Vision Group Members

Staff

Prof. David Hogg Head of Group.
Prof. Roger Boyle Tracking and behaviour monitoring, OMR, Handwriting recognition, terahertz imaging.
Dr Andrew Bulpitt Medical image processing and bioinformatics
Dr Kia Ng Optical Music Recognition (OMR), Interactive Gesture Music, patterns in music.
Dr Derek Magee Cognitive vision, Analysis of traffic scenes, Livestock tracking, Medical image analysis.
Dr Mark Everingham High-level understanding of images and video
Dr Chris Needham Visual modelling of team game interactions, Cognitive vision, Bioinformatics.
Dr Richard Holbrey Computer simulation of needle guided procedures
Dr Yi Song Computer simulation of needle guided procedures.
Dr Nick Efford Image processing, reflectance
Dr Yanong (Allen) Zhu Computer simulation of ultrasound guided procedures
Dr Royce Neagle Computer applications to dance and the visual performing arts.
Dr Hannah Dee Cognitive vision
Dr Roberto Fraile Cognitive vision
Dr Ardhendu Behera Cognitive vision, Video-based event detection and anticipation.

Research students

Matthew Birtwisle Virtual surgery with haptics. (sup: Andrew Bulpitt)
Andrew Bennett Unsupervised rule learning from a visual scene (sup: Derek Magee)
Hazem Al-Hiary Paper-based watermark extraction with image processing (sup: Kia Ng)
Moaath Al-Rajab Real-time gesture control for graphical drawing and text input (sup: Kia Ng)
Andrew Hume Behaviour modelling of sports activities (sup: Derek Magee)
Tracy Petrie Image quality improvement in 4D Cone beam CT (sup: Derek Magee)
Jonathan Sykes Dose optimisation in Cone Beam CT (sup: David Brettle, Andrew Morgan, David Thwates and Derek Magee)
Darren Treanor Computer Aided Diagnosis in Pathology (sup: Phil Quirke, Derek Magee and Andy Buliptt)
Dima Damen Wide-Area Tracking: A Camera-to-Camera Protocol (sup: David Hogg)
Garry Quested Multi Modal Score Following with Audio and Video Tracking (sup: Roger Boyle and Kia Ng)
Najeed Khan Component Based Recognition of an Object from its Physical Behaviour (sup: David Hogg)
Krishna Sridhar Machine learning from video input (sup: Tony Cohn and David Hogg)
Patrick Ott Human Attention and Machine Learning (sup. Mark Everingham and David Hogg)
Sandeep Reddy Event modelling and recognition in videos (sup. Tony Cohn and David Hogg)
Garsah Al-qarni Wide area surveillance using shoe appearance and other cues (sup: Roger Boyle and Derek Magee)
John Greenall Event recognition in video (sup. Tony Cohn and David Hogg)
Josiah Wang Learning Visual Recognition from Visual Dictionaries (sup. Mark Everingham and Katja Markert)
Konstantin Zakharov Study of dynamic MRI cardiac data (sup: Roger Boyle and Sasha Radjenovic)

Recent and forthcoming academic visitors

Pradipta Nanda Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Orissa, India
Professor Jeff Siskind School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
Rapeeporn Chamchong Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Mahasarakhan, Thailand
Kamal DjambiAssociate Professor, Saudi Arabia

Past members

Olga Kubassova Analysis of MRI data of metacarpophalangeal joints. Now director of Image Analysis Ltd.
Adam Baumberg Learning Deformable Models for Tracking Human Motion. Now Director of a startup company selling an image-based 3D modelling package (3D Software Object Modeller) - see http://www.3dsom.com.
Dietrich Buesching
Stuart Butterfield Reconstruction of Extended Environments from Image Sequences.
Chaquan Chen Now in Medical Physics, Edinburgh.
Dr Mark Colpus Precision modelling of sports movement
Dr Vincent Devin Modelling of an interactive talking head, Cognitive vision. Vincent now works for France Telecom.
John Fernyhough Generation of Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representations From Visual Input.
Shaun Fletcher Global Alignment of Medical Images.
Dr Aphrodite Galata Cognitive vision, Learning statistical models of object behaviour. Aphrodite is now at the University of Manchester.
Dr James Handley Terrahertz imaging for medical image analysis. James now works in the Visualisation Group within the School.
Steve Hanlon A Computational Theory of Contextual Knowledge in Machine Reading
Tony Heap Learning Deformable Shape Models For Object Tracking.
Terry Herbert Efficient discovery and recognition using deformable models (sup: David Hogg)
Naomi Hill Application of Rigid and Non-rigid Registration to Magnetic Resonance Images of the Knee.
Neil Johnson Learning Object Behaviour Models.
Robert Love Surface Reflection Model Estimation From Naturally Illuminated Image Sequences.
Richard Morris
Craig Lucas Protein surface matching. (sup: Andrew Bulpitt)
Rick Peterson Now at Bradford.
G Qui Now at Nottingham.
Neill Rank Medical image analysis.
Dr Paulo Santos Cognitive vision and robotics. Now at the University of Industrial Engineering, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Derek Sergeant Computer Vision for Monitoring Group-Housed Broiler Behaviour.
Xinquan Shen Acquisition of 3-D Shape Models from Image Sequences.
Sudirman Graduated From Nottingham in 2003.
Neil Sumpter The Robotic Sheepdog: Modelling Animal Behaviours from Image Sequences.
Richard Thomas  
Eddie Widdows Computer vision and image processing applications to archeology.