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Professor Baihua Li is a Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning in the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University. She is a key member of both the Centre for Sensing and Imaging Science and the Vision, AI, Autonomous and Human Centred Systems Research Group. With over 15 years of research experience, her work spans multiple disciplines including healthcare, sports science, environmental protection, and food manufacturing.
Her educational background includes a BSc and MSc in Electronic Engineering from Tianjin University, China (one of China's top 15 universities), followed by a PhD in Computer Science from Aberystwyth University, UK. Prior to joining Loughborough University in 2015, she served as a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Professor Li's research focuses on developing novel AI and machine learning technologies with applications across diverse sectors. Her primary expertise lies in computer vision, pattern recognition, and signal/image processing. She has made significant contributions to human motion tracking and activity recognition, which have been applied in sports performance analysis, healthcare diagnostics, and robotics. Her work emphasizes practical applications that solve real-world problems, from improving football analytics to developing sandwich-making robots.
Her research team has developed AI systems for air pollution prediction, upper-limb prosthesis control, autism spectrum condition diagnosis in adults, and retinal disease identification. She has also led projects involving intelligent drone logistics for medical supplies and agricultural robots for precision crop spraying.
- MSDUK Innovation Challenge Award under category Industry 4.0 in 2019
- Made in the Midlands 2023 Food and Drink Award for the Millitec KTP project
Professor Li has secured over £1.4 million in external funding in the last three years, with ongoing grants exceeding £1.2 million. She leads a research team comprising 6 Postdoctoral Research Associates and 7+ PhD students. Her projects include AI for sleep breathing disorder diagnosis (£540k), food manufacturing automation (£204k), football action event detection (£359k), air quality monitoring (£470k), and agricultural robotics (£500k). She serves as the Impact Coordinator for her department, emphasizing the transfer of research to industry for societal and economic benefits.
She leads an active research team within the Centre for Sensing and Imaging Science and the Vision, AI, Autonomous and Human Centred Systems Research Group. Her laboratory work spans multiple application domains including sports analytics with Statmetrix, food manufacturing automation with Millitec, environmental monitoring through the Triple-Network Air Quality project, and agricultural robotics for precision farming. Her team has developed the i-Gene delta robot that produces 750,000 sandwiches daily for a UK factory, addressing industry skills shortages.
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