Professor
Fionn Murtagh
Professor
of Computer Science
Department
of Computer Science
Head
of Department
Royal
Holloway
University
of London
Egham
Surrey
TW20 0EX
England
Tel
+44 28 9027-4620
Fax
+44 28 9068-3890
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/fionn/
RHUL -
Royal Holloway University of London
Royal
Holloway, located just west of London, is one of the constituent universities
and colleges of the University of London. RHUL
has about 7000 students.
The
Computer Science department is rated in the top ten in the UK and is
internationally recognised for the excellence of its research. The Department
scored 5 in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The RAE ranks
all university departments in the UK and the best departments score grades 5 and
5*.
The
Department is a world leader in Machine Learning and many of the key researchers
in this field are associated with the Computer Learning Research Centre - Profs
V Vapnik, A Chernovenkis, R Solomonoff, G Shafer, and others. Other strengths of
the Department include bioinformatics and computational biology; theory of
computing including optimisation and graph theory, and constraint satisfaction;
computational linguistics;
compilers
and logics; and image and signal processing.
Some
current research funding in the Department:
FP6,
CRAFT, Prof F Murtagh, "WS-Talk: Web Services Communicating in the Language
of Their User Community", 2005-2006.
BBSRC
(Biology Research Council, UK), Prof F Murtagh, "Multiple Scale and
Multimodal Data and Information Fusion in Human Sensory Discrimination",
2006-2007.
Medical
Research Council (UK), Prof A Gammerman, "Proteomic analysis of the Human
Serum Proteome for Population Screening, Diagnosis and Biomarker
Discovery", 2005-2008.
EPSRC
(UK), Prof D Cohen, "Tractability of Constraint Problems: Unification,
Extension and Applicability".
EPSRC
(UK), Dr C Watkins, with the School of Biological Sciences, RHUL,
"Amorphous Computation, Random Graphs and Complex Biological
Networks".
FP6,
Dr A Clark, "Grammatical inference with string kernels and latent structure
techniques - FP6 PASCAL network, "Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling
and Computational Learning".
Prof.
Fionn Murtagh
Fionn Murtagh is Professor of Computer Science in the University of London, and Head of the Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway. He holds degrees (Mathematics BA, Engineering Science BAI, Computer Science MSc) from Trinity College Dublin, a PhD (Mathematical Statistics) from Université P&M Curie, Paris, and an Habilitation from Université L. Pasteur, Strasbourg. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Computer Journal, one of the oldest (50 years old in 2007) computer science journals worldwide. He is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Classification, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Review, and others, and a series editor of the book series on Data Analysis and Computer Science (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press). He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is a member of the Knowledge Services Board of the British Computer Society, and a member of the UK Computing Research Council (UKCRC). He is a long-term member of the Board of Directors of the Classification Society of North America, and was recently elected to serve as President in 2008-2009. He is also a Board member of the European Regional Society of the International Association for Statistical Computing.
In the PPARC Astrogrid project, Fionn Murtagh is a Lead Investigator. He is currently a partner in the FP6 CRAFT project “WS-Talk – Web Services Communicating in the Language of Their User Community”, 2005-2006. He was Chair of COST Action 283, “Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid”, a 4-year project up to end 2005. In research directly related to the current grant proposal, he has published widely in data analysis and signal processing over the past 25 years including books such as Multidimensional Clustering Algorithms (Physica-Verlag, 1985); Multivariate Data Analysis (Kluwer, 1987); Image Processing and Data Analysis: The Multiscale Approach (CUP, 1998); Astronomical Image and Data Analysis (Springer, 2002; 2nd edition, 2006); and Correspondence Analysis and Data Coding (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2005).
RHUL1.
Murtagh, F., Correspondence Analysis and Data Coding with R and Java, Chapman
and Hall/CRC Press, 2005.
RHUL2.
