Andrew Fitzgibbon

Phone (cell): +44 7712 579 332
Phone (office, voicemail arrives by email): +44 1223 479 899
Email: awf at microsoft dot com
Address: Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 JJ Thomson Avenue,Cambridge CB3 0FB, England

Note that for medical reasons I will be away from May 16th for at least several weeks (see details). Emails received in that time may not be answered even after I return. If something needs an answer, please resend it after August 15.

I research into computer vision, particularly anything to do with movies and video. I am a senior researcher at Microsoft, and also a hold a visiting fellowship in Engineering Science at Oxford University, where I held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship until 2005.

Formal Bio in 300 words or fewer

Fabio Viola, Oliver Woodford, Mukta Prasad,
Aeron Buchanan [2007], Ram Navaratnam [2007], Nick Apostoloff [2007],
David Claus [2006], Jamie Paterson [2005]

2d3 is a company that makes software for the visual effects industry based on the work I did at Oxford. We won an Emmy award in 2002 for the automatic camera tracker boujou.

Boujou helps 3D animators to glue special effects to a live-action background. Just by studying a sequence of images, it can compute the 3D motion of the camera that took the sequence. Knowing the 3D camera motion lets animators insert 3D objects into the scene without needing to use virtual stop-motion techniques to cope with a moving camera.

It has been used in pretty much every major effects movie and TV series since April 2001, including "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", and even movies with less visible effects such as "Bridget Jones's Diary".

Here is a cross-section of my publications. For different cross-sections, see the VGG Page, or Libra.

