Visual computing research seminars
The VLunch meeting is a regular event to discuss research of interest to the Visual Computing Group.
Seminars will be held at 12:05.
All are welcome to attend. More seminars will be added to the list throughout the year so please check back regularly.
Seminars are now in person, and are located in Abacws, room 3.38.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11 December 2024 | Sandy Gould | Who's labelling your datasets? |
| 4 December 2024 | Stefano Zappala | Biophysical modelling and deep learning to probe oxygen metabolism of the brain |
| 27 November 2024 | Dietmar Saupe Raouf Hamzaoui | Fine-grained subjective visual quality assessment for high-fidelity compressed images Quantization Parameter Selection for Video-based Point Cloud Compression |
| 20 November 2024 | Kirill Sidorov | Outsmarted. Preparing for artificial general intelligence |
| 13 November 2024 | Yixiao Li | Perceptual Visual Signal Processing |
| 6 November | Buranuddin Anis Thomas Geatrix | Echoes of the Night: Designing an automated Bat monitoring system LLM-based unanimous ensembles for high accuracy, low data text labelling |
| 30 October 2024 | Rayan BinlajdamYaser Abu Awwad | Integrating Multi-Source Data with Remote Sensing for Forest Health Assessment Illuminating the Dark: Datasets and Challenges in Low-Light Video Enhancement |
| 23 October 2024 | Jiang Liu Yuanbang Liang | Vision-Based Human Action Quality Assessment: A Systematic Review Deep generative model based rate-distortion for image downscaling assessment |
| 16 October 2024 | Paul Rosin Samuel Everest | Remote Sensing Research - Pre-2020 Towards unlocking the black box of Machine Learning |
| 09 October 2024 | Shimin Hu | Backbones & Deep Learning Framework for Visual Computing |
| 02 October 2024 | Oktay Karakus | ReSIDA and Its Vision for Advancing Remote Sensing Research |
| 20 September 2024 | Liang Zheng (Australian National University) | The many meanings with image pairs |
| 18 September 2024 | Shishikui Yoshiaki (Meiji University, Japan) | Quality of 8K Ultra-High-Definition Television Viewing Experience |
| 22 May 2024 | Xinbo Wu Rayan Binlajdam | Style-Edited Image Quality Assessment Assessing Forest Health Through Remote Sensing Technologies |
| 15 May 2024 | Leandro Beltrachini (CUBRIC) | The Forward and Inverse Problems in electro/magnetoencephalography: perspectives and challenges |
| 08 May 2024 | Kirill Sidorov | Challenges in Computational Music |
| 01 May 2024 | Robin Moore (Director, Shwsh) | Generative AI and media production |
| 24 April 2024 | Xinbo Wu Zhengyan Dong | Perceptual Modelling of Quality Induced Saliency Shifts in Video Emotion-aware IQA |
| 17 April 2024 | Teodor Nikolov (School of Psychology) | Evaluating face detection algorithms on a head-mounted camera dataset of young children with and without Down Syndrome |
| 20 March 2024 | Jingwen Sun Huasheng Wang | Hybrid Mapping for Indoor Robot Semantic Navigation KSIQA: A Knowledge Sharing Model for No-reference Image Quality Assessment |
| 06 March 2024 | Professor Azeddine Beghdadi (Institut Galilee, University Sorbonne Paris Nord) | Image Quality Assessment and Enhancement in the Context of Medical Imaging and Diagnosis |
| 28 February 2024 | Victor Romero Cano | Environmental perception for social robot navigation |
| 21 February 2024 | Wanli Ma Benjamin Wiriyapong | Semi supervised learning for remote sensing imagery Multimodal posterior problem in Variational Bayes |
| 14 February 2024 | Shuang Song Stephen Miles | Feature Proliferation - the "Cancer" in StyleGAN and its Treatments Towards real world super resolution trained on synthetic images generated by Stable Diffusion |
| 7 February 2024 | Ze Ji (School of Engineering) | Active Robot Learning for Autonomous Manipulation and Navigation |
| 31 January 2024 | Padraig Corcoran | How to write a systematic literature review |
2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| *6 December 2023 | Kirill Sidorov | Chess as a platform for interpretable AI research |
| *29 November 2023 | Darren Cosker (Microsoft Research Ltd) | AI for Human Understanding in Mixed Reality |
| *22 November 2023 | Jing Wu | Visual Analytics in Deep Learning for Computer Vision |
