Journal Paper
3D Points Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Hand Reconstruction
Jiang Z, Rahmani H, Black S, Williams BM. Pattern Recognition. 2025; 162:111426.
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
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).
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.
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.