{"id":1183,"date":"2019-06-25T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T08:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:29:41","slug":"uwe-bristol-secure-new-knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-reusaworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/uwe-bristol-secure-new-knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-reusaworld\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE Bristol secure new Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Reusaworld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UWE Bristol Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) team have secured another KTP with Reusaworld and the Centre for Machine Vision. The new KTP means that UWE Bristol now has 11 live KTPs. The KTP which is based in Gloucester will see innovative changes to the world of second hand books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This KTP will be with Reuseabook<\/a>, a part of Reusaworld. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuseabook was founded in 2008 by Rob Hollier and Ami Hollier with the following mission: NEVER to allow a single book to go to landfill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strong believers in conscientious capitalism, they wanted to create an earth-friendly sustainable business model while helping others. After much hard work what emerged was the Reuseaworld group: an award-winning, ethical, environmentally-friendly and technology-savvy enterprise that uses the internet to sell second-hand books worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with the Centre for Machine Vision<\/a>, the aim of the 30 month KTP is to develop innovative machine vision techniques and deep learning methodologies to test the viability of data outputs of a 3D Book Vision System and its application to the book grading process. Ultimately, increasing the speed and quality of inbound book sorting, in-house data management and book cataloguing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UWE Lead for the KTP is Professor Lyndon Smith and the\nAcademic Supervisor is Dr Abdul Farooq, who are both part of the Centre for\nMachine Vision at UWE Bristol. The Centre for Machine Vision is part of the\nBristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). They solve real-world practical computer\nvision problems. Their  particular\nexcellence lies in three-dimensional reconstruction and surface inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innovate UK scored the proposal very highly (4th<\/sup> out of 60 applications) so congratulations to all involved! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\npartnership received financial support from the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships\nprogramme (KTP).  KTP aims to help businesses to improve their\ncompetitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge,\ntechnology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base.  This\nsuccessful Knowledge Transfer Partnership project, funded by UK Research and\nInnovation through Innovate UK, is part of the government\u2019s Industrial\nStrategy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UWE Bristol Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) team have secured another KTP with Reusaworld and the Centre for Machine Vision. The new KTP means that UWE Bristol now has 11 live KTPs. The KTP which is based in Gloucester will see innovative changes to the world of second hand books. This KTP will be with Reuseabook, … Continue reading “UWE Bristol secure new Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Reusaworld”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":145,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,1450,145,1452,127],"tags":[236,11,150,96,238,240,151,796,46,239,235,234,74,75,420,76],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-transfer-partnership","category-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","category-ktp","category-ktps","category-research-business-innovation","tag-books","tag-bristol","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory","tag-brl","tag-centre-for-machine-vision","tag-dr-abdul-farooq","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnership","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","tag-ktp","tag-professor-lyndon-smith","tag-reusaworld","tag-reuseabook","tag-uwe","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-ktp","tag-uwe-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}