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Professor Robertson researches new underpinning machine learning methods for visual analytics and his principal research focus is activity recognition in real video. 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).
His autonomous systems, defence and security research is extensive. Highlights include 5-year EPSRC Programmes UDRC Phase 2 (2012-2017) and 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 and ECCV, as well as AAAI.
Neil is also a leader in technology innovation and is the technical co-founder of two vision companies which have attracted large investment. Through this work he collaborates closely with major technology organisations including Microsoft, Qualcomm and Bosch.
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Projects
R8454ECI: Deep domain adaptation for general object classification and detection in infra-red
10/04/2019 → …
Project: Research
R5073ECI: Deploying Computer Vision Tasks in the Wild Driven by Meta-learning
15/06/2018 → …
Project: Research
Research Output
Expanding the Vocabulary of a Protein: Application of Subword Algorithms to Protein Sequence Modelling
Lennox, M., Robertson, N. & Devereux, B., 10 Apr 2020, (Accepted) 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society: Proceedings. 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Improving detection and recognition of degraded faces by discriminative feature restoration using gan
Ghosh, S. S., Hua, Y., Mukherjee, S. S. & Robertson, N., 16 May 2020, (Accepted) IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Object Guided External Memory Network for Video Object Detection
Deng, H., Hua, Y., Song, T., Zhang, Z., Xue, Z., Ma, R., Robertson, N. & Guan, H., 27 Feb 2020, 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). IEEEResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Ranked List Loss for Deep Metric Learning
Wang, X., Hua, Y., Kodirov, E., Hu, G., Garnier, R. & Robertson, N. M., 09 Jan 2020, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019): Proceedings. (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Semantic Alignment: Finding Semantically Consistent Ground-truth for Facial Landmark Detection
Zhiwei, L., Hu, G., Zhu, X., Gao, H., Tang, M., Lei, Z., Robertson, N. & Wang, J., 09 Jan 2020, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019): Proceedings. IEEE , 10 p. (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Prizes
1851 Royal Commission Industrial Fellowship
Robertson, Neil (Recipient), 01 Apr 2003
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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)
Best Student Paper Prize (SPIE Conference)
Iain Rodger (Recipient) & Robertson, Neil (Recipient), 29 Sep 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
DSTL Wide-Area Motion Imagery Challenge
Rolf H. Baxter (Recipient) & Robertson, Neil (Recipient), 28 Feb 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Shortlisted for the RAEng MacRobert Award
Robertson, Neil (Recipient), 07 Mar 2019
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
ChaLearn Challenge and Workshop on "Fairness in Face Recognition"
Neil Robertson (Organiser), , Rama Chellappa (Organiser), & Sergio Escalera (Organiser)
23 Aug 2020 → 28 Aug 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
External Examiner of PhD, Queen Mary, University of London
Neil Robertson (Examiner)
17 Oct 2019
Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
Cattle Eye Ltd (External organisation)
Neil Robertson (Board Member)
Dec 2019
Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
EPSRC-DSTL Theme Meeting on Deep Learning
Neil Robertson (Chair)
14 Nov 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
13th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
Neil Robertson (Chair), & Guosheng Hu (Organiser)
15 May 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press / Media
Thales Case Study: How Thales leveraged UDRC funding to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence
27/02/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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
Surveillance Startup Wins Microsoft Backing as a ‘Tool for Good’
18/06/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
The World's Biggest Banks Are Doubling Down On Artificial Intelligence
24/02/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research