{"id":91,"date":"2022-04-08T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:06:27","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To The H-Unique Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>H-unique is a five year, \u20ac2.5m programme of research aiming to investigate and quantify variability in the visible anatomical features of the human hand.  To do this we are compiling the world&#8217;s largest database of human hand images to allow thorough analysis and interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project has arisen directly from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dpag.ox.ac.uk\/team\/sue-black\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dpag.ox.ac.uk\/team\/sue-black\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Sue Black<\/a>&#8216;s ground-breaking research in relation to the forensic identification of perpetrators from images of their anatomy in indecent images of children and associated criminal cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following short animation summarises the aims and activities of the project and how you can help our research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will you help us to identify child abusers by images of their hands?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uyv7Gt8sgbM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out how to contribute hand images to our database and help our research, please visit the contibution page.  If you have any questions or enquiries about the project please use our contact page to message the team directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-ast-global-color-0-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/contribute-to-the-h-unique-database\/\">Contribute<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-ast-global-color-0-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/security-lancaster\/research\/h-unique\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact Us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest News<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/2023\/10\/30\/latest-research\/\">Latest Research<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-10-30T14:48:56+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">October 30, 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A new rearch paper authored by Dr. Zheheng Jiang was presented at the 2023 IEEE\/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Vancouver, Canada. Titled A Probabilistic Attention Model with Occlusion-aware Texture Regression for 3D Hand Reconstruction from a Single RGB Image, this paper describes a groundbreaking method of constructing a 3-dimensional model of\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/2023\/10\/30\/latest-research\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Latest Research<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/2022\/12\/12\/royal-institution-christmas-lectures\/\">Royal Institution Christmas Lectures<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-12-12T13:50:25+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">December 12, 2022<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">We are delighted to announce that Professor Sue Black will be giving the 2022 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture series, where she will discuss her work and the secrets of the scientifc process she uses to identify the dead and the living The 2022&nbsp;CHRISTMAS LECTURES will be broadcast on BBC Four&nbsp;and iPlayer at 8pm on the 26th,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/2022\/12\/12\/royal-institution-christmas-lectures\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/files\/2022\/12\/ERCHeader2019-1024x96.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/files\/2022\/12\/ERCHeader2019-1024x96.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/files\/2022\/12\/ERCHeader2019-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/files\/2022\/12\/ERCHeader2019-768x72.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/files\/2022\/12\/ERCHeader2019-1536x144.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/h-unique\/files\/2022\/12\/ERCHeader2019.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-unique is a five year, \u20ac2.5m programme of research aiming to investigate and quantify variability in the visible anatomical features of the human hand. 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