Professor Roy Davies

BA, MA, DPhil, DSc
FInstP, FIET, SMIEEE, MBCS
BMVA Distinguished Fellow 2005

Professor of Machine Vision

Department of Physics
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK

Tel: 01784 44 3429
Fax: 01784 47 2794
Email: e.r.davies(at)rhul.ac.uk

Room: McCrea 127

Travel directions to RHUL

Roy receiving his award as Distinguished Fellow 2005 from Majid Mirmehdi, BMVA Chair. (left)
The 3rd edition of Roy's book on Machine Vision receiving attention at a conference! (right)

Publications, Editorships, Activities

• From Physics to Machine Vision!
• Davies-ENDOR
• Research on Machine Vision
• Publications on Machine Vision
• Activities
• BMVA News
• BMVA Fellows
• Food Inspection

Key Books

• Electronics, Noise and Signal Recovery
  Davies, E.R.
  Academic Press, London (1993), xx + 346 pp.

• Image Processing for the Food Industry
  Davies, E.R.
  World Scientific, Singapore (2000), xx + 289 pp.

• Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities
  Davies, E.R.
  Morgan Kaufmann (3rd edition, 2005), xxxiii + 934 pp.

Key Papers

• A sampling approach to ultra-fast object location
  Davies, E.R.
  Real-Time Imaging, 7, no. 4, 339–355 (2001)

• Design of efficient line segment detectors for cereal grain inspection
  Davies, E.R., Bateman, M., Mason, D.R., Chambers, J. and Ridgway, C.
  Pattern Recognition Letters, 24, nos. 1–3, 421–436 (2003)

• An analysis of the geometric distortions produced by median and related image processing filters
  Davies, E.R.
  invited review in Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, 126, 93–193 (2003)

• Mode filters and their effectiveness for processing colour images
  Charles, D. and Davies, E.R.
  Imaging Science, 52, no. 1, 3–25 (2004)

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