Professor Adrian N. Evans

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Academic background:

• Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath (1997- )
• Lecturer in Information Engineering, Massey University, New Zealand (1994-1997)
• Post Doctorate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of York (1993-1994)
• PhD in Image Processing, Department of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton (1994)
• BEng (Hons) in Electronics and Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University of Technology (1990)

A Brief History.....

I have been at the University of Bath since September 1997 and was Head of Department 2013-2022. Prior to this I was an Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer in the Department of Production Technology, Massey University New Zealand. I claim no responsibility for the disbandment of this Department just a few months after my departure, the remains of which was institutionalised to form the Institute of Information Sciences and Technology. Stepping back in time, after completing my PhD in ultrasound imaging techniques in the School of Electronics & Computer Science at Southampton, I spent a short period of time in the Relaxation Research Group at York working on hedge detection and matching in synthetic aperture radar. My research is focussed on digital image processing and computer vision, including the development of fundamental techniques in addition to application areas such as remote sensing and biometrics. Current research interests in which PhD projects are available include:

• 3D face recognition
• texture analysis and tracking in remotely sensed images
• mathematical morphology techniques for colour and multispectral image analysis

Further details on recent projects are provide below, see also my PURE Research profile for publications, grants etc

Current Research interests:

• Biometrics: recognising people by the 3D shape of their faces.
• Colour and Multispectral Image Processing: single image dehazing (GitHub code), colour edge detection; nonlinear filtering; colour image noise reduction and segmentation using scale-space sieves.
• Motion Estimation: motion estimation and analysis of non-rigid bodies (clouds, glaciers etc), object-based motion.
• Nonlinear Image Processing: mathematical morphological sieves, granulometric texture analysis, multivariate morphology.
• Application Areas: remote sensing, surveillance, medical imaging and video coding.

PhD Students past and present:

• Gengqian Yang
• Jiangning Gao, now working for Ericsson, Sweden
• Lapido Baruwa, KTP Associate with (and still employed at) Seiche Water Technology Group
• Mehryar Emambakhsh, Vice President and Senior Research Scientist at Mesirow Currency Management
• Ben Wiltshire, now at http://www.2d3.com/
• Matt Foster, now saving us from spam at http://www.netcraft.com/
• Zuoyin Tang, now a Lecturer at Aston (2008)
• David Gimenez (2007)
• Wei Huo (Rachel) (2007)
• Xiaopeng Wang (Leo) (2007)
• Haoxiang Zhang (Sean) (2007)
• Yuan Yuan, now a lecturer at Aston (2006)
• Neil Fletcher, now with Wessex Water (2005)
• Simon Tredwell, now a Postdoc at the University of Surrey (2004)
• Nick Young (2003)

Contact Details:

• E-mail: A.N.Evans@bath.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)1225 386303

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