Multimedia & Vision People

Academics:

1. Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo

   
   Chair of Multimedia and Computer Vision and Head of the Group

2. Dr Ioannis Patras

   
   Reader

3. Dr Pengwei Hao

   
   Lecturer

4. Dr Qianni Zhang

   
   Senior Lecturer

5. Dr Dimitrios Kollias

   
   Senior Lecturer

6. Hon. Prof. Marta Mrak

   
   Honorary Professor

Past Academics:

1. Dr Hatice Gunes

   Affective and Human Computing

Visiting Academics:

1. Prof. Sergio A Velastin

   Visitor
   sergio.velastin@ieee.org

2. Dr Arturo de la Escalera

   Visitor

Researchers Associates:

1. Dr Tomas Piatrik

   Multimodal fusion for Multimedia Retrieval,
   VIDEOSENSE, ADVISE, LASIE & CONNECTA2020

2. Dr Valia Guerra Ones

   COGNITUS

Researchers:

1. Thomas Bangert

   Colour Theory, Colour Vision
   EcoPix

2. Christos Tzelepis

   Discriminative Machine Learning for Video Event Detection

3. Camilo Vargas

   Semantic based media synchronisation, aggregation and event plotting

4. Andrej Satnik

   Multiview 3D sensing and analysis for high quality point cloud capturing and model generation

5. Maria Santamaria

   Video Coding, HEVC and Turing Codec

6. Tingting Xie

   PhD Student

7. Yibao Sun

   Medical Image Understanding, Remote Sensing Image Analysis

8. Bingqing Guo

   Image Processing, Image Style Transfer & Classification

9. Maria Silvia Ito

   Video coding, deep learning, computer networks, and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)

10. Xindi Zhang

    Computer vision, machine learning and deep learning

11. Samadhi Wickrama Arachchilage

    Computer vision, machine learning and deep learning

12. Yilong Li

    PhD Student

13. Xingru Huan

    PhD Student

14. Bilal Hassan

    PhD Student

15. Georgios Zoumpourlis

    Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Affective Computing, Adversarial Attacks

16. Issa Khalifeh

    Deep learning for super-resolution

17. Edgar Giussepi Lopez Molina

    Localisation and Segmentation of cancer tissue

18. Woody Bayliss

    AI Interpretability

Illustrious Alumni:

1. Dr Ellie (Jieon) Kim

   Video coding

2. Dr Mina Adel Thabet Bishay

   Learning-based tools for analysing facial expression of patients with mental illnesses

3. Dr Zhaoyang Xu

   Medical image processing

4. Dr Aria Ahmadi

   Motion Estimation

5. Dr Wenxuan Mou

   Affect Analysis and Membership Recognition in Group Settings

6. Dr Nur Farhan Kahar

   Computer Vision, Knowledge Representation

7. Dr Andre Seixas Dias

   Video Coding

8. Dr Vigneswaran Poobalasingam

   Performance Optimisation of HEVC,
   THIRA

9. Dr Faranak Sobhani

   Knowledge representation

10. Dr Farzad Toutounchi

    Super resolution

11. Dr Zongyi Xu

    High-fidelity Human Body Modelling from User-generated Data

12. Dr Foteini Markatopoulou

    Machine Learning Architectures for Video Annotation and Retrieval

13. Dr Juan Abdon Miranda Correa

    Multimodal Affect Dimensions Tracking, Video Summarisation and Social Contagion

14. Dr Salehe Erfanian Ebadi

    Deep Learning, Computer Vision/Graphics

15. Dr Petar Palašek
16. Dr Tomáš Kliegr

    Monotonicity in Rule Classifiers

17. Dr Evangelos Sariyanidi

    Representation and Analysis of Facial Expressions in Image Sequences

18. Dr Fiona Rivera

    Virtual reality, 3D animation, motion capture, HCI, interactive multimedia, REVERIE, CONNECTA2020, 3DLife

