Course description
In this programme, the first two semesters expose the students to taught material in the form of lectures, assignments and laboratory exercises.
The summer dissertation projects have strong industrial relevance by drawing on EU- or industry-funded research and development carried out in the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing in various applications areas, including 3D broadcast production, biometrics, video archive restoration, security and surveillance systems, image and video database retrieval, speech recognition, machine audio perception, biomedical image processing, and robotics.
There are also opportunities for conducting the project work at collaborating academic institutions in the EU under the Socrates programme.
Successful students graduating from this programme can expect to find employment in a diverse range of media-related and advanced technology industries. The demand for such graduate engineers reflects the UK's status as a world leader in the media production business, with music and film post-production and games development recognised internationally and second only in size to the USA.
Our location is perfectly placed to benefit from the high concentration in London and the South East of companies involved in media production, broadcast, post-production, games, defence systems, biometric and surveillance systems, and computer vision, and the presence of major international consumer electronics companies.
One of the prime challenges in the information age is finding the right data to match what you are looking for. This programme examines ways that man-made systems have developed to extract relevant information from digital data streams. Along with a basis of image and audio processing, it provides a grounding in artificial intelligence with related elements that include, for example, voice recognition and neural networks.
Programme length
12 months full-time, up to 48 months part-time
