Gary Atkinson

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A Brief Biography

Gary Atkinson completed an MSci 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. 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.

In 2007, Gary moved to the UWE Machine Vision Laboratory to work on face reconstruction and recognition research in collaboration with Imperial College London. Gary also has ties with the University of Bath, the University of York, the University of Central Lancashire and several industrial partners. He supervised Mark Hansen's PhD in face recognition to completion in March 2012. In addition to his computer vision research, for which he has published eight major peer-reviewed international journal papers, Gary has worked in the medical field to develop a new means of assessing head deformations in babies affected by plagiocephaly.

In 2010, Gary acted as the editor and UK and Europe co-convener for the International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology in Coimbatore, India. Gary teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Computer Vision and Engineering.