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
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.
Sarah Barman has been successful in her application for a project travel grant funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust. The project is titled “Drusen detection in retinal images” and is in collaboration with Thammasat University, Thailand
Congratulations to Norbert Buch, who has been invited to join the executive committee of the IET's Vision and Imaging Professional Network
Dr Dimitrios Makris was the Invited/Keynote Speaker in the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences (THEMIS2009) in Kyoto (Japan) on 3rd October 2009. His presentation was titled "Tracking and Learning Human Activities".