BMA film and video competition

Historical Film Restoration and Video

This paper sumarises and extends our previous work in the video coding of historical lm material (in particular, a 1906 feature length lm-which may claim to be the rst feature length lm ever produced). While it may be useful to employ digital restoration techniques on this material, purely for restoration purposes, we focus here only on restoration in so far as is necessary/useful for reducing ...

Face Video Competition

Person recognition using facial features, e.g., mug-shot images, has long been used in identity documents. However, due to the widespread use of web-cams and mobile devices embedded with a camera, it is now possible to realise facial video recognition, rather than resorting to just still images. In fact, facial video recognition offers many advantages over still image recognition; these include...

Turning the BMA into print.

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The first BMA Gold Medal.

The BMA in agony.

The BMA suffered agonies last week. And the chairman of its council, Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, suffered even more. Why the agony and will anything be learnt? Even before the annual representative meeting (the supreme policy making body of the association) had opened in Inverness last week a whispering campaign had begun. It said that Dr Lee-Potter (attending his first such meeting as chairman of co...