Professor Peter McOwan
I am currently a Professor of Computer Science and Director of Outreach in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London.
My research interests are in visual perception, mathematical models for visual processing, in particular motion, cognitive science and biologically inspired hardware and software and science outreach.
I was elected as a National Teaching Fellow in 2008 by the Higher Aducation Academy
Research with Psychology at UCL
For details and learning resources for my current teaching please follow this link (internal)
Current Research Projects
LIREC - Living with Robots and Interactive Companions EU funded project (FP7/2007-2013 grant agreement n° 215554.) to build synthetic companions [LINK]
Analysing Dynamic Change in Faces – With UCL Psychology, funded by EPSRC [LINK]
Building a New Community: Modelling, Visualisation and Verification of Large Scale Systems, funded by EPSRC [LINK]
I also run a number of science outreach projects
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Sodarace: Humans and artificial intelligence create and compete online
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Brainacademy national programming competition
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The Perception deception: Maths made optical illusions @ Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2007 link
Humans vs. Punks Pogoing for science @ the ICA July 2008 see BBC article and Fiddians web page.
Contact details
Peter W. McOwan, Room 303
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Telephone: 020 7882 5224 Fax: 020 8980 6533
Email pmco(at)dcs.qmul.ac.uk