Research activities

Research interests

• Statistical signal and image processing.
• Inverse problems in signal and image processing.
• Myopic and blind source separation.
• Sparse representations.
• Anomaly detection.
• Model selection.

Tools and methods

• Bayesian inference, approximate methods
• Bayesian nonparametric models, Gaussian processes, marked point processes.
• Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, reversible jump MCMC.
• Variational approaches: Expectation-Propagation

Research group

• Current PhD students​​

Jake Charsley (2020-...): co-supervision with Prof. Reid
Kristofer Drummond (2020-...): co-supervision with Prof. McLaughlin
Dan Yao (2018-...): co-supervision with Prof. McLaughlin
Quentin Legros (2017-...): co-supervision with Prof. McLaughlin and Dr. Meignen

• Former students​​

Anchit Srivastava (2018-2020) : co-supervision with Prof. Reid
Julian Tachella (2017-2020): co-supervision with Prof. McLaughlin and Prof. Tourneret
Ahmed Karam Eldaly (2015-2018): co-supervision with Prof. McLaughlin

Applications

• Hyperspectral imagery. Endmember extraction. Spectral unmixing. Nonlinear mixture and anomaly detection.
• Single-photon and multispectral Lidar.
• Low illumination (photon-starved) imaging
• Neutron spectroscopy

Collaborations (past and current)

• José M. BIOUCAS DIAS ( Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal).
• José C. M. BERMUDEZ (Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil).
• Gerald S. BULLER (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).
• Angela DI FULVIO (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois)
• Nicolas DOBIGEON (University of Toulouse, IRIT/INP-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France).
• Daniele FACCIO (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK).
• Vivek K GOYAL (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts)
• Abderrahim HALIMI (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).
• Alfred HERO (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• Steve McLAUGHLIN (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).
• Miles J PADGETT (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK).
• Marcelo PEREYRA (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).
• Jean-Yves TOURNERET (University of Toulouse, IRIT/INP-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France).
• Andrew WALLACE (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).