Visual Computing

Visual Computing research covers a range of topics including vision, graphics, intelligent behaviour understanding, and biomedical image computing. The work of the section has led to more than 8 best paper awards at major international conferences (IEEE FG, ICRA, ISMAR, MICCAI, SensorComm) and attracted four Marie Curie fellows.

The group has pursued a successful strategy of growth in several key areas novel modelling and filtering approaches for SLAM and real-time dense scene mapping. Intelligent behaviour understanding, novel approaches to facial action and emotion prediction as well as novel approaches to robust face alignment, tracking and expression recognition, biomedical imaging computing, robotics & sensing, and appearance modelling for realistic computer graphics.

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Getting robots in the future to truly see Play video

Getting robots in the future to truly see

Professor Andrew Davison and Dr Stefan Leutenegger from the Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial College London discuss the advances they are making in developing robotic vision.

Getting robots in the future to truly see

Getting robots in the future to truly see

Discussing the advances in developing robotic vision

Professor Andrew Davison and Dr Stefan Leutenegger from the Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial College London discuss the advances they are making in developing robotic vision.

Deep Learning in Medical Imaging - Ben Glocker #reworkDL

Deep Learning in Medical Imaging - Ben Glocker #reworkDL

Machines capable of analysing and interpreting medical scans with super-human performance

Machines capable of analysing and interpreting medical scans with super-human performance are within reach. Deep learning, in particular, has emerged as a promising tool in our work on automatically detecting brain damage. But getting from the lab into clinical practice comes with great challenges. 

Andy Davison - Robots with vision

Andy Davison - Robots with vision

Unveiling plans to help robots understand more about the world around them

Current domestic robots are pretty dumb, unable to perform many chores promised by ‘Home of the future’ style TV shows of the 60s. With poor spatial awareness a key limiting factor, Professor Andrew Davison unveils plans to help robots understand more about the world around them.

Robot art

Robot art

Computer software that enables the user to control a robotic arm with eye commands

Engineers from Imperial College London have developed computer software that enables the user to control a robotic arm with eye commands to paint a simple picture.

Research groups and centres

Groups

Centres

Academics

Academics

  • Prof. Michael Bronstein

    Professor Michael Bronstein

    Personal details

    Prof. Michael Bronstein Visiting Professor

    Research interests

    Geometry, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics and Shape Analysis, Computer Vision, Biometrics.

    Location

    Huxley Building

  • Prof. Andrew Davison

    Prof. Andrew Davison

    Personal details

    Prof. Andrew Davison Professor of Robot Vision

    +44 (0)20 7594 8316

    Research interests

    Computer vision, robotics, Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM), augmented reality.

    Location

    303, William Penney Laboratory

  • Prof Aldo Faisal

    Dr Aldo Faisal

    Personal details

    Prof Aldo Faisal Professor of AI & Neuroscience

    +44 (0)20 7594 6373

    Research interests

    Neurotechnology, biomedical engineering, machine learning, algorithmic prediction of human behaviour.

    Location

    407A, Huxley Building
    4.08, Royal School of Mines

  • Dr Abhijeet Ghosh

    Dr Abhijeet Ghosh

    Personal details

    Dr Abhijeet Ghosh Professor of Graphics and Imaging

    +44 (0)20 7594 8351

    Research interests

    Appearance modeling, computational illumination, photography for graphics and vision.

    Location

    376, Huxley Building

  • Prof Ben Glocker

    Dr Ben Glocker

    Personal details

    Prof Ben Glocker Professor in Medical Image Computing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8334

    Research interests

    Biomedical image analysis, computer vision, semantic image understanding, machine learning.

    Location

    377, Huxley Building

  • Dr Edward Johns

    edward Johns

    Personal details

    Dr Edward Johns Lecturer

    Research Interest

    Robot Learning , Robot Manipulation, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision

    Location

    365, ACEX Building

  • Dr Bernhard Kainz

    Dr Bernard Kainz

    Personal details

    Dr Bernhard Kainz Reader

    +44 (0)20 7594 8349

    Research interests

    Machine learning, visualisation, interactive real-time image processing, high-performance medical data analysis.

    Location

    372, Huxley Building

  • Dr Stefan Leutenegger

    Dr Stefan Leutenegger

    Personal details

    Dr Stefan Leutenegger Reader

    +44 (0)20 7594 7123

    Research interests

    Autonomous robot navigation, scalable mapping, multi sensor fusion, novel camera systems, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and ground robots.

    Location

    360, ACE Extension

  • Prof. Maja Pantic

    Prof. Maja Pantic

    Personal details

    Prof. Maja Pantic Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8195

    Research interests

    Computer vision, machine learning, and affective computing.

    Location

    380, Huxley Building

  • Islem Rekik

    Personal details

    Islem Rekik Senior Lecturer at I-X

    Research interests

    Machine learning, deep learning, predictive intelligence in medicine, network neuroscience, holistic artificial intelligence.

    Location

    5th floor, Imperial-X (I-HUB) White City Campus

  • Prof. Daniel Rueckert

    Prof. Daniel Rueckert

    Personal details

    Prof. Daniel Rueckert Professor of Visual Information Processing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8333

    Research interests

    Image acquisition and analysis using machine learning, medical applications.

    Location

    568, Huxley Building

  • Prof Bjoern Schuller

    Dr Bjoern Schuller

    Personal details

    Prof Bjoern Schuller Professor in Machine Learning

    +44 (0)20 7594 8357

    Research interests

    Machine Learning, Audio-visual signal processing, human-computer/robot-interaction, and affective computing.

    Location

    574, Huxley Building

  • Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska

    Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska

    Personal details

    Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska Honorary Research Fellow

    +44 (0)20 7594 8241

    Research interests

    Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning methods, Crowdsourcing.  

    Location

    452, Huxley Building

  • Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang

    Personal details

    Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang Director, The Hamlyn Centre

    +44 (0)20 7594 1499

    Research interests

    Professor Yang’s main research interests are in medical imaging, sensing and robotics. In imaging, he is credited for a number of novel MR phase contrast velocity imaging and computational modelling techniques that have transformed in vivo blood flow quantification and visualization.

    Location

    B411-412, Bessemer Building

  • Dr Stefanos Zafeiriou

    Dr Stefanos Zafeiriou

    Personal details

    Dr Stefanos Zafeiriou Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8461

    Research interests

    Machine learning, computer vision, and image/signal analysis.

    Location

    375, Huxley Building