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Richard Hartley (scientist)

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Residence
  
Australia


Name
  
Richard Hartley

Alma mater
  
Australian National University Stanford University University of Toronto (1976, PhD)

Known for
  
Computer Vision, Multiple-view geometry

Richard Hartley is an Australian computer scientist and a professor at the Australian National University, where he is head of the Computer Vision group in the Research School of Engineering.

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Biography

In 1971 Hartley received a BSc degree from the Australian National University followed by MSc (1972) and PhD (1976) degrees in mathematics from the University of Toronto. He also obtained an MSc degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1983.

Scientific work

His work is primarily devoted to the fields of Artificial intelligence, Image processing, and Computer vision. He is best known for his 2000 book Multiple View Geometry in computer vision, written with Andrew Zisserman, now in its second edition (2004). According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1035 libraries

Publications

Hartley has published a wide variety of articles in computer science on the topics of computer vision and optimization. The following are his most highly cited works

  • 2000 Multiple View Geometry in computer vision With Andrew Zisserman, Cambridge University press. Second edition 2004. (cited 17,014 times)
  • 2000 "Bundle adjustment—a modern synthesis", with Bill Triggs, Philip F McLauchlan, and Andrew W Fitzgibbon in Vision algorithms: theory and practice, pp.298-372 (cited 2423 times)
  • 1997 "In defense of the eight-point algorithm" IEEE Transactions on PAMI 19 (6), 580-593 (cited 2244 times)
  • References

    Richard Hartley (scientist) Wikipedia