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BVI links with ALSPAC

3 March 2011

BVI now has an established link with another major Bristol strength - the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC, also known as "Children of the Nineties")

BVI Director Appointed

25 February 2011

BVI Director, Proffesor Dave Bull has been appointed to Panel B - Electrical and Electronic Engineering for REF 2014.

£680K TSB Funding for AIYP

15 February 2011

The Technology Strategy Board and EPSRC have awarded £680K to a new BVI project.

Dynamic Beauty!

8 November 2010

Congratulations to Drs. Penton-Voak (Psychology), Burn (Anatomy and Mechanical Engineering) and Clark (Brunel University) on their Leverhulme grant, 'Dynamic beauty: Studying social impressions with realistic stimuli'.

Why the leopard got its spots

4 November 2010

Why do leopards have rosette shaped markings but tigers have stripes? Rudyard Kipling suggested that it was because the leopard moved to an environment “full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows” but is there any truth in this just-so story?

BVI Wellcome Lab update

1 November 2010

The shared lab facility for BVI has been progressing well over the summer.

KTP post in Advanced Machine Vision

22 October 2010

An opportunity has arisen on a joint project, under the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme, between Aralia Systems and the University of the West of England.

A new force in Computer Vision

22 October 2010

From October 2010, The Signal Processing Group (Elec Eng) and the Computer Vision Group (Comp Sci) are merging.

UWE MVL lead EU Workshop

15 October 2010

The UWE Machine Vision Laboratory (MVL) has recently taken part in two successful international conferences that look set to widen collaborations with international partners in Europe and India.

Imaging: Challenges and Solutions for Automated Analysis and Interpretation report

15 October 2010

Craig Platt has written an excellent summary of the recent Bristol 2010 - Imaging: Challenges and Solutions for Automated Analysis and Interpretation event.