In his role as Chief Scientist, Victor leads on the development of the Large Geospatial Model at Niantic Spatial.
He is also a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford, co-leading the Active Vision Lab. His current focus is on computer vision methods for real-time (semantic) AR on mobile and wearable platforms, but he also takes an interest in other fields of computer vision and machine learning, such as quantization, one shot learning and network architecture search.
Within the Active Vision Lab, his team works on computational vision, with an emphasis on 3D reconstruction and motion analysis, for applications in location and mapping, surveillance, wearable and assistive computing, augmented reality, navigation, and teleoperation.
He co-founded 6D.ai, where he built APIs to help developers augment reality in ways that users would find meaningful, useful and exciting. The 6D.ai SDK used a standard built-in smartphone camera to build a cloud-based, crowdsourced three-dimensional semantic map of the world all in real-time, in the background. 6D.ai was acquired by Niantic in March 2020.