Imperial College London
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
We have three objectives: to deliver world-leading research, to educate some of the world's most capable students to the highest possible level and to provide state-of-the-art advice to Industry. We aim for a fundamental understanding of the systems, structures and materials underpinning civil engineering and apply this to the solution of important engineering problems. We integrate new theoretical treatments, advances in numerical methods, and laboratory and field experimentation, focussing on the built environment and its inter-relationships with the
natural environment and human society. Research is based on four main themes:
- Environment, including water (terrestrial, coastal, offshore;
- resource, hazard and pollution), indoor air and waste management;
- Geotechnics, addressing properties and behaviour of the
- ground, interactions between structures and their foundations, and
- seismic hazard;
- Structures, focussing on the built environment, including
- structural design, materials, reliability, construction and the
- management of ageing infrastructure; and
- Transport, covering travel demand, policy and economics,
- intelligent systems, safety and risk, railway operations and port logistics
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/civilengineering
The Visual Information Processing (VIP) group - Department of Computing/Institute of Biomedical Engineering - Imperial College London
The Visual Information Processing (VIP) research group was formed in 1999 following funding from the Royal Society and Wolfson Foundation. The interests of the group are mainly in pursuing fundamental research and real-world applications of
- Pervasive Computing and Sensing
- Perceptual Intelligence
- Medical Image Computing
The main areas of computing and engineering that the group draws on are varied and the major domain of the applications that we cover is medicine, where we work directly with many research centres of the Imperial College School of Medicine. The strength of the group is in its ability in pursuing fundamental, long-term blue sky research as well as developing practical systems that can be used in research, clinical and industrial environments.
http://vip.doc.ic.ac.uk
http://vip.doc.ic.ac.uk/bsn
