V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language

List of Participants

Name Affiliation Research Interests
Abhayaratne, Charith University of Sheffield Image and video analysis and understanding, texture analysis, low-level visual descriptors, content-based image retrieval, depth estimation, adaptive life-style monitoring
Ahmad, Khurshid Trinity College Dublin
Ahmed, Amr University of Lincoln: School of Computer Science Semantic Analysis of Digital Contents (Image, Video, and text)
Aloimonos, Yiannis University of Maryland
Altadmri, Amjad University of Lincoln Computer Vision, Commonsense Knowledge bases, semantic video indexing and retrieval
Anderson, Andrew University of Trento Application of multivariate strategies to interpret knowledge organisation and representation
Andrews, Mark University College London Computational Cognitive Science, Bayesian Models, Probabilistic Models, Probabilistic Language Models, Lexical Semantics, Psycholinguistics.
Baroni, Marco University of Trento: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) Computational linguistics, cognitive science, corpus-based distributional models of semantics
Belz, Anja University of Brighton: School of Computing, Engineering and Maths Data-driven generation and summarisation of language; comparative evaluation of NLP Systems, grand-challenge research competitions
Briscoe, Ted University of Cambridge: Computer Laboratory Statistical, and robust parsing techniques; text classification, filtering, mining and extraction using linguistic features; acquiring lexical information from on-line text and dictionaries; models of human language learning and parsing
Bruni, Elia University of Trento: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) Computational linguistics, cognitive science, corpus-based distributional models of semantics
Cahill, Lynne University of Brighton: School of Computing, Engineering and Maths Computational Linguistics
Coco, Moreno University of Edinburgh: School of Informatics Visual attention, sentence processing, coordinative dynamics, computational modeling, cognitive science
Crook, Nigel Oxford Brookes University Vision and language processing, machine learning, Embodied Conversational Agents
Cosker, Darren University of Bath Applied Computer Vision, Perception and Graphics to Visual Effects and Video Games. Motion Capture. Image based tracking and registration. Facial Analysis.
Dobnik, Simon University of Gothenburg Situated (spatial) language/discourse, embodied natural language with robots/virtual agents
Davies, Roy Royal Holloway University of London Broad categories: computer vision, image processing, real-time vision; methodology: feature detection, noise suppression, robust pattern matching, tracking moving objects; application areas: automated visual inspection, surveillance, crime detection, traffic monitoring, in-vehicle vision systems, vehicle guidance
Elliott, Desmond University of Edinburgh Alignment models of visual and linguistic data using the structure of the linguistic data
Evans, Roger University of Brighton: School of Computing, Engineering and Maths Computational linguistics (symbolic and statistical), including natural language generation, information extraction, text mining, sentiment and genre analysis. Knowledge representation, especially as it relates to language - lexicons, ontologies, semantic web, multilingual issues. Language-based components of user interfaces - advanced interface localisation, free text issues. Architectures and tools for language processing systems.
Gonfaus, Josep Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Computer Vision, Image Segmentation, Object Detection
Gonzalez, Jordi Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona: Centre de Visis per Computador Computer Vision, Image Understanding, Human Action Recognition
Griffin, Lewis University College London Computer Vision, Human Spatial Vision, Colour Science
Kelleher, John Dublin Institute of Technology language/vision interface, ground language in perception, priming perception through language, visual attention, spatial language
Keller, Bill University of Sussex: Department of Informatics Statistical and formal models of language, distributional semantics, interactive alignment and accommodation, gesture and language
Keller, Frank University of Edinburgh probabilistic models of cognition, language comprehension, visual cognition, language vision interface, eyetracking
Lindner, Albrecht Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL): Images and Visual Representation Group (IVRG) Semantic image processing, statistical models for text and image
Makris, Dimitrios Kingston University: Digital Imaging Research Centre Computer Vision, Motion Analysis, Action Recognition
Mitchell, Margaret Ann Johns Hopkins / University of Aberdeen Natural Language Generation, Psycholinguistics
Olszewska, Joanna University of Huddersfield Computer Vision, including scene understanding, image segmentation, video object tracking, and related methods, especially active contours; Knowledge Engineering techniques, in particular ontologies, in order to use semantics in Computer Vision
Piwek, Paul Open University: Centre for Research in Computing Natural Language Generation, Computational Semantics, Dialogue Modelling
Poesio, Massimo University of Essex Semantic interpretation, anaphora, resolution, acquisition of commonsense knowledge, corpus annotation, semantics and pragmatics of dialogues
Saunders, Daniel Harvard Medical School Low vision rehabilitation
Schuette, Niels Dublin Institute of Technology Situated Dialogue, Human-Robot Communication
Smith, William University of York 3D face modelling, capture, processing and animation, Shape-from-shading and shadowing,Reflectance modelling; Computational geometry; Psychology/neuropsychology of face perception
Vigliocco, Gabriella University College London Language and cognition, in particular, semantic representation investigated using behavioural, neuroscientific and computational methods
Washtell, Justin University of Leeds Purely distributional models of language and semantics. Semiotics. Machine learning
Windridge, David University of Surrey Cognitive systems