For a maintained list of recent papers go to the HWU VisionLab publications page

2012

GEI+HOG for Action Recognition, T.Whytock, A.Belyaev, N.M.Robertson, 4th UK Computer Vision Student Workshop, Surrey, UK, September 2012

A Proposed Gesture Set for the Control of Industrial Collaborative Robots, P.Barratini, C.Morand, N.M.Robertson, Proc. 21st IEEE Int. Symp. Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Paris, France, September 2012

LOCOBOT - Low cost toolkit for building robot co-workers in assembly lines, C. Wögerer,  A. Pichler,  H. Bauer,  G. Ebenhofer,  M. Rooker,  A. Rovetta, N.M. Robertson, Proc. Int. Conf. Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2012), Montréal, Canada, October 3-5, 2012 pub. Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence/Computer Science.

Contextual Person Detection in Outdoor Scenes, N.M.Robertson and J.Letham, Proc. European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO 2012), Bucharest, Romania, 2012.

Audio-Video Tracking of Active Speakers through Occlusion, E.D’Arca, N.M. Robertson, J. Hopgood, Proc. 9th IET Data Fusion and Target Tracking Conference, London, May 2012

Contour Detection by Image Analogies, S. Larabi, N.M. Robertson, Proc. 8th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'12), Crete, Greece, July 2012, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science

Visual Saliency from Image Features with Application to Compresson, P. Harding and N.M. Robertson, Cognitive Computation, pub Springer DOI: 10.1007/s12559-012-9150-7

Give me a hand: The potential of mobile assistive robotics in automative logictics and assembly applications, S. Angerer, C. Strassmair, M. Rottenbacher, M. Staehr, N.M. Robertson, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, April 2012, Boston, USA.

2011

Detecting suspicious behaviour in CCTV video, M. Leach, E. Sparks, N.M. Robertson, The IET Seminar on Video Data Analysis, London, November 2011.

Real-time Active Visual Tracking with Level Sets, W. Gulyanon, C. Morand, N. M. Robertson and A. M. Wallace, Proc 4th IEEE/IET Int. Conf. Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, Kingston, London, November 2011

Real-time event recognition from video via a “bag-of-activities”, R.H. Baxter, N.M. Robertson, D.M. Lane, Proc. 8th Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, 2011.

Toolkit for building low cost robot co-workers in assembly lines, A. Pichler, H. Bauer, G. Ebenhofer, J. Bunte, M. Rottenbacher, N.M. Robertson, J. Hopgood, A. Rovetta, P. Ferrara, R. Neumann, P. Barattini, R. Velez, Austrian Robotics Workshop, June 2011, Tyrol

Automatic Reasoning about Causal Events in Surveillance Video, N.M. Robertson and I.D. Reid, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Advanced Video Based Surveillance Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 530325, 19 doi:10.1155/2011/530325

Scene Understanding And Task Optimisation Using Multimodal Imaging Sensors And Context - A Real-Time Implementation, B. Connor, I. Carrie, J. Letham and N.M. Robertson, Proc. SPIE 8012, 80120A (2011); doi:10.1117/12.890207

2010

Probabilistic Behaviour Features: Feature-Based Behaviour Recognition in Data-Scarce Domains, R. Baxter, N.M. Robertson, D. Lane, IET International Conference on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, July 2010.

Contextual Smoothing of Image Segmentation, J. Letham, N.M. Robertson and B. Connor, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, June 2010

Hydrological Modelling via Simple Image Segmentation, N.M. Robertson, BMVA Workshop on Aerial Image Segmentation, London, May 2010 (talk slides)

2009

Task-Based Visual Saliency for Intelligent Compression, P. Harding and N.M. Robertson, IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, Malaysia, September 2009

Visually Interesting Image Regions, P. Harding and N.M. Robertson, IMA Conference on Mathematics in Defence, Farnborough, UK, November 2009.

Finding Visually Interesting Regions using SURF Points, Proc. Colour Imaging Symposium, Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, pp. 90-93, Oslo, Norway.

Aerial Image Segmentation for Flood Risk Analysis, N.M. Robertson and T. Chan, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, 2009.

Distributed Hydrological Modelling using Land-Use Classification Automatically derived from Satellite Imagery, N.M. Robertson, R. Burckhard, A. de Moran, T. Chan, 12th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Hanover, Germany 2009.

A Comparison of Feature Detectors with Passive and Task-based Visual Saliency, P. Harding and N.M. Robertson, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (5575) 716-725, 2009

Detecting Low-Resolution Faces in Video, N.M. Robertson and N. Janssen, IS&T International Conference on Computer Vision and Intelligent Robotics, San Jose, 2009.

2008

Automatic human behaviour recognition and explanation for CCTV video surveillance, N.M. Robertson, I.D. Reid and J.M. Brady, Security Journal, 21, (173-188)

On the Detection of Low-Resolution Skin Regions in Surveillance Images

N. Janssen and N.M. Robertson, IEEE International Workshop on Visual, Surveillance, ECCV, Marseille

Metrics for Measuring the Impact of Image Processing Algorithms on Background Statistics, P. Harding, G. Arthur and N.M. Robertson, Proc. Remote Sensing

2007

Human Activity Recognition, N.M. Robertson, Practical Image Processing and Computer Vision, ed. M.Varga, published by John Wiley, ISBN 100470868546

2006

Automatic Causal Reasoning for Video Surveillance, N.M. Robertson, D.Phil., Hertford College, Oxford University, June 2006

A General Method for Human Activity Recognition in Video, N.M. Robertson and I.D. Reid, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special Issue on Modelling People

Estimating Gaze Direction from Low-Resolution Faces in Video, N.M. Robertson and I.D. Reid, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3952/2006, pp 402-415, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-33834-5

Behaviour Recognition and Explanation for Video Surveillance, N.M.Robertson, I.D. Reid and J.M. Brady, IEE Conf. Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, 2006

2005

Behaviour Understanding in Video: A Combined Method, N.M. Robertson and I.D. Reid, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2005

What are you looking at? Gaze Recognition in Medium-scale Images, N.M. Robertson, I.D. Reid and J.M. Brady, HAREM, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2005

2004

Automatic Video Surveillance, N.M.Robertson, I.D. Reid and J.M. Brady

SET for Britain, London

2002

Using Mutual Information to Identify Coupled Target Motion, N.M. Robertson, Technical Report

Tracking Linked Object Motion using MDL, N.M. Robertson, I.D. Reid, J.M. Brady, Technical Report

2001

Resisitive pressure effects due to MRI, N.M. Robertson, M. Diaz-Gomez and B. Condon, Proceedings of the ISMRM/ESMRMB Joint Meeting, Glasgow, 2001:1768

2000

Estimation of torque on mechanical heart valves due to MRI including an
estimation of the significance of the Lenz Effect using a computational model
N.M. Robertson, M. Diaz-Gomez and B. Condon, Physics in Medicine and Biology 45; 200: 3793-3807

1999

The Effect of Control-Rod Movement on Up-Rate, British Energy Technical Report, Hunterson Reactor Physics, UK