotics. Here, he started working on "multiple-view geometry." This is about how computers can understand 3D shapes from many different pictures.

His work showed that computers could solve problems that were very hard for humans. For example, recovering 3D shapes from multiple images used to take a long time. Highly trained experts called photogrammetrists had to do it. But Andrew's work made it possible for computers to do it much faster.

Later, he became interested in a different problem. This was about object recognition. He wanted computers to be able to recognize objects as easily as a young child can.

Important Publications

Andrew Zisserman has written many important articles and edited several books. These works are highly respected in his field. Here are some of his notable publications:

• 1987. Visual reconstruction. With Andrew Blake.
• 2000. Multiple view geometry in computer vision. With Richard Hartley. A second edition came out in 2009.

Awards and Honours

Andrew Zisserman has received many awards for his work. He is known as an ISI Highly Cited researcher. This means his work is often used and referenced by other scientists.

He is the only person to have won the Marr Prize three times. This is a very important award in computer vision. He won it in 1993, 1998, and 2003.

In 2007, he was chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is a very high honour for scientists in the UK. In 2008, he received the BMVA Distinguished Fellowship. In 2013, he got the Distinguished Researcher Award at ICCV.

In 2017, Andrew Zisserman received the Royal Society Milner Award. This award recognized his amazing work in computer programming. His work includes creating theories and systems for understanding geometrical images.