David Morris

Tim has successfully supervised seven MPhil and 23 PhD students. He is currently supervising one research student:

Najlaa is looking into methods of determining location using image data only, with the intention that this will be a navigation aid for the visually impaired.

He is no longer accepting new graduate students.

B Sc in Physics from Southampton University

PhD in Medical Physics, University of Sheffield

Research Group(s)

• Advanced Interfaces

Tim Morris was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Computation at UMIST in 1985.  He is now a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science, working in the Advanced Interfaces/Computer Vision Research Group.

He gained degrees in Physics and Medical Physics from the Universities of Southampton and Sheffield respecively. He worked for a while at the British Glass Industry Research Association (now British Glass) before joining UMIST.

Apart from the academic papers listed seperately, he has published two textbooks: Multimedia Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2000) and Computer Vision and Image Processing (Palgrave, 2004).

He has been a member of the IEEE and a member of their Technical Committees on Multimedia Computing, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and Emergent Technologies.

Dr Tim Morris researches real-time video processing problems, texture measurement and image segmentation issues. Video processing research finds applications in creating intelligent assistants - such as non-contact computer interfaces based on speech or image input - and in video-mediated communication. Research into image segmentation is being demonstrated by the interpretation of medical images. His postgraduate students have worked on different aspects of perceptual interfaces (using head orientation and gestures as communication channels); on video coding and coded data quality assessment; on interpretation of medical imagery; and on video-telephony.