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Researcher

Majid Mirmehdi

Majid Mirmehdi is a computer vision researcher whose work spans parallel vision and health applications. He earned a PhD at City University in 1991 on parallelising vision algorithms, worked as a Research Fellow at Surrey's Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing, and became Bristol Lecturer in 1997 and Senior Lecturer in 2002. He chaired the British Machine Vision Association from 2005 to 2008, became an IAPR Fellow in 2010, has served as editor-in-chief at the Institution of Engineering and Technology since 2012, and was named a BMVA Distinguished Fellow in 2018. From 2018 to 2023, he served as co-investigator on Bristol's SPHERE2 project. As of October 2026, he is Professor of Computer Vision and Engineering Faculty Education Director at Bristol, leads SPHERE's Quality of Movement from Video work, and has coauthored CaMCheX, a 2026 multimodal transformer for chest X-ray classification.

Now at
University of Bristol and Institution of Engineering and Technology

Timeline

  1. 1991

    A PhD on parallel vision

    He completes a PhD at City University in 1991 on the parallelisation of vision algorithms.

  2. By 2002

    Surrey and Bristol faculty

    At Surrey's Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing, he works as a Research Fellow. Bristol appoints him Lecturer in its Department of Computer Science in 1997; he becomes Senior Lecturer in 2002.

  3. 2005–2008

    Chairing the BMVA

    He chairs the British Machine Vision Association from 2005 to 2008 and serves on its Executive Committee.

  4. 2010

    An IAPR fellowship

    IAPR elects him a Fellow in 2010 for contributions to image understanding and computer vision and service to the association.

  5. Since 2012

    Editor-in-chief at IET

    He serves as editor-in-chief at the Institution of Engineering and Technology from 2012 onward.

  6. 2018

    A BMVA Distinguished Fellowship

    The BMVA names him a Distinguished Fellow in 2018. His work moves from parallel computer vision and texture analysis to larger computer vision systems in medical settings.

  7. 2018–2023

    SPHERE2 co-investigator

    He serves as a co-investigator on Bristol's SPHERE2 project from 2018 to 2023.

  8. As of October 2026

    Bristol professor and CaMCheX

    As of October 2026, he is Professor of Computer Vision and Engineering Faculty Education Director in Bristol's School of Computer Science. He is academic lead for SPHERE's Quality of Movement from Video work, where computer-vision algorithms use silhouettes to time transitions from sitting to standing. In 2026, he coauthors CaMCheX with Phillip Sloan and Edwin Simpson, a multimodal transformer that aligns multi-view chest X-ray studies with structured clinical data.

Career

  1. Since 2012Institution of Engineering and TechnologyEditor-in-chief
  2. Since 1997University of BristolLecturer, Senior Lecturer
  3. 2005–2008British Machine Vision AssociationChair and Executive Committee Member
  4. Until 1997University of SurreyResearch Fellow

Education

  1. 1991City, University of LondonPhD

From the biography.

  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes University of Bristol. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Bristol. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Bristol. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Bristol. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. ECVision - European Research Network for Cognitive Computer Vision Systems vernon.eu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Professor Majid Mirmehdi - Our People bristol.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. The British Machine Vision Association : Majid Mirmehdi bmva.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. 2010 Fellows iapr.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Majid Mirmehdi - University of Bristol research-information.bris.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. People | Research | University of Bristol bristol.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Video | Research | University of Bristol bristol.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Clinically-aligned Multi-modal Chest X-ray Classification arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.