DIRC, Digital Imaging Research Centre

Digital Imaging refers to the increasingly convergent fields of digital image capture, digital processing of images, computer graphical modelling and digital rendering of virtual environments. Launched in 2000, the Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC) was created to integrate and enhance research excellence in digital imaging across the University. By applying high quality academic research to the solution of real industrial problems the centre seeks to strengthen its external links with industry and other medical and academic institutions. Currently, the centre boasts research groups in Intelligent Visual Surveillance and Medical Imaging which already enjoy strong external links with industry and hospitals.

Research News

Congratulation to James Cope for his two papers accepted for publication at the ACIVS 2010 conference

The BMVA/EPSRC Summer School on Computer Vision was successfully organised by Dr Dimitrios Makris in Kingston University for a second consecutive year. 35 students from UK and Europe attended a programme of 18 lecturers over 5 days (12-16 July 2010).

Congratulations to Michal Lewandowski, whose paper "View and Style-Independent Action Manifolds for Human Activity Recognition" has been accepted at ECCV 2010.

Congratulations to Michal Lewandowski, whose paper "Temporal Extension of Laplacian Eigenmaps for Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction of Time Series" has been accepted for oral presentation at ICPR 2010.

Dr Sergio A Velastin has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems Society for a term of three years 2010-2012.

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