Multimedia and Communication Technologies

MCT (Multimedia Communications Technologies) conducts research on topics involving the analysis of multimodal signals (video, real and synthetic images, audio, and text) for the intelligent extraction of information that enables the optimisation and automation of processes across various application verticals. The team has strong expertise in areas such as computer vision, intelligent systems and machine learning, generative AI, music computing, augmented reality, content recommendation, and multimedia communication protocols and architectures. The range of application knowledge is broad and includes the media and creative industries, security and video surveillance, manufacturing, and emerging applications such as autonomous driving, intelligent data visualisation, emotion recognition, and language models.