The School of Informatics is part of the Yorkshire & Humber Skillset Media Academy.

University of Bradford.

Digital Imaging

Head of Research Group Prof Jianmin Jiang

Introduction

The Digital Imaging Research Group focuses on research in image/video compression, image processing in compressed domain, medical imaging, image retrieval, interactive video, 3D imaging/video, object tracking, digital media security, digital watermarking and face recognition, pattern recognition. Further expansion and collaboration will also be considered to include computer graphics, virtual presence, computer gaming, animation and visual content processing, modelling and editing.

Current Research Activities

• Medical imaging:
  
• Image indexing and retrieval in compressed domain:
  
• Watermarking digital images:
  
• Feature recognition in solar images:
• 3-D reconstruction of scenes using uncalibrated images:
• Face recognition in real-life images:
• Detection of objects in images:
• Morphological detection of edges:
• Face recognition in DCT domain:
• Interactive Digital video:
• Image retrieval from compressed bit streams:
• CompressedImager:
  
  

More information is available at the Digital Media and Systems Research Institute

The Bradford Robotic Telescope in Tenerife.

The Bradford Robotic Telescope

The Bradford Robotic Telescope has now been completely rebuilt and is operating in a new dome at the Observatorio del Teide 8,000 feet up on the Island of Tenerife.

The new telescope has been designed as a completely free robotic system to support the understanding of astronomy by school students and the general public whilst at the same time providing a rapid response instrument for researchers to capture the key early moments of eruptive variable stars like gamma-bursters, supernovae and catasclysmic variables.

For more information and our latest published images, see the the Telescope web site at: (External) http://www.telescope.org