University of the West of England
Faculty of Computing Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Machine Vision Laboratory

 
DuPont Building
Frenchay Campus
Bristol
BS16 1QY

Our Centre provides a focus for fundamental and applied research aimed at developing state of the art computer vision based technologies and systems. The Centre is engaged in a number of parallel but complementary lines of research including machine vision for metrology, surface inspection, medical and security applications. We have links with industry and other research centres within the UK and abroad. Grants have been attracted from the EPSRC, DTI, MRC and the EU. In addition to basic research we undertake short-term consultancy project work and offer both undergraduate and postgraduate modules and PhD opportunities in Machine Vision.

The Machine Vision Laboratory (MVL) has rapidly established a reputation as a world-leading centre of excellence. For example, a significant 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 need for rigorous structuring of the imaging environment.