• Unwrap Mosaics: A new representation for video editing
  Alex Rav-Acha, Pushmeet Kohli, Carsten Rother and Andrew Fitzgibbon , SIGGRAPH 2008.
• Global Stereo Reconstruction under Second Order Smoothness Priors
  O. Woodford, P. Torr, I. Reid and A. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2008.
• Optimizing Matrix Computations for Learning
  O. Williams and A. Fitzgibbon, Snowbird Learning Workshop 2008.
• The Joint Manifold Model for Semi-supervised Multi-valued Regression
  R. Navaratnam, A. Fitzgibbon, R. Cipolla , ICCV 2007.
• On New View Synthesis Using Multiview Stereo
  O. Woodford, I. Reid, P. Torr and A. Fitzgibbon, BMVC 2007.
• Automatic video segmentation using spatiotemporal T-junctions
  N. E. Apostoloff and A. Fitzgibbon. , BMVC 2007.
• Combining local and global motion models for feature point tracking
  A. Buchanan, A. Fitzgibbon , CVPR 2007.
• Efficient new-view synthesis using pairwise dictionary priors
  O. J. Woodford, I. D. Reid, A. W. Fitzgibbon , CVPR 2007.
• Single view reconstruction of curved surfaces
  M. Prasad, A. Zisserman, A. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2006.
• Interactive Feature Tracking Using KD-Trees and Dynamic Programming
  A. Buchanan, A. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2006.
• Humans ignore motion and stereo cues in favour of a fictional stable world
  A. Glennerster, L. Tcheang, S. Gilson, A. Fitzgibbon, A. Parker, Current Biology, 16, 428-432 (2006)
• Quantitative analysis of accuracy of an intertial/acoustic 6DOF tracking system
  S. Gilson, A. Fitzgibbon, A. Glennerster J. Neuroscience Methods 2006
• Shift-invariant dynamic texture recognition
  F. Woolfe, A. Fitzgibbon, ECCV 2006.
• Fast Image-based Rendering using Hierarchical Image-based Priors
  O. Woodford and A.W. Fitzgibbon, BMVC 2005.
• A Plumbline Constraint for the Rational Function Lens Distortion Model
  D. Claus and A.W. Fitzgibbon, BMVC 2005.
• BRDF and geometry capture from extended inhomogeneous samples using flash photography
  J.A. Paterson, D. Claus and A.W. Fitzgibbon, Eurographics 2005.
• Learning spatiotemporal t-junctions for occlusion detection
  N.E. Apostoloff and A.W. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2005.
• Damped Newton algorithms for matrix factorization with missing data
  A. Buchanan and A.W. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2005.
• A Rational Function Lens Distortion Model for General Cameras
  D. Claus and A.W. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2005.
• Reliable Automatic Calibration of a Marker-based Position Tracking System
  D. Claus and A.W. Fitzgibbon, WACV 2005.
• Bayesian video matting using learnt image priors.
  N.E. Apostoloff and A.W. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2004.
• Reliable fiducial detection in natural scenes
  D. Claus and A.W. Fitzgibbon, ECCV 2004
• 3D head tracking using non-linear optimization
  J.A. Paterson and A.W. Fitzgibbon, BMVC 2003
• Invariant fitting of two view geometry
  P.H.S. Torr and A.W. Fitzgibbon, BMVC 2003, PAMI 2003
• Image-based rendering using image-based priors
  A.W. Fitzgibbon, Y. Wexler, A. Zisserman, ICCV 2003
• Joint manifold distance: A new approach to appearance-based clustering
  A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman, CVPR 2003
• Learning epipolar geometry from image sequences
  Y. Wexler and A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman, CVPR 2003
• Robust Registration of 2D and 3D Point Sets
  A.W. Fitzgibbon, Image and Vision Computing 2003, also BMVC 2001
• Real-time gesture recognition using deterministic boosting
  R. Lockton and A.W. Fitzgibbon, BMVC 2002
• Image-based environment matting
  Y. Wexler, A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 2002.
• Bayesian estimation of layers from multiple images.
  Y. Wexler, A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman ECCV 2002.
• Simultaneous linear estimation of multiple view geometry and lens distortion
  A.W. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2001, also UK Patent Application 0124608.1
• Stochastic rigidity: Image registration for nowhere-static scenes
  A.W. Fitzgibbon, ICCV 2001
• Fixation could simplify, not complicate, the interpretation of retinal flow
  A. Glennerster, M.E. Hansard, A.W. Fitzgibbon Vision Research 41(6), March 2001
• 3D Structure from Images - SMILE 2000
  M. Pollefeys, L. van Gool, A. Zisserman, A. Fitzgibbon (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2018, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2001.
• Multibody Structure and Motion: 3-D Reconstruction of Independently Moving Objects
  A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman, ECCV 2000
• Improving Augmented Reality using Image and Scene Constraints
  R.A. Smith, A.W. Fitzgibbon, and A. Zisserman, BMVC 1999
• Parallax geometry of smooth surfaces in multiple views
  G. Cross, A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman, ICCV 1999
• Automatic 3D Model Construction for Turn-Table Sequences
  A.W. Fitzgibbon, G. Cross, and A. Zisserman, SMILE 1998
• The Problem of Degeneracy in Structure and Motion Recovery from Uncalibrated Image Sequences
  P.H.S. Torr, A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman, IJCV 1999.
• Automatic Camera Recovery for Closed or Open Image Sequences
  A.W. Fitzgibbon and A. Zisserman, ECCV 1998
• Direct Least Squares Fitting of Ellipses
  A.W. Fitzgibbon and Pilu, M. and Fisher, R.B., PAMI 1999
• Stable Segmentation of 2D Curves
  A.W. Fitzgibbon, PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997
• Convex Hulls, Occluding Contours, Aspect Graphs and the Hough Transform, M. Wright, A.W. Fitzgibbon, P.J. Giblin and R.B. Fisher, Image and Vision Computing 1996
• A Buyer's Guide to Conic Fitting
  A.W. Fitzgibbon and R.B. Fisher, BMVC95. BiBTeX
• Lack-of-fit Detection using the Run-distribution Test
  A.W. Fitzgibbon and R.B. Fisher, ECCV 1994
• Practical Aspect-Graph Derivation Incorporating Feature Segmentation Performance
  A.W. Fitzgibbon and R.B. Fisher, BMVC 1992

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