| *8 November 2023 | Xianfang Sun | Medical Image Segmentation |
| *1 November 2023 | Wei Zhou | Immersive Visual Processing: From Human Perception to Machine Intelligence |
| *25 October 2023 | Yipeng Qin | Some Thoughts on the Spaces and Distributions of Deep Generative Models |
| *18 October 2023 | Hantao Liu | Visual Saliency Prediction Using Deep Learning |
| *11 October 2023 | Maëliss Jallais (CUBRIC) | Fast and robust likelihood-free Bayesian inference with machine learning |
| *4 October 2023 | Paddy Slater | Unsupervised and self-supervised machine learning for quantitative medical image analysis |
| 14 June 2023 | Bin Zhu (Bristol University) | Food Computing from a Multimedia Perspective |
| 10 May 2023 | Samuel Evans (Dentistry) | The forensic photography and analysis of bruises in child protection |
| 7 May 2023 | Xin Zhao | CUDAS: Distortion-Aware Saliency Benchmark |
| 3 May 2023 | Huasheng Wang | Deep Ordinal Regression Framework for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment |
| 3 May 2023 | Ogechukwu Ukwandu | Developing A Robust Artificial Intelligence System for Precision Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| 26 April 2023 | Yukun Lai | Learning based Visual Content Generation and Editing |
| 19 April 2023 | Naheed Akhtar (COMSATS, Pakistan) | Video Temporal Tampering Detection |
| 19 April 2023 | Yun Zhang (Communication University of Zhejiang, China) | Content Manipulation of 360-degree Panoramas on the Sphere |
| 8 March 2023 | Wassim Jabi (School of Architecture) | Integrating Geometry, Topology, and Information in Architecture |
| 1 March 2023 Abacws, Room 0.04 | Agnethe Olsen (School of Biosciences) | Computer vision in disease ecology |
| 1 March 2023 Abacws, Room 0.04 | Yun Zhang (Communication University of Zhejiang, China) | Content Manipulation of 360-degree Panoramas on the Sphere |
| 8 February 2023 | Zhengyan Dong | Identifying Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Saliency Models for Videos |
| 8 February 2023 | Iris Xin Zhao | Human VS Computer: A new experiment (VISES) to evaluate saliency prediction performance |
2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2022 | Fahd Alhamazani | 3D shapes: Depth Completion and evaluation metric |
| 30 November 2022 | Njuod Alsudays | AFPSNet: Multi-Class Part Parsing based on Scaled Attention and Feature Fusion |
| 23 November 2022 | Oliver van Kaick (Carleton University, Canada) | Guided Creation of Computer Graphics Content with Neural Networks |
| 16 November 2022 | Yuanbang Liang | Exploring and Exploiting Hubness Priors for High-Quality GAN Latent Sampling |
| 16 November 2022 | Xinbo Wu | Analysis of Video Quality Induced Spatio-Temporal Saliency Shift |
| 9 November 2022 | Abdulkerim Duman (School of Engineering) | Clinical Applications of Brain Tumour Segmentation |
| 2 November 2022 | Oktay Karaku | An informal talk on earth observation for environmental challenges |
| 2 November 2022 | Paul Rosin | An informal talk on my struggles with skulls and affine invariant 3D curve moments |
| 25 May 2022 | Amir Vaxman (Utrecht University) | High-order and Degree Directional Fields |
| 18 May 2022 | Aaron Zhang (University of Bristol) | Perceptually Inspired Deep Video Compression |
| 11 May 2022 | Zien Ma | Metabolite Quantification with Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Spectrum Signal Processing using an Autoencoder Architecture |
| 4 May 2022 | Wanli Ma | Multi-modal Remote Sensing Image Fusion for Land Cover Mapping |
| 23 March 2022 | Peng Song (Singapore University of Technology and Design) | Computational Assemblies for Digital Fabrication |
| 16 March 2022 | Hateef Alshewaier | Ensemble Method for Medical Image Segmentation |
| 9 March 2022 | Marco Palombo | Perspectives on AI-powered brain microstructure imaging |
| 2 March 2022 | Ben Daubney (MBDA) | Image Processing in Industry: Complex Weapons |
| 23 February 2022 | Nobuyuki Umetani (University of Tokyo) | Interactive Design Optimization in Computational Fabrication |
| 16 February 2022 | Sophie Shermer (Swansea University) | Quantitative MRI and Spectroscopy: from quantification of chemicals in the brain to diagnostic tools for prostate cancer |
