Nixon has authored 4 books including Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision , Human Identification based on Gait and Introductory Digital Design.
[4] Nixon graduated from University of Reading in BSc Cybernetics Science with Subsidiary Mathematics in 1979.
[5] Nixon joined University of Southampton in 1983 and became a Professor of Electronics and Computer Science; he was awarded Personal Chair in 2001 and retired in 2019.
In his initial work with face recognition, his team applied new techniques for shape extraction and description and more recently formulated them for moving objects.
In the recent years, Nixon and his team have described how subjects can be recognized by human descriptions (attributes) of their body, face and their clothing.
[8] 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.