See also my Research Profile at Heriot-Watt University

Journal articles published

1.Dynamic Distance-based Shape Features for Gait Recognition, Journal of Mathematical                 Imaging and Vision, 2014, T.Whytock, A.Belyaev, N.M.Robertson (doi: 10.1007/s10851-014-0501-8)

2.Contextual Anomaly Detection in Crowded Surveillance Scenarios, M.Leach, E.Sparks and N.M.Robertson, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2013 (doi: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.11.018)

3.Characterising a Heterogeneous System for Person Detection in Video using Histograms of Oriented Gradients: Power vs. Speed vs. Accuracy, C.Blair, N.M.Robertson, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems 3(2): 236-247 (2013) (doi:10.1109/JETCAS.2013.2256821)

4.Visual Saliency from Feature Points with Application to Compression, P. Harding and N.M. Robertson, Cognitive Computation, 5(1): 76-98 (2013) (doi: 10.1007/s12559-012-9150-7)

5.Automatic Reasoning about Causal Events in Surveillance Video, N.M. Robertson and I.D. Reid, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Volume 2011, pub. Springer (doi:10.1155/2011/530325)

6.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), 2008 (pub. Palgrave doi:10.1057/palgrave.sj.8350053)

7.A General Method for Human Activity Recognition in Video, N.M. Robertson and I.D. Reid, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 104 (2-3), 2006 (doi:10.1016/j.cviu.2006.07.006)

8.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 (doi:10.1088/0031-9155/45/12/320)

Full-paper conference articles

1.Look Who’s Talking: Detecting the Dominant Speaker in a Cluttered Scenario, E.D’Arca, N.M.Robertson, J.Hopgood, IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, May 2014

2.Event-driven dynamic platform selection for power-aware real-time anomaly detection in video, C.Blair and N.M.Robertson, 9th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications – VISAPP (full paper with 9% acceptance rate), Lisbon, Jan 2014

3.Look Who’s Talking, E.D’Arca, N.M.Robertson, J.R.Hopgood, IET Conf. Intelligent Signal Processing, London, December 2013

4.Sparse-representation based action and gesture recognition, S.Bomma, P.Favaro, N.M.Robertson, IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, 2013, Melbourne, Australia

5.Video Tracking through Occlusions by Fast Audio Source Localisation, E. D'Arca, A. Hughes, N.M. Robertson, J. Hopgood, IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, 2013, Melbourne, Australia

6.Height Approximation for Audio Source Localisation and Tracking, Ashley Hughes and James R Hopgood and N.M.Robertson, 21st European Signal Processing Conference 2013 (EUSIPCO 2013), Marrakech, Morocco, Sep 2013

7.Outlines of Objects Detection by Analogy, Slimane Larabi, Asma Bellili and N.M. Robertson, International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, York, UK, 2013.

8.Head Direction Estimation from Silhouettes, Amina Bensebaa, Slimane Larabi and N.M.Robertson, International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Naples, Italy, September 2013

9.Towards Robust Gait Recognition, Whytock, T.P., Belyaev, A. and N.M.Robertson, , Advances in Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Part II, pp. 523-531, vol 8034, 2013 Bebis, G. et al. (Eds.), Springer

10.Improving Robustness and Precision in GEI + HOG Action Recognition, Whytock, T.P., Belyaev, A. and Robertson, N.M, Advances in Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Part I, pp. 119-128, vol. 8033, Bebis, G. et al. (Eds.), Springer

11.Using the voice spectrum for improved tracking of people in a joint audio-video scheme, E.D’Arca, N.M. Robertson and J. Hopgood, IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, May 2013

12.Controlling a Mobile Robot with Natural Commands based on Voice and Gesture,

13.A.R. Fardana, S. Jain, I. Jovancevic, Y. Suri, C. Morand and N.M. Robertson, Workshop on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) for Assistance and Industrial Robots. Scientific Knowledge, Standards and Regulatory Framework. How do I design for the real world? The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), May 6 – 10, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany

14.Tailor made Robot Co Workers based on a Plug & Produce Framework, C.Wogerer et al. Proc. Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, 2013, Porto (pub. Springer CCIS, LNCS)

15.Characterising Pedestrian Detection on a Heterogeneous Platform, C.Blair, N.M.Robertson, D.Hume, Workshop on Smart Cameras for Robotic Applications, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), 2012

16.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

17.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. 5th Int. Conf. Intelligent Robotics and Applications, (pub. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Montreal, 2012

18.Contour detection by image analogies, S.Larabi, N.M.Robertson, Proc. Int. Symp. Visual Computing 2012 (Pub. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Greece, 2012.

19.Contextual person detection in multi-modal surveillance, N.M.Robertson, J.Letham, European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO), Bucharest, Romania, 2012

20.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, IEEE Int. Conf. Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, April 2012, Boston, USA.

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

22.Real-time active visual tracking with level sets, W.Gulyanon, C.Morand, A.M.Wallace & N.M. Robertson, Proc 4th IEEE Int. Conf. Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, Kingston, London, November 2011

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

24.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, Tyrol, Austria, June 2011

25.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 Infrared Technology and Applications XXXVII, Orlando, 2011

26.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.

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

28.Task-based Saliency for Intelligent Compression, P.Harding and N.M. Robertson, IEEE Int. Conf. Signal and Image Processing Applications, Malaysia, 2009.

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

30.Finding Visually Interesting Regions using SURF Points, (invited paper) P. Harding and N.M. Robertson, Proc. Colour Imaging Symposium, Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, pp90-93, Oslo, Norway.

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

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

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

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

35.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, 2008.

36.Metrics for Measuring the Impact of Image Processing Algorithms on Background Statistics, P. Harding, G. Arthur and N.M. Robertson, Proc. Remote Sensing, Cardiff, 2008.

37.Estimating Gaze Direction from Low-Resolution Faces in Video, N.M. Robertson and I.D. Reid, (European Conf. Computer Vision) LNCS (3952) 402-415, Springer

38.Behaviour Recognition and Explanation for Video Surveillance, N.M.Robertson, I.D. Reid and J.M. Brady, Proc IET Conf. Crime and Security, London, 2006

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

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

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