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Dr. Xianghua Xie Please call me Jason, if you struggle to pronounce a name beginning with X (I have two!). My surname is pronounced probably similar to Shay.   I am currently at the University of Bristol as a Visiting Fellow. I am an RCUK Academic Fellow (tenure-track research focused lecturer) in the Visual and Interactive Computing Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea. Previously, I was a Research Associate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, working on a European Commission project, CASBliP.   I received the M.Sc. degree (with commendation) in Advanced Computing in 2002 from the University of Bristol, UK. Then, I continued to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the same department from the end of 2002, under the supervision of Dr. Majid Mirmehdi. Prof. Barry Thomas was also involved in cosupervision at the earlier stage. I finished my Ph.D. study in March 2006 and carried on as a postdoc researcher.   I have strong research interests in video analysis, stereo systems, active contour models, level set methods, texture analysis, and medical image understanding.

Research Interests:

• Current highlight: MAC model (download paper, download software)

• Video Segmentation
• Depth Estimation from Stereo Camera
• Contour Based Object Tracking
• Active Contour Models
• Texture Analysis
• Surface Inspection
• Medical Image Analysis
• Document Analysis
• Research Assistant: Dr. John Chiverton.
• List of Publications

Teaching:

• COMS30121 Image Processing and Computer Vision
• MSc Project Proposals: 2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2003-2004 (Internal).

Grant:

• PRINS: Prior-independent Shape Regularisation for Geometric Active Contours, Co-investigator, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, 2006-2008.

Projects:

• CASBliP Project (2006-2009)
• PRINS Project (2006-2008)
• MAC: Magntostatic Active Contour (2006-2007)
• Charged Active Contour based on Electrostatics (CACE) (2006)
• Historical Document Retrieval (2005-2006)
• Eardrum Medical Image Analysis (2005)
• MONOTONE Project (2002-2005)
• Region-aided Geometric Active Contour (2002)

Professional Activities:

• Memeber of: IEEE (2003-now), IEE (2006-2007), and BMVA (2002-now).
• Journal Referee:
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
  Pattern Analysis and Applications,
  Pattern Recognition Letters,
  International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence,
  International Journal of Image and Graphics,
  Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation,
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A,
  Optics Letters,
  Optics and Laser Technology,
  Optical Engineering,
  Annals of BMVA,
  Iranian Journal of Science and Technology.
• Co-chair: Segmentation of Anatomical Soft Tissue Regions in Medical Data, BMVA Technical Meeting, 2008.
• Programme/Technical Committee: ICPR 2008, MIUA 2008, MIUA 2006, EMBC 2006, and MIUA 2005.
• Session Chair: SITIS 2007.
• Tutorial: SITIS 2007.
• Viva/PhD Reviewer:
  Adolfo Martinez Uso, Unsupervised Band Selection and Segmentation in Hyper/Multispectral Images, PhD, Universitat Jaume I, Spain, June 2008;
  Daniel Hubball, Exploring the Relationship Between Faces and Ageing in Image-Based Age Transformation, MRes, University of Wales Swansea, March 2008.

Links:

• A brief Chinese article on winning a China Research Council (CRC) scholarship (USD 5000) in 2004.
• My official web page at University of Wales Swansea

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