I received my M.Sc. degree in Advanced Computing in 2002 from the University of Bristol, UK. Then, I continued to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the same department from the end of 2002, under the supervision of Prof. Majid Mirmehdi. Prof. Barry Thomas was also involved in cosupervision at the earlier stage. I finished my Ph.D. study in March 2006.
I have strong research interests in fundamental image processing and computer vision problems, machine learning techniques (including deep learning models and natural language processing techniques), and their applications to health, medicine, manufacturing, and finance.
A Tracking-Discriminating Deep Generative Model for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Videos, Airbus (Endeavr Wales Group), £157,100, Co-PI, 01/05/2023 - 30/04/2024.
EPSRC Industrial Case award with Tata Steel (EP/V519601/1), £116,928, PI, 10/2020 - 09/2024.
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems, £4,986,846.00, Co-I, 01/04/2019 - 30/09/2027.
PARSER: Parking and AiR pollution SEnsoRs for Smart Cities, funded by InnovateUK, £319,514.40, Co-PI, 01/03/2019 – 28/02/2021.
Health Data Research UK - SUBSTANTIVE SITE OF THE UK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH, Co-I, £3,986,334.06, 2019 - 2023.
Fraud Detection in Dual use of Goods using Explainable Machine Learning and Visual Analytics, funded by InnovateUK (TS/S002766/1), £172,139.08. PI, 01/09/2018 - 30/11/2019.
Predictive Big Data Analytics for Human Health and Animal Wellbeing, SÊR CYMRU Cofund, £63,082.35, PI, 01/07/2018 - 30/06/2020.
Data Release - Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security, Co-investigator, led by Prof. Mark Jones (Swansea), funded by EPSRC (EP/N028139/1 and EP/N027825/1), £1.6M, June 2016 - 30 November 2019.
Biomedical Research Unit: Advanced Medical Image Analysis and Visualisation, Collaborator, led by Prof. John (Bangor University), funded by NISCHR, £312K to Swansea (£1.5M in total), 2011 - 2015.
Non-Invasive Quantification of Complex Heart Valve Lesions: A model-based approach using 3D echocardiography, Co-investigator, led by Dr. van Lool(Swansea University), funded by NISCHR (HS/10/13), £58K, 2011 - 2014.
Patient Specific Multi-view Coronary Geometry and Computational Disease Modelling, Principal investigator, funded by WORD, £144K, 2010 - 2012.
NISCHR Registered Research Group: Medical Image Analysis and Visualisation, Co-investigator, led by Prof. Zwiggelaar (Aber University), funded by NISCHR, £95K, 2010 - 2013.
Wales Research Institute on Visual Computing (RIVIC), I am leading a sub-programme on 3D Vision and Medical Image Analysis. RIVIC attracts £5M funding from WAG, 2009-2013.
PRINS: Prior-independent Shape Regularisation for Geometric Active Contours, Co-investigator, led by Prof. Mirmehdi ( Bristol University), funded by The Leverhulme Trust, £65K, 2006 - 2008.
Professional Activities:
Associate Editor: Pattern Recognition, 2022 -.
Associate Editor: IET Computer Vision, 2012 -.
Associate Editor: Journal of Numerical Methods and Biomedical Engineering, 2022 -.
Editorial Board: International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 2018 -.
Editorial Board: Journal of Informatics, 2017 - 2024.
Executive Committee: British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), since 2012.
Steering Committee: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), since 2011.
International Advisory Committee: CMBE2015 France.
Organising Committee: CGA 2015 San Antonio USA, CMBE 2013 Hongkong, CMBE 2011 Washington, CMBE 2009 Swansea, PSM 2013 Cardiff.
General Chair: 26th British Machine Vision Conference, 7-11 September 2015, Swansea UK.
Programme Chair: 7th ICIGP 2024, 6th ICIGP, China 2023.
Programme Chair: 6th CTISC, China 2024.
Programme Chair: 30th British Machine Vision Conference, 9-12 September 2019, Cardiff UK.
Chair: 16th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 9-11 July 2012, Swansea UK.
Chair: BMVA Computer Vision Summer School 2014, 30 June - 4 July 2014, Swansea UK.
Chair: EPSRC Network Meeting on Patient-Specific Meeting, half-day session on "Imaging, Segmentation and Meshing", April 2011.
Chair: Shape Analysis and Deformable Modeling, ICPRAM Special Session 2012.
Chair: Segmentation and Registration for Biomedical Applications, mini-symposium in CMBE 2013.
Chair: Shape and Deformable Modelling in Biomedical Image Analysis, mini-symposium/special session in CMBE 2009 & CMBE2011.
