Andrew French

Contact

• workRoom A14 Plant and Crop Sciences
  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• work0115 951 6108
• andrew.p.french@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.cpib.ac.uk/people/andy-french

Research Summary

My interests are image analysis and target tracking, and developing software tools.

Currently I am working on developing image analysis software for the quantification of images of growing Arabidopsis roots as part of the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology.

Research home page: http://www.cpib.ac.uk/people/andy-french

Selected Publications

• FRENCH, AP, MILLS, S, SWARUP, R, BENNETT, MJ and PRIDMORE, TP, 2008. Colocalization Of Fluorescent Markers In Confocal Microscope Images Of Plant Cells Nature Protocols. 3(4), 619-628
• FRENCH, A, UBEDA-TOMAS, S, HOLMAN, TJ, BENNETT, MJ and PRIDMORE, T, 2009. High-Throughput Quantification Of Root Growth Using A Novel Image-Analysis Tool Plant Physiology. 150(4), 1784-1795
• FRENCH AP, WELLS DM, EVERITT N and PRIDMORE TP, 2012. High-Throughput Quantification of Root Growth. In: MANCUSO, S, ed., Measuring Roots: An Updated Approach Heidelberg. xiii, 382 p.
• FRENCH, A, NAEEM, A. DRYDEN, I and AND T. PRIDMORE, 2007. Using Social Effects to Guide Tracking in Complex Scenes In: IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance. 217--217

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Past Research

Previous research includes software development and building tools for the replay of time based datasets for social scientists

• FRENCH AP, WELLS DM, EVERITT N and PRIDMORE TP, 2012. High-Throughput Quantification of Root Growth. In: MANCUSO, S, ed., Measuring Roots: An Updated Approach Heidelberg. xiii, 382 p.
• NAEEM A, FRENCH AP, WELLS DM and PRIDMORE TP, 2011. High-Throughput Feature Counting And Measurement Of Roots. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 27(9), 1337-8
• SETHURAMAN VS, FRENCH AP, WELLS DM, KENOBI K and PRIDMORE TP, 2011. Tissue-Level Segmentation and Tracking of Cells in Growing Plant Roots Machine Vision and Applications.
• HODGMAN, TC, FRENCH, A and WESTHEAD, DR, 2010. Instant Notes in Bioinformatics 2nd ed.. Abingdon.
• WRIGHT, EF, WELLS, DM, FRENCH, AP, HOWELLS, C and EVERITT, NM, 2009. A Low-Cost Automated Focusing System For Time-Lapse Microscopy Measurement Science & Technology. 20(2), -
• FRENCH, A, UBEDA-TOMAS, S, HOLMAN, TJ, BENNETT, MJ and PRIDMORE, T, 2009. High-Throughput Quantification Of Root Growth Using A Novel Image-Analysis Tool Plant Physiology. 150(4), 1784-1795
• SETHURAMAN VS, TAYLOR S, PRIDMORE TP, FRENCH AP and WELLS DM, 2009. Segmentation and Tracking of Confocal Images of Arabidopsis thaliana Root Cells using Automatically-Initialized Network Snakes In: 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Beijing, China.
• FRENCH, AP, MILLS, S, SWARUP, R, BENNETT, MJ and PRIDMORE, TP, 2008. Colocalization Of Fluorescent Markers In Confocal Microscope Images Of Plant Cells Nature Protocols. 3(4), 619-628
• FRENCH AP, BENNETT MJ, HOWELLS C, PATEL D and PRIDMORE TP, 2008. Probablilistic Tracking Approach to Root measurement in Images In: Biosignals 2008 - International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Madeira, Portugal.
• GREENHALGH, C., FRENCH, A., HUMBLE, J. and TENNENT, P., 2007. Engineering a replay application based on RDF and OWL In: Online Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007, September 10-13, Nottingham. (In Press.)
• GREENHALGH, C., FRENCH, A., TENNENT, P., HUMBLE, J. and CRABTREE, A., 2007. From ReplayTool to Digital Replay System In: Online Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science, October 7-9, Ann Arbor, Michigan: ESRC/NSF.. (In Press.)
• FRENCH, A, NAEEM, A. DRYDEN, I and AND T. PRIDMORE, 2007. Using Social Effects to Guide Tracking in Complex Scenes In: IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance. 217--217
• WALKER, B., SCHNÄDELBACH, H., RENNICK EGGLESTONE, S., CLARK, A., ORBACH, T., WRIGHT, M., NG, K., FRENCH, A., RODDEN, T. and BENFORD, S., 2007. Augmenting amusement rides with telemetry In: Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology. 115-122
• CRABTREE, A., FRENCH, A., GREENHALGH, C., BENFORD, S., CHEVERST, K., FITTON, D., ROUNCEFIELD, M. and GRAHAM, C., 2006. Developing digital records: early experiences of record and replay Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 15(4), 281-319
• FRENCH, A., GREENHALGH, C., CRABTREE, A., WRIGHT, M., BRUNDELL, P., HAMPSHIRE, A. and RODDEN, T., 2006. Software Replay Tools for Time-Based Social Science Data In: Second International Conference on e-Social Science.
• CRABTREE, A, GREENHALGH, C, FRENCH, A, RODDEN, T and BENFORD, S., 2006. Exploiting digital records: new resources and tools for qualitative research in contemporary social science In: Words Instead of Numbers: The Status of Software in the Qualitative Research World.
• CRABTREE, A, FRENCH, A, GREENHALGH, C and RODDEN, T. BENFORD, S., 2006. Working with digital records: developing tool support In: The 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science.
• FROST,A., FRENCH,A., TILLETT,R., PRIDMORE,T.P. and WELCH,T.R., 2004. A vision guided robot for tracking a live, loosely constrained pig Computers and Electronics in Agriculture,. 44(2), 93-106
• FRENCH,A., PRIDMORE,T.P. and MILLS,S., 2004. Condensation Tracking Through a Hough Space In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004 (ICPR 2004). 195- 198
• FRENCH, A., PRIDMORE, T.P., TILLETT, R. and FROST, A., 2003. An Image Analysis System to Guide a Sensor Placement Robot onto a Feeding Pig In: Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision Conference.