Professor of Information Engineering
Academic Division: Information Engineering
Research group: Machine Intelligence
Telephone: +44 1223 3 32849
Email: cipolla@eng.cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Professor Cipolla's research interests are in computer vision and include the reconstruction, registration and recognition of three-dimensional objects from images and their translation into novel commercial products.
3D Shape from Uncalibrated Images
- Structure and motion from outlines
- Multiview stereo and photometric stereo
- Realtime non-rigid photometric stereo from video
- Single view reconstruction
3D Object Detection, Recognition and Segmentation
- Semantic segmentation - SegNet
- Contour-based learning for realtime object detection
- Video segmentation
- Face recognition from image sets
Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction
- Hand detection and tracking
- Human pose detection and tracking
- Accurate 3D body shape
Visually Guided Robotics
- Visual relocalisation and navigation
- Hand-eye coordination and manipulation
- Self-driving cars - Autonomous Vehicles
Applications of Computer Vision
- Computer vision and AR on mobile phones
- Visual inspection in ageing infrastructure
- Healthcare and E-commerce applications
Teaching activity
- IB Paper 8: Information Engineering Elective
- 4F12 Computer Vision
- IA Software Design Laboratories
- IB Computing Exercises Laboratories
Other positions
- Director of Toshiba’s Cambridge Research Laboratory
- Director of International Summer School on Computer Vision (ICVSS)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
- Distinguished Fellow of the British Machine Vision Association
- Fellow (FIET) of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Fellow (FIAPR) of the International Association of Pattern Recognition
- Honorary Professor of the Royal Academy of Art Schools, London
Biography
Roberto Cipolla is Professor of Information Engineering (2000). His research interests are in computer vision, machine learning and robotics.