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Small items of research equipment at the University of Southampton

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Timothy Leighton FRS FREng FMedSci ScD

Professor of Ultrasonics
Other researchers

Dr David Toal

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Design optimisation & automation
  • Machine learning & deep learning
  • Computer aided design

Professor Thomas Blumensath

Professor

Research interests

  • I develop and study advanced algorithms that can solve challenging inverse problems by efficiently exploiting complex prior information. Using techniques from mathematics, statistics and machine learning, my work concentrates primarily on problems in x-ray tomographic image reconstruction and modelling.
  • I work closely with state-of-the-art imaging facilities (µ-VIS, the National Research Facility in Lab-based XCT, the UK’s synchrotron facility at the Diamond Light Source, and ISIS neutron imaging beamline) to find practical solutions to a range of important scientific problems from plant science to manufacturing.
  • My research interests cover areas such as: Theoretical and computational methods for Signal and Image Processing (Machine Learning, Compressed Sensing, Statistical Signal and Image Processing, Quantum Computing, Inverse Problems, Optimisation, X-ray Tomographic Imaging); Advanced tomographic imaging strategies: (limited angle tomography and laminography, Spectral X-ray imaging, Stereo and extreme limited view tomography); Efficient computational methods for tomographic reconstruction, including GPU acceleration, distributed computation and advanced optimisation strategies, Constrained optimisation for ill-conditioned and underdetermined   tomographic inverse problems, Applications of X-ray tomography to the inspection of manufactured components, Multimodal tomographic imaging

Professor Andy Keane DSc, FREng

Professor of Computational Engineering

Dr Peter Glynne-Jones

Associate Professor

Professor Alex Dickinson

Professor

Dr Lindsay-Marie Armstrong

Associate Professor

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Acoustics Group

Our group’s research topics range from the protection of marine mammals to the medical use of ultrasonics and the environmental effects of aircraft noise.

Computational Engineering and Design Group

Our research group is a centre for multidisciplinary engineering simulation and design, combining a range of analytical, computational and experimental techniques.

Research outputs

A joint row and column action method for cone-beam computed tomography
Yushan Gao,
& Thomas Blumensath
, 2018 , IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging , 4 (4) , 599--608
DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2018.2857446
Type: article
The potential of statistical shape modelling for geometric morphometric analysis of human teeth in archaeological research
Christopher Woods,
Christianne Fernee,
Martin Browne,
Sonia Zakrzewski,
& Alexander Dickinson
, 2017 , PLoS ONE , 12 (12)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186754
Type: article
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