Prof. Roberto Cipolla 
Professor of Information Engineering 
Telephone: +44 1223 3 32849
Email: rc10001@eng.cam.ac.uk
Background
Roberto Cipolla is a Professor of Information Engineering with research interests in computer vision and robotics.
Research Interests
Professor Cipolla's research interests include:
3D Shape from Uncalibrated Images
- Structure and Motion from outlines
- Multiview stereo with volumetric graph-cuts
- Multiview photometric stereo
- Realtime non-rigid photometric stereo from video
- Single View Reconstruction
Object Detection and Recognition
- Contour-based learning for realtime object detection
- Object category detection and segmentation
- Face recognition from image sets
Video Segmentation
- Video segmentation and label propagation
- Action recognition with canonical correlations
- Detection of people in crowds
Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction
- Hand detection and tracking
- Human pose detection and tracking
- Realtime gesture recognition
Visually Guided Robotics
- Visual localisation
- Target recognition in UAVs
- Realtime visual tracking
Applications of Computer Vision
- Computer vision and AR on mobile phones
- Content-based image and video retrieval
- Visual inspection in ageing infrastructure
- IB Paper 8: Information Engineering Elective
- 4F12 Computer Vision and Robotics
- IA Software Design Laboratories
- IB Computing Exercises Laboratories
- Director of Toshiba?s Cambridge Research Laboratory
- Director of International Summer School on Computer Vision
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
- Distinguished Fellow of the British Machine Vision Association
- Fellow (FIET) and Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Institution of Engineering and Technology