Visual computing research seminars
The VLunch meeting is a regular event to discuss research of interest to the Visual Computing Section.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 May | Dr Daniel Gallichan (ENGIN & CUBRIC) | |
| 20 May | Jun Liu (Lancaster) | |
| 14 May | David Mould (Carleton University, Canada) | Graph‐based Black and White Stylization |
| 13 May | Emiliano Spezi & Prosper Oyibo (ENGIN) | Bringing Medical Image Feature Engineering to Clinical Practice |
| 11 May | Weisi Lin (Nanyang, Singapore) | Visual Signal Processing with Machines as Its Ultimate Users |
| 6 May | Edward Hulme | Once more with feeling: expressive guitar transcription |
| 29 April | Peter M. Atkinson (Lancaster) | Implications of the point spread function (PSF) for downscaling and data fusion in remote sensing |
| 22 April | Nico Potyka (COMSC) | Prototypical Parts for Interpretable Computer Vision |
| 18 March | Craig Thompson & Hana D'Souza | Action in early development: Machine learning insights from headcams |
| 11 March | Kirill Sidorov | Outsmarted. Agents among us. |
| 4 March 2026 | Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen (Copenhagen) | Automated Image Quality assessments – a solved problem? |
| 25 February 2026 | Xianghua Xie (Swansea) | Gradient Leakage Defense for Federated Learning |
| 11 February 2026 | Burhanuddin Anis | ‘Anatomy Aware’ Few-Shot Learning for the Detection of Isolated Tumour Cells in Multi-Gigapixel Histology Images |
| 28 January 2026 | Jiaxiang Zhang (Swansea) | Making sense of biomedical data: inferences from imaging, signals, and cognition |
| 14 January 2026 | Andrea Mazzeo (Uni Naples Federico II, Italy) Ch Muhammad Awais (Uni Pisa, Italy) | Improving Maritime Domain Awareness in SAR imagery through a multi-modal wake detection approach When Accuracy Misleads: Foundation Models vs CNNs Under Class Imbalance |
| 7 January 2026 | Jefersson dos Santos (Sheffield University) | The Role of AI and Remote Sensing for Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring in the Tropics: Challenges and Opportunities |
2025
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12 December 2025 | Dr. Katarzyna Stawarz (Cardiff University) | Co-designing technology for supporting physical activity and sport |
| 03 December 2025 | Dr. Sara Sharifzadeh (Swansea University) | Tackling Predictive Modelling Challenges in Dynamic Conditions |
| 26 November 2025 | Gerasimos Katsagannis | Detection, Distillation, and Diffusion |
| 19 November 2025 | Dr. Nesli Erdogmus (IZTECH, Turkiye) | Fingerprints: What's There to Talk About? |
| 12 November 2025 | Prof. Peter Atkinson (Lancaster University) | Implications of the point spread function (PSF) for downscaling and data fusion in remote sensing |
| 05 November 2025 | Joseph Jayakody (University of Birmingham) | Geometric modelling and shape optimisation for 3D printing |
| 15 October 2025 | Dr. Guosheng Hu (University of Bristol) | Reduce AI’s Carbon Footprint - Accelerating Deep Learning Models |
| 23 June 2025 | Yonghuai Liu (Edge Hill University) | Interweaving Insights: High-Order Feature Interaction for Fine-Grained Visual Recognition |
| 19 May 2025 | David Mould (Carleton University, Canada) | Goal-oriented interactions in games using LLMs |
| 14 May 2025 | Yahia Khubrani | Application of AI Models in Diagnosing Periodontitis from 2D Dental Panoramic Radiographs |
| 12 May 2025 | Qixing Huang (UT Austin, USA) | Geometric Regularisations for 3D Shape Generation |
| 7 May 2025 | Nico Potyka | Representing and Reasoning about Concepts in Computer Vision |
| 9 April 2025 | Nick Pham | Enabling efficient and intelligent embedded systems for the next generation of human healthcare and well-being |
| 2 April 2025 | Prof Hubert Shum (Durham University) | To be confirmed |
| 26 March 2025 | Juan Hernandez Vega | Telling a Robot What to Do, but not How to Do it |
| 19 March 2025 | Yueran Ma Qiqi Huang | Analysing and Predicting Radiologists' Expertise Using Eye-Tracking Data: Insights for Diagnostic Decision-Making Towards Accessible Auditory Health: A Cloud-Based fNIRS Solution for Auditory Training and Assessment |
| 12 March 2025 | Adam Threlfall Jiang Liu | Non-invasive characterisation of brain cancer tissue microstructure from MRI using deep learning Adaptive Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer Network for Action Quality Assessment |
| 5 March 2025 | Jiri Benacek Yang Deng | Enhancing brain activity mapping through BOLD-fMRI and MEG data fusion using machine learning. CCDb++: Enhanced Annotations and Multi-Modal Benchmark for Natural Dyadic Conversations |
| 26 February 2025 | Marco Palombo | Towards sustainable and green solutions in AI-powered medical imaging |
| 19 February 2025 | Oktay Karakus | Crunching the Beautiful Game: The Data-Driven Revolution in Football |
| 12 February 2025 | Aaron Zhang (Bristol University) | Learning-based Video Compression: the Past, Present and Future |
| 5 February 2025 | Damian Farnell | Keep on Smiling! An Overview of Research in the School of Dentistry (With a Special Focus on Computer Vision and AI) |
| 8 January 2025 | Lu Zhuo | Exploring environmental hazards through remote sensing technologies |
2024
| 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
| *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 |
Enquiries
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