Andrew Fitzgibbon

Andrew Fitzgibbon (born 1968) is an Irish researcher in computer vision. Since 2022, he has worked at Graphcore.

Education Fitzgibbon went to school at Coláiste Chríost Rí in Cork, and then studied Computer Science and Mathematics (Joint Honours) at University College, Cork, graduating in 1989. He pursued a one-year Masters' in Knowledge-based Systems at Heriot-Watt University.

Career and research In 1996 he moved to the robotics research group at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, working with Andrew Zisserman, and in 1998 their work on Structure from motion, jointly with Phillip Torr, was awarded the International Conference on Computer Vision Marr Prize. This work led to the foundation of the company 2d3 in 1999, and the product "boujou", which won a Primetime Emmy Award for technical achievement. In 1999, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and continued to work with Zisserman. Their work on applying machine learning to image-based rendering (with Yonatan Wexler) led to the award in 2003 of a second conference paper Marr Prize. This group work was honoured with the MacRobert Award of the Royal Academy of Engineering for Microsoft Cambridge team in 2011.

Since 2022, he has worked at Graphcore.

Awards and honours

Marr Prize, Conference Paper Prize, 1998, 2003. Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, 2001, for boujou. Fellow of the British Computer Society, 2012. Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 2012. Silver Medal, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2013. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2014. British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) Distinguished Fellow, 2017. Fellow of the Royal Society, 2024.