Professor Richard Hartley is an Australian Computer Vision researcher recognized for his significant contributions to understanding imaging geometry and scene reconstruction from multiple images. His work has facilitated the development of large-scale digital models of the world, solely based on input images or video footage.

At GE, his projects included medical image analysis, industrial diamond shape characterization from images, and fingerprint recognition.

He has continued to advance geometric methods in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. A particular focus of this work has been the application of methods of projective and Riemannian geometry to a variety of problems in Computer Vision.