About Me

I am an Associate Professor in Information Engineering with the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, co-leading the Active Vision Lab and Chief Scientist of Niantic, Inc..

My current focus is on computer vision methods for real-time (semantic) AR on mobile and wearable platforms, but I also take an interest in other fields of computer vision and machine learning, such as quantization, one shot learning and network architecture search.

Within the Active Vision Lab, we work on computational vision, with an emphasis on 3D reconstruction and motion analysis, for applications in location and mapping, surveillance, wearable and assistive computing, augmented reality, navigation, and teleoperation.

I co-founded 6D.ai, where we built APIs to help developers augment reality in ways that users would find meaningful, useful and exciting. The 6D.ai SDK used a standard built-in smartphone camera to build a cloud-based, crowdsourced three-dimensional semantic map of the world all in real-time, in the background. 6D.ai was aquired by Niantic in March 2020.

At Niantic I continue my work on augmented reality.

Email: victor_AT_robots.ox.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1864 283054
Address: Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