Steve Maybank
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6446
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6727
Email
Room
122, Department
of Computer Science, Senate House, North Block
Teaching
Computer Systems and
Elements of Programming (CSEP)
Image
Based Information Processing
Research Methods in Computer Science and Information Systems
Research
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Inference of 3D geometry from image
sequences
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Content based image retrieval
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Visual surveillance
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Minimum description length, model
selection
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Applications of the Fisher-Rao metric to
image analysis
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Image statistics
Award
Awarded the Koenderink Prize at the
10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008.
Selected publications
1.
S.J. Maybank 1990 The projective geometry
of ambiguous surfaces. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., Series A, vol 332,
pp 1-47.
2.
S.J. Maybank and O.D. Faugeras 1992 A
theory of self-calibration of a moving camera. International Journal of
Computer Vision, vol 8, pp 123-152.
3.
S.J. Maybank 1993 A filter with a
guaranteed asymptotic performance. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Series A, vol
441, pp 33-57.
4.
S.J. Maybank 1993 Theory of
Reconstruction from Image Motion. Springer Series in Information Sciences,
vol 28. Springer-Verlag:
5.
S.J. Maybank 1995 Probabilistic analysis
of the application of the cross ratio to model based vision: misclassification.
International Journal of Computer Vision, vol 14, pp 1-12.
6.
S.J. Maybank 1995 The critical line
congruence for reconstruction from three images. Applicable Algebra in
Engineering, Communication and Computing, vol 6, pp 89-113.
7.
S.J. Maybank 1995 Probabilistic analysis
of the application of the cross ratio to model based vision. International
Journal of Computer Vision, vol 16, pp 5-33.
8.
S.J. Maybank 1996 Finite-dimensional
filters. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, Series A, vol 354, pp 1099-1123.
9.
S.J. Maybank and A. Worrall 1997 Path
prediction and classification based on non-linear filtering. In Algebraic
Frames for the Perception-Action cycle. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
vol. 1315, pp. 323-343. Springer.
10.
S.J. Maybank 1998 Relation between 3D and
2D invariants. Image and Vision Computing, vol. 16, pp. 13-20.
11.
P.H.S. Torr, A. Zisserman and S.J. Maybank
1998 Robust detection of degenerate configurations for the fundamental matrix. Computer
Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 71, pp. 312-333.
12.
S.J. Maybank 1998 Effect of a drift
discontinuity on a travelling Gaussian. Applied Mathematics Letters, vol
11, pp. 75-81.
13.
P.F. Sturm and S,.J.Maybank 1999 On
plane-based camera calibration: a general algorithm, singularities,
applications. Proc. CVPR, Fort Collins, Co., vol. 1, pp. 432-437.
14.
J.M. Ferryman, S.J. Maybank and A.D.
Worrall 2000 Visual surveillance for moving vehicles. Int. J. of Computer
Vision, vol 37, pp 187-197.
15.
S.J.Maybank and R. Fraile 2000 Minimum
description length method for facet matching. Int. J. Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence, vol 14, pp 919-927.
16.
N.T. Siebel and S.J. Maybank 2001 The
application of colour filtering to real-time person tracking. Proc. 2nd
European Workshop on Advanced Video Based Surveillance Systems (AVBS2001),
17.
N.T. Siebel and S.J. Maybank 2002 Fusion
of multiple tracking algorithms for robust people tracking. In A. Heyden, G.
Sparr, M. Nielsen and P. Johansen (eds.) Proc. 7th European Conference on
Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, vol. IV, pp. 373-387. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science. Springer.
18.
S.J. Maybank 2003 Fisher information and
model selection for projective transformations of the line. Proceedings of
the Royal Society of
19.
W. Hu, T. Tan, L. Wang and S. Maybank 2004
A survey on visual surveillance of object motion and behaviours. IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 334-352.
20.
