Projects

 

National Science Foundation Research Contract ECS-8516689 (1986) and Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-86-K-0013 (1986) under project title: "Spread-spectrum random-access communications" $50,000

 

UK Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Research Grant No. 90806107 (1993) under project title: "Region and texture coding of broadcast quality colour pictures" £10,000

 

UK Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Research Grant No. GR/F/63978 (1993) under project title: "Optimal spectral estimation and applications" £100,000

 

European Commission ESPRIT Programme  Research Grant B/890376 (1990-1992) under project title: "Image representation, processing and coding for information retrieval systems" 60,000 ECU

 

European Commission Human Capital and Mobility Programme Research Grant 2/ERB4050PL93-0216 (1993) under project title: "Vision algorithms and optical computer architectures" £180,000

 

European Commission Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS) Programme (1995) under project title: "Automatic restoration of original film and video archives - AURORA" 4,700,000 ECU

 

Tandberg Television Research Grant (1997) under project title: “Multimedia video coding” £15,000

 

UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) (1998) Digital Virtual Centre of Excellence (DVCE)  in Digital Broadcasting £300,000

 

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Reseacrh Council (EPSRC), Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF) (1999) under title, “Real-time video processing and visualisation” £3,500,000

 

Higher-Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE),  Joint Research Equipment Initiative (JREI) Grant (1998) under title: “3-D Broadcast production and delivery using a digital studio” £800,000

 

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Reseacrh Council (EPSRC) Research Grant No. GR/M74306 (1999) under project title: "Multiple automatic multiple-cue scene segmentation”  £60,000

 

European Commission 5^th Framework, Research Grant (1999) under project title: “Automatic segmentation and semantic annotation of sport videos – ASSAVID” £320,000

 

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Research Grant (2001) under project title: “Advanced coding for High-Definition Television” £55,000

 

Independent Television Commission (ITC) Research Grant (2002) under project title: “Quality assessment of digital television coding artefacts” £60,000

 

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Reseacrh Council (EPSRC) Platform Research Grant (2003) under project title: “Visual Media”  £400,000

 

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Reseacrh Council (EPSRC) Research Grant (2004) under project title: “Digital restoration of film archives” £230,000

 

European Commission 6^th Framework, Research Grant (2004) under project title: “Preservation towards storage and access - standardised practises for audiovisual contents in Europe– PRESTOSPACE” Î9,000,000

 

Snell & Wilcox PLC, Research Grant (2004) under project title: “Object-oriented motion estimation for restoration applications”, £42,000

 

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Research Grant (2005) under project title: “Model-based video coding” £132,000.

 

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Reseacrh Council (EPSRC) Platform Research Grant (2007) under project title: “Visual Media Phase II”  £1,000,000