The Eleventh IASTED International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
ASC 2007
August 29 – 31, 2007
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
A Model for Saturation in Classifier Spaces
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Biography of the Keynote Speaker
Prof. Robert B. Fisher received a B.S. with Honors (Mathematics) from California Institute of Technology (1974) and a M.S. (Computer Science) from Stanford University (1978). He received his PhD from University of Edinburgh (1987), investigating computer vision in the former Department of Artificial Intelligence. Since then, Bob has been an academic at Edinburgh University, now in the School of Informatics, where helped found the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour. His research covers topics in high level and 3D computer vision, focussing on reconstructing geometric models from existing examples (of industrial parts, buildings and people - the latter work has contributed to a spin-off company, Virtual Clones, in conjunction with Glasgow University). More recently, he has been researching video sequence understanding, in particular attempting to understand observed behaviour. He also has a passion for on-line teaching and research resources for the computer vision community, leading to several well-used text and interactive exploration resources. He enjoys teaching general AI and computer vision courses for undergraduate, MSc and PhD level students. He has published 6 books and about 200 scientific articles.
