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The Centre provides a focus for fundamental and applied research aimed at developing state of the art technologies and systems that could be beneficially applied to various stages of the product life cycle and could also contribute to exciting research-led teaching. The Centre is engaged in a number of parallel but complementary lines of research including machine vision for metrology, surface inspection and medical applications. Researchers in CIMMS have links with industry and other research centres within the UK and abroad. These include RMC, Schneider Electric, Surface Inspection, Petromodel-Iceland, D'Appolonia-Italy, AJF-Portugal, POMDO-Spain, IST-Lisbon, NUTA-Athens, North Karelia Polytechnic-Finland and the universities of Pittsburgh and Auburn in the USA. Grants have been attracted from the EPSRC, DTI, and the EU.
The Machine Vision Laboratory (MVL) has rapidly established a reputation as a world-leading centre of excellence. For example, a significant MV research theme has been the creation of a new underlying philosophy in computer vision, termed 'object centred machine vision'. This has been realised by developing techniques that focus on increased system flexibility, offer potential for greater use of portable or hand-held technology and, through more 'intelligent' processing, reduce the existing ubiquitous need for rigorous structuring of the imaging environment. |
