Example-based Texture Synthesis

In June 2000 Antonio Criminisi joined Microsoft Research in Cambridge (Machine Learning and Perception group) as a Visiting Researcher. In February 2001 he moved to the Interactive Visual Media Group in Redmond (WA, USA) as a Post-Doctorate Researcher. In October 2002 he moved back to the Machine Learning and Perception Group in Cambridge as a Researcher.

Antonio's current research interests are in the area of real time vision, object recognition, image-based modelling of spaces, image and video analysis and editing, one-to-one teleconferencing, 3D reconstruction from single and multiple images with application to virtual reality, forensic science and history of art.

Antonio Criminisi was born in 1972 in Italy. In October 1990 he was appointed "Alfiere del Lavoro" by the Italian President F. Cossiga for his successful studies. In July 1996 he received a Degree in Electronics Engineering at the University of Palermo and in December 1999, he obtained a "Doctor of Philosophy" (PhD) Degree in Computer Vision at the University of Oxford. His thesis Accurate Visual Metrology from Single and Multiple Uncalibrated Images won the British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award for the year 2000 and was published by Springer-Verlag London Ltd. in August 2001. Antonio was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2005.