Gary Atkinson

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A Brief Biography

Gary Atkinson completed an M.Sci. degree in physics at the University of Nottingham in 2003. Upon graduation, he moved to the University of York to study for a PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science, under the supervision of Edwin Hancock in the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group. His research was concerned with improving shape recovery algorithms and reflectance function estimation for computer vision. Most of his work involved the exploitation of the polarising properties of reflection from surfaces.

Gary has been working at the UWE Machine Vision Laboratory on face reconstruction and recognition research in collaboration with Imperial College since June 2007, has been supervising Mark Hansen's PhD studies since November 2008, and Katy Tarrit’s since June 2011. He works in close collaboration with Imperial College London on face recognition and also has ties with the University of Bath, the University of York and the University of Central Lancashire and several industrial partners. In addition to his computer vision research, for which he has published six major international journal papers, Gary has worked in the medical field to develop new means of assessing head deformations of babies affected by plagiocephaly. He hopes to initiate a major new study in this area in the near future. Finally, Gary is working on novel machine vision methods for the automotive sector. In 2010, Gary acted as the UK and Europe co-convener for the International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology.

Since 2004, Gary has taught at a range of levels at university in electronics, computer vision, engineering skills and mechanics.