Stephen Maybank

Stephen Maybank is a Professor of Computer Science and former academic at Birkbeck, University of London (2004–2020). He holds visiting professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation and multiple Chinese universities, including Northwestern Polytechnical University and Zhongyuan University of Technology. His research focuses on computer vision, image processing, and statistical methods, with contributions to camera calibration and applications of the Fisher-Rao metric.

• Education: BA (Mathematics, 1st class, King's College Cambridge, 1976); PhD (Computer Science, Birkbeck, 1988).

Research interests include visual surveillance, tracking, filtering, and projective geometry applications. He led EU projects like Advisor (video surveillance) and Anfas (flood analysis data fusion). Over 200 publications and one authored book highlight his prolific output. Awards include the IEEE Fellowship and ECCV's Koenderink Prize (2008).

• Grants: EU projects IST-1999-11287 (Advisor), IST-1999-11676 (Anfas).
• Advising: Supervised 12 PhD students; external examiner at Oxford, Imperial College, and others.

Labs/teams: Collaborations span UK and China, including the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (CAS Beijing) and Wenzhou University.