Research Grants

Dr Charith Abhayaratne

Sponsored Research Projects

Sponsors Title snd details Period Amount
8 Rolls Royce MATRIX project
Partners: AMRC
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne(PI) and A. Maiden.
03/2017 - 04/2017 £ 8,000
7 Viridor Waste Management Ltd. Viridor - Re-Cyclates: boosting efficiency and effectiveness
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne, J. Aitken (PI), J. Law and S. Veres.
09/2016 - 01/2017 £ 25,188
6 EPSRC Seamless and Adaptive Wireless Access for Efficient Future Networks (SERAN)
Partners: University of Edinburgh and University of Bristol
Investigators: T. O'Farrell (PI) and C. Abhayaratne.
01/2015 - 12/2017 £ 280,000
6 Innovate UK/CiT Digital Ltd. Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) on Content-based descriptions for online image catalogues.
Partners: CiT Digital Ltd.
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)
03/2013 - 09/2015 £ 140,202
5 EPSRC/BBC R&D Hyper Realistic Video Coding
Partners: BBC R&D
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)
01/2012 - 06/2015 £ 92,161
4 The University of Sheffield Adaptive lifestyle monitoring (within PIPIN network)
Partners: ScHARR
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)
10/2011 - 09/2014 £ 55,000
3 Technology Stratey Board (TSB) Persistent and Robust Tracking of Entertainment Content (PARTEC)
Partners: ZOO Digital Group, CTVC, IBIS
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)
06/2011 - 05/2013 £ 137,466
2 EPSRC (Knowledge Transfer Account)/ZOO Digital Group Compressed-domain video watermarking
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)
01/2011 - 04/2011 £ 15,501
1 EPSRC/British Petrolium (BP) Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award (DHPA) Watermarking of scalable coded media
Investigators: C. Abhayaratne (PI)
10/2006 - 03/2010 £ 90,000