Prof. Kirk
Martinez
Electronics and
Computer Science
University of
Southampton • Southampton SO17 1BJ • United Kingdom
Phone: +44
(0)2380594491 • E-Mail: km@ecs.soton.ac.uk • Web: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km
BSc Physics, PhD Electronic Systems Engineering
Research
Current research interests include: environmental wireless sensor
networks, Internet of Things, Web of Things.
In the EU VASARI project I helped design the world's first high
resolution colorimetric imager for paintings. The MARC EU project with the
National Gallery and the Technical University of Munich developed a camera
which was eventually used to capture their entire collection directly for the
first time. In Viseum a new system was designed to
allow web browsers to view high resolution images (which became IIPimage). These projects led to
the VIPS image processing
library still in use worldwide. ACOHIR expanded the imaging and viewing of 3D
objects. Artiste made a system for retrieving art images based on their content
and allowed cross-collection searching through web services. SCULPTEUR added
the use of ontologies and 3D object searching by similarity in shape. EU eCHASE extended the technology for commercial use by
picture libraries. Research since 2002 focused on environmental sensor
networks. Starting with the Glacsweb project on
glacier sensing leading to the world’s first sub-glacial sensor node. The EU SemsorGrid4Env
on sensor webs for the environment let to the SSN Ontology. Recent
projects use Internet of Things methodologies for environmental sensing.
Impact
My research results are being used regularly in image handling
(VIPS, IIPimage), environmental monitoring (new data sources for earth science).
Imaging systems I have built for major museums and humanities researchers have
captured thousands of unique images.
Prizes
Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award
for innovative teaching in 2013
Vice Chancellor’s Award for outreach work in 2014.
AGU Leptoukh award 2017.
Professional Memberships
Member
of the Peer review college EPSRC.
Member
of the IEEE.
Executive
Committee of the Earth and Space Sciences Informatics (ESSI) group of the AGU
Selected Recent Publications (see also Google Scholar)
Martinez, K.,
Hart, J.K, Basford, P.J., Bragg, G, Ward,
T. Young, D.S. (2017), A geophone
wireless sensor network for investigating glacier stick-slip motion.
Computers & Geosciences, Vol. 105, pp. 103-112.
Hart, J
K. and Martinez, K (2015) Towards an Environmental Internet of
Things [IoT] Earth and Space
Science, 2, pp. 1-7.
Fabre,
Arthur, Martinez, K, Bragg, G, Basford, P, Hart,
J, Bader, S and Bragg, O (2016) Deploying a 6LoWPAN, CoAP, low power, wireless sensor network, ACM
Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.
Bragg, O
M., Basford, P, Black, A R., Bragg, G, Hart,
J and Martinez, K (2016) Britain’s highest bog: can we unlock
its secrets? 15th International Peat Congress 2016,
Malaysia. 15 – 19 Aug 2016. 5 pp.
Ward,
T, Martinez, K and Chown, T (2014) Simulated analysis of connectivity
issues for sleeping sensor nodes in the internet of things At The
17th ACM International Conference on Modeling,
Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Canada. 21 –
26 Sep 2014. , pp. 101-108.
Bragg,
G., Martinez, K., Basford, P. and Hart,
J. (2016) 868MHz
6LoWPAN with ContikiMAC for an internet of things
environmental sensor network At SAI Computing
Conference 2016, United Kingdom. 13 – 15 Jul 2016.
Young, D., Martinez, K, Hart, J.K., (2015) Image
analysis techniques to estimate river discharge using time-lapse cameras in
remote locations, Geoscience and
Computers, pp. 1-10,
Hare, J., Dupplaw, D., Lewis, P. H., Hall, W. and Martinez, K. (2014)
Exploiting
multimedia in creating and analysing multimedia Web
archives. [in special issue: Archiving
Community Memories] Future Internet, 6, (2), 242-260.
Earl, G.,
Martinez, K. and Malzbender, T. (2010) Archaeological
applications of polynomial texture mapping: analysis, conservation and
representation. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37
.
Martinez, K. and Isaksen, L. (2010) The semantic
web approach to increasing access to cultural heritage. In: Revisualizing
Visual Culture, pp. 29-44, Ashgate
Robidoux,
N., Gong, M., Cupitt, J., Turcotte,
A. and Martinez, K. (2009) CPU, SMP and GPU implementations of Nohalo level 1, a fast co-convex antialiasing image resampler. Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Conference on
Computer Science and Software Engineering . pp. 185-195.
Hart, J.K. and
Martinez, K. (2006) Environmental Sensor Networks: A revolution in the earth
system science? Earth-Science Reviews, 78 . pp.
177-191.
K.
Martinez (2014), “How did the future look? A retrospective on art imaging”,
invited EVA conference talk at the British Computer Society.
L.
Isaksen and K. Martinez (2012) “Archaeology and the
semantic web”, Computer Applications and
Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
Selected
Media Coverage
Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
News – live interview on climate change research 2007.
BBC technology web pages –
article on Tijuana research 2009.
Vision systems design
“Polynomial texture mapping reveals secrets of Roman painting“
2009.
BBC Radio 4 Digital Planet interview 2010.
The Guardian “Scientists develop sensor to predict
freak weather, from flash flooding to landslides” - interview on Glacsweb 2010.
Pys.org “Technology helping to crack oldest undeciphered
writing system” 2012.
Discovery.com “Digital Fingerprints for Art Could Thwart Heists”
2012.
Research Funding
VASARI
- world's first hi-resolution colorimetric scanner for paintings (EU)
MARC - Methodology for
Art reproduction in Colour - 20k x 20k camera. (EU)
Viseum
- virtual museums networking, (EU)
ACOHIR - object
imaging and web browsing, (EU)
Artiste - Content
based retrieval of art images, (EU)
Sculpteur
- Semantic Web and Content based retrieval of 3D museum objects, (EU)
eCHASE
- semantic integration of photo libraries (incl. Getty Images) , (EU)
Glacsweb -
sensor networks for Glaciers (DTi, NERC,EPSRC,ARM,Leverhulme)
semsorgrid4env - semantic web meets
sensor networks, (EU)
Tijuana Estuary sensing, (NOAA)
ARCOMEM – image retrieval (EU)
COSCH
- colour and space in cultural heritage (EU COST)
mountainsensing - IoT sensing proof of concept (NERC)
novel IoT human interfaces (Innovate-UK)
Ice-tracking research (Formula E)