brief CV
BSc in Physics from The University of Reading
PhD in digital image processing from Electronics Systems Engineering dept. at The University of Essex,
UK.
My current research interests include: environmental wireless sensor networks, Semantic Sensor Web, semantic web and imaging for cultural heritage
PhD : A new real-time feature extraction system for sketch generation. Using 110M LUT operations per second.
VASARI - made world's first hi-resolution colorimetric scanner for paintings
MARC - Methodology for Art reproduction in Colour. Made a 20kx20k camera.
Viseum - virtual museums networking, EU project
ACOHIR - object imaging and web browsing - EU project
Artiste - Content based retrieval of art images
Sculpteur - Semantic Web and Content based
retrieval of 3D museum objects
eCHASE - semantic integration of photo libraries (incl. Getty Images)
semsorgrid4env - semantic web meets sensor networks
Tijuana Estuary sensing - funded
by NOAA
ARCOMEM - FP7 EU project
Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH) European COST project
VIPS/nip - Open Source image processing
Peer Review College - EPSRC and Economic and Social Research Council ESRC UK.
Programme Committee membership:
European Wireless Sensor Networks prog. committee 2012
Future
Internet Symposium 2010
VAST2010 - 11th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Computer Vision and Image Analysis of Art, Electronic Imaging 2010
ESSA 2009: Sensor Networks for Space
and Science Applications.
1st International Workshop on the Semantic Sensor Web (SemSensWeb 2009)
3rd International Conference for GeoSensor Networks 2009
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009.
The 2008 International Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN-08)
IAPR-TC19 Workshop on Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage, EVA 2008.
SPIE IS&T Computer image analysis in the study of art 2008
Semantic Web Conference workshop "Uncertainty Reasoning
for the Semantic Web" 2006
Very High Resolution and Quality Imaging III, Electronic Imaging '98
Electronic Image Capture and Publishing in SYBEN '98, Zurich 1998
IEEE/IS&T Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV) Apr 2002
co-Chair of Environmental Sensor Networks session of the American Geophysical Union
Conference 2004
co-Chair of Emerging Technology for Environmental Sensor Networks conference at the AGU
2005
co-Chair of AGU/ESSI conference Advances in Environmental Sensor Networks 2006
Chair of AGU/ESSI conference Environmental Sensor Networks: Theory and Applications 2007
Chair of AGU/ESSI conference Environmental Sensor Networks: Real World Examples 2008
Commissioning Editor for Computers and the Humanities Journal
Founder of the Virtual Library for
History of Art
co-founder of the EVA conference
Member of the Archimedes Palimpsest advisory team which looked into new image processing
possibilities to read the manuscript. There is a Google Video explaining this project.
Environmental Sensor Networks. Image processing, imaging, computer applications for museums.
I have worked with people in places as wide ranging as Imaging manuscripts and
art, Wind Tunnels, HCI book publishers to Historical Archives.
Visual telephones for the deaf, Anglia Television News, 1986.
A sketch videophone, HTV "Video and Chips" 1987.
Computer generated sketches, BBC "Big Top Science", July 1987.
Success on SUN, SUN Microsystems training video, 1993.
BBC Tomorrow's World cover of the VASARI scanner, 1994.
BBC programme on image processing Holbein's Ambassadors. 1996.
British Satellite News cover of ACOHIR project 1999.
Canadian news (CBS) - live interview about climate change/Glacsweb 2006
BBC News at 10 - Glacsweb 2006
BBC Digital Planet, Semantic and content-based image retrieval, 2007
BBC Digital Planet, Sensors, 2010
The Guardian, "Scientists
develop sensor to predict freak weather, from flash flooding to landslides",
2010
working on the glacier in Norway 2004.