Principal Investigator


Prof. Xianghua Xie

Dr. Xianghua Xie is a Professor in the Visual Computing Group at the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University. He was a recipient of an RCUK Academic Fellowship (tenure-track research-focused lectureship) between September 2007 and March 2012. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer from October 2012, then an Associate Professor in April 2013, and a full Professor from March 2019. Prior to his position at Swansea, he was a Research Associate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, where he completed both his PhD (2006) and MSc (2002) degrees.

Professor Xie has strong research interests in the areas of Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence and their applications to real-world problems. He has been an investigator on several research projects funded by external bodies, such as EPSRC, Leverhulme, NISCHR, and WORD. Among his research works, those of significant importance include detecting abnormal patterns in complex visual and medical data, assisted diagnosis using automated image analysis, fully automated volumetric image segmentation, registration, and motion analysis, machine understanding of human action, efficient deep learning, and deep learning on irregular domains. By 2020, he has published over 150 fully refereed research publications and (co-)edited several conference proceedings. He is an associate editor of IET Computer Vision and an editorial member of a number of other international journals and has chaired and co-chaired several international conferences, e.g. BMVC2015 and BMVC2019.

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Academic Members

Dr. Sara Sharifzadeh, Senior LecturerDr. Lu Zhang, Lecturer
Dr. Su (Scott) Yang, LecturerDr. Hanchi Ren, Tutor

Research Students

Jumaira Miller, PhD StudentMatt Ploszajski, PhD Student
(Since October 2024)(Since October 2023)
Stavros Georgousis, EngD StudentAlex Milne, PhD Student
(Since October 2018)(Since October 2020)
Suraj Ramchand, Phd StudentConnor Clarkson, PhD Student
(Since October 2020)(Since October 2020)
Yi Hu, PhD StudentFergus Pick, PhD Student
(Since October 2020)(Since October 2021)
Yiming Li, PhD StudentVasiles Balabanis, PhD Student
(Since October 2021)(Since October 2022)
Fanzhi Jiang, PhD StudentEman Alomari, PhD Student
(Since October 2022)(Since October 2022)
Nurhan Bulus Guran, PhD StudentChen Hu, PhD Student
(Since April 2023)(Since January 2023)
Rosemary Helen Finnegan, PhD StudentJoseph Metcalfe, PhD Student
(Since October 2023)(Since July 2023)
Charlie Bramble, PhD Student
(Since October 2023)


Alumni:

  • Dr. Deyin Liu (19/06/2023 - 30/05/2024), Postdoc
  • Dr. Sachin Bahade (01/2018 - 10/2023), PhD
  • Dr. Michael Kenning (10/2018 - 09/2023), PhD
  • Dr. Hanchi Ren (03/2019 - 04/2023), PhD
  • Dr. Hassan Eshkiki (07/2019 - 12/2022), PhD
  • Dr. Jingjing Deng (10/2018 - 10/2022), Lecturer
  • Mr. Chen Hu (01/2021 - 09/2022), MSc by Research
  • Dr. Felix Richards (10/2017 - 07/2022), PhD
  • Dr. Gavin Tsang (10/2016 - 05/2022), PhD
  • Dr. Avishek Siris (01/2018 - 05/2022), PhD
  • Dr. Majedaldein Almahasneh (04/2017 - 04/2022), PhD
  • Dr. Ali Alqahtani (08/2016 - 04/2021), PhD
  • Dr. Anastasia Paramore (08/2015 - 02/2021), EngD
  • Dr. Ehab Essa (03/2019 - 01/2021), Ser Cymru Fellow
  • Dr. Dave George (11/2018 - 11/2020), Postdoc Research Officer
  • Dr. Mabduhu Manduhu (10/2019 - 10/2020), Postdoc Research Officer
  • Dr. Mohammed Ali (08/2016 - 10/2020), PhD
  • Mr. Hanchi Ren (03/2019 – 07/2020), Research Assistant
  • Dr. Panpan Ren (10/2018 – 03/2020), External Collaborator
  • Mr. Joseph Jenkins (10/2018 - 05/2020), MRes
  • Dr. Taiwei Wang (10/2015 - 04/2020), PhD
  • Miss Isabel Jenkins (10/2017 - 12/2019), MRes
  • Miss Katarzyna Szymaniak (08/2018 - 08/2019), MRes
  • Dr. David George (10/2014 - 10/2018), PhD
  • Dr. Jingjing Deng (01/2017 - 09/2018), post-doc RA
  • Mr. Michael Kenning (08/2017-09/2018), MRes
  • Dr. Mike Edwards (01/2014 - 04/2018), PhD
  • Mr. Dafydd Ravenscroft (10/2016 - 12/2017), MSc by Research
  • Dr. Jingjing (Eddy) Deng (04/2013 - 05/2017), PhD
  • Dr. Jonathan Jones (04/2016 - 08/2016), post-doc RA
  • Dr. Robert Palmer (10/2012 - 07/2016), PhD
  • Dr. Jonathan Jones (10/2011 - 11/2015), PhD
  • Dr. Andy Tappenden (10/2011 - 03/2016, Engineering), PhD
  • Dr. Feng Zhao (11/2011 - 07/2015), post-doc Research Officer
  • Mr. Jingjing (Eddy) Deng (12/2012 - 06/2015), Research Assistant
  • Dr. Ehab Essa (06/2014 - 05/2015), post-doc Research Officer
  • Dr. Ehab Essa (07/2010 - 05/2014), PhD
  • Mr. Arron Lacey (10/2011 - 03/2014, part-time), MSc by Research
  • Dr. Adeline Paiement (10/2009 - 02/2014, Co- with Prof. Mirmehdi, based at Bristol), PhD
  • Mr. Yaxi Ye (10/2013 - 12/2014), research student
  • Dr. Huaizhong Zhang (11/2011 - 06/2013), post-doc Research Assistant
  • Mr. Jingjing Deng (10/2011 - 11/2012), MSc by Research
  • Dr. Rhodri Bevan (10/2012 - 12/2012), post-doc Research Assistant
  • Dr. Ben Daubney (08/2009- 11/2012), post-doc Research Officer
  • Mr. Ren Liu (10/2011-11/2012), MSc by Research
  • Dr. Dongbin Chen (06/2011-05/2012), post-doc Research Assistant
  • Dr. Si Yong Yeo (07/2008-08/2011, Co- with Prof. Nithiarasu, based in Engineering), PhD
  • Mr. Ren Liu (10/2009-06/2011), Master of Research
  • Dr. Cyril Charron (05/2010-04/2011), post-doc Research Assistant
  • Dr. John Chiverton (2006-2008, Co- with Prof. Mirmehdi, based at Bristol), post-doc Research Assistant
  • Dr. Ronghua Yang (2004-2008, Co- with Prof. Mirmehdi, based at Bristol), PhD


Visiting Scholars:

  • Prof. Mei Liu (12/2018 - 12/2019), XiAn YouDian University, P. R. China
  • Mr. Lucas Martinet (07/2015 - 09/2015), Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (INSA) Rouen, France
  • Mr. Marco Cingolani (2009), UNIVPM Italy
  • Mr. Marchionni Paolo (2009), UNIVPM Italy


Group Photos:

  • July 2022


  • January 2021


  • October 2018


  • July 2017


  • July 2016


  • May 2015


  • April 2014


  • October 2012