19. Dr Cesar Pantoja

    Semantic web, Knowledge managment, Machine learning,
    LASIE

20. Dr Craig Henderson

    Tracing Artefacts in CCTV Surveillance Videos,
    LASIE

21. Dr Ivan Zupancic

    Efficient Video Coding Scheme,
    THIRA

22. Dr Shenglan Huang

    Multimedia streaming over P2P network with network coding

23. Dr Daria Stefic

    Human action recognition using gaze information

24. Patrycia Barros De Lima Klavdianos

    Image Processing
    REVERIE

25. Dr Saverio Blasi

    Video Coding, HEVC, Image Compression, Image Processing / ran THIRA

26. Dr Yixian Liu

    Stage-based 3D Scene Reconstruction

27. Dr Sertan Kaymak

    Real-time Appearance Based Gaze Tracking

28. Dr Michele Sanna

    Network Coding, Signal Processing, Video Streaming

29. Dr Markus Brenner

    Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval

30. Dr Virginia Fernandez Arguedas

    Video Surveillance, Pattern Recognition, Object Classification

31. Dr S Navid Haji Mirza

    Gaze Tracking, Human Computer Interaction, Image Annotation

32. Dr Stefano Asioli

    p2p, game theory, scalable video coding

33. Dr Eduardo Peixoto

    Video Coding

34. Dr Sander Koelstra

    Image Emotion Analysis, Emotion Recognition, EEG Analysis

35. Dr Paulo Vinicius Koerich Borges

    Digital Image Watermarking, Computer Vision, Image Processing

36. Dr Marta Mrak

    Video Coding

37. Dr Evan Morgan

    affect and music

38. Dr Konstantinos Bozas

    Computer Vision, Image Retrieval, Machine Learning

39. Dr Vijay Kumar B G

    Machine learning, Computer vision, Image Processing

40. Dr Karthikeyan Vaiapury

    Model Based 3D vision

41. Dr Xavier Sevillano

    Cluster Ensembles

42. Dr Cristina Romero Macias

    Captchas

43. Dr Divna Djordjevic

    Image Annotation

44. Dr Marcin Grzegorzek

    Image Annotation

45. Vlado Kitanovski

    Facial Feature Augmentation

46. Dr Fuzheng Yang

    Scalable Video Coding

47. Dr Toni Zgaljic

    Scalable Video Coding

48. Dr Janko Calic

    HCI, video coding, content based retrieval

49. Dr Krishna Chandramouli

    Video Coding, Image Classification, Biologically Inspired Learning

50. Dr Ivan Damnjanovic

    Sparse Representations, Digital Image Watermarking

51. Dr Uros Damnjanovic

    Image Classification, Video Annotation

52. Dr Le Dong

    Image Classification

53. Dr Andrés Dorado

    Semi-Automatic Image Annotation, Rule-Based Video Annotation

54. Dr Giuseppe Passino

    Patch-based Semantic Labelling of Images

55. Dr Nikola Sprljan

    Scalable Video Coding

56. Dr Lasantha Seneviratne

    Semi-Automatic Image Annotation

57. Dr Stefanos Vrochidis

    Interactive Video Indexing

58. Dr Weiwei Guo

    Pattern Recognition

59. Dr Spiros Nikolopoulos

    Semantic Multimedia Analysis

60. Dr Antonis Oikonomopoulos

    Human Activity Analysis, Image and Video Retrieval

61. Dr Muhammad Akram

62. Dr Maria Patricia Trujillo Uribe

Noble Contributors:

1. Dr Theodore Zachariades

   Former Research Associate

2. Dr Frank Peter Foerster

   Developmental Robotics and HRI for Language Acquisition

3. Dr Julie Wall

   Biologically Inspired Computational Models of Auditory Related Neural Circuit and Spiking Neural Networks

4. Dr Irene Kotsia

   Facial Expression Recognition

5. Dr Oya Celiktutan Dikici

   Affective and Personality Computing for Human-Computer Interaction

6. Professor Naeem Ramzan

   Image/Video Processing, 2D/3D Video Transmission, Social Media Distribution