Name: Professor Daniel Alexander
Roles: Personal tutor. Lecture courses: Image Processing, Research Methods.

Profile: Dr. Alexander is Professor of Imaging Sciences and also works within the UCL Center for Medical Image Computing (CMIC). He has worked in the areas of computer vision, image and audio processing and medical imaging for over 10 years and has over 100 peer‐reviewed publications. Daniel is best known for his work in neuroimaging and magnetic resonance imaging, in particular in diffusion MRI. He has strong industry links with MRI scanner manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, such as Philips and GSK. He is associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

M.G. Hall and D.C. Alexander, "Convergence and parameter choice for Monte-Carlo simulations of diffusion MRI",  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2009.

D.C. Alexander, "A general framework for experiment design in diffusion MRI and its application in measuring direct tissue-microstructure features", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2008.

Name: Prof. Simon Arridge
Roles: Personal tutor. Lecture courses: Optimization, Geometry of Images.

Profile: Prof. Arridge is Professor of Image Processing and head of the Vision and Imaging Sciences Group and also a member of the UCL CMIC. He has worked in the areas of inverse problems, image processing and medical imaging for over 20 years. Simon is best known for his work in inverse problems, specifically classical and stochastic solutions to ill-posed problems, with application to optical tomography and other medical imaging modalities. He is a member of the editorial board for the Institute of Physics journal Inverse Problems.

S. R. Arridge, J. C. Schotland, "Optical Tomography: forward and inverse problems", Inverse Problems, 2009.

P. Hiltunen, S. Prince, S. R. Arridge, "A combined reconstruction-classification method for diffuse optical tomography", Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2009.

Name: Dr. Gabriel Brostow
Roles: Personal tutor. Lecture courses: Image Processing, Computational Photography and Capture

Profile: Dr. Brostow is a Lecturer in the Vision and Imaging Sciences group. His research is about both the analysis and synthesis of motion. This area includes interesting research problems in the areas of: Data-driven animation, applied computer vision, computational photography and video, motion perception and segmentation, action and object recognition, and performance capture. He is an active member of both the vision and graphics research communities, and has strong ties with the main special effects and animation companies.

C. Hernandes, G. Vogiatzis, Gabriel J. Brostow, Bjorn Stenger, Roberto Cipolla, "Non-Rigid Photometric Stereo with Colored Lights", International Conference on Computer Vision, 2007.

G. Brostow, J. Shotton, J. Fauqueur and R. Cipolla, "Segmentation and Recognition using Structure
from Motion Point Clouds", European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.

Name: Dr. Lewis Griffin
Roles: Personal tutor. Lecture courses: Geometry of Images.

Profile: Dr. Griffin is senior lecturer in the Vision and Imaging Sciences group and is also a member of the UCL CMIC. His area of expertise is Computational Vision with particular emphasis on Spatial Vision and Colour Vision. Lewis is well known for his recent work on using the human vision system to inspire computer vision algorithms and systems. He is a member of the editorial board of the Elsevier journal Computers in Medicine and Biology.

M. Lillholm and L.D. Griffin, "Novel image alphabets for objects recognition" Computer Vison and Pattern Recognition, 2009. 

M. Crosier and L.D. Griffin, "Texture classification with a dictionary of basic image features", Computer Vison and Pattern Recognition, 2008.

Name: Dr. Simon Julier
Roles: Personal tutor. Lecture courses: Mathematical Methods, Algorithms and Implementation, Virtual Environments.

Profile: Dr. Julier is senior lecturer in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group. His key interests are in all aspects of nonlinear estimation, data fusion, and augmented reality. Simon is best known for his work on Kalman filtering and the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) problem in robotics and computer vision. He has twice been
cochair of the IEEE Virtual Reality conference.

R. Freeman, S.J. Julier and A. Steed, "A method for predicting marker tracking error", International Symposium on mixed and augmented reality, 2007.

N. Trigonia, S. Waharte and S.J. Julier, "Coordinated search with a swarm of UAVs" SECON, 2009.

Name: Dr. Jan Kautz
Roles: Course Director. Lecture courses: Computer Graphics, Advanced Rendering and Animation.

Profile: Dr. Kautz is a senior lecturer in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group. His research focuses on realistic computer graphics, with particular interest in real-time rendering, illumination computation, realistic materials, and image- and video-based rendering. Jan publishes regularly at the top international computer graphics conferences and received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2007. He is a regular program committee member for major computer graphics conferences and has links with the BBC graphics and visualization department.

T. Annen, Z. Dong, T. Mertens, P. Bekaert, H.-P. Seidel and J. Kautz, "Real-time, all-frequency shadows in dynamic scenes", SIGGRAPH, 2008.

M.H. Kim, T. Weyrich and J. Kautz, "Modeling human color perception under extended luminance levels", SIGGRAPH, 2009.

Name: Dr. Simon Prince
Roles: Assistant Course Director. Lecture courses: Machine Vision.

Profile: Dr. Prince is senior lecturer in the Vision and Imaging Sciences group. His background is in psychology and neuroscience and he moved into computer vision about 10 years ago. His research interests include face recognition, scene parsing, image-based rendering and inverse problems. Simon regularly publishes in, and reviews for all the top computer vision journals and conferences. He was general chair of the British Machine Vision Conference in 2009.

J. Aghajanian, J. Warrell, S.J.D. Prince, P. Li and J.L. Rohn and B.Baum “Patch-based Within-Object Classification,” International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.

U. Mohammed, S.J.D. Prince and J. Kautz,  “Visio-lisation - Generating Novel Facial Images,” SIGGRAPH,  2009.

Name: Professor Anthony Steed
Roles: Personal tutor. Lecture courses: Virtual Environments.

Profile: Dr. Steed is Professor of Virtual Environments and head of the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group. His specialist research areas are real-time interactive virtual environments, with particular interest in mixed-reality systems, large-scale models and collaboration between immersive facilities. Anthony is a member of the editorial board for the journal Presence and is a regular program committee member and cochair of the top international conferences on virtual reality and human-computer interaction. He has strong links with computer-games companies, such as EA, and other companies interested in virtual reality, computer graphics and visualization, such as the BBC.

F. Steinicke, G. Bruder, K. Hinrichs, A. Steed and A.L. Gerlach, "Does a gradual transition to the virtual world increase presence", IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, 2009.

F. Steinicke, G. Bruder, K. Hinrichs and A. Steed, "Presence-enhancing real walking user interface for first person video games", ACM SIGGRAPH Games Series, 2009.

 Name: Dr. Tim Weyrich
Roles: Personal tutor. Lecture courses: Computational Photography and Capture
Profile: Dr. Weyrich is lecturer in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group. His research interests are appearance acquisition, 3D reconstruction, point-based graphics, and interactive applications in art and cultural heritage
preservation. His work covers a wide range of topics, including human skin appearance capture, graphics chip design, automated generation of bas-relief sculpture and the assembly of fractured Minoan frescoes. He is an active member of both the vision and graphics research communities, and his ongoing research concentrates on development and analysis of interactive applications in real-world scenarios, collaborating, for instance, with archaeologists and with skin biologists.

B. Brown, C. Toler-Franklin, D. Nehab, M. Burns, A. Vlachopoulos, C. Doumas, D. Dobkin, S. Rusinkiewicz and T. Weyrich, "A system for high-volume acquisition and matching of fresco fragments:  reassembling Theran wall paintings", SIGGRAPH, 2008

T. Weyrich, P. Peers, W. Matusik and S. Rusinkiewicz, " Fabricating microgeometry for custom surface reflectance", SIGGRAPH,  2009.