Roberto Cipolla
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University of Pennsylvania (MSE)
University of Electro-Communications (MEng)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Roberto Cipolla | |
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| Born | 3 May 1963 (age 62)[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) University of Pennsylvania (MSE) University of Electro-Communications (MEng) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Awards | FRS,[2] FREng[3] |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Active visual inference of surface shape (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Blake |
| Website | mi |
Roberto Cipolla (born 3 May 1963)[1] FRS, FREng,[3] is a British researcher in computer vision and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Cipolla was born in Solihull, England and attended Langley School in Solihull and Solihull Sixth Form College.[5] He studied engineering at Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1984. He obtained an Master's (MSE) degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and then was a visiting researcher at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba, studied Japanese at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and gained a second master's degree (MEng) from the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo.[1] Cipolla returned to England in 1988 and studied at the University of Oxford (Balliol College). In 1991 he was awarded a D.Phil. (Computer Vision) for his work on 3D reconstruction from smooth 2D contours.
Career
From 1991 to 1992 Cipolla was a Toshiba Fellow and engineer at the Toshiba Corporation Research and Development Centre in Kawasaki, Japan.[6]
In 1992, he returned to the UK and joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge as a lecturer and a Fellow of Jesus College. He became a Reader in Information Engineering in 1997 and a professor in 2000.[6]
From 2007 Cipolla has also been the Director of Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory and the director of the International Computer Vision Summer School which is held every year in Sicily to train young computer vision researchers.[7]
