Hannah-Mary Dee is a British

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and

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specialising in computer vision, with specialisms in plant science, navigation, art, and medical imaging. In 2014, she was one of 30 women identified by the

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in the "BCS Women in IT Campaign. Dee has organised many events for women in computing and for broader groups with a women-friendly stance, including an android programming family fun day (materials available in Welsh and in English).

Education

Dee received a BSc in Cognitive Science (1996), an MA in

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(1998), and a PhD in Computing (2005), all from the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

Career and research

Dee has held

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Kingston University Kingston University London is a Public university, public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South London, South West London, England. Its roots go back to the Kingston Technical Institute, founded ...

(2005–2006), University of Leeds (2006–2009), and

Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble The Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) (''Institut polytechnique de Grenoble'' , ''Groupe Grenoble INP'' and before INPG) is a French technological university system consisting of eight engineering and management schools. Grenoble I ...

(2009–2010). Since 2010, she is a Senior Lecturer in computer science at

Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth University () is a Public university, public Research university, research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 stude ...

. She has served deputy chair of her local BCS branch (BCS Mid Wales) since 2011. Dee developed and runs the annual BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, the one-day conference for women and non-binary computing students to encourage networking for women and gender non-conforming students from around the UK, in addition to gaining career development advice from successful women in computing. Her research interests are in

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

for the analysis of

human behaviour Human behavior is the potential and expressed capacity ( mentally, physically, and socially) of human individuals or groups to respond to internal and external stimuli throughout their life. Behavior is driven by genetic and environmental ...

; shadow detection and reasoning; and student attitudes to the study of computer science. She is noted for championing the cause of women in IT.

Publications

Dee's publications include: * Roscoe, Dee, Zwiggelaar, Coping with Noise in Ultrasound Images: A review, MIUA 2012 * Ngoc-Son Vu, Hannah M. Dee and Alice Caplier "Face Recognition using the POEM descriptor", Pattern Recognition * Hannah M. Dee, Cohn, A. G. and Hogg, D. C. "Building semantic scene models from unconstrained video" Volume 116, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 446.456 * Paul Robson, Michal Mos, Hannah Dee, John Clifton-Brown and Iain Donnison (2011). Improving bioenergy crop yield and quality through manipulating senescence. In: Biomass and Bioenergy Crops IV. Aspects of Applied Biology 112, pp. 323–328. * Hannah M. Dee & Paulo E. Santos (2011): The Perception and Content of Cast Shadows: An Interdisciplinary Review, Spatial Cognition & Computation, 11:3, 226–25. * Dee, H. M. and Caplier, A. "Crowd behaviour analysis using histograms of motion direction", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010, Hong Kong. * Santos, P. E., Dee, H. M. and Fenelon, V. "Knowledge-based adaptative thresholding from shadows" Accepted at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

Awards and honours

In 2014 Dee was featured in the e-book of these 30 women in IT, ''Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation'', produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as a free download e-book, from various sources. In 2016, Dee was identified as one of the 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016 by Computer Weekly. She was also the voted 15th most influential woman in UK IT 2014, and is active on the Committee of BCSWomen. In 2015, Dee was identified as the 10th Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015, by Computer Weekly. In 2018, Dee was added to the

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'Most Influential Women in UK IT' Hall of Fame alongside

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, Sarah Wood and Sherry Coutu. Hannah Dee started in 2008, the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium which is the UK's main conference for female undergraduates, and was the Chair 10 years, then having the role of Deputy Chair of the Colloquium In June 2024, Dee was awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in King Charles' Birthday Honours List in recognition of her services to 'Technology and to Women in the Information Technology Sector'.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dee, Hannah Living people Academics of Aberystwyth University British computer scientists British women computer scientists Academic staff of Grenoble Institute of Technology Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Leeds