Mike Brooks
| Mike Brooks | |
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| 💼 Occupation | Interim Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Adelaide; computer scientist |
Professor Michael John Brooks FTSE FACS is an academic specializing in computer vision and artificial intelligence, and a university senior manager. He is currently the Interim Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
Early life and education
Brooks was raised in Nottingham, United Kingdom, and educated at Bilborough Grammar School. He gained a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Hull, and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex.
Career
Brooks moved to South Australia in 1980 to take up a lectureship at Flinders University. In 1984 Brooks accepted a short-term postdoc at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory working with Berthold K.P. Horn.[1][2]
He joined the University of Adelaide in 1991 and subsequently held academic research and leadership roles including Head, School of Computer Science, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) (2008–2019)[3][4] and Provost (2018–2020), with secondment to Interim Vice-Chancellor for extended periods in 2017[5] and 2020.
As Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) he established six of the University of Adelaide's flagship research institutes and oversaw the University’s rise in international rankings.[6][7][8]
Brooks has served on many boards, including the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), the Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute, and, for almost 10 years, National ICT Australia (NICTA), the forerunner of Data61.
Brooks is former chair of the Group of Eight (Go8) Committee of Deputy Vice-Chancellors Research, and member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Code Review Committee, advising on the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, 2018. He presently chairs the Australian Research Council (ARC) Review of the Excellence in Research for Australia,[9] and previously served for eight years on ARC grant award panels.
Research
Brooks has published over 120 papers in the field of computer vision and image analysis.[10] His research has explored the extraction of 3D shape from a single image of shading,[11][12][13] auto-calibration of a robotic head,[14] parameter estimation,[15] video surveillance,[16] and tracking.[17]
Brooks has held visiting professorships on sabbatical at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Gunma University, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation at Sophia Antipolis, Massey University, and Universidad Polytécnica de Madrid.[citation needed]
Honours and awards
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (FTSE) (2008)[18]
- Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (FACS) (1992).[19]
Personal life
Brooks is married with two daughters. He has a special interest in classical music, in particular piano.
References
- ↑ Brooks, Michael J.; Horn, Berthold K. P. (18 August 1985). "Shape and source from shading". Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. pp. 932–936 – via ACM Digital Library.
- ↑ Press, The MIT. "Shape From Shading | The MIT Press". mitpress.mit.edu.
- ↑ "Surveillance expert is new head of research". www.adelaide.edu.au.
- ↑ "Adelaidean -- Meet our new head of research". www.adelaide.edu.au.
- ↑ "University of Adelaide Vice-Chancellor to retire". www.adelaide.edu.au.
- ↑ "The University of Adelaide | Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2020 | Shanghai Ranking - 2020". www.shanghairanking.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-18. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ↑ "University of Adelaide". Times Higher Education (THE). 17 September 2020.
- ↑ "The University of Adelaide". Top Universities. 28 November 2018.
- ↑ "ERA EI Review | Australian Research Council".
- ↑ "Michael J Brooks - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.au.
- ↑ BKP Horn, MJ Brooks, The variational approach to shape from shading, Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing, 33 (2), 1986
- ↑ BKP Horn, MJ Brooks (eds.), Shape from Shading, MIT Press, 1989
- ↑ MJ Brooks, W Chojnacki, R Kozera, Impossible and ambiguous shading patterns, International Journal of Computer Vision, 7 (2), 1992
- ↑ MJ Brooks, L de Agapito, DQ Huynh, L Baumela, Direct methods for self-calibration of a moving stereo head, European Conference on Computer Vision, 1996,
- ↑ W Chojnacki, MJ Brooks, A van den Hengel, D Gawley, On the fitting of surfaces to data with covariances, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22 (11), 2000.
- ↑ AR Dick, MJ Brooks, Issues in Automated Visual Surveillance, International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Sydney, 2003.
- ↑ C Shen, MJ Brooks, A van den Hengel, Fast global kernel density mode seeking: Applications to localization and tracking, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 16 (5), 2007.
- ↑ "All Fellows".
- ↑ "Fellows 1991-1992". www.acs.org.au.
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