Mathew Randall

PGCert Research Practice, Birmingham City University
PGCert Higher Education, Birmingham City University
BSc Industrial Information Technology, Birmingham City University

BMVA (British Machine Vision Association)

Matthew has been involved in research for a number of years, casually assisting with research in the School and in the wider University.  He is currently in the early stages of a PhD, researching onset-previsualisation or virtual production in film visual effects production.  

The aim is to research and develop solutions which allow a complete visual effects scene to be visualised in real-time as live action video elements are being shot. He is looking at the use of machine vision techniques, games engines and mixed-reality technologies, to provide real-time control and virtual visual effects elements, then compositing these with live action video on-set.

This extends and links in to existing research in the School of Digital Media Technology in the areas of image processing, real-time interaction with virtual objects and automated compositing. 

Mathew has performed as a live video artist at: Project X Presents Digital Dystopia, Hello Digital, Shambala Festival, BBC Big Screen Birmingham and SCAMP (Sonic Computer Aided Music Performance).

His multimedia work titled ‘The Digital Harmonograph’ was exhibited as a finalist of Screengrab 2009 at James Cook University, Australia.

Shivarni, B. and Randall, M. (2008) Labware for Teaching Electronic Technology to Engineering and Non-Engineering Students, European Conference on the Use of Modern Information Communication Technologies.