Aaron S. Jackson

PhD Student, Computer Vision Laboratory
B86 Computer Science, University of Nottingham, NG8 1BB
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I am presently working towards my PhD in the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, under the supervision of Dr. Georgios Tzimiropoulos.

Most of my time is spent listening to music, drinking too much tea, cycling, tinkering with electronics, messing about with my radio (my call sign is M6PIU) and restoring old computers. I particularly like PDP-11s and early UNIX systems.

Research

Since starting my PhD, my research has primarily focused on deep learning applied to the human face. This includes 3D reconstruction, face alignment and semantic part segmentation.

	A.S. Jackson, C. Manafas and G. Tzimiropoulos 3D Human Body Reconstruction from a Single Image via Volumetric Regression ECCV 2018 Workshops - PeopleCap 2018 PDF
	A.S. Jackson, A. Bulat, V. Argyriou and G. Tzimiropoulos Large Pose 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image via Direct Volumetric CNN Regression ICCV 2017 PDF • Online Demo
	M. Pound, J. Atkinson, A. Townsend, M. Wilson, M. Griffiths, ... Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping GigaScience, Volume 6, Issue 10, 2017 Paper

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Education

	The University of Nottingham Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science October 2015 to Present - Supervised by Dr. Georgios Tzimiropoulos
	Bangor University Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science September 2012 to June 2015

Computerphile Videos

Aaron Jackson talking about: PDP-11 & Zork - Computerphile

Aaron Jackson talking about: Selfie to 3D Model - Computerphile

Contact

I would prefer it if you send plain text email. Why? Please read this page, which gives a good overview of some of the problems with HTML email.

Please don't send the same email to multiple email accounts. I check all of them.

Personal Email: aaron@nospam-aaronsplace.co.uk GPG
Use this address to get in touch about anything which is not related to work. I'm not a huge fan of receiving work-related emails to my personal address.
Work Email: aaron.jackson@nospam-nottingham.ac.uk
Use this address to email me about things relating to my research or work.
Just for Fun Email: asj@nospam-catbert.rhwyd.co.uk
This email will go directly to my PDP‑11. Reliability is questionable and is listed here because it is fun. You can check if the PDP‑11 is up by pinging or fingering its hostname, or by going to this site.
Freenode IRC: asjackson
I'm usually online on freenode, you can get in touch with me on there if you like. I am +R so you must be a registered user.
On Air: M6PIU

Verifying these pages

Since I linked to my GPG key above, for each HTML file, I automatically generate a signature which can be verified using GPG to ensure that I created the page. Below is a short example of importing my key (32716A1F) and verifying this page:

gpg --import <(curl http://aaronsplace.co.uk/gpg-personal.pub)
gpg --verify <(curl -s http://aaronsplace.co.uk/index.asc) \
             <(curl -s http://aaronsplace.co.uk/index.html)

You should see "Good signature from Aaron S. Jackson..."

If you know me and can verify this is actually me (probably in person), it would be good if you can sign my key.

Stuff

Various Links

I also keep a local mirror of a few websites and free software projects. While my uplink is slow (10Mbps or so), it is publicly accessible and may be used if you really want to. It is at http://pub.aaronsplace.co.uk/mirror

Some graphs

Bits of code

gpibtools - Scruffy shell scripts for working with Tek and HP test equipment over GPIB
.emacs.d - my emacs configuration
website-scripts - scripts to compile this site.
sage-in-c - compact C library for accessing Sage Accounts 50 data