Starck, J.-L., and Murtagh, F., Astronomical Image and Data Analysis, Springer-Verlag,
2002. 2005: 2nd edition in press.
RHUL3.
Starck, J.-L., Murtagh, F. and Bijaoui, A., Image Processing and Data Analysis:
The Multiscale Approach, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
RHUL4.
F. Murtagh, Ed., Imaging and Vision, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5823, SPIE,
Bellingham, 2005.
RHUL5.
A. Shearer, F. Murtagh, J. Mahon and P. Whelan, Eds., Opto-Ireland 2002: Optical
Metrology, Imaging, and Machine Vision, Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4877, SPIE
Bellingham, 2002.
RHUL6.
O. Renaud, J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh, Wavelet-based combined signal filtering and
prediction, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, B - Cybernetics,
35, 1241-1251, 2005.
RHUL7.
H. Hacihabiboglu and F. Murtagh, An observational study of the precedence
effect, Acta Acustica, 2005, in press.
RHUL8.
S. Johnstone, P. Contreras, F. Murtagh and P. Sage, Peer-to-peer information
access and retrieval, RTSI - Revue des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information,
Série ISI - Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information, 10, 101-122, 2005.
RHUL9.
F. Murtagh, A.E. Raftery and J.L. Starck, "Bayesian inference for multiband
image segmentation via model-based cluster trees", Image and Vision
Computing, 23, 587-596, 2005.
RHUL10.
F. Murtagh, X. Qiao, D. Crookes, P. Walsh, P.A.M. Basheer, A. Long, and J.L.
Starck, "A machine vision appraoch to the grading of crushed
aggregate", Machine Vision and Applications, 16, 229-235, 2005.
RHUL11.
F. Murtagh, X. Qiao, P. Walsh, P.A.M. Basheer, D. Crookes and A. Long,
"Grading of construction aggregate through machine vision: results and
prospects", Computers in Industry, 56, 905-917, 2005.
RHUL12.
C. Collet and F. Murtagh, "Multiband segmentation based on a hierarchical
Markov model", Pattern Recognition, 37, 2337-2347, 2004.
RHUL13.
F. Murtagh, J.L. Starck and O. Renaud, "On neuro-wavelet modeling",
Decision Support Systems, 37, 475-484, 2004.
RHUL14.
F. Murtagh, D. Barreto and J. Marcello, "Decision boundaries using Bayes
factors: the case of cloud masks", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing, 41, 2952-2958, 2003.
RHUL15.
A.C. Katsiyannis, D.R. Williams, R.T.J. McAteer, P.T. Gallagher, F.P. Keenan and
F. Murtagh, "Eclipse observations of high-frequency oscillations in active
region coronal loops", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 406, 709--714, 2003.
RHUL16.
J.L. Starck, M.K. Nguyen and F. Murtagh, "Wavelets and curvelets for image
deconvolution: a combined approach", Signal Processing, 83 (10), 2279-2283,
2003.
RHUL17.
J.L. Starck, F. Murtagh, E.J. Candes and D.L. Donoho, "Gray and color image
contrast enhancement by the curvelet transform", IEEE Transactions on Image
Processing, 12, 706-717, 2003.
RHUL18.
O. Renaud, J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh, Prediction Based on a Multiscale
Decomposition, International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and
Information Processing, Vol. 1, No. 2, 217-232, 2003.
RHUL19.
F. Murtagh and J.L. Starck, Quantization from Bayes factors with application to
multilevel thresholding, Pattern Recognition Letters, 24, 2001-2007, 2003.
RHUL20.
F. Murtagh and J.L. Starck, "Bayes factors for edge detection from wavelet
product spaces", Optical Engineering, 42, 1375-1382, 2003.
RHUL21.
F. Murtagh, T. Taskaya, P. Contreras, J. Mothe and K. Englmeier,
"Interactive visual user interfaces: a survey", Artificial
Intelligence Review, 19, 263-283, 2003.