Prof. Robert B. Fisher received a B.S. with Honors (Mathematics) from California Institute of Technology (1974) and a M.S. (Computer Science) from Stanford University (1978). He received his PhD from University of Edinburgh (1987), investigating computer vision. Since then, Bob has been an academic at Edinburgh University, now in the School of Informatics, where helped found the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour. His research covers topics in high level and 3D computer vision, focussing on reconstructing geometric models from existing examples (of industrial parts, buildings and people - the latter work  has contributed to a spin-off company, Dimensional Imaging, in conjunction with Glasgow University). More recently, he has been researching video sequence understanding, in particular attempting to understand observed behaviour. He also has a passion for on-line teaching and research resources for the computer vision community, leading to several well-used text and interactive exploration resources. He has published or editted 9 books and about 228 peer-reviewed  scientific articles, including 40 journal papers. He has been the principal investigator on about 4 million pounds of research funding, primarily from EPSRC and the EC. Most recently, he has become joint PI on a Wellcome Foundation grant  (350K pounds) to investigate 3D aspects of skin cancer and a co-investigator on a bat acoustic  obotics project, which is using a novel 500 fps range sensor (340K pounds). He is a Fellow of the Int. Association for Pattern Recognition (2008).