Lourdes Agapito
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Lourdes Agapito | |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Estrategias de correspondencia jerárquica y métodos directos de autocalibración para un sistema estereoscópico binocular[1] (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | María Teresa de Pedro Lucio |
| Website | www0 |
Lourdes de Agapito Vicente is British computer scientist and academic. She is Professor of 3D Vision in the department of computer science at University College London (UCL), where she leads a research group with a focus on 3D dynamic scene understanding from video.[2] Agapito is the co-founder of the software company Synthesia,[3] and an elected member of the Executive Committee of the British Machine Vision Association.[4]
Agapito received her Ph.D. in computer science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain in 1996.[citation needed]
Agapito was a postdoctoral fellow in the Active Vision Lab in the Robotics Research Group at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2000. She was awarded an EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship between 1997 and 1999.[5]
In 2001, Agapito became a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She became a senior lecturer in 2007 and a reader in computer vision in 2011.[6] In 2008, she received an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant for the HUMANIS (Human Motion Analysis from Image Sequences) project. In 2013, she joined the Computer Science Department at University College London.
In 2017, Agapito co-founded the software company Synthesia which offers content creation tools that include video synthesis.[7][8]
Agapito is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the British Machine Vision Association, a member of the Vision and Imaging Science group and the Centre for Inverse Problems.[9]
