People

Coordination

[Photo: Stefan Rueger]

Stefan Rüger
s.rueger -at- open.ac.uk
Professor of Knowledge Media, The Open University
Visiting Principal Research Fellow, Imperial College London

PostDocs

[Photo: Suzanne Little]

Dr Suzanne Little
s.little -at- open.ac.uk
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Research Team

	Ainhoa Llorente Coto a.llorente -at- open.ac.uk PhD student, Automated image annotation and ontoloies Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
	Haiming Liu h.m.liu -at- open.ac.uk PhD student, Multimedia search engine interfaces Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
	Adam Rae a.rae -at- open.ac.uk PhD student, Social Media and Image Retrieval Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Visiting Researchers (past and present)

	Dr Cathal Gurrin visited KMi in Sept 2008 School of Computing Dublin City University
	Dr Alex Hauptmann visited KMi in Feb 2008 School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
	Dr David Bainbridge visited KMi in May 2007 Department of Computer Science University of Waikato, New Zealand
	Prof Mickaël Gardoni visited in Spring term 2001 from Laboratoire GILCO (Gestion Industrielle Logistique et Conception), ENSGI, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble now with INSA de Strasbourg, Laboratoire LGeCo/LICIA

Previous Team Members

	Serge Zagorac s.zagorac -at- open.ac.uk Research Developer, 2008-2009, mainly PHAROS project Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
	Simon Overell seo01 -at- doc.ic.ac.uk PhD thesis (2005-2009), Geographic Information Retrieval: Classification, Disambiguation and Modelling Imperial College London
	Rui Hu r.hu -at- open.ac.uk PhD student, Automated image annotation Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University; Aug 2007 - Nov 2008
	Dr João Magalhães PhD thesis (2004 - 2008): Statistical models for semantic-multimedia information retrieval, Sept 2008 Imperial College London
	Dr Dawei Song team co-cordinator 2006 - 2008 Senior Lecturer, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Now professor at the School of Computing, Robert Gordon University
	Dr Qiang Huang postdoc in MMIS team 2007 - 2008 Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Now at the School of Computing, Robert Gordon University
	Dr Helen Huang postdoc in MMIS team 2007 - 2008 (PHAROS) Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Now with ITEE, Uni of Brisbane
	Dr Jianhan Zhu postdoc in MMIS team 2007 - 2008 Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Now at University College London's Adastral Park Campus
	Dr Alexei Yavlinsky PhD thesis (2003 - 2007): Image indexing and retrieval using automated annotation, Sept 2007
	Dr Peter Howarth PhD thesis (2003 - 2007): Discovering images: features, similarities and subspaces, June 2007
	Dr Ed Schofield PhD thesis (2002 - 2006): Fitting maximum-entropy models on large sample spaces, Jan 2007
	Dr Paul Browne Postdoctoral Research Associate (2005 - 2006), Multimedia Digital Libraries
	Dr Daniel Heesch PhD thesis (2001 - 2005): The NN^k technique for image searching and browsing, Dec 2005; also Research Associate on the CHLT EU-NSF project working on information visualisation
	Dr Shyamala Doraisamy PhD thesis (2000 - 2004): Polyphonic music retrieval: The N-gram approach, Sept 2004. Now Senior Lecturer at University Putra Malaysia
	Dr Marcus Pickering PhD thesis (2000 - 2004): Video Retrieval and Summarisation, July 2004
	Alex May MEng 2004: Wed-based video and image navigation
	Partha Lal MEng 2002: Document Summarisation
	Matthew Carey MSC 2000: Information Visualisation