Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications - iNEXT

iNEXT is a world-class research environment for developing and nurturing innovation for the NEXT generation IT services and applications, including Internet-enabled business applications, mobile health services, high-end visualisation technologies, novel image processing architectures and advanced video surveillance systems.

Future Internet - iNEXT's aims to develop those enabling mechanisms that will allow the transformation of the current connectivity infrastructure into the service infrastructure of tomorrow's Internet.

Applications and Services - iNEXT aims to develop innovative applications with special focus on assistive mobile health and Internet-enabled business applications.

Visual Information Processing - iNEXT aims to define novel visualisation techniques and intelligent recognition algorithms for extracting important information from video streams and wireless sensor networks for surveillance and environmental monitoring purposes.

Commercialisation of such applications and services is particularly emphasised. iNEXT includes a significant research training component, graduating many research students in the past years.

Centre Directors

Co-Director: Professor Doan Hoang
Co-Director: Professor Massimo Piccardi

Laboratories and Contacts

Advanced Research in Networking
Lab Director: Professor Doan Hoang

Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab
Lab Director: Associate Professor Xiangjian He

Surveillance Lab
Lab Director: Professor Massimo Piccardi

Visualisation Laboratory
Lab Director: Dr Mao-Lin Huang