Professor Andrew Hunter
Dean of Research
(+44) (0) 1522 886456
ahunter@lincoln.ac.uk
Personal Assistant:
Tammie Farley
(+44) (0) 1522 886882
tfarley@lincoln.ac.uk
Role
Dean of Research, Director of University Research Office, Professor of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. Professor Hunter is responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring the University’s Research Strategy, in association with the Senior Pro Vice Chancellor, and for managing the University Research Office, including the Graduate School. The major responsibilities of these organizations are in the generation of external research income and the support and training of postgraduate research students.
Biography
Prof. Hunter studied for his B.Sc. Mathematics and Computing and Ph.D. Computer Graphics at Bath University. He worked for several years in industry, in computer graphics and CAD/CAM software, before returning to academia. Prof. Hunter held posts at Sunderland and Durham Universities, before joining the University of Lincoln and becoming Head of Department of Computing in 2004, and became Dean of Research in 2007. Professor Hunter has published over 80 academic papers, including 20 in international journals. He has also developed several freeware and commercial artificial intelligence software packages.
Qualifications/Memberships
Fellow British Computer Society, Ph.D. Computer Graphics, Cert. Ed (HE), B.Sc. Mathematics and Computing.
Committee Memberships
Professor Hunter is a member of the Core Executive, Academic Board, Commercial Enterprise Board, Academic Affairs Committee, Research Policy Committee, Research and Enterprise Committee, Teaching and Learning Development Committee, ICT Committee, Ethics Committee, External Examiners Committee and Library Committee. He Chairs the Research Degrees Committee, Graduate School Committee and Research Ethics Committee. He is also a member or chair of various working groups.
Research Interests
Professor Hunter's research interests are in computer vision and artificial intelligence, and particularly in medical applications of vision and automated surveillance. Major projects include: BRAINS, a TSB-sponsored project to develop embedded neurally-inspired smart sensor systems for surveillance based on FPGA technology; TOTALCARE, a TSB-sponsored project to develop an integrated automated in-home monitoring system for assistive care, including novel behaviour analysis; and retinal analysis, including detection and measurement of features of the retinal vasculature, and the application of level set methods and novel shape features in lesion detection and classification. He leads a small group of three Research Assistants and four PhD students.
External Interests
Prof. Hunter has developed the leading freeware genetic algorithms simulator Sugal, which has a substantial worldwide user base.
Prof. Hunter is also the developer of a leading neural network simulation package, Trajan, which is marketed by Trajan Software Ltd.
Other Interests
Prof. Hunter enjoys walking, cycling, music and chess.
Representative Recent Publications
Al-Diri, B. Hunter, A. and Steel, D. “An active contour model for segmenting and measuring retinal vessels,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. In Press, 2009.
Dickinson, P. and Hunter, A. “A spatially distributed model for foreground segmentation,” Image and Vision Computing In Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2008.12.001
Wang, C.W. and Hunter, A. “A Low Variance Error Boosting Algorithm.” Applied Intelligence, In Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10489-009-0172-0.
Humphreys, J. and Hunter, A. “Multiple object tracking using a neural cost function,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 417-424, March 2009.
Meng, H., Yue, S., Hunter, A., Appiah, K., Hobden, M., Priestley, N., Hobden, P. and Pettit, C. (2009) A Modified Neural Network Model for Lobula Giant Movement Detector with Additional Depth Movement Feature. In: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 14-29, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia.
Appiah, K. and Hunter, A. and Meng, H. and Yue, S. and Hobden, M. and Priestley, N., Hobden, P. and Pettit, C. (2009) A Binary Self-Organizing Map and its FPGA Implementation. In: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 14-29, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia.
Meng, H., Appiah, K., Hunter, A., Yue, S., Hobden, M., Hobden, P. and Priestley, N. (2009) “A Modified Sparse Distributed Memory Model for Extracting Clean Patterns from Noisy Inputs” In: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 14-29, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia.
Appiah, K., Hunter, A., Dickinson, P., Kluge, T. and Aiken, P. (2009) “FPGA-based Anomalous trajectory detection using SOFM.” In: Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC) Workshop, 16th – 18th March 2009, Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT), Germany.
Massey, E., Lowell, J., Hunter, A., and Steel,D., “Lesion boundary segmentation using level set methods,” in Proc. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Practice (VisApp), Lisbon, Portugal, February 2009.
Appiah, K., Hunter, A., Dickinson, P. and Owens, J. (2008) “A Run-Length Based Connected Component Algorithm for FPGA Implementation.” In: International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology 2008, 7th - 10th December, Taipei, Taiwan .
B. Al-Diri, A. Hunter, D. Steel, et al., “Review - a reference data set for retinal vessel profiles,” in Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE EMBS, 2008.
Al-Diri, B., Hunter, A., Steel, D. and Habib, M. “Joining retinal vessel segments,” Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), October 2008.
Dickinson, P. and Hunter, A. “Using inactivity to detect unusual behavior,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Motion and video Computing (WMVC 2008), pp. 1–6, January 2008.
Wang, CW and Hunter, A., “A robust pose matching algorithm for covered body analysis for sleep apnea,” Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE), October 2008.
Other publications
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