Computer Graphics & Animation

Biography

Gareth Edwards M.Sc. Ph.D. CEO: Dr. Edwards has 20 years experience bringing state-of-the-art technologies to the animation and medical industries, turning groundbreaking research into products and services which transform workflows. Working with Professor Chris Taylor FrEng OBE and Professor Tim Cootes, he invented the Active Appearance Model, one of the most widely used (for example in the Microsoft Kinect face tracker) and widely cited methods in the analysis of video and medical images, for which the team was awarded the Olympus Science for Life Prize and Dr. Edwards was personally awarded the Sullivan Prize. Edwards, Cootes and Taylor were also awarded the 2015 Test of Time Award at the IEEE Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition (IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Biometrics Council) for “one of the most influential papers in the field and inspired many (if not all) subsequent works on deformable models for face analysis.”

Research Interest

Dr. Edwards is a pioneer in the field of facial analysis and facial animation. He continues to lead the research and development of state-of-the-art algorithms and software platforms for complex model-based analysis of images, video and depth data, applicable to a large variety of the most challenging problems in computer vision.