MPhil by research Informatics

This research area, led by Dr Apostolos Antonacopoulos focuses on the extraction of text from scanned documents. Innovative approaches are sought to improve all steps of the digitization workflow resulting in systems deployed in the real-world. Major collaborations with content holding institutions such as the British Library and commercial organisations such as Google and ABBYY ensure that problems are topical and solutions have significant impact. his research area, led by Professor Sunil Vadera is developing new cost-sensitive data mining methods. It aims to develop new approaches that take account of the cost of misclassifying examples and the cost of acquiring the information. Such cost-sensitive algorithms have potential for application in medical diagnosis, credit scoring, and energy minimization. Examples of research include projects with British Gas to apply data mining to SMART meters data to understand energy consumption behaviour and an FP7 project called SEEDS: Self-Learning Energy Efficient BuilDings and open Spaces.