body, face and their clothing. Nixon’s work of fusion of soft biometrics leads to the identification and search for subjects in video material and also has an impact on the eyewitness procedures. Nixon has also worked into developing a new approach to analyze acceleration in image sequences based on the fact that most approaches to analyzing velocity actually subsume many types of motion. By separating out acceleration, a new capability can be observed, e.g. rotational acceleration to find a walking subject’s feet, as well as new capability to detect violent actions since acceleration is innate to such acts. Nixon was featured in the IAPR newsletter and in ‘Biometric Technology Today’ in 2016. His work received extensive media coverage in 2018 when it was applied in an egregious case in Australia to identify a subject who cased a shop and then murdered its owner. Nixon’s book Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision published in 2002 was the first book concentrating solely on the topic. He was awarded the Notable Book Award by the Computing Reviews in 2012 for his work in the book. According to Elisa Smith from IAPR newsletter, the book contains “a broad overview of the field presented at a level of depth aimed at those who are new to the field”. The book is praised for its citation of “an overwhelming and impressive number of books, conference, and journal articles on a broad range of topics”. She also stated that this book could be used “as a good framework to facilitate a broad range of discussion topics”. Awards and honors 2008 - Fellow, International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) 2012 - Notable Book Award, Computing Reviews 2015 - BMVA Distinguished Fellow Bibliography Books D'oh! Fourier: Theory, Applications, And Derivatives - 2021 Introductory Digital Design - A Programmable Approach - 1995 Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision - 4th Edition, 2019 Human identification based on gait, MS Nixon, T Tan, R Chellappa – 2010 Digital Electronics: A Primer - 2015 Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing: Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks Selected articles D. Cunado, M. S. Nixon and J. N. Carter, Automatic Extraction and Description of Human Gait Models for Recognition Purposes, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 90(1), pp. 1–41, 2003 D. J. Hurley, M. S. Nixon and J. N. Carter, Force Field Feature Extraction for Ear Biometrics, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 98(3), pp. 491–512,