Tim Cootes

Division of Imaging Science & Biomedical Engineering,
University of Manchester,
Stopford Building,
Oxford Rd.,
Manchester.
M13 9PT
UK

Email: Tim Cootes

Webpage: http://www.isbe.man.ac.uk/personal/tcootes/

Research Interests: I've had a great deal of fun developing statistical models of both shape and appearance, which have proved very useful for interpretting images of many different kinds. They are used in `Active Shape Models' (ASMs) and `Active Appearance Models' (AAMs) which iteratively deform to fit to image data. We've used them for locating bones and organs in medical images, for face and gesture recognition and for industrial inspection.
I'm also working on corresponding sets of shapes/images so as to find optimal shape/appearance models.