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.
Sustainability
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a crucial role to play in the future of sustainability, with unprecedented ability to process, analyse and interpret large datasets, driving innovation in many areas including health, waste management and resource optimization. Our Imaging and Computer Vision Lancaster (iCVL) research group is focused on developing world-leading Read more…
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).
News
VACANCY: Senior Research Associate/Research Associate in Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning (H-unique)
We have 2 (Senior) Research Associate positions in Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning available, based on the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University. Salary: £36,386 to £42,155Closing Date: Friday 14 October 2022Interview Date: Friday 21 October 2022Reference: 0994-22 This is an opportunity to join our Imaging and Read more…
Conference Paper
Graph-context Attention Networks for Size-varied Deep Graph Matching
Jiang Z, Rahmani H, Angelov P, Black S, Williams BM. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022 (pp. 2343-2352).
Conference Paper
Hand-Based Person Identification using Global and Part-Aware Deep Feature Representation Learning
Baisa NL, Williams B, Rahmani H, Angelov P, Black S. In 2022 Eleventh International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) 2022 Apr 19 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Article
ERC: What Makes our Hands Unique?
Whereas fingerprint analysis is widely used in forensic science, the rest of our hands equally retains a wealth of anatomical information. Bringing together anatomy and biometrics, ERC grantee Sue Black seeks to understand variability in the human hand though images contributed by ‘citizen scientists’. In search of uniqueness, she uses Read more…
Journal Paper
Ensemble-Based Bounding Box Regression for Enhanced Knuckle Localization
Vyas R, Williams BM, Rahmani H, Boswell-Challand R, Jiang Z, Angelov P, and Black S. Sensors. 2022; 22(4): 1569.
Podcast
VICE World News: Superusers- Catching Paedophiles Using AI
Prof Dame Sue Black, Baroness of Strome talks to VICE World News about her work as a Forensic Anthropologist and our H-Unique project. Sue Black has dedicated her life to catching child sex abusers. The crime itself is unusual, as perpetrators will often record themselves in the act. Generally, they Read more…