About BVI
Research on the evolution of camouflage patterns in animalsThe University of Bristol is a world leader in vision science. Bristol has a long and rich tradition at the forefront of the study of human and animal vision, artificial vision systems and imaging more generally.
The University recently identified vision science as one of its core "research themes" and underlined this with the creation, in 2007, of the Bristol Vision Institute (BVI). BVI currently functions as a virtual research institute and has been highly successful in stimulating research interaction and collaboration; It is built on the belief that interdisciplinary research is central to the future development of the field. BVI brings together engineers and scientists from a range of academic disciplines (from 14 Departments) including electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, biological sciences, experimental psychology, mathematics, biochemistry, anatomy, together with external partners such as the Bristol Eye Hospital, the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and UWE’s Machine Vision Group.
BVI currently represents a grouping of around 36 permanent academic staff and some 60 researchers at Bristol working on vision and imaging research and its engineering applications. BVI staff have published over 200 leading journal papers during the past 5 years and have held 23 editorial positions on international journals.
The scope of the research undertaken within BVI is very wide, including:
- Biomedical imaging
- Camouflage
- Clinical and developmental studies
- Computational modelling and computer vision
- Detection, tracking, classification of difficult targets
- Evolution of visual systems
- Eye movements and hand-eye coordination
- Film, broadcast and multimedia technology
- Foraging and mapping
- Forensic imaging
- Human and animal visual performance
- Image and video compression
- Locomotion
- Multisensor fusion
- Ophthalmology
- Robot vision
- Search and retrieval
- Vision and learning
- Vision and the creative arts
- Visual aesthetics
- Visual human-computer interaction, graphics and immersive environments
- Visual psychophysics
- Visual system modelling