Bryan Scotney
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Ulster University
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Bryan Scotney is a Professor at Department of Computer science. His work is aimed at mage processing and distributed data processing and analysis, focusing on solving the problems of integration of heterogeneous data sources. Prof Scotney has collaborated widely with academic, government and commercial partners, and has extensive experience of working in interdisciplinary projects, most recently with an emphasis on healthcare technologies and applications for healthcare support. Much of his work has been supported by funding from the European Union Framework Programmes and the UK Research Councils. This includes four EU FP5 projects to address issues of harmonisation of Official Statistics. More recently, he is an investigator on EPSRC NETWORK in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services (EP/F030118/1) EPSRC–DST funded India-UK Advanced Technology Centre (IU-ATC) of Excellence in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services (EP/G051674/1 and EP/J016748/1) ESRC-funded project on Design for Ageing Well (RES-353-25-0004) SAVASA project on a Standards-based Approach to Video Archive Search and Analysis, funded by the EU FP7 Security programme
Research Interest
Mathematical computation, especially in digital image processing and computer vision, pattern recognition and classification, statistical databases, reasoning under uncertainty, and applications to healthcare informatics, official statistics, biomedical and vision sciences, and telecommunications network management.
