Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing

The Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) is one of the major research centres of the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences of the University of Surrey. Its aim is to advance the state of the art in multimedia signal processing and computer vision, with a focus on image, video and audio applications.

The research work in the Centre is structured into four main areas: Multimedia Signal Processing and Interpretation, Visual Media, Medical Imaging and Robot Vision. The Centre's expertise and activities span multimedia applications (video coding and retrieval), digital broadcast production, speech and audio processing, picture quality assessment, biometric personal identity authentication, document analysis, medical imaging, automatic visual inspection, mobile robotics, remote sensing, cognitive vision, human-computer interfaces, and dynamic 3D object and environment modelling.

The Centre, one of the largest in the UK, has about 70 members comprising academic and support staff, postdoctoral research fellows, visitors and PhD students. Its annual research income is in excess of £2.0m, with about one half resourced by grants from EPSRC, EU and industry.