Dr Charith Abhayaratne
PhD (Bath), BE (Adelaide), PGCertHE (Sheffield), FHEA, MIEEE, MIET
Senior Lecturer
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Research interests
Multi-modal sensing, data analysis and machine learning.
Machine intelligence for computer vision.
Machine intelligence for multimedia content security and forensics.
Multidimensional signal processing and analysis.
Video and image coding, streaming and visual quality metrics.
Applications in robotics, creative industries, networked digital media, security, surveillance, assisted living, healthcare, remote sensing and digital manufacturing.
Professional activities
Professional bodies
Fellow – Higher Education Academy.
Member – IEEE, IET, EURASIP.
Current journal editorships
Associate Editor – IEEE Access (2020 to present).
Associate Editor – IEEE Trans. Image Processing (2019 to present).
Associate Editor – Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) (2017 to present).
Recent/current international conference organising committees
Local and registration chair – IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2020.
Committee memberships
Member – IEEE CTSoc Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing (AVS) Technical Committee (2020 to present).
Member – APSIPA Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee (2019 to present).
Peer review college – EPSRC (2017 to present).
Committee member – IST-37 (coding of picture, audio, multimedia and hypermedia information) subcommittee of British Standards Institute (BSI) (2018 to present).
UK liaison for EURASIP (2009–2019).