Month: August 2020

Learning to Describe: A New Approach to Computer Vision Based Ancient Coin Analysis

The work on deep learning based understanding of ancient coins by Jessica Cooper, who is a Research Assistant and a part-time PhD student supervised by Oggie Arandjelovic and David Harrison has been chosen as a featured, “title story” article by the Journal Sci where it was published in a Special Issue Machine Learning and Vision Learning to Describe: A New Approach to Computer Vision Based Ancient Coin Analysis

Zoë Nengite awarded Principal’s Medal

Congratulations to Zoë Nengite who has been awarded The Principal’s Medal in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and exceptional activities within the University and the wider St Andrews community. The Medal is awarded to students who have both excellent academic accomplishments and those who have inspired and supported their peers and who have often undertaken Zoë Nengite awarded Principal’s Medal

PhD viva success: Hui-Shyong Yeo

Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeoi, who successfully defended his thesis last month. The virtual viva was convened by Dr Uta Hinrichs with external examiner Professor Stephen Brewster from The University of Glasgow.

PhD viva success: Fearn Bishop

Congratulations to Fearn Bishop, who succesfuly defended her thesis last month. The virtual viva was convened by Dr Alice Toniolo with external examiner Dr Petra Isenberg from from the AVIZ group INRIA, Saclay Île-de-France.