Funded Research Projects

• B-Line Quantification in Lung Ultrasound Images for Fluid Overload Determination in Children Receiving Dialysis, Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, January – September 2016, Budget £25,000, Alin Achim (PI), Wesley Hayes, and David R. Bull
• A Unified Framework for Scalable Video Super-Resolution and Fusion, Dstl, January 2014 – September 2014, Budget £78,816, Alin Achim (PI), David R Bull, Jose Nunez-Yanez, and Paul Hill.
• Generic Enablers for Low-SWAPC ISTAR: Enabling low-power and low-cost sensors with hardware accelerated video super-resolution, Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE)/Dstl, Budget £75,733, August 2013 – November 2014, Jose Nunez-Yanez (PI), Alin Achim, and David R Bull.
• TS/K005103/1 – Energy–Efficient Image Processing for Man Portable Multi-Waveband Sensor Fusion, Technology Strategy Board/EPSRC/Dstl, July 2013 – June 2014, Budget £150,000, Alin Achim (PI) and Jose Nunez-Yanez (Qioptiq Ltd. lead).
• Helitune – Rotor Blade Tracking, June 2013 – October 2013, Budget £23,394, David R. Bull (PI) and Alin Achim.
• GDUK Image Processing Toolbox, General Dynamics, May 2013 – September 2013, Budget £30,000, David R. Bull (PI) and Alin Achim.
• The Centre for Alternative Testing and In-Vitro Monitoring (CATIM), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Budget £99,506, January 2013 – December 2015, Alin Achim and Paul Verkade (co-PIs, UWE lead).
• Image Fusion Study, RFEL Ltd., June 2012 – July 2012, Budget £22,342, Alin Achim (PI) and David R Bull.
• Visual Signal Analysis and Processing, KUSTAR (UAE), Sep 2011 – Aug 2015, Budget £898,776, David R Bull (PI), Alin Achim and Nishan Canagarajah.
• GD Heat Haze Distortion Correction-PHASE 1, General Dynamics, October 2011 – October 2012, Budget £34,000, Alin Achim (PI) and David R Bull.
• Detection of Underwater Targets in Difficult Environments, Dstl, January 2010 – March 2010, Budget £34,484, Dave Bull (PI), Alin Achim and Nishan Canagarajah.
• Enhancement of Low-Light Imagery – Phase 2, General Dynamics UK, January 2010 – March 2010, Budget £34,956, Dave Bull (PI), and Alin Achim
• Enhancement of Low-Light Imagery, General Dynamics UK, October 2009 – December 2009, Budget £17,835, Dave Bull (PI) and Alin Achim
• EP/H012710/1 Scalable Information Fusion: Adaptivity for Complex Environments and Secure Data, Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), August 2009 – July 2010, Budget £127,497, Dave Bull (PI), Alin Achim and Nishan Canagarajah.
• COST TU0702 – Real-Time Monitoring, Surveillance and Control of Road Networks under Adverse Weather Conditions, European Science Foundation, April 2008 – March 2012, Alin Achim (Management Committee Member)
• Applied Multidimensional Fusion (AMDF) Cluster Project, Data & Information Fusion Defense Technology Center, Budget £240,000, July 2006 – March 2009, A. Achim (PI), Dave Bull and Nishan Canagarajah.
• Multiresolution Algorithms for Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Systems, British Council, Budget £4,700, October 2005 – September 2007, Co-PIs: Alin Achim and Panagiotis Tsakalides (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas)