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Dr Phil Grant

Dr Phil Grant

Name: Phil Grant

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Senior Lecturer at Swansea

Email: P.W.Grant@swansea.ac.uk

Telephone: (+44) 1792 295396

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Modelling of facial ageing and facial dynamics. Information Visualisation. Applications of genetic and logic programming.

Modelling of facial ageing and facial dynamics. Information Visualisation. Applications of genetic and logic programming.

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  • Facial Ageing: A data-driven framework has been developed for facial ageing simulation. Genetic programming was employed to evolve a solution automatically by learning from example transformations in a facial image database. With evolutionary computing, this technique is able to infer from the input and the database the most appropriate models to be used for transforming the input face.
  • Natural Image Statistics: Starting from visual representations of power spectra, we introduced several new visual representations (glyphs), conveying more information about image statistics. A user evaluation was carried out to compare the new visual representations with the conventional power spectra plots. This research is in collaboration with Cardiff and Oxford University.
  • Visual metaphors: A template-based approach was adopted to generate metaphoric visualisation from tabular data realised in a software system, vis4me2. As a case study, the outcome of the RAE2008 was used to demonstrate the usability and effectiveness of this technique. More recently an empirical study on using visual embellishments in visualization has been conducted.

Phil Grant is currently senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Swansea University, UK. He received his BSc in 1968 from Manchester University, UK and obtained his DPhil in Mathematical Logic (Computability Theory) from Oxford University in 1972. He has been a Senior Scientist at Silogic Inc in Los Angeles, USA. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Science, Head of Department and Deputy Head of the School of Physical Sciences. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, member of the ACM and Fellow of the BCS.

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