Teo de Campos

Teo de Campos joined Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group (ASG) in January 2024 as a senior applied scientist.

He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in 2006, on 3D real-time hand tracking.  In 2001 he completed his master’s degree on face recognition, at the University of São Paulo.  He graduated in computer science in 1998 from São Paulo State University.

Before joining ASG, Teo’s career had a diverse path, combining experiences in both industrial and academic research institutions.  From 2005 to 2007, he worked in novel display technologies at Sharp Laboratories of Europe.  In 2007 he worked on character recognition in natural scenes at Microsoft Research India, where he built the Chars74K dataset.  From 2008 to 2009, he worked at Xerox Research Centre Europe, on image analysis with implicit feedback.  In 2009 he joined the University of Surrey (U.K.) as a senior research fellow, where he worked in a range of computer-vision projects until 2016.  He also worked as a part-time researcher in the machine learning laboratory at the University of Sheffield (2013-2014).  In 2010 he co-founded a startup called Uana, which developed a plagiarism detection prototype based on vision and language.  In 2016, he joined the University of Brasília as a professor, and in 2021 moved back to Oxford to work at Vicon Motion Systems as a deep learning scientist.

Teo has played a key role in the organization of a number of international events, including the BMVC 2012, 2021 and 2022, WACV 2016 and SIBGRAPI 2020.  He was Surrey’s PI for the PASCAL Network of Excellence (2009-2012).  He regularly reviews papers for ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, BMVC, AAAI, NeurIPS, PAMI, PR, and TIP, among other top vision and machine-learning conferences and journals.

He dedicates most of his spare time to his son and enjoys outdoor activities.