Multispectral contactless 3D handprint acquisition for identification (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Hansen, M. F., Smith, L., & Smith, M. (2018, July). Multispectral contactless 3D handprint acquisition for identification. Paper presented at The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA

We present and experimentally demonstrate the potential effectiveness of a photometric stereo based high resolution system for capturing 3D handprints using visible light sources. The sub-surface vascular structures are also enhanced through the use... Read More about Multispectral contactless 3D handprint acquisition for identification.

Teaching machines to ask questions (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Yao, K., Zhang, L., Luo, T., Tao, L., & Wu, Y. (2018, July). Teaching machines to ask questions. Paper presented at International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, Stockholm, Sweden

We propose a novel neural network model that aims to generate diverse and human-like natural language questions. Our model not only directly captures the variability in possible questions by using a latent variable, but also generates certain types o... Read More about Teaching machines to ask questions.

Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Abdul Jabbar, K., Hansen, M. F., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2016, December). Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video. Paper presented at Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior (VAIB), 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cancun, Mexico

We investigate two locomotion traits in dairy cows from overhead 3D video to observe lameness trends. Detecting lameness -particularly at an early stage- is important in order to allow early treatment which maximizes detection benefits. The proposed... Read More about Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video.

Overhead spine arch analysis of dairy cows from three-dimensional video (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Abdul Jabbar, K., Hansen, M. F., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2016, October). Overhead spine arch analysis of dairy cows from three-dimensional video. Paper presented at Eighth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2016), Tokyo, Japan

We present a spine arch analysis method in dairy cows using overhead 3D video data. This method is aimed for early stage lameness detection. That is important in order to allow early treatment; and thus, reduce the animal suffering and minimize the h... Read More about Overhead spine arch analysis of dairy cows from three-dimensional video.

Quadruped locomotion analysis using three-dimensional video (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Abdul Jabbar, K., Hansen, M. F., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2016, October). Quadruped locomotion analysis using three-dimensional video. Paper presented at IEEE ICSAE Conference, Newcastle, UK

Abstract— To date, there has not been a single method suitable for large-scale or regular-basis implementation to analyze the locomotion of quadruped animals. Existing methods are not sensitive enough for detecting minor deviations from healthy gait... Read More about Quadruped locomotion analysis using three-dimensional video.

Non-intrusive automated measurement of dairy cow body condition using 3D