PhD Digital Media Processing and Biometrics

University of Hertfordshire

To conduct research and make original contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the following areas. Machine Learning, in particular Deep Learning for data mining and knowledge discovery Computer Vision technologies for object detection, recognition and tracking Biometrics (Face, Voice, and Multimodality) for forensics and security, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), Big Data Architectures for Biometrics and Security De-identification for privacy protection Generative Adversarial Synthesis for attribute controlled image adaption, automatic text/image caption generation Speech Technology for speech recognition and spoken human-machine interaction Language Technology, including natural language processing and text mining Processing and Analysis of biomedical signals (brain, heart, muscles and body motions) Digital Media Processing including Content Based Multi-Media Retrieval, Big Data Architectures for Efficient Information Processing, Data (Multi-media) Analytics Computer Vision, Soft Computing (Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms,), Deep Learning and Information Fusion for Decision Making Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) including Advanced Driver Assisted Systems (ADAS, information fusion from real time sensor data, adaptive vehicle design