Computing Sciences Postgraduate Research - PhDs and Studentships

The Graphics, Vision and Speech Laboratory addresses problems that range over analysis, recognition and generation of both images and speech. These technologies have common theoretical foundations, and are integrated in our research on lip-reading, audio-visual speech synthesis and avatars. Our laboratories are equipped with fast graphics computers, spectrometers, 3D displays, haptic devices, a soundproof recording booth and an eight camera video-based motion capture system. Recent notable successes include the development of the leading colour constancy and white balancing algorithms which have been implemented in a commercial camera and state-of-the-art lip-reading systems. The group has spun out companies in the areas of image processing for art, colour image processing and water leak detection.