Prof. Robert Fisher has been an academic in the School of Informatics (originally in the former Department of Artificial Intelligence) at University of Edinburgh since 1984 and a full Professor since 2003. He received his PhD from University of Edinburgh (1987), investigating computer vision in the former Department of Artificial Intelligence. His previous degrees are a BS with honors (Mathematics) from California Institute of Technology (1974) and a MS (Computer Science) from Stanford University (1978). He worked as a software engineer for 5 years before returning to study for his PhD.
He has been researching 3D scene understanding since 1982, and has worked on model based object recognition, range image analysis and parallel vision algorithms. The main topics of his recent research are:
This research is conducted in the Machine Vision Unit.
He is currently the principal investigator of these projects:
His current PhD students and research staff are:
Look here for information about applying to study for a PhD or MSc in Informatics at Edinburgh.
Here is a map to my office in the Informatics Forum. Enter via the main entrance on Crichton Street. Cross the atrium floor to go up the stairs/elevator 1 floor. My office is 1.26, which is almost on the opposite side of the atrium. Here is a Google map link with a streetside view.
