Digital Media Group
Overview
This group carries out research in the creation, capture, processing, compression and communication of images and sound. Its research activities are concentrated in the following areas: computer vision and image processing, graphics, and animation and virtual reality. More recently, the group has begun to develop close links with the extensive network of media production companies in the Bristol area with a view to conducting inter-disciplinary research in digital media technology and creative media content production. This work forms part of the Creative Media Technology Initiative in which the group is a major contributor. Research in this area focuses on the merging of video, graphics and animation technology, particularly in relation to the development of novel techniques for generating 3-D content.Achievements
- An EPSRC project has led to the development of a new image segmentation method based on colour and texture which will form the basis of a number of new projects.
- A vision system, funded by a medical charity, to recognise brain tumours in MR images is identifying tumours with less than 1% false positives. Ongoing funding has been approved.
- An EPSRC funded project in collaboration with Warwick University has developed an advanced model-based video codec.
- A database of 350 natural outdoor scenes have been carefully segmented and hand labelled to provide a ground truth for research into object recognition. This is a collaboration with British Aerospace who plan to make the database available to other researchers in the field.
- INSITE, a joint international project supported by the British Council, has developed an archaeological visualisation tool. This system has been used to reconstruct several archaeological sites, and annual dayschools have been organised in this area.
- An EPSRC project on the Dynamics of Deformable Bodies has produced a theory and implementation to animate deformable bodies.
- The Scope Rendering System supports photorealistic image generation and includes dynamic discontinuity meshing for radiosity rendering.
Group Links
Projects
- Real-Time Camera Tracking.
- AUTOARC: Automated Film Analysis for Indexing, Archiving and Editing.
- Motion Analysis and Tracking.
- Interactive Searching of Image Databases.
- Video Data Compression.
- Photo-Realistic Visualisation of Archaeological Sites.
- The Creation of 3D Models from a Set of Images.
- Medical Image Processing.
- An Automated Vision Based Flaw Detection System for Vehicle Inspection.
- Seamlessly Integrated Distributed Shared Virtual Environments.
- Pre Visualisation for Production Planning and Automated Motion Camera Control.
- Locating Text in Indoor Scenes.
Staff
 Tilo Burghardt |
 Andrew Calway |
 Neill Campbell |
 Nishan Canagarajah |
 Kirsten Cater |
 Colin Dalton |
 Dima Damen |
 Walterio Mayol-Cuevas |
 Christopher Melhuish |
 Majid Mirmehdi |
Research Staff
 Andrew Gee |
 David Gibson |
 Sion Hannuna |
 Carlos Merino |
Research Students
 John Bartholomew |
 Christopher Beck |
 Daniel Blueman |
 Anthony Buck |
 Pished Bunnun |
 Jessica Cauchard |
 David Coulthurst |
 Shahbe Desa |
 Mosalam Ebrahimi |
 Siyuan Fang |
 Robert Frampton |
 Anthony Glynn |
 Jack Greenhalgh |
 Austin Gregg-Smith |
 Osian Haines |
 David Hanwell |
 Teesid Leelasawassuk |
 Shuda Li |
 Benjamin Long |
 Jose Martinez Carranza |
 John McGonigle |
 Irwandi Mohamad Hipiny |
 Oliver Moolan-Feroze |
 Adeline Paiement |
 Foteini Pouli |
 Erik Reinhard |
 Richard Sherley |
 Sudeep Sundaram |
 Xiaosong Wang |
 Xiaohui Yang |