该部门的主要研究领域包括图像/视频处理和分析技术与应用，无线移动网络技术以及受限设备/环境的基于生物特征的身份验证。在图像处理中，我们主要但不限于使用小波变换技术进行面部特征检测和识别，对受限设备进行在线图像/视频压缩，视觉语音识别，生物医学图像中的特征检测，数字水印，基于内容的生物特征视频索引视频数据库。在无线网络领域，我们的研究工作集中于不同无线技术和标准，无线网状技术，入侵检测和预防，自组织网络的效率和稳定性的融合和集成。
The Applied Computing Department is a young department of modest size but is successful in attracting research funding from various sources in the UK and the EU (including industry, research councils and charitable foundations). It supports a significant range of research interest and over the last few years the number of research students has grown steadily. The Department has a history of involvement in EU framework projects. More recently, we were partners in two EU FP6 funded projects: SecurePhone and BroadWan. The main research areas of interest in the Department cover image / video processing and analysis techniques and applications, wireless mobile network technologies, and biometric-based authentications for constrained devices / environments. In image processing we mainly, but not exclusively, use wavelet transform techniques for facial feature detection and recognition, online image / video compression for constrained devices, visual speech recognition, feature detection in biomedical images, digital watermarking, content-based video indexing for biometric video databases. In the wireless networking area, our research effort focuses on convergence and integration of different wireless technologies and standards, wireless mesh technologies, intrusion detection and prevention, efficiency and stability of ad hoc networks.