Visual Computing research covers a range of topics including vision, graphics, intelligent behaviour understanding, and biomedical image computing. The work of the section has led to more than 8 best paper awards at major international conferences (IEEE FG, ICRA, ISMAR, MICCAI, SensorComm) and attracted four Marie Curie fellows.

The group has pursued a successful strategy of growth in several key areas novel modelling and filtering approaches for SLAM and real-time dense scene mapping. Intelligent behaviour understanding, novel approaches to facial action and emotion prediction as well as novel approaches to robust face alignment, tracking and expression recognition, biomedical imaging computing, robotics & sensing, and appearance modelling for realistic computer graphics.

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Academics

Academics

  • Dr Tolga Birdal

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    Dr Tolga Birdal Lecturer

    Location

    Huxley Building

    Research interests

    3D computer vision, geometric machine learning, non-euclidean geometry, topological deep learning .

  • Prof. Andrew Davison

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    Prof. Andrew Davison Professor of Robot Vision

    +44 (0)20 7594 8316

    Location

    303, William Penney Laboratory

    Research interests

    Computer vision, robotics, Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM), augmented reality.

  • Prof Aldo Faisal

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    Prof Aldo Faisal Professor of AI & Neuroscience

    +44 (0)20 7594 6373

    Location

    407A, Huxley Building
    4.08, Royal School of Mines

    Research interests

    Neurotechnology, biomedical engineering, machine learning, algorithmic prediction of human behaviour.

  • Dr Abhijeet Ghosh

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    Dr Abhijeet Ghosh Professor of Graphics and Imaging

    +44 (0)20 7594 8351

    Location

    376, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Appearance modeling, computational illumination, photography for graphics and vision.

  • Prof Ben Glocker

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    Prof Ben Glocker Professor in Medical Image Computing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8334

    Location

    377, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Biomedical image analysis, computer vision, semantic image understanding, machine learning.

  • Dr Edward Johns

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    Dr Edward Johns Lecturer

    Location

    365, ACEX Building

    Research Interest

    Robot Learning , Robot Manipulation, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision

  • Dr Bernhard Kainz

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    Dr Bernhard Kainz Reader

    +44 (0)20 7594 8349

    Location

    372, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine learning, visualisation, interactive real-time image processing, high-performance medical data analysis.

  • Prof. Maja Pantic

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    Prof. Maja Pantic Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8195

    Location

    380, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Computer vision, machine learning, and affective computing.

  • Islem Rekik

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    Islem Rekik Senior Lecturer at I-X

    Location

    5th floor, Imperial-X (I-HUB) White City Campus

    Research interests

    Machine learning, deep learning, predictive intelligence in medicine, network neuroscience, holistic artificial intelligence.

  • Prof. Daniel Rueckert

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    Prof. Daniel Rueckert Professor of Visual Information Processing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8333

    Location

    568, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Image acquisition and analysis using machine learning, medical applications.

  • Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska

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    Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska Honorary Research Fellow

    +44 (0)20 7594 8241

    Location

    452, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning methods, Crowdsourcing.  

  • Prof Bjoern Schuller

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    Prof Bjoern Schuller Professor in Machine Learning

    +44 (0)20 7594 8357

    Location

    574, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine Learning, Audio-visual signal processing, human-computer/robot-interaction, and affective computing.

  • Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang

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    Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang Director, The Hamlyn Centre

    +44 (0)20 7594 1499

    Location

    B411-412, Bessemer Building

    Research interests

    Professor Yang’s main research interests are in medical imaging, sensing and robotics. In imaging, he is credited for a number of novel MR phase contrast velocity imaging and computational modelling techniques that have transformed in vivo blood flow quantification and visualization.

  • Dr Stefanos Zafeiriou

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    Dr Stefanos Zafeiriou Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8461

    Location

    375, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine learning, computer vision, and image/signal analysis.