Professor Tim Cootes
Professor of Computer Vision
- Email: tim.cootes@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 5146
Room G542
Stopford Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
See also my personal home page
Research
Medical Image Analysis using Statistical Models
Using statistical shape and appearance models, and machine learning methods, to locate and measure structures in medical images.
Facial Image Analysis
Using statistical models to locate and track facial features in images and videos, and to estimate the identity or activity of the person.
Groupwise Image Registration
Methods of finding corresponding points and structures in large groups of images, so that we can automatically construct statistical models to learn about the common structures and variation inherent in the data.
Teaching
MSc Module on Mathematical Methods
Biography
After completing a degree in Maths and Physics at Exeter University, and a PhD in Civil Engineering (studying a storm sewer overflow) at Sheffield City Polytechnic, I joined the University of Manchester in 1991.
I began as an RA, working with Prof Chris Taylor on modelling industrial components.
I was awarded an SERC Postgraduate fellowship in 1993, and an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship in 1995.
I became a Lecturer in ISBE in June 2001, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in October 2002.
I became a Reader in Computer Vision in August 2005, and was appointed as a Professorial Research Fellow in August 2006.
My research has concentrated on constructing statistical models of the shape and appearance of objects in images, and in developing algorithms to match such models to new images. We have applied these models to many problems in the industrial and medical domains, and to the interpretation of facial images.
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Collaborators
- Dr Martin Roberts : Vertebral Fracture Analysis
- Dr Philip Tresadern : Facial feature location and tracking
- Dr Angela Caunce : In-car Driver Monitoring/3D Face tracking
- Dr Kola Babalola : Brain image modelling
- Dr Mircea Ionita : Facial feature location and tracking
- Dr Vladimir Petrovic : Automatic model building
Affiliated staff
Selected publications
2006
- Cristinacce D, Cootes TF. (2006). Feature Detection and Tracking with Constrained Local Models. BMVA.
- Roberts M, Cootes TF, Adams JE. (2006). Vertebral morphometry: semi-automated determination of detailed vertebral shape from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry images using Active Appearance Models. Invest Radiol, 41(12), 849-859.
2005
- T.F. Cootes, C.J. Twining, V.Petrovic, R.Schestowitz and C.J. Taylor. (2005). Groupwise Construction of Appearance Models using Piece-wise Affine Deformations.
2004
- Cootes TF, Marsland SSR, Twining, Smith K, Taylor CJ. (2004). Groupwise Diffeomorphic Non-rigid Registration for Automatic Model Building. Springer.
2002
- Cootes TF, G.V. Wheeler, K.N.Walker, Taylor CJ. (2002). View-Based Active Appearance Models. Image and Vision Computing, 20, 657-664.
- Davies R, Twining CJ, Cootes TF, Waterton C, Taylor CJ. (2002). A minimum description length approach to statistical shape modelling. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 21, 525-537.
2001
- COOTES TF; EDWARDS G; TAYLOR C. (2001). Active appearance models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(6), 681-685. Full text doi:10.1109/34.927467
1995
- Cootes TF, Cooper DH, Taylor CJ, Graham J. (1995). Active Shape Models - Their training and application. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 61, 38-59.