Name: Dr Adam Michael Baumberg

Date of birth: 24 May 1971

Home address: 13 Grosvenor Mount, Leeds LS6 2DX, UK

Telephone: +44 113 274 1661

e-mail: amb@comp.leeds.ac.uk

Website: http://dream1.leeds.ac.uk/~amb

EDUCATION

School: 09/81 - 07/89 Leeds Grammar School, Moorland Road, Leeds

Undergraduate: 10/89 - 07/92 Trinity Hall, Cambridge University

Postgraduate: 10/92 - 10/95 School of Computer Studies, Univeristy of Leeds

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

O levels (1987):

grade A passes in Maths, History, French, German, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English Language, English Literature, also Pure Maths & Probability, German for Bussiness Studies

A levels (1989):

grade A passes in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Further Maths, also STEP (equivalent to S levels) - 'S' (outstanding) in Further Maths A, '2' (good) in Further Maths B

1st degree (1992):

BA Hons in Mathematics Class 2 (undivided)

Postgraduate (1996):

PhD awarded 04/96 (thesis title: "Learning deformable models for tracking human motion")

WORK EXPERIENCE

09/95 - 09/96	School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds	Research fellow in computer vision
07/93 - 02/94 (part time)	School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds	Programming / Software support on departmental coursework submission system
Vacations 92 & 91	Cambridge Animation Systems 3 Kings Parade Cambridge CB2 1SJ	Software engineering / Software solutions to mathematical problems
07/89 - 09/89	University Computing Service University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT	Technical adviser

COMPUTING SKILLS

Programming

• Over 4 years experience programming in C, C++, Unix, X11, Motif
• Good familiarity using HTML, Java, GL (Graphics Language), Pascal, BASIC

Research

• Expertise in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Signal Processing, Computer Graphics

Software Packages

• PC: Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Excel, Word 6
• Unix/ Irix: LaTeX, Emacs, Showcase (Silicon Graphics)

PUBLICATIONS

Conference / Workshop proceedings:

"Learning flexible models from Image Sequences", European Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm May 94

"An Efficient Method for Contour Tracking", IEEE Workshop on Motion of Non-rigid and Articulated Objects, Austin, Texas, Dec 94

"An Adapted Eigenshape Model", British Machine Vision Conference, Birmingham, UK, Sept 95

"Hierarchical Shape Fitting using an Iterated Linear Filter", British Machine Vision Conference, Edinburgh, UK, Sept 96

Journals:

"Learning Spatiotemporal Models from Examples", Image and Vision Computing, Aug 96

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

I have a full, clean UK driving licence.

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

I enjoy playing classical and jazz piano and as an undergraduate played in and organised an eight piece jazz combo performing at college events. I am a qualified Sub-Aqua diver and have dived in British waters and on holiday abroad. I have travelled extensively in Europe (including eastern Europe), Israel, the Carribean and plan to visit Nepal, South-East Asia, Australia, USA, Canada.

REFEREES

Prof. D.C. Hogg, Head of School, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT e-mail: dch@comp.leeds.ac.uk

Dr. John Davy School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT email: davyjr@comp.leeds.ac.uk