Dr Charith Abhayaratne

tel: +44 (0) 114 222 5893

Video and image coding.
Content forensics (watermarking and fingerprinting).
Compressed domain image and video analysis for low-level visual feature extraction.
Applications of content-based approaches for search and retrieval, security, surveillance and remote sensing.
Wavelets and other transforms.

Editorships:

Guest Editor - Special issue on "Scalable coded media beyond compression" in Elsevier Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication, July 2009.

International Conference/session Organization:

General Chair - IET VIE Workshop on Scalable Coded Media beyond Compression, July-Aug. 2008, Xian, China,
ACM/IEEE ICSDC 2009 - Special session on "Advances in coding for distributed camera networks"

International Conference Programme Committees:

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Signal-Image Technologies and Internet based Systems (SITIS) (2006-2010).
International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW) (2009-2010).
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) (2009).
International Conference on Security Technologies (2008).

International Conferences Review Committees:

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2009-2010).
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (2006-2010).
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) (2009)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (2006-2009).
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (2010)
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. (Globecom) (2006).
IEEE/ACM Intern'l Conf. on Signal-Image Technologies and Internet based Systems (SITIS) (2006-2009).
International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW) (2009-2010).
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) (2009-2010).
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Smart Distributed Cameras (ICSDC) (2009)

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