Dr Phil Birch
About Me
I am a Reader at the University of Sussex in the School of Engineering and Informatics. My work at present is in the field of optics and computer vision.
Please see my personal website for details about my reseach.Also see my website about Fourier Optics, this is still under construction.
My main research area crosses the boundary of optics and image processing. I have interests in
- Optical Processing of images. How can we implement deep learning neural networks optically? see https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.504956
- Tracking people, objects, drones. We are using transformer networks to predict the motion of people or objects. In the past Kalman filters were used, but the don't learn complex motions so well. Old examples are here Human and Vehicle Tracking [different site]
- Computer Vision and Deep Learning
- Fluorescence Life Imaging Microscopy [different site]
- Optical Signal Processing and correlation [different site]
I am looking for PhD students that are interested in optics, optical simulations and deep learning object tracking and image processing. If you are interested please get in contact.
Latest Videos
ETTrack: Enhanced Temporal Motion Predictor for Multiple Object Tracking https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15755
An example of the polarimetic camera we developed.
An example of our abandoned baggage detection system
And our ACC tracker working in the IR. It also works in the visible.
Here's an example video we took showing a Fruit Fly heartbeat using a SPIM microscope we developed and built.
Publications
My publications can found on....
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7740-9379Datasets
Contact
I can be contacted via this page.
Random
- An old research group party (2008), we've had more since ,honest!
- Some notes on Firewire camera formats
- Some notes on CMSIS IIR filters and Matlab.