Perception in Agents
The last medical machine vision project involved a collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Medicine
at Hull Royal Infirmary, looking at Myocardial SPECT images. The short
research project involved the use of cellular automata for
segmentation. This technique i refer to as active pixel processing. The
work remains unpublished due to time constraints.
Current interests, involving two PhD research students,
revolve around Perception in Agents arising
out of a cogitive model of perception (and affordances) related to work on
motivation.
This includes a connectionist approach to the learning of perceptual
symbols and robot vision related to action and motivation.
Both projects are part of an ongoing (heavily underfunded) research project
on architectures for cognition and affect. I estimate that this project
will involve some fraction of twenty years of my time dating from 1995.
Active Contour Models
Multiple Energy Function Active Contours Applied to CT and MR Images
Davis, D.N., Natarajan, K. and Claridge, E., IEE Image Processing Conference, 1995.
Multiple Energy Function
Active Contours Applied to CT and MR Images (Extended)
D.N. Davis, CSIRP 95-1, AIM Project Computer Science Report 1995.
Neural Networks applied to Machine Vision
NEURAL NETWORKS FOR X-RAY IMAGE SEGMENTATION
Davis, D.N., Linyang, S. and Sharp, B., 12th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science
AI Architectures for Machine Vision
Knowledge-Based Medical Image Interpretation
PhD Thesis Abstract, 1991
Tightly-Coupled Agent Architecture 1
Unpublished Paper, 1997
Other Machine/Human Vision Papers (Not currently available online)
The Application of Neural Networks to X-ray Image Segmentation,
Linyang, S., Davis, D.N. and Sharp, B.
First International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS, Portugal, 1999.
The symbolic atlas of the brain: handling non-visual information associated with neuroanatomy.
Natarajan, K., Davis, D.N. and Claridge, E.,
Medical Informatics, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1-22, 1996.
Automated Cephalometric Analysis.
Forsyth, D. and Davis, D.N.,
European Journal Of Orthodontics, Vol. 1995.
Automated Cephalometry.
Forsyth, D. and Davis, D.N.,
American Orthodontic Congress, San Francisco, May 1995.
A curvature sensitive filter and its application in microfossil image characterisation.
Oakley, J.P., Shann, R.T. and Davis, D.N.,
Image and Vision Computing, 1994.
A Database Management System For Vision Applications.
Oakley, J.P., Davis, D.N., Shann, R.T. and L. Hugeville,
British Machine Vision Conference, University of Birmingham, September 1994.
Knowledge-based cephalometric analysis:
A comparison with clinicians using interactive methods.
Davis, D.N., and Forsyth, D.,
Computers and Biomedical Research, Vol 27, 1994.
Detection of circular arcs for content-based retrieval from an image database.
Shann, R.T., Oakley, J.P., Davis, D.N., and White, F.M.,
IEE Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 141, No. 1, pp 49-55, 1994.
Evaluation of an application-independent image information system.
Oakley, J.P., Shann, R.T. and Davis, D.N.
SPIE Proceedings, Vol. , Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases II, 1994.
Microfossil image characterisation within a content addressable image database.
Davis, D.N., Shann, R.T., Oakley, J.P., and White, F.M.
Proceedings Of 8th Scandinavian Conference On Image Analysis, pp 235-242, May 1993.
Manchester Visual Query Language,
Davis, D.N., Oakley, J.P., Shann, R.T., White, F.M. and Xydeas,C.S.
Joint Forum On Information Technology, University Of Keele, March 22-24, 1993.
The Manchester Visual Query Language.
Oakley, J.P., Davis, D.N., and Shann, R.T.
SPIE Proceedings, V. 1908, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, 104-114, 1993.
Detection and characterisation of Carboniferous Formainifers for content-based retrieval from an image database.
Oakley, J.P., Shann, R.T., Davis, D.N. and White, F.M.
SPIE Proceedings, V. 1908, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, 188-197,1993.
Towards a quantitative understanding of facial caricatures.
Benson, P.J., Perrett, D.I. and Davis, D.N.,
Chapter 4, Processing Images Of Faces, V. Bruce and M. Burton (Eds), Ablex, 1992.
Towards an automated detection and identification tool for carboniferous foraminifera.
White, F., Adams, A., Oakley, J., Shann, R. and Davis, D
Paleontologists Association, Southampton, 14-16th December, 1992.
Knowledge-Based Systems For Medical Image Interpretation.
Davis, D.N., Ph.D. Thesis,
Wolfson Image Analysis Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Victoria University of Manchester, 1991.
A blackboard architecture for medical image interpretation.
Davis, D.N. and Taylor, C.J.,
Proceedings Of SPIE90:Medical Imaging V, pp. 421-432, San Jose, California, February 1991.
Reliability of cephalometric analysis using manual and interactive computer methods.
Davis, D.N. and Mackay, F.
The British Journal Of Orthodontics, Vol. 18, pp 105-109, 1991.
A blackboard architecture for automating cephalometric analysis.
Davis, D.N. and Taylor, C.J.
Medical Informatics, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp 137-149, 1991.
A blackboard architecture for automating cephalometric analysis.
Davis, D.N. and Taylor, C.J.,
Computer Aided Interpretation Of Medical Images, The British Institute Of Radiology, 1990.
An intelligent visual task system for lateral skull X-ray images.
Davis, D.N. and Taylor, C.J.,
Proceedings of The British Machine Vision Conference, pp. 291-295, University of Oxford, 1990.
An intelligent segmentation system for lateral skull X-ray images.
Davis, D.N. and Taylor, C.J.,
Proceedings of The Fifth Alvey Vision Conference, pp. 251-255, University of Reading, 1989.
Recognition and identification of heads and objects from different perspectives.
Harries, M., Perrett, D.I., Davis, D.N., Thomas S. and Lavender,A.
British Experimental Psychology Association, Edinburgh, May 1988.
Recognition of heads and objects from different perspectives.
Harries, M., Perrett, D.I., Davis, D.N. and Lavender, A.,
ESRC Face Recognition Group, Grange-over-Sands, February 1988.
Applications To Date Include
Cephalometry and Orthodontics
MicroFossils
MR and CT images of the Human Brain
X-Ray Images of the Leg
Female Faces
Comments to:
Dr D.N.Davis@hull.ac.uk
Last Updated March 2005
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