The computer vision aspects to the Kinect (and there are a lot, and very well done), were headed up by Andrew Blake at MS Research Cambridge, who's one of the f

The computer vision aspects to the Kinect (and there are a lot, and very well done), were headed up by Andrew Blake at MS Research Cambridge, who's one of the foremost vision scientists in the world. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ablake/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ablake/ Most recently they have built the machine learning technology inside the Xbox Kinect human motion tracking system.