Roberto Cipolla

Roberto is a Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge with expertise in computer vision and robotics. He has helped support several successful start-ups.

Roberto was awarded his D.Phil. (PhD) in Computer Vision from the University of Oxford and was a Toshiba Fellow and engineer at the Toshiba Corporation Research and Development Centre in Kawasaki, Japan. He joined the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge in 1992 and is a Fellow of Jesus College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Roberto’s domains of expertise include the recovery of motion and 3D shape of visible surfaces from image sequences; object detection and recognition; novel man-machine interfaces using hand, face and body gestures; real-time visual tracking for localisation and robot guidance; applications of computer vision in mobile phones, visual inspection and image-retrieval and video search. He has authored 2 books, edited 12 volumes and co-authored more than 400 papers. Several of his students have spun out highly successful start-ups.