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Professor Neil Robertson

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor Neil Robertson

Professor Neil Robertson

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor Robertson researches new underpinning machine learning methods for visual analytics and his principal research focus is face/activity recognition in real video. He started his career in the UK Scientific Civil Service with DERA (2000-2002) and QinetiQ (2002-2007) and was the 1851 Royal Commission Fellow at Oxford University (2003–2006). His machine learning, defence and security research is extensive. Highlights include 5-year EPSRC Programmes UDRC Phase 2 (2012-2017) and 3 (2018-2023), and the EPSRC RAS CDT (2013-2018).

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  • N.Robertson@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 1879, +44 (0)28 9097 4615

Research Interests

• Machine learning
• Computer Vision
• Face Recognition
• Medical data processing

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Research students

PhD area Individual Recognition from Low Quality and Occluded Surveillance Videos using Generative Adversarial Networks
Name Soumya Ghosh
Years of study 2017-2020
Country India
   
PhD area Joint detection and tracking in video
Name Guanxiong Sun
Years of study 2017-2020
Country India
   
PhD area Multi-modal object detection using domain adaptation techniques
Name Rachael Abbott
Years of study 2017-2020
Country UK (NI)
   
PhD area Robust representations learning for image and video recognition
Name Xinshao Wang
Years of study 2018-2021
Country China
   
PhD area Deep Learning of Cancer Data 
Name Mark Lennox
Years of study 2017-2020
Country UK (NI)
   
PhD area Few-shot image recognition by meta-learning
Name Chi Wang
Years of study 2019-2022
Country China
   
PhD area Domain Adaptation for Generalization of Deep Models in Computer Vision Application
Name Jian Gao
Years of study 2018-2021
Country China

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Deep learning of human activity
Name Dr Sankha Mukherjee
Years of study 2012-2016
Country India
Current Position Co-founder and Vice President for Research, AnyVision
   
PhD area Speaker tracking in a joint audio-video network 
Name Eleonora D’Arca
Years of study 2010-2013
Country Italy
Current Position Research and Development Engineer at MED-EL, Innsbruck.
   
PhD area COVARIATE FACTOR MITIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR ROBUST GAIT RECOGNITION
Name Dr Tenika Whytock
Years of study 2012-2015
Country UK (Scotland)
Current Position Researcher, Leonardo, Edinburgh

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