Peter Passmore

Senior Lecturer

Department: Computing and Multimedia Technology

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Qualifications

BSc, MSc, PhD, MEur

Research Interests

  • Human factors and computational issues in virtual and augmented reality keyhole surgery simulation including haptics
  • Medical imaging and Image segmentation
  • 3D 'photo-fit' modelling for clinical dysmorphology
  • VR, animation, natural and artificial vision, non-photorealism, game technology etc

Research Supervision:

Director of Studies

  • Mohammad Mostafa Kamal: An Intelligent Classification System: A Case Study for Landuse/Land cover Mapping Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing and GIS
  • Patrick Matambanadzo: Finite element modelling of therapeutic intervention processes in virtual surgery
  • Casper Nielsen: A robust framework for medical image segmentation through adaptable class-specific representation (PhD awarded 2002)
  • Saif ur Rehman: Virtual reality laparoscopic surgery simulations
  • Yan Zhang: Visualisation and enhancement of diagnostic images for brain EIT

Second Supervisor

  • Abhishek Agrawal: Rule generation using evolution computation
  • Kunbin Hong: Development of a detection system for identification of traffic signals (PhD awarded 2005)
  • Ian Kenny: An investigation into the creation of non-scripted, adaptive, responsive and flexible non-player characters for adventure and role playing games

Teaching Interests

  • CMT3311 - Interactive Graphics Systems (Module Leader)
  • CMT3330 - Computer Graphics Rendering (Module Leader)

Biography

Publications:

  • Zhang Y., Passmore P.J., and Bayford R.H. "Visualization and post-processing of 5D brain images". Accepted for presentation at the 27th IEEE Engineering in Biology Society Conference, September 2005, Shanghai, China.
  • Rehman M.S., Passmore P.J., and Fields B. "Development of a Cognitive Task Analysis Protocol for Laparoscopic Surgery" (2004) ECCE12: The 12th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, pp 207-213.
  • Nielsen C.F, and Passmore P.J. Robust Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Single and Multi-Channel MRI Volumes through Adaptable Class-Specific Representation, Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing, SPIE Press.
  • Passmore P.J., Nielsen C.F., Cosh W.J., and Darzi A. (2001) "Effects of Viewing and Orientation on Path Following in Medical Teleoperation." IEEE Virtual Reality 2001 Conference, Yokohama, Japan, pp109-216
  • Nielsen C.F, and Passmore P.J. (2001) "Robust Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Simulated and Real MRI Data through Adaptable Class-Specific Representation" to be presented at Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2001 Conference
  • Nielsen C.F, and Passmore P.J. (2001) Towards a Robust Path Growing Algorithm for Semi-Automatic MRI Segmentation, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2001, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 1382-1383
  • Passmore P.J, Read O.J.B., Nielsen C.F., Torkington J., and Darzi A. (2000) "Effects of perspective and stereo on depth judgments in virtual reality laparoscopy simulation." Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2000, Stud Health Technol Inform;70:243–246
  • Nielsen C.F, and Passmore P.J. (2000) "A Solution to the Problem of Segmentation Near Edges Using Adaptable Class-Specific Representation." 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, August 2000. 436–440
  • Nielsen C.F. and Passmore P.J. (2000) "Achieving Accurate Colour Image Segmentation in 2D and 3D with LVQ Classifiers and Partial Adaptable Class-Specific Representation" IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision. 72–78
  • Passmore, P., Johnston, A., (1996), Human Discrimination of Surface Slant in Fractal and related Textured Images, Human Symmetry and its Computational Analysis, C Tyley (ed), VSP, Zeist, The Netherlands
  • Passmore, P., Nielsen, (1996), A solution to the problem of segmentation near edges using adaptable class-specific representation, 15th International conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, IEEE

 

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