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The Edinburgh Research Partnership in
Engineering and Mathematics
JRI in Signal and Image Processing

• The institute has 25 academic staff, supported by
  over 100 research staff and students, that aim to
  deliver outstanding research and technology
  transfer in several strategic areas, including
• the theory of digital signal processing in
  several dimensions
• the representation and modelling of sensors
  and scenes
• innovative image and signal processing
  technologies
• image and signal controlled autonomous
  systems
• the development of interactive systems
• signal and image coding and compression

• This joint venture encompasses the activities of
  the
• Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM),
  UoE.
• Centre for Communication Interface (CCIR),
  UoE.
• The Vision Image and Signal Processing
  laboratory (VISP), HWU.
• Oceans Systems Laboratory (OSL), HWU.

Challenges
Object tracking, recognition and classification
Autonomous and distributed systems
Audio, video, graphics and convergence
Active and passive sensing techniques
Communication system design and optimisation
Acoustic monitoring of marine mammals



Application and Capability
Acoustic, ultrasonic, LiDAR, mm-wave, hyper-spectral, aperture synthesis, video communication technology
Radar, 2D and nD optical, acoustic and ultrasonic systems. Applied synergy between sensors, waveforms and algorithms.
Texture analysis and synthesis, audio enhancement, image based rendering, audio and 2D/3D video scene analysis and communication
Wireless technology and networks (mobile, mesh, short range, wide area, infrastructure, infrastructure-less), MIMO, cooperation, channel characterisation, human interface design
Real time code and system development and costing resource maximisation for finite time, space and power.
Sensor networks and distributed compressive sensing
Autonomous vehicles monitoring, communication, navigation, and surveillance.
Visual biometrics



Underpinning Theory
Non linear and non-Gaussian methods
Multi-dimensional signal and image processing
Mathematics and languages for embedded and parallel algorithm development
Acoustic and electromagnetic modelling and simulation
Coding and information theory
Airborne Radar
For More Information Please Contact Prof
Steve McLaughlin, steve.mclaughlin_at_ee.ed.ac.uk
Prof Andrew Wallace, A.M.Wallace_at_hw.ac.uk
http//sip.eps.hw.ac.uk/
mm-wave imaging
Heriot-Watt University EH14 4AS
www.erp.ac.uk University of
Edinburgh EH9 3LA