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About me
Welcome! My name is Patrick, I am a Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft. Over the last years I have led various Machine Learning / Computer Vision projects with teams of up to 10 contributors. This includes compiling our learnings/code into our public Computer Vision best-practices repository which has over 8,000 stars on Github.
Before joining Microsoft, I worked at a startup called Tandent Vision Science. Until 2010, I was a PhD student and a member of the VGG team at the University of Oxford. My supervisors were Prof. Andrew Zisserman, Dr. Mark Everingham and Prof. Sir Michael Brady.
Prior to my PhD studies, I spent an amazing year in Japan working for Asahi Kasei on visual drowsiness recognition. Furthermore, I was funded by a Fulbright scholarship to study for a year at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
My work
My main interests and work experience are in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Software Engineering and in Natural Language Processing.
In my free time, I wrote and published a Windows Phone app called "Piano Teacher".
My PhD was about the recognition of sign language in video sequences. The aim was to develop a classifier which can learn and recognize Sign Language signs in continuous signing sequences from weakly and noisy training data. The New Scientist, Focus online (in German) and the University of Oxford wrote an article about my PhD work.
See the Past projects section for more information.
Updates
Slides from my talk at the Open Data Science conference can be downloaded here.