Staff profile
Dr Amir Atapour-Abarghouei
Associate Professor
| Affiliation | Telephone |
|---|---|
| Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science | +44 (0) 191 33 44556 |
| Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing |
Biography
Background
Amir Atapour-Abarghouei is an Assistant Professor within the VIViD (Vision, Imaging and Visualisation in Durham) research group in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University.
He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at Durham University in the UK. Prior to his current position, he was a lecturer at the School of Computing at Newcastle Univeristy in the UK.
His primary research is currently focused on machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image processing, 3D scene analysis, semantic and geometric scene understanding, scene depth prediction and natural language processing, but he has a background in various areas of computing, such as artificial intelligence, stochastic search methods, combinatorial optimisation and high-performance computing.
Research interests
- Depth Estimation and 3D Reconstruction
- Domain Adaptation and Data Augmentation
- Image Processing and Computer Vision
- Machine Learning / Deep Learning
- Multi-Task Learning and Neural Architecture Search
- Robotic Navigation and Autonomy
- Scene Understanding and Image Analysis
- Semantic Segmentation and Object Detection
- Text Ranking and Classification
- Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis