Richard I. Hartley is an

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at the

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, where he is head of the Computer Vision group in the Research School of Engineering.

Biography

In 1971, Hartley received a BSc degree from the Australian National University followed by MSc (1972) and PhD (1976) degrees in mathematics from the

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. He also obtained an MSc degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1983.

Scientific work

His work is primarily devoted to the fields of Artificial intelligence, Image processing, and Computer vision. He is best known for his 2000 book ''Multiple View Geometry in computer vision'', written with Andrew Zisserman, now in its second edition (2004). According to

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, the book is held in 1428 libraries

Publications

Hartley has published a wide variety of articles in computer science on the topics of computer vision and optimization. The following are his most highly cited works * 2000 ''Multiple View Geometry in computer vision'' With Andrew Zisserman, Cambridge University press. Second edition 2004.Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision
Second Edition. Retrieved May 20, 2009. (cited 17,014 times) * 2000 "

Bundle adjustment In photogrammetry and computer stereo vision, bundle adjustment is simultaneous refining of the 3D Coordinate system, coordinates describing the scene geometry, the parameters of the relative motion, and the optical characteristics of the camera(s ...

—a modern synthesis", with Bill Triggs, Philip F McLauchlan, and Andrew W Fitzgibbon in ''Vision algorithms: theory and practice,'' pp. 298–372 (cited 2423 times) * 1997 "In defense of the eight-point algorithm" ''IEEE Transactions on PAMI'' 19 (6), 580-593 (cited 2244 times)

References

External links

Home Page at Australian National University

Biography page at ANU

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