Bristol Vision Institute, University of Bristol

University of Bristol recently identified vision science as one of its core "research themes" and underlined this with the creation, in 2007, of the Bristol Vision Institute (BVI). BVI currently functions as a virtual research institute and has been highly successful in stimulating research interaction and collaboration; It is built on the belief that interdisciplinary research is central to the future development of the field. BVI brings together engineers and scientists from a range of academic disciplines (from 14 Departments) including electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, biological sciences, experimental psychology, mathematics, biochemistry, anatomy, together with external partners such as the Bristol Eye Hospital, the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and UWE's Machine Vision Group.

BVI currently represents a grouping of around 36 permanent academic staff and some 60 researchers at Bristol working on vision and imaging research and its engineering applications.

The scope of the research undertaken within BVI is very wide, including:

• Biomedical imaging
• Camouflage
• Clinical and developmental studies
• Computational modelling and computer vision
• Detection, tracking, classification of difficult targets
• Evolution of visual systems
• Eye movements and hand-eye coordination
• Film, broadcast and multimedia technology
• Foraging and mapping
• Forensic imaging
• Human and animal visual performance
• Image and video compression
• Locomotion
• Multisensor fusion
• Ophthalmology
• Robot vision
• Search and retrieval
• Video quality assessment
• Vision and learning
• Vision and the creative arts
• Visual aesthetics
• Visual human-computer interaction, graphics and immersive environments
• Visual psychophysics
• Visual system modelling