Research grants

Sponsored research projects

Viridor Waste Management Ltd

Title: Viridor – Re-Cyclates: Boosting efficiency and effectiveness

Investigators: C. Abhayaratne, J. Aitken (PI), J. Law and S. Veres.

Period: 09/2016 – 01/2017

Amount: £25,188

EPSRC

Title: Seamless and Adaptive Wireless Access for Efficient Future Networks (SERAN)

Partners: University of Edinburgh and University of Bristol

Investigators: T. O'Farrell (PI) and C. Abhayaratne

Period: 01/2015 – 12/2017

Amount: £280,000

Innovate UK/CiT Digital Ltd

Title: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) on Content-based descriptions for online image catalogues.

Partners: CiT Digital Ltd

Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)

Period: 03/2013 – 09/2015

Amount: £140,202

EPSRC/BBC R&D

Title: Hyper Realistic Video Coding

Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)

Period: 01/2012 – 06/2015

Amount: £92,161

The University of Sheffield

Title: Adaptive lifestyle monitoring (within PIPIN network)

Partners: ScHARR

Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)

Period: 10/2011 – 09/2014

Amount: £55,000

Technology Stratey Board (TSB)

Title: Persistent and Robust Tracking of Entertainment Content (PARTEC)

Partners: ZOO Digital Group, CTVC, IBIS

Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)

Period: 06/2011 – 05/2013

Amount: £137,466

EPSRC (Knowledge Transfer Account)/ZOO Digital Group

Title: Compressed-domain video watermarking

Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)

Period: 01/2011 – 04/2011

Amount: £15,501

EPSRC/British Petrolium (BP) Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award (DHPA)

Title: Watermarking of scalable coded media

Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)

Period: 10/2006 – 03/2010

Amount: £90,000