Kirk Martinez
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Kirk Martinez is a Senior Lecturer in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton
UK. He gained a BSc in Physics from the University of Reading and a PhD in Image Processing in the department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex
. While Arts Computing Lecturer at Birkbeck College London
(1987-96) he pioneered the digital imaging of paintings together with The National Gallery, London in the European project VASARI (1980s). This led to a continuous development of art imaging projects to print accurate art books (MARC project), view high detail images on the web (Viseum projecthttp://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/viseum.html) and find art images online (Artiste, SCULPTEUR and eCHASE). He has published this research in books on image processing and computer architecture as well as Transactions of the IEEE on content-based image retrieval
He was an advisor on the imaging and image processing required for the Archimedes Palimpsest
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He is one of the founders of the Electronics and the Visual Arts: EVA Conferences
He is the founder of the VIPS image processing package together with John Cupitt (National Gallery London and now Imperial College London). This now used widely worldwide and available in most Linux distributions as well as for Microsoft Windows. It is particularly known for mosaicing, colour and parallel processing/performance.
He is currently working on wireless sensor networks for monitoring the environment, particularly in relation to glaciers and climate change
(Glacsweb project). This research featured on BBC technology news and the BBC's News, recently work to move the technology to landslide detection was also on BBC news.
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
UK. He gained a BSc in Physics from the University of Reading and a PhD in Image Processing in the department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex
University of Essex
The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
. While Arts Computing Lecturer at Birkbeck College London
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
(1987-96) he pioneered the digital imaging of paintings together with The National Gallery, London in the European project VASARI (1980s). This led to a continuous development of art imaging projects to print accurate art books (MARC project), view high detail images on the web (Viseum projecthttp://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/viseum.html) and find art images online (Artiste, SCULPTEUR and eCHASE). He has published this research in books on image processing and computer architecture as well as Transactions of the IEEE on content-based image retrieval
Content-based image retrieval
Content-based image retrieval , also known as query by image content and content-based visual information retrieval is the application of computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases....
He was an advisor on the imaging and image processing required for the Archimedes Palimpsest
Archimedes Palimpsest
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest on parchment in the form of a codex. It originally was a copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors, which was overwritten with a religious text.Archimedes lived in the...
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He is one of the founders of the Electronics and the Visual Arts: EVA Conferences
EVA Conferences
The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts conferences are a series of international interdisciplinary conferences mainly in Europe, but also elsewhere in the world, for people interested in the application of information technology to the cultural and especially the visual arts field, including...
He is the founder of the VIPS image processing package together with John Cupitt (National Gallery London and now Imperial College London). This now used widely worldwide and available in most Linux distributions as well as for Microsoft Windows. It is particularly known for mosaicing, colour and parallel processing/performance.
He is currently working on wireless sensor networks for monitoring the environment, particularly in relation to glaciers and climate change
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
(Glacsweb project). This research featured on BBC technology news and the BBC's News, recently work to move the technology to landslide detection was also on BBC news.
external links and references
- his home page
- Glacsweb
- Computerworld nomination for the VASARI project
- article on Lifeboat
- work on Archimedes Palimpsest
- VIPS publication
- Nicolas Salmeron a relative cited in WikiPedia