Journal Paper
3D Points Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Hand Reconstruction
Jiang Z, Rahmani H, Black S, Williams BM. Pattern Recognition. 2025; 162:111426.
Demo
THE Digital Universities UK Fringe Festival
In April 2025, Lancaster University hosted Digital Universities UK 2025 in partnership with Times Higher Education. This event gathers leaders from higher education, industry and policy to celebrate and share cutting-edge ideas on digital transformation. The latest challenges and opportunities of digital transformation were explored alongside the culture change needed Read more
Journal Paper
Demonstrable and Anatomy-driven Knuckle Identification via Crease Map Segmentation
Ritesh Vyas1, Bryan M. Williams2, Hossein Rahmani2, Richard Boswell-Challand2, Zheheng Jiang3, Plamen Angelov2 and Sue Black4 1 School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382007, India2 School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK3 University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK4 St John’s College, St Read more
Press Release
Call for 500 ‘citizen scientists’ to help complete pioneering hand identification research
Researchers need the help of 500 volunteers to complete a pioneering hand identification research project which will deliver new forensic tools to ensure justice is served in some of the most heinous criminal cases. Led by researchers at Lancaster University in collaboration with researchers from St John’s College Oxford and Read more
Demo
H-Unique Demo at CVPR
Bryan M. Williams – Organiser, SpeakerXinyu Yang – SpeakerHossein Rahmani – ContributorAndrei Banica – ContributorSue Black – Contributor
Preprint
Weakly Supervised Co-training with Swapping Assignments for Semantic Segmentation
Yang X, Rahmani H, Black S, Williams BM. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.17891. 2024 Feb 27.
Journal Paper
Deep orientated distance-transform network for geometric-aware centerline detection
Jiang Z, Rahmani H, Angelov P, Vyas R, Zhou H, Black S, Williams B. Pattern Recognition. 2024 Feb 1;146:110028.
Funding
Artificial intelligence-based earlier detection of glaucoma via retinal images
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account
Bryan M. Williams
Award Amount: £20,000
Project Start Date: 01/09/2023
Project End Date: 31/08/2024
Conference Paper
A Probabilistic Attention Model with Occlusion-aware Texture Regression for 3D Hand Reconstruction from a Single RGB Image
Jiang Z, Rahmani H, Black S, Williams BM. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (pp. 758-767).
PhD Thesis
The Persistence of Knuckle Creases During Finger Flexion for the Identification of Perpetrators From Digital Images of Their Hands and the Application of Deep Learning to Knuckle Crease Segmentation
Dan L. University of Dundee (United Kingdom); 2023.