Research Themes
The principal areas of interest are as follows:- Neural networks, pattern recognition and machine learning, including multi-layer perceptrons, radial basis functions, and recurrent networks.
- Signal processing, non-stationary time-series analysis, speech coding and compression.
- Speech recognition using both neural networks and hidden Markov Models. This includes large vocabulary recognition, recognition in noise, speaker adaptation and word spotting.
- Language processing including N-grams, stochastic context-free grammars, grammatical inference, dictionary construction.
- Statistical machine translation
- Image processing and object recognition, including 3-D reconstruction from 2-D images, image segmentation, and face recognition.
- Visual navigation of mobile robots and task level and sensor-based robot control within an unstructured environment.
- Aspects of robot assembly including path planning, hand-eye coordination and quality inspection using computer vision, man-machine interfaces using visual gestures.
- Aspects of medical imaging, including the acquisition, visualisation, registration and segmentation of 3D ultrasound images for medical diagnosis.
- Risk analysis in various aspects of health care.
Machine Intelligence Lab: Current Research Projects
- FAUST: Feedback Analysis for User Adaptive Statistical Translation
- Clinically Practical Freehand Three-Dimensional Ultrasound (EPSRC)
- Mitigation of imaging artifacts in 3D ultrasound (RAE/EPSRC)
- Freehand 3D ultrasound to measure the volumes of breast tumours as they respond to chemotherapy
- Radio Frequency Three Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging (SRIF2)
- Stradx and Stradwin: Freehand 3D Ultrasound Systems
- Deconvolution of 3D Ultrasound
- HTK HMM Toolkit
- Probabalistic Adaptive Learning And Natural Conversational Engine (PARLANCE) (FP7)
- NST: Natural Speech Technology (EPSRC)
- BABEL: agile and robust speech recognition for any human language (IARPA)
- BOLT: Broad Operational Language Translation (DARPA)
- Generative kernels and score-spaces for classification of speech (EPSRC)
- RATS: Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (DARPA)
(some) Past research projects
- HYDROSYS: EC FP7 STREP project on spatial analysis tools for on-site environmental monitoring and management
- High Definition 3D Ultrasound (EPSRC)
- EMIME: Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments
- HTK Rich Audio Transcription (EARS)
- CoreTex (Improving Core Speech Recognition Technology)
- Multimedia Document Retrieval
- Audio Document Processing
- EuroPUNCH: European Perinatal Users of Networked Computers for Healthcare
- Improving the Phonetic Discrimination of Hidden Markov Model Based Speech Recognisers Project
- QAMC: Quality Assurance in Maternity Care
- SQALE : Speech Quality Assessment in Language Engineering
- Uncalibrated robot hand-eye coordination
- Video Mail Retrieval Using Voice
- SOLUS-3D: On-line Ultrasound Scanning in Three Dimensions
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