People Academic staff Prof Martin J Russell (Head of multi-modal interaction laboratory) Research areas: Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Speech Synthesis, Speech Pattern Processing, Audio-Visual Integration, Dialogue Processing, Speech Technology in Education +44 (0)121 414 3093 Mr Philip R Atkins Research areas: Acoustics, Sonar, Digital Signal Processing, Underwater Communications +44 (0)121 414 4329 Dr Tim Collins Research areas: Acoustics and Sonar Signal Processing, Image Coding and Underwater Communications +44 (0)121 414 4417 Dr Neil J Cooke Research areas: Multimodal Interaction decoding, Machine learning and Pattern Recognition, AI, Machine learning and Pattern Recognition, Eye Tracking +44 (0)121 414 3495 Dr Peter Jancovic Research areas: Speech recognition +44 (0)121 414 4316 Mr David Pycock Research areas: Computer Vision, Industrial Inspection, Medical Image Interpretation, Machine Learning, Novel Architectures for Computer Vision +44 (0)121 414 4330 Dr Steven F Quigley Research areas: Digital electronics, ASIC and FPGA based design, VHDL +44 (0)121 414 4336 Dr Mike Spann Research areas: Computer Vision, Object-Based Video Compression, Image Processing, 3D Shape Modelling, Active Vision +44 (0)121 414 4328

Computer Officer Dr Sridhar Pammu Novel architectures and image processing   Research Staff Dr Andrew Foo Sea bed metamorphosis measurement with incoherent synthetic aperture sonar PRA/TC Dr Munevver Köküer Jancovic Speaker recognition PJ Research students Nur Emileen Abd Rashid   Automatic Targets Classification in Forward Scattering UWB Radars PJ/MC James Cross   Mapping the underworld PRA Georgios Diamantopoulos Novel Multi-Strategy Content-Based Video Coding MS/SIW Mohammad Reza Haji Samadi   Signal Correlate Multimodal Interaction NJC/MJR Abualsoud Hanani Modelling of regional accents MJR Hongwei Hu Modelling Speech Dynamics using Trajectory HMMS MJR Alan Islas Cital Acoustic Target Classification Utilising Target Phase PRA Mahvish Nazir   Automotive Radar Tracking Algorithms DP Nicholas Roach   Redundant Motion Capture Systems MJR Saeid Safavi   Effect of Language on Speaker Verification Systems MJR Gheida Shahrour Gesture identification MJR/NJC Ao Shen   Multi-modal recognition NJC/RJS Edward Stewart   A Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Reconfigurable Computing SFQ Hamimah Ujir 3D face rendering with facial gestures MS Shu-Nung Yao   Spatial Audio Processing TC/PJ Chun-Wei Yeh   Reasoning by Analogy/Model Based Image Interpretation DP Masoud Zakeri   Automatic Recognition of Bird Species from Their Songs PJ Lin Zhang Reconfigurable Computing SFQ Xiaoyan Zheng   Speech Processing MJR External research students Andrew R Green     Radar signal processing PRA

Supervisors' initials

AC - Prof Andrew Chan (Civil Eng)
CB - Dr Chris Baber (Elec Elec & Comp Eng)
MC - Dr Mike Cherniakov (Elec Elec & Comp Eng)
SIW - Dr Sandra Woolley (Elec Elec & Comp Eng)

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