Profile

Senior Lecturer in Physics

Office: Room 109, Ingram Building
Telephone: (01227) 823270
Fax: 01227 827558
Email: c.j.solomon@kent.ac.uk

Biography

I graduated with a B.Sc in theoretical physics in 1983 from Durham - a beautiful city - but somewhat chastened by 3 years pondering in the silent corridors of the theoretical physics section at Durham, I escaped to various corners of the World for 18 months. On return, I opted for a Ph.D in medical imaging at the Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden Hospital in London (nice people, happy memories..) which I got in 1989.

A promising career as an "Electrician's mate" on a Tottenham building site came to an abrupt end  after just six weeks when I "got a start" as a post-doc in Professor Chris Dainty's astronomical imaging group at Imperial College (a great chap). After four and a bit years at Imperial, I started a lectureship at Kent in 1994. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002 and to Reader in 2005. I also direct VisionMetric Ltd, a spin-out company which is the UK's leading developer and supplier of facial composite software to the police. My main research activities focus on image processing and evolutionary methods with particular interest in the human face.

Research interests

• Image Processing and Reconstruction
• Facial encoding
• Facial synthesis
• Forensic Image Analysis

Publications

35. Stuart J. Gibson, Christopher J. Solomon, Alvaro Pallares-Bejarano
"Synthesis of photographic quality facial composites using evolutionary algorithms"
(Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2003, Editors R. Harvey and J.A. Bangham, pp221-230)

36. "Azimuthal impact directions from oblique impact crater morphology",
D.Wallis, M.J. Burchell,A.C. Cook, C.J. Solomon and N. McBride,
(Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc, in press 2004)

37. "Mapping appearance space to control human facial attributes in digital images", Christopher John Solomon, Stuart James Gibson and Alvaro Pallares-Bejarano.

38. "Non-linear, near photo-realistic caricatures using a parametric facial appearance model" Stuart J. Gibson, Christopher J. Solomon, Alvaro Pallares-Bejarano
(Behaviour Research: Methods, Instrumentation and Computing, in press 2004)

39. "EigenFit - the generation of photographic quality facial composites", Christopher John Solomon, Stuart James Gibson and Alvaro Pallares-Bejarano.
(The Journal Of Forensic Science, in press 2005)

Other relevant publications

Patents

1. "Generation of facial composites", PCT/GB2005/002780. Filed 25/7/2005.
Inventors: C.J. Solomon, S.J. Gibson and A. Pallares-Bejarano

2. " A computerised method for facial aging", PCT/GB2005/002453. Filed 18/7/2005 Inventors: C.J. Solomon

Journal Papers

1. Gibson, S.J., Solomon, C.J., Pallares-Bejarano, A. "Non-linear, near photo-realistic caricatures using a parametric facial appearance model". Behaviour Research: Methods, Instrumentation and Computing, 37(2), 170-181, 2005)

2. C.M. Scandrett, C.J. Solomon and S.J. Gibson. Towards a semi-automatic method for the statistically rigorous aging of the human face. IEE Proceedings Vision, Image & Signal Processing, Vol 153, No. 5, October 2006, pp 639-649.

3. C.M Scandrett, C.J Solomon and S.J Gibson, "Person-specific, rigorous aging model of the Human Face", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol 27, no 15, pp 1776-1787, 2006

Conference papers

S.J. Gibson, A.Pallares-Bejarano, M.I.S. Maylin and C.J. Solomon. "The generation of facial composites using an evolutionary algorithm". 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, 2006. (best paper award)

A.Pallares-Bejarano, S.J.Gibson, M.I.S. Maylin and C.J. Solomon. "EigenFIT - an evolutionary approach to facial composite construction", 18th International Symposium on The Forensic Sciences, Fremantle WA, 2006.

S.J. Gibson, C.J. Solomon and A.Pallares-Bejarano, "Facial Composites: A Darwinian Approach", SARMAC VI, Wellington, New Zealand, January 2005.

C.M Hill, C.J Solomon and S.J Gibson, "Towards a Semi-automatic Method for the Statistically Rigorous Aging of the Human Face" , Proc. IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering, 2005

C.M Hill, C.J Solomon and S.J Gibson, "Plausible Aging of the Human Face using a Statistical Model", Proc. 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, 2004,(270), pp 56-59. October 2004, IASTED, Acta Press,

Teaching

• Maxwell's equations and Fourier Optics
• Image Processing
• Medical Physics
• Forensic physical methods