Professor Roy Davies

BA, MA, DPhil, DSc
FInstP, FIET, SMIEEE
BMVA Distinguished Fellow 2005
Fellow of the IAPR 2008

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

email: e.r.davies(at)rhul.ac.uk

Roy receiving his award as Distinguished Fellow 2005 from Majid Mirmehdi, BMVA Chair. (left)
The 3rd edition of Roy's book on Computer Vision receiving attention from Rita Cucchiara! (centre)
Roy receiving his Metropolitan Police Commendation from Chief Superintendent Colin Wingrove (right): for the full citation of the award, see Citation

Publications, Editorships, Activities

• From Physics to Computer Vision!
• Davies-ENDOR
• Research on Computer Vision
• Publications on Computer Vision
• Activities
• Food Inspection
• Update: Latest Publications
• Interview with the author!

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, 2004), xxxiii + 934 pp.

• Computer and Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities
  Davies, E.R.
  Elsevier, Oxford, UK (4th edition, 2012), xxxvi + 871 pp.

• Computer Vision: Principles, Algorithms, Applications, Learning
  Davies, E.R.
  Elsevier, Oxford, UK (5th edition, 2017), xlii + 858 pp.
  

• Advanced Methods and Deep Learning in Computer Vision
  Davies, E.R. and Turk, Matthew (eds.)
  Elsevier, Oxford, UK (2022), xix + 562 pp.
  
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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)

• Stable bi-level and multi-level thresholding of images using a new global transformation
  Davies, E.R.
  IET Computer Vision, 2, no. 2, Special Issue on Visual Information Engineering, Valestin, S. (ed.), 60–74 (2008)

• The application of machine vision to food and agriculture: a review
  Davies, E.R.
  Imaging Science, 57, no. 4, 197–217 (2009)

• Improved line detection algorithm for locating road lane markings
  Mastorakis, G. and Davies, E.R.
  Electronics Letters, 47, no. 3, 183–184 (2011)

• Object location using the Hough transform
  Davies, E.R.
  Chapter 18 in Handbook of Machine Vision, Batchelor, B.G. and Miller, J.W.V. (eds.), Springer Verlag, London,
  773–800 (2012)

• Computer vision for automatic sorting in the food industry
  Davies, E.R.
  Chapter 6 in Computer Vision Technology in the Food and Beverage Industries, Sun, D.-W. (ed.), Woodhead Publishing Ltd.,
  Cambridge, UK, 150–180 (2012)

• The dramatically changing face of computer vision
  Davies, E.R.
  Chapter 1 in Advanced Methods and Deep Learning in Computer Vision, Davies, E.R. and Turk, Matthew (eds.),
  Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 1–91 (2022)

Last update: 7.4.22.