| 9 February 2022 | Yueran Ma | Traditional vs. Deep Learning Methods for Medical Image Quality Assessment |
| 2 February 2022 | Igor Rizaev (University of Bristol) | SAR simulation: features in imaging of sea waves and ship wakes |
2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8 December 2021 | Tiantian Liu (Taichi Graphics) | A hands-on tutorial of the Taichi Programming Language |
| 1 December 2021 | Irtaza Khalid and Frank Langbein | Reinforcement Learning and Robust Quantum Control for Spin Transfer and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy |
| 24 November 2021 | Jianxun Lou / Xin Zhao | Study of saccadic eye movements in diagnostic imaging / A metric for quantifying image quality induced saliency variation |
| 17 November 2021 | Paul Rosin (Cardiff University) | Simple Computer Vision Algorithms |
| 26 May 2021 | Oktay Karakus (University of Bristol) | Can We Sense the Call of the Ocean? Marine Monitoring via Remote Sensing Computational Imaging |
| 19 May 2021 | Jungong Han (Aberystwyth University) | Image Saliency Detection: From Convolutional Neural Network to Capsule Network |
| 12 May 2021 | Shih-Yuan Wang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) | Architectural Robotics |
| 21 April 2021 | Robert Roithmayr (Donau-Universität Krems, Austria) | Computational Modelling and Engineering of Tensile Membrane Structures |
| 24 March 2021 | Hein Min Htike (Cardiff University) | AR glasses as mobility aid for people with low vision |
| 10 March 2021 | Xiangxu Yu (University of Texas at Austin) | Predicting the quality of compressed videos with pre-existing distortions |
| 10 February 2021 | Ralph Martin | My new 3D printer |
| 27 January 2021 | Damian Farnell (School of Dentistry, Cardiff University), Tom Hartley | Orthodontics and 3D Imaging and Multivariate Statistical Models of Shape/Explaining Failure: Investigation of Surprise and Expectation in CNNs |
| 13 January 2021 | Xin Zhao | Deep Learning VS. Traditional Algorithms for Saliency Prediction of Distorted Images |
2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2020 | Stefano Zappala | Can Registration Methods for Neuroimaging Follow a Biomechanical Deformation? Optimisation on Two Biofidelic Fields |
| 2 December 2020 | Ian Grimstead (Office for National Statistics) | Estimating vehicle and pedestrian activity from town and city traffic cameras |
| 18 November 2020 | Ethan Dickson (Cardiff University and Orbital Media), Joseph Redfern, Frank Langbein | Mixed session on hot topics and useful tools |
| 4 November 2020 | Ethan Dickson (Cardiff University and Orbital Media) | Speech-Driven Avatar Synthesis |
| 29 April 2020 | Hongjin Lyu | Watercolour style transfer |
| 22 April 2020 | Meijing Gao (Yanshan University, China) | Optical micro-scanning thermal microscope imaging system |
| 18 March 2020 | Sen-Zhe Xu (Tsinghua University, China) | Simultaneous multi-attribute image-to-image translation |
| 11 March 2020 | Zhongyu Jiang (Tianjin University, China) | Reference Guided Face Super-Resolution via 3D Morphable Modeling |
| 4 March 2020 | Qian Xie (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) | A brief introduction of deep learning on 3D point cloud |
| 26 February 2020 | Han Liu | Granular Computing Based Machine Learning for Deep Processing of Unstructured Data |
| 19 February 2020 | Salma Al-Qazzaz | Deep Learning-based Brain Tumour Image Segmentation with Extension to Stroke lesion Segmentation |
| 12 February 2020 | Fahd Alhamazani | 3DSA-GAN: 3D Self-Attention GAN for Shape Completion from Single-View Depth Images |
| 5 February 2020 | Brendan McCane University of Otago, New Zealand | 3D reconstruction of vertebrae from bi-planar x-rays |
| 29 January 2020 | Paul Rosin | Neural Style Transfer with Additional Information |
| 22 January 2020 | Mark Hall The Open University | This is not funny |
| 15 January 2020 | Emin Zerman Trinity College Dublin | Perception and quality assessment for immersive imaging technologies |
| 5 January 2020 | Feng Zhou Beihang University, China | A small talk on semantic segmentation from RGB to RGBD |
2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4 December 2019 | Dalia Alfarasani | Measuring 3D mesh saliency using eye tracker |
| 27 November 2019 | Roberto Dyke | Shape correspondence and registration with non-isometric deformations |
| 20 November 2019 | Yukun Lai | Generative models for images and 3D shapes |
| 13 November 2019 | Richard Booth | A brief introduction to belief revision and some potential connections with computer vision |
| 6 November 2019 | Yue Peng University of Science and Technology of China | Accelerating ADMM for efficient simulation and optimization |
| 30 October 2019 | Daniel Finnegan | His recently CHI paper submission |
| 23 October 2019 | Yipeng Qin | Towards understanding how GANs really work |
| 16 October 2019 | Bailin Deng | Towards scalable geometry processing (without solving linear systems) |
| 17 July 2019 | Changhao Chen (National University of Defense Technology, China) | Learning methods for robust localization |
| 17 July 2019 | Xiaofeng He (National University of Defense Technology, China) | Bio-inspired navigation technology |
| 12 June 2019 | Matthias Treder | Predictive modelling of MR images using convolutional neural networks |
| 5 June 2019 | Ran Song and Karina Rodriguez Echavarria University of Brighton | Analysis and applications of 3D objects to support audiences to engage with 3D content, including cultural heritage objects |
| 29 May 2019 | Ethan Dickson Cardiff University and Orbital Media | Talking heads: Speech driven facial modelling and video synthesis |
| 22 May 2019 | Bo Li Nanchang Hangkong University | Image colourisation |
| 15 May 2019 | David Humphreys | Enhancing shortest grammar algorithms for analysis of musical scores |
| 10 April 2019 | David Pickup FiveAI | Building an autonomous vehicle |
| 3 April 2019 | Heejune Ahn SeoulTech | Computer vision and deep learning algorithms for 2-D image based virtual cloth try-on |
| 27 March 2019 | Tim Ellis Kingston University | Looking at people - measuring falls and interactions |
| 20 March 2019 | Mark Hall Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | Visual interfaces for exploring digital cultural heritage |
| 13 March 2019 | Joseph Redfern | Association of violence with urban points of interest |
| 6 March 2019 | Julien Schroeter | Weakly-supervised temporal localisation via occurrence count learning |
| 27 February 2019 | Darren Cosker University of Bath | Motion capture, analysis and animation research at CAMERA |
| 20 February 2019 | Hantao Liu | Making use of eye-tracking data |
| 13 February 2019 | Paul Rosin | Reverse correlation for image downsampling |
| 6 February 2019 | Xianfang Sun | Image super-resolution |
| 30 January 2019 | Hantao Liu | Demonstration and examples of eye tracking |
| 23 January 2019 | Stefano Zappala | Is your brain deforming? An in-vivo investigation of positional brain shift |
| 16 January 2019 | David George Swansea University | Feature driven learning techniques for 3D shape segmentation |
| 9 January 2019 | Abraham Nieva De La Hidalga | Application of semantic segmentation for processing of large image datasets from natural history collections |
2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2018 | Jing Wu | Seeing the unseen: Locating objects from visual reflections |
| 28 November 2018 | Aled Owen | Where is the ball? Self-supervised representations for team sports |
| 21 November 2018 | Bailin Deng | Anderson acceleration for geometry optimization and physics simulation |
| 14 November 2018 | Thomas Hartley | Pruning convolutional neural networks |
| 7 November 2018 | Nicholas Wardhana Welsh School of Architecture | Topologic: A toolkit for spatial and topological architectural modelling and exploration |
| 31 October 2018 | Yuhua Li | Novelty detection: Know unknowns from knowns |
| 24 October 2018 | Zeliang Wang | Polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition techniques for multichannel signal processing |
| 17 October 2018 | Dietmar Saupe University of Konstanz, Germany | KonIQ-10k: An ecologically valid database for deep learning of blind image quality assessment |
| 10 October 2018 | Hui Huang Zhao HengYang Normal University, China | Image style transfer using deep CNNs |
| 3 October 2018 | Juncheng Liu Peking University, China | Image driven co-segmentation of 3D models |
Enquiries
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