Steve Maybank

Telephone

+44 (0)20 7631 6446

Fax

+44 (0)20 7631 6727

Email

 sjmaybank@dcs.bbk.ac.uk

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

· Inference of 3D geometry from image sequences

· Content based image retrieval

· Visual surveillance

· Minimum description length, model selection

· Applications of the Fisher-Rao metric to image analysis

· 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: Berlin, Heidelberg, New-York.

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), Kingston, Surrey, UK, pp. 227-234.

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 London, Series A, vol. 459, pp. 1829-1849. Download pdf.

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), Houston, Texas, 27-30 November 2005, pp. 450-457, ISBN 0-7695-2278-5. Download pdf.

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, Xuelong Li, Xindong Wu, and S.J. Maybank 2006 Human carrying status in visual surveillance, IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), vol. 2, pp. 1,670-1,677, June 2006. Download pdf.

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, Xuelong Li, Xindong Wu, Weiming Hu and S.J. Maybank 2007 Supervised tensor learning. Knowledge and Information Systems. http://www.springerlink.com/content/cp0213w367531x72/. Download pdf.

33. Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li, Xindong Wu, and S.J. Maybank 2007 General Tensor Discriminant Analysis and Gabor Features for Gait Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, to appear. Download pdf.

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, Birkbeck College, University of London.

 

Visiting Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

 

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, University of Cambridge, UK.

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
PhD Computer Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

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

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy