School of Computer Science and Informatics

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 11:10.

All are welcome to attend. More seminars will be added to the list throughout the year so please check back regularly.

Date	Speaker	Title
12 December 2020	Stefano Zappala, Julien Schroeter	TBA
12 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
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)

Date	Speaker	Title
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
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