Will Smith Lecturer in Computer Vision Department of Computer Science University of York, UK Tel: +44 (0)1904 325575 Fax: +44 (0)1904 325599 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 753151 Email: william dot smith at york dot ac dot uk
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My research interests are related to face processing, shape-from-shading and reflectance modelling. These include:

• Estimating 3D shape from single images
• Face shape and appearance models
• Illumination and reflectance modelling (I am particularly interested in applying biophysical models of skin reflectance to shape estimation and recognition tasks)
• Face recognition under extremes of illumination, pose and expression
• Statistical shape modelling (particularly for directional data or data lying on complex manifolds)
• The psychology and neuropsychology of face perception and shape-from-X
• Modelling craniofacial variation

Please see publications for a comprehensive list of published material.

Current Research students

• Hao Guan (View synthesis from first person omnidirectional video)
• Oswald Aldrian (Inverse Rendering with 3D Morphable Models)

Graduated Research students

• Rui Huang (Shape-from-shading)
• Ankur Patel (3D Morphable Models)
• Abhishek Dutta (Face Capture)

Grant Funding

Principal Investigator on EPSRC Project "Combining Model- and Irradiance-based Constraints for Improved Face Shape Recovery and Recognition From Single Images" (EP/F036949/1) - Total award: £127k

An article about this project appeared in The Engineer.

Consultancy

I am available to undertake consultancy work or to provide a professional opinion on research in my areas of interest to the media (an example in New Scientist).