Andrew Blake is a pioneer in AI vision --the theory and algorithms that allow computers to behave as seeing machines.
He won the prize of the European Conference on Computer Vision twice (with R. Cipolla 1992 and M. Isard 1996) and the IEEE David Marr Prize (with K. Toyama) in 2001. The Royal Academy of Engineering awarded him their Silver Medal in 2006, and in 2007 he received the IET Mountbatten Medal (previously awarded to computer pioneers Maurice Wilkes and Tim Berners-Lee, amongst others.) He was named a Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision by the IEEE in 2009. In 2011, with colleagues at Microsoft Research, he received the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Gold Medal for the machine learning at the heart of the Microsoft Kinect 3D camera.