Dr Charith Abhayaratne

PhD(Bath) BE(Adelaide) PGCertHE(Sheffield) FHEA MIEEE MIET


Research Interests

  • Multi-modal sensing, data analysis and machine learning.
  • Machine Intelligence for computer vision
  • Machine Intelligence for multimedia content security and forensics
  • Multidimensional signal processing and analysis.
  • Video and image coding, streaming and visual quality metrics
  • Applications in robotics, creative industries, networked digital media, security, surveillance, assisted living, healthcare, remote sensing and digital manufacturing.

Professional Activities

  • Professional Bodies
    • Fellow - Higher Education Academy.
    • Member - IEEE, IET, EURASIP.
  • Current Journal Editorships
    • Associate Editor - IEEE Access (2020 - to present)
    • Associate Editor - IEEE Trans. Image Processing (2019 - to present)
    • Associate Editor - Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) (2017- to present)
  • Recent/current International Conference Organizing Committees
    • Local and registration chair -IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2020.
  • Committee Memberships
    • Member - IEEE CTSoc Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing (AVS) Technical Committee (2020 -present)
    • Member - APSIPA Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee (2019 - present)
    • Peer review college - EPSRC (2017 to present)
    • Committe member - IST-37 (Coding of picture, audio, multimedia and hypermedia information) subcommittee of British Standards Institute (BSI) (2018 - present).
    • UK liaison for EURASIP (2009 - 2019).