Dr Charith Abhayaratne
Lecturer
email : c.abhayaratne@sheffield.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0) 114 222 5893
Research Interests
- 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.
Teaching
- EEE116 Multimedia systems
- EEE6081/EEE421 Visual information engineering
- EEE6085 Selected topics in computer vision engineering
Admin Duties
- Course Director – MSc in Computer Vision Engineering
- MSc Admissions Tutor
- Teaching strategy committee
Professional Activities
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)
Reviewer for Research Councils:
- UK - EPSRC.
- Hong Kong - RGC.
Reviewer for Book Publishers:
- Cambridge University Publishers.
