Chris J. Taylor
Chris Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born | Christopher John Taylor December 25, 1945[3] |
| Education | Great Yarmouth Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester (BSc, PhD) |
| Known for | Active shape models |
| Spouse |
Jill Andrea Neal (m. 1968) |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Thesis | General methods of analysing biomedical images (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | P. O. Tates[2] |
| Website | research |
Christopher John Taylor OBE FREng (born 25 December 1945)[3] is a professor of Medical Biophysics and Associate Vice President (AVP) for digital strategy and innovation at the University of Manchester. He is jointly appointed by the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH), in the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), where he served as Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2004 to 2008.[1][4]
Education
Taylor was educated at Great Yarmouth Grammar School and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in physics in 1967 and a PhD in 1972 for research supervised by B. R. Pullan and P. O. Tates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.[2]
Career and research
Taylor's research interests are in computer vision, medical imaging, medical image computing and artificial intelligence.[1][4]
Taylor is known for his work on active shape models.[5][6][7][8]
Awards and honours
Taylor was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2006.[3]
Personal life
Taylor married Jill Andrea Neal in 1968 and has two children.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Chris J. Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Taylor, Christopher John (1972). General methods of analysing biomedical images. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 890146015. ProQuest 2351548633.
- ^ a b c d Anon (2025). "Taylor, Prof. Christopher John". Who's Who (177th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2720. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U249522. ISBN 9781399411837. OCLC 1427336388. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b Chris J. Taylor publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ T.F. Cootes; C.J. Taylor; D.H. Cooper; J. Graham (January 1995). "Active Shape Models-Their Training and Application". Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 61 (1): 38–59. doi:10.1006/CVIU.1995.1004. ISSN 1077-3142. Wikidata Q57532916.
- ^ T. F. Cootes; G. J. Edwards; C. J. Taylor (1998). "Active appearance models". Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 484–498. doi:10.1007/BFB0054760. ISSN 0302-9743. Wikidata Q29302494.
- ^ T.F. Cootes; G.J. Edwards; C.J. Taylor (June 2001). "Active appearance models". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 23 (6): 681–685. doi:10.1109/34.927467. ISSN 0162-8828. Wikidata Q30051369.
- ^ T.F. Cootes; C.J. Taylor; D.H. Cooper; J. Graham (January 1995). "Active Shape Models-Their Training and Application". Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 61 (1): 38–59. doi:10.1006/CVIU.1995.1004. ISSN 1077-3142. Wikidata Q57532916.