{"id":166,"date":"2024-05-05T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T11:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2024-05-05T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:55:24","slug":"prof-tim-cootes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/prof-tim-cootes\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Tim Cootes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2024\/05\/Tim-Cootes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After completing a degree in Mathematics and Physics at Exeter, Tim Cootes did a PhD in Civil Engineering, monitoring a storm sewer overflow in Sheffield. During this project he was introduced to the delights of computer vision, and shortly after completing it, he took up a research position at the University of Manchester. He has remained there ever since.<\/p>\n<p>His research has focused on statistical models of shape and appearance, and how they can be used to understand variations across populations and to locate structures in new images.<\/p>\n<p>The algorithms that he and colleagues invented have been adopted world-wide, and applied to many different application areas, including interpreting images of faces and medical image analysis. Tim was appointed as a lecturer at the University in 2001, and eventually became a Professor of Computer Vision in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>He has been involved in a range of activities to translate research into real-world solutions.\u00a0 His current focus is on applications of the technology in the musculoskeletal domain, particularly looking at diseases such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After completing a degree in Mathematics and Physics at Exeter, Tim Cootes did a PhD in Civil Engineering, monitoring a storm sewer overflow in Sheffield. During this project he was introduced to the delights of computer vision, and shortly after completing it, he took up a research position at the University of Manchester. He has...","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/lasr2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}