Peter William McOwan

Peter McOwan
Born(1962-02-08)8 February 1962
Falkirk, Scotland
Died29 June 2019(2019-06-29) (aged 57)
Glasgow, Scotland
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisApplications of high-resolution computer generated holograms in optical beam shaping and image display (1990)

Peter William McOwan was a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests were in visual perception, mathematical models for visual processing, in particular motion, cognitive science and biologically inspired hardware and software and science outreach.

Biography

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As Vice President for Public Engagement and Student Enterprise at Queen Mary, University of London, McOwan was involved in a number of projects to enhance understanding and interest in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. These include being a co-founder of Computer Science for Fun that promotes Computer Science in schools with its website, free magazines and booklets with Paul Curzon and partner of the OurSpace project that documents the space experiences of video game developer and astronaut, Richard Garriott.[1]

As a result of this work in 2011 he was awarded the IET Mountbatten medal,[2] and was elected a National Teaching Fellow by the Higher Education Academy in 2008.[3]

Books

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  • 2023: (with Paul Curzon) Conjuring With Computation: A Manual Of Magic And Computing For Beginners, ISBN 9811264333
  • 2017: (with Paul Curzon) The Power Of Computational Thinking: Games, magic and puzzles to help you become a computational thinker, ISBN 1786341840

Papers

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McOwan is coauthor of over 120 papers across a wide range of disciplines, having accumulated over 5000 citations as of 2019. The most cited articles include:

  • "Facial expression recognition based on local binary patterns: A comprehensive study"[4]
  • "A real-time automated system for the recognition of human facial expressions"[5]
  • "A computational model of the analysis of some first-order and second-order motion patterns by simple and complex cells"[6]
  • A paper he co-authored in 2009 "Detecting User Engagement with a Robot Companion Using Task and Social Interaction Features" was given the Ten-Year Technical Impact Award at the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2019[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Digital Adventures in space". Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  2. ^ "The Mountbatten Medallists, The Institution of Engineering and Technology". Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Peter McOwan - National Teaching Fellow 2008". Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  4. ^ Shan, C; Gong, S; McOwan, Peter (4 May 2009). "Facial expression recognition based on Local Binary Patterns: A comprehensive study". Image and Vision Computing. 27 (6): 803–816. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.160.2442. doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2008.08.005.
  5. ^ Anderson, Keith; McOwan, Peter (February 2006). "A real-time automated system for the recognition of human facial expressions". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics. 36 (1): 96–105. doi:10.1109/TSMCB.2005.854502. PMID 16468569.
  6. ^ Johnston, Alan; McOwan, Peter; Buxton, Hilary (1992). "A computational model of the analysis of some first-order and second-order motion patterns by simple and complex cells". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 250 (1329): 297–306. doi:10.1098/rspb.1992.0162. PMID 1362996.
  7. ^ "ICMI 2019 Awards". International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
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