Weiming Hu, Xuejuan Xiao, Dan Xie, Tieniu
Tan and S.J. Maybank 2004 Traffic accident prediction using 3D model based
vehicle tracking. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 53,
pp. 677-694.
21.
Weiming Hu, Dan Xie, Tieniu Tan and S.J.
Maybank 2004 Learning activity patterns using fuzzy self-organizing neural
network. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 34,
pp. 1618-1626.
22.
N.T. Siebel and S.J. Maybank 2004 The ADVISOR
visual surveillance system. In M. Clabian, V. Smutny and G. Stanke (eds.) Proceedings
of the ECCV 2004 Workshop Applications of Computer Vision (ACV’ 04),
pp. 103-111.
23.
S.J. Maybank 2004 Detection of image structures using
the Fisher information and the Rao metric. IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol 26, No 12.
Download pdf .
24. S.J. Maybank 2005 The Fisher-Rao metric for projective transformations of the line. Int. J. of Computer Vision, vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 191-206. Download pdf. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
25.
D. Tao, X. Li, W. Hu, S.J. Maybank and X.
Wu 2005 Supervised tensor learning. Proc.
5th IEEE Int. Conference on
Data Mining (ICDM),
26.
J. Lu, T. Tan, H. Yang, W. Hu and S.J.
Maybank 2006 3D model based vehicle tracking. Accepted by IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing.
27.
S.J. Maybank 2006 Application of the
Fisher-Rao metric to structure detection. Journal of Mathematical Imaging
and Vision, vol. 25, pp. 49-62, 2006. Download
pdf.
28.
Weiming Hu, Min Hu, Xue Zhou, Tieniu Tan,
Jianguang Lou and S.J. Maybank 2006 Principal axis based correspondence between
multiple cameras for people tracking. IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 28, pp.
663-671. Download pdf.
29.
Weiming Hu, Xuejuan Xiao, Zhouyu Fu, Dan
Xie, Tieniu Tan and S. Maybank 2006 A system for learning statistical motion
patterns. IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 28, No. 9, pp. 1450-1464.
30. Dacheng
Tao,
31. S.J.
Maybank 2006 Application of the Fisher-Rao metric to ellipse detection. International Journal of Computer Vision
(electronic version). Paper version to appear in IJCV, vol. 72, Issue 3, May 2007. Download pdf.
32. Dacheng
Tao,
33.
Dacheng Tao,
34.
Xiaoqin Zhang,
Weiming Hu, SJ Maybank and Xi Li 2007 Graph based discriminative learning for
robust and efficient object tracking. Accepted by the 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision,
2007. Download pdf.
35.
Xiaoqin Zhang
and S.J. Maybank 2008 Sequential particle filter swarm optimization for visual
tracking. Proceedings IEEE Conference on
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2008, pp 1-8. Download pdf.
36.
S.J. Maybank
2008 Approximation to the Fisher-Rao metric for the focus of expansion. Neurocomputing, vol. 71, pp. 2037-2045. Download pdf.
37.
S.J. Maybank 2008
A multivariate distribution for subimages.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A,
doi:10.1098/rspa.2008.0212. Journal version to appear. Download pdf.
38.
S.J. Maybank
2008 The Fisher-Rao metric. Mathematics
Today, 44, No. 6, pp. 255-257. Download
pdf.
Academic Responsibilities
Professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems,
Visiting
Professor at the Institute of Automation,
Member of the
Editorial Board for the International
Journal of Computer Vision.
Editor for Computing and Informatics.
Associate Editor
for Acta Automatica Sinica
Programme
Director for the BSc in
Information Systems and Management and for the BSc in Information Systems and
Computing.
Qualifications and Professional
Membership
BA Mathematics,
Post Graduate
Diploma in Computer Science,
PhD Computer Science,
Member of the British Machine Vision
Association
Member of the Societe Mathematique de France
Member of the European Mathematical Society
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its
Applications
Senior Member of the IEEE
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society