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Professor Robertson researches new underpinning machine learning methods for visual analytics and his principal research focus is computer vision. He started his career in the UK Scientific Civil Service with DERA (2000-2002) and QinetiQ (2002-2007) and was the 1851 Royal Commission Fellow at Oxford University (2003–2006) before taking up a full-time academic post in Edinburgh until 2016 when he moved to Queen's.
His artificial intelligence research is extensive. Academic highlights include 5-year EPSRC Programmes UDRC Phase 2 (2012-2017) and Phase 3 (2018-2023), and the EPSRC RAS CDT (2013-2018). He is regular contributor to the major computer vision and machine learning conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and AAAI.
Neil is passionate about technology innovation and is variously the Founder/Co-founder/Director of high tech start-up companies which have attracted significant institutional investment.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R5159ECS: Artificial Intelligence for Vision Based Navigation - Externally Sponsored Studentship Agreement
21/12/2020 → …
Project: Research
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R8454ECI: Deep domain adaptation for general object classification and detection in infra-red
10/04/2019 → …
Project: Research
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R5073ECI: Deploying Computer Vision Tasks in the Wild Driven by Meta-learning
15/06/2018 → …
Project: Research
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Efficient one-stage video object detection by exploiting temporal consistency
Sun, G., Hua, Y., Hu, G. & Robertson, N., 04 Nov 2022, Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision. Avidan, S., Brostow, G., Cissé, M., Farinella, G. M. & Hassner, T. (eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Vol. XXXV. p. 1-16 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 13695).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Not all knowledge is created equal: mutual distillation of confident knowledge
Li, Z., Wang, X., Meinel, C., Robertson, N. M., Clifton, D. A. & Yang, H., 27 Oct 2022, (Accepted).Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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TDViT: Temporal Dilated Video Transformer for dense video tasks
Sun, G., Hua, Y., Hu, G. & Robertson, N., 04 Nov 2022, Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision. Avidan, S., Brostow, G., Cissé, M., Farinella, G. M. & Hassner, T. (eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Vol. XXXV. p. 285-301 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 13695).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Temporal meta-adaptor for video object detection
Wang, C., Hua, Y., Lu, Z., Gao, J. & Robertson, N., 01 Jan 2022, British Machine Vision Conference 2021: Proceedings. (British Machine Vision Conference: Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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BBAS: Towards large scale effective ensemble adversarial attacks against deep neural network learning
Shen, J. & Robertson, N., Aug 2021, In: Information Sciences. 569, p. 469-478Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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1851 Royal Commission Industrial Fellowship
Robertson, Neil (Recipient), 01 Apr 2003
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Best Paper Prize (IMA Conference)
Abbott, Rachael (Recipient), Martinez del Rincon, Jesus (Recipient) & Robertson, Neil (Recipient), 23 Nov 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Shortlisted for the RAEng MacRobert Award
Robertson, Neil (Recipient), 07 Mar 2019
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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External Examiner of PhD, University of Galway
Neil Robertson (Examiner)
11 Sep 2023Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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External Examiner at University of Oulu
Neil Robertson (Examiner)
15 Jan 2023Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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BBSRC Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (External organisation)
Neil Robertson (Member)
Oct 2022 → Nov 2022Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
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External Examiner of PhD, CVSSP, University of Surrey
Neil Robertson (Examiner)
30 Jun 2022Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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NeurIPS 2022 (Event)
Neil Robertson (Peer reviewer)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
Press/Media
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Thales Case Study: How Thales leveraged UDRC funding to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence
27/02/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Surveillance Startup Wins Microsoft Backing as a ‘Tool for Good’
18/06/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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AnyVision Closes $74 Million Series A with New Participation from M12 and DFJ Growth
18/06/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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The World's Biggest Banks Are Doubling Down On Artificial Intelligence
24/02/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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