Co-chair: RIVIC Visual Computing Graduate School 2010.
Co-chair: Methods of Image Processing and Analysis for Biomedical Applications, mini-symposium/special session in CMBE 2015.
Co-chair: Segmentation of Anatomical Soft Tissue Regions in Medical Data, BMVA Technical Meeting 2008.
Area Chair: BMVC2023, BMVC2022, BMVC2018, BMVC2017, BMVC2016, BMVC 2015
Keynote: "Deformable Model in Segmentation and Tracking", AMDO 2012, July 2012.
Conference Tutorial: SITIS December 2007.
Grant Referee:
Major research councils, including EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, NISCHR, Luxembourg National Research Fund, Canadian Research Council, and various charities such as Leverhulme.
External Examiner:
External PhD Examiner - Mario A. Lino Valencia, Data-Driven Deep-Learning Methods for the Accelerated Simulation of Eulerian Fluid Dynamics, Imperial College London, 2023.
External PhD Examiner - Yang Bai, Towards Interactive-level Video Action Understanding, Durham University, 2023.
External PhD Examiner - Tianci, Wen, Registration of 3D models to 2D X-ray images using fast X-ray simulation and global optimisation algorithms, Bangor University, 2023.
External PhD Examiner - Mina Jafari, Improvement of Model Performance and Generalisability of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Medical Image Segmentation, Nottingham University, June 2022.
External PhD Examiner - Adam D. Byerly, ANALYTICAL SUFFICIENCY OF DATA USING HOMOGENEOUS VECTOR CAPSULES, Brunnel University, May 2022.
External EngD Examiner - Valentin Miu, Augmented Reality with Machine Learning on Smartphones for Beauty Applications, Bournemouth University, February 2022.
External PhD Examiner - Yibao Sun, Computational Histopathological Analysis based on Deep Learning, Queen Mary, London, January 2022.
External PhD Examiner - Dimitrios Bellos, Denoising and Semantic Segmentation of 4D datasets with Undersampled micro X-ray CTs using Deep Learning, Nottingham, April 2021.
External PhD Examiner - Naif Alshammari, Towards Real-Time Semantic Segmentation for Automotive Sensing in Adverse Environmental Conditions via Domain Adaptation and Invariant Representation, Durham, January 2021.
External PhD Examiner - Jack Harri Latham, Signal Processing and Machine Learning Techniques for Doppler Ultrasound Haemodynamic Measurement, Cardiff, November 2020.
External PhD Examiner - Marcel Tella Amo, Efficient drift-free mosaicking of fetoscopic videos using an electromagnetic tracker, UCL, March 2019.
External PhD Examiner - Manu Goyal, Novel Computer Vision Techniques to Identify Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Common Diabetic Foot Problems, Manchester Metropolitan, April 2019.
External examiner for MSc in Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering, Cranfield University, 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2018;
External PhD Examiner - H. Shen, Automatic Brain Tumour Segmentation based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Machine Learning Techniques, Dundee University, May 2018;
External PhD Examiner - Ashwan Abdulmunem, Human Action Recognition using Saliency-based Global and Local Features, Cardiff University, October 2017;
External PhD Examiner - Mang Shao, Outlier Removal in Real-Time Object Recognition and Pose Estimation, Imperial College London, July 2017;
External PhD Examiner - Serkan Çimen, Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries from X-ray Rotational Angiography, PhD, Sheffield University, March 2017;
External PhD Examiner - Julia Dietlmeier, A Machine Learning Approach to Unsupervised Segmentation of Mitochondria in Subcellular Electron Microscopy Data, PhD, Dublin City University, August 2016;
External PhD Examiner - Alexandros Neophytou, Data driven models of human shape, pose and garment deformation, PhD, Surrey University, July 2015;
External PhD Examiner - Ningyu AN, Hierarchical Image Segmentation via Efficient Image Decomposition and Texture Characterization based Region Merging, PhD, University of Macau, April 2014;
External PhD Examiner - Ziming Zeng, Medical Image Segmentation on Multimodality Images, PhD, Aberystwyth University, May 2013;
External PhD Examiner - Bartlomiej Wladyslaw PAPIEZ, Diffeomorphic image registration with applications to deformation modelling between multiple data sets, PhD, University Central Lancashire, May 2012;
External PhD Examiner - Muayed S Al-Huseiny, On Analysing Deformable Moving Objects, PhD, Southampton University, November 2011;
External PhD Reviewer - Adolfo Martinez Uso, Unsupervised Band Selection and Segmentation in Hyper/Multispectral Images, PhD, Universitat Jaume I, Spain, June 2008;