Neil Dodgson

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Neil Dodgson
Born
Neil Anthony Dodgson

1966 (age 5657)
Nationality
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University of Cambridge
Thesis Image resampling  (1992)
Doctoral advisor Neil Wiseman [2]
Website www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~nad10

Neil Anthony Dodgson is Professor of Computer Graphics at the Victoria University of Wellington. He was previously (until 2016) Professor of Graphics and Imaging in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he worked in the Rainbow Group on computer graphics and interaction. [3] [1]

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Education

Dodgson graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Physics from Massey University in 1988 and subsequently worked there as a Junior Lecturer in Computer Science for one year. [4] He was awarded a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Prince of Wales Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where he worked on image resampling supervised by Neil Wiseman and graduating with a PhD in 1992. [5]

Research

Dodgson worked for many years on stereoscopic 3D displays, conducting research principally into autostereoscopic methods. He has contributed to several surveys of the field [6] [7] [8] and has been on the committee of the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference since 2000, co-chairing the conference four times. [9]

With Malcolm Sabin, Dodgson has worked on subdivision surfaces since 2000. Dodgson's team produced the NURBS-compatible subdivision method in 2009. [10]

Dodgson has supervised almost twenty research students for PhDs. [11]

Personal life

Dodgson also takes an interest in abstract art. [12]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Neil Dodgson publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Neil Dodgson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Neil Dodgson's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. Massey University Calendar, 1988(?1989)
  5. Dodgson, Neil (1992). Image Resampling (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC   27159480.
  6. Dodgson, N.A. (1 August 2005). "Autostereoscopic 3D displays". Computer. 38 (8): 31–36. doi:10.1109/MC.2005.252. S2CID   34507707.
  7. Holliman, Nicolas S.; Dodgson, Neil A.; Favalora, Gregg E.; Pockett, Lachlan (1 June 2011). "Three-Dimensional Displays: A Review and Applications Analysis". IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. 57 (2): 362Ð371. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.352.7981 . doi:10.1109/TBC.2011.2130930. S2CID   9876135.
  8. Dodgson, Neil A. (20 March 2013). "Optical devices: 3D without the glasses". Nature. 495 (7441): 316–317. Bibcode:2013Natur.495..316D. doi: 10.1038/495316a . PMID   23518557. S2CID   26322530.
  9. "Stereoscopic Displays & Applications" . Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  10. Cashman, Thomas J.; Augsdörfer, Ursula H.; Dodgson, Neil A.; Sabin, Malcolm A. (27 July 2009). "NURBS with extraordinary points". ACM Transactions on Graphics. 28 (3): 1–9. doi:10.1145/1531326.1531352.
  11. "Neil Dodgson's PhD students". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  12. Dodgson, Neil (9 December 2010). "Sculpture: Engineering art". Nature. 468 (7325): 762–763. Bibcode:2010Natur.468..762D. doi: 10.1038/468762a .