Reflectance Research

[The first year of my PhD involved the analysis and recovery of reflectance. During the course of this work I became more interested in the underlying theoretical nature of the problem, specifically the analysis of functions on the sphere and the development of spherical wavelets. I have since transfered to the Astrophysics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory to concentrate on such work in the setting of Cosmic Microwave Background analysis.

These pages relate to the reflectance recovery work I have performed. I have left them here for reference but they will no longer be updated.]

My [former] research focuses on recovering and analysing the reflectance properties of surfaces. This problem may be posed in a signal processing framework, and may then be viewed as a type of deconvolution problem. My interests include Fourier and wavelet analysis, Bayesian inference and the general application of Signal Processing techniques to Computer Vision.

I am [was] supervised by Professor Roberto Cipolla.

Publications
	McEwen J.D., Towards the Recovery and Analysis of Surface Reflectance, First year PhD progress report, University of Cambridge, Aug 2003. (Approx. 3MB) (Abstract)

Bibliography
	I have completed a detailed literature review on research related to surface reflectance during this first year of my PhD. In particular I have examined various representations of reflectance and recovery techniques. A bibliography and bibtex files listing the related work reviewed is available here. Bibliography.pdf comp_vision.bib sph_harmonics.bib deconvolution.bib abbrev.bib

Software
	Some related software that I have implemented can be found here.

Supervisions
	Some prospective 4th year projects for students taking the MEng course may be found here. I will be supervising Part IA Computing C++ in the Engineering Department in the coming academic year. Any related material will appear here. In the past I have also supervised first year Mathematics and first professional year Circuits and Systems at the University of Canterbury, NZ.


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