Dr. William A. P. Smith

William A. P. Smith, Ph.D. is Lecturer in the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, UK.
 
Will is also:

• Co-Chair of CVPR workshop on 3D Face Processing
• Programme Committee member of BMVC 2008
• Associate Editor of IET Computer Vision
• Programme Committee member of CVPR 2008
• Co-Chair of BMVA One Day Symposium on Shape Representation, Analysis and Perception
• Session Chair of ICCV workshop on Photometric Analysis in Computer Vision
• Programme Committee member of ICCV 2007
• Programme Committee member of BMVC 2007
• Member of the IEEE and BMVA

Will “fighting” at Dunkirk.

He authored Statistical Methods For Facial Shape-from-shading and Recognition, and coauthored Analysis of Skin Reflectance using Beckmann-Kirchhoff Scattering and a Cyberware 3030 Scanner, Gender Classification using Shape from Shading, Facial Shape Estimation in the Presence of Cast Shadows, Single image facial view synthesis using SFS, The M170 Reflects a Viewpoint-specific Representation for both Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces, Estimating Facial Albedo from a Single Image, A New Framework for Grayscale and Color Non-Lambertian Shape-from-shading, Testing Viewpoint Invariance in the Neural Representation of Faces: An MEG Study, and Modeling Surface Normal Distribution using the Azimuthal Equidistant Projection. Read the full list of his publications!
 
His research interests are related to face processing and shape-from-shading. These include:

• Estimating 3D face shape from single images
• Illumination and reflectance modeling (He is 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 modeling (particularly for directional data or data lying on complex manifolds)
• The psychology and neuropsychology of face perception and shape-from-X
• Modeling craniofacial variation

Will earned a BSc and PhD in Computer Science, both at the University of York, in 2002 and 2007 respectively. His “Erdos-Bacon number” is 7.