David J. Fleet
David Fleet is Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Toronto and Faculty Member of the Vector Institute. He received the
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1991. From
1991 to 2000 he was on faculty at Queen's University, Canada, in the
Department of Computing and Information Science, with cross-appointments
in Psychology and Electrical Engineering. In 1999 he joined the Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC) where he managed the Digital Video Analysis
Group and the Perceptual Document Analysis Group. He returned to the
University of Toronto in October 2003. He served as Chair of the
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto
Scarborough from 2012 to 2017.
In 1996 Dr. Fleet was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
for his research on biological vision. His 1999 paper with Michael
Black on probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries
received Honorable Mention for the Marr Prize at the IEEE International
Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). His 2001 paper with Allan Jepson and
Thomas El-Maraghi on robust appearance models for visual tracking
was awarded runner-up best paper at the IEEE Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). In 2003, his paper with Eric Saund,
James Mahoney and Dan Larner won the best paper award at ACM UIST '03.
With Francisco Estrada and Allan Jepson, he won the best paper award at
the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) in 2009.
In 2010, his work with Michael Black and Hedvig Sidenbladh on human
pose tracking received the Koenderink Prize for fundamental
contributions to computer vision that withstood the test of time.
He has served as Area Chair for numerous major computer vision and
machine learning conferences.
He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (2000-2004), Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Conference
on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 2003, Associate
Editor-In-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence (2005-2008), Program Co-Chair of ECCV 2014, and Senior
Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (2005-2019).
He currently serves on the Advisory Board for IEEE PAMI.
His research interests include computer vision, image processing,
visual perception, and visual neuroscience. He has published research
articles and one book on various topics including the estimation of
optical flow and stereoscopic disparity, probabilistic methods in motion
analysis, 2D visual tracking, 3D people tracking and hand tracking,
modeling appearance in image sequences, physics-based models of
human motion analysis, non-Fourier motion and stereo perception, and
the neural basis of stereo vision.