The 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. 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
Video quality assessment
Vision and learning
Vision and the creative arts
Visual aesthetics
Visual human-computer interaction, graphics and immersive environments
Visual psychophysics
Visual system modelling
