Dr Li Meng received her degrees of M.Sc. in Microelectronic Systems & Telecommunications in 1998 and Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition using Enhanced Machine Learning in 2002, both from the University of Liverpool, UK. Dr Meng joined the University of Hertfordshire as a lecturer in September 2004 and has been appointed as a senior lecturer since January 2008. She has acted as the team leader in several funded research projects and is holding a strong research profile. She was awarded 'Best Research Guidance' by the University of Hertfordshire in 2018.
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Pattern Analysis, Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence.
Face recognition for security control:
• Completed a three-year KTP project of £195k which has been rated as 'outstanding' by Innovate UK http://www.herts.ac.uk/business-services/success-stories/knowledge-transfer/case-studies/next-generation-artificial-intelligence
• Two European patent applications filed (see publications for details)
Face de-identification for privacy protection:
• Real-time face de-identification of videos
• Attribute-controlled face image synthesis using conditional generative adversarial networks
• A member of the Management Committee for the European COST Action IC1206 De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia content http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ict/IC1206
• As reported by the IET E&T Magazine in article “Swapping Faces in Photos Could Protect Privacy Online” https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2015/07/swapping-faces-in-photos-could-protect-privacy-online/
• A member of the BSI IST/37 Coding of picture, audio, multimedia and hypermedia information
• A member of the Biometrics Institute Privacy Expert Group
