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Overview

Robert B. Fisher is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within computer science and engineering, with a primary focus on computer vision, artificial intelligence, and related subfields.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Their work is further concentrated in these subfields:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Biomedical Engineering

Robert B. Fisher's research covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

Examples of recent publications illustrate the diversity and focus of their work. These include:

  • "Automatic Hierarchical Classification of Kelps Using Deep Residual Features" (2020) published in Sensors
  • "Segmentation and 3D reconstruction of rose plants from stereoscopic images" (2020) published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • "When Deep Learning Meets Data Alignment: A Review on Deep Registration Networks (DRNs)" (2020) published in Applied Sciences
  • "The effect of target salience and size in visual search within naturalistic scenes under degraded vision" (2021) published in Journal of Vision
  • "Learning Object-Centric Representations of Multi-Object Scenes from Multiple Views" (2021) published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors contributing to collaborative research alongside Robert B. Fisher include:

  • Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez
  • Longfei Chen
  • Antonio-Javier Gallego
  • Marcelo Saval-Calvo
  • Sun Zhaole

Publication venues where Robert B. Fisher frequently appears are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Sensors
  • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Applied Sciences
  • Journal of Vision

Best Publications

  • Direct least squares fitting of ellipses

    A.W. Fitzgibbon;M. Pilu;R.B. Fisher

  • An experimental comparison of range image segmentation algorithms

    A. Hoover;G. Jean-Baptiste;X. Jiang;P.J. Flynn

  • Estimating 3-D rigid body transformations: a comparison of four major algorithms

    D. W. Eggert;A. Lorusso;R. B. Fisher

  • A buyer's guide to conic fitting

    Andrew W. Fitzgibbon;Robert B. Fisher

  • Object-based visual attention for computer vision

    Yaoru Sun;Robert Fisher

  • Modelling Crowd Scenes for Event Detection

    E.L. Andrade;S. Blunsden;R.B. Fisher

  • Hypermedia image processing reference

    Robert Fisher

  • A Color and Texture Based Hierarchical K-NN Approach to the Classification of Non-melanoma Skin Lesions

    Lucia Ballerini;Robert B. Fisher;Benjamin Aldridge;Jonathan Rees

  • DETECTING, TRACKING AND COUNTING FISH IN LOW QUALITY UNCONSTRAINED UNDERWATER VIDEOS

    Concetto Spampinato;Yun-Heh Chen-Burger;Gayathri Nadarajan;Robert B. Fisher

  • Automatic fish classification for underwater species behavior understanding

    Concetto Spampinato;Daniela Giordano;Roberto Di Salvo;Yun-Heh Jessica Chen-Burger

  • A Comparison of Algorithms for Subpixel Peak Detection

    R. B. Fisher;D. K. Naidu

  • Simultaneous Registration of Multiple Range Views for Use in Reverse Engineering of CAD Models

    David W. Eggert;Andrew W. Fitzgibbon;Robert B. Fisher

  • Hidden Markov Models for Optical Flow Analysis in Crowds

    E.L. Andrade;S. Blunsden;R.B. Fisher

  • The BEHAVE video dataset: ground truthed video for multi-person behavior classification

    S. Blunsden;R. B. Fisher

  • A comparison of four algorithms for estimating 3-D rigid transformations

    A. Lorusso;D. W. Eggert;R. B. Fisher

  • Ellipse-specific direct least-square fitting

    M. Pilu;A.W. Fitzgibbon;R.B. Fisher

  • Dictionary of Computer Vision and Image Processing

    Robert B. Fisher;Toby P. Breckon;Kenneth Dawson-Howe;Andrew Fitzgibbon

  • Experiments in curvature-based segmentation of range data

    E. Trucco;R.B. Fisher

  • Classifying imbalanced data sets using similarity based hierarchical decomposition

    Cigdem Beyan;Robert Fisher

  • LifeCLEF 2015: Multimedia Life Species Identification Challenges

    Alexis Joly;Hervé Goëau;Hervé Glotin;Concetto Spampinato

  • Simultaneous registration of multiple range views for use in reverse engineering

    D.W. Eggert;A.W. Fitzgibbon;R.B. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan L. Rees
Jonathan L. Rees University of Edinburgh
Emanuele Trucco
Emanuele Trucco University of Dundee
Concetto Spampinato
Concetto Spampinato University of Catania
Toby P. Breckon
Toby P. Breckon Durham University
Graham D. Finlayson
Graham D. Finlayson University of East Anglia
Mohammed Bennamoun
Mohammed Bennamoun University of Western Australia
Ferdous Sohel
Ferdous Sohel Murdoch University
Farid Boussaid
Farid Boussaid University of Western Australia
Marc Pollefeys
Marc Pollefeys ETH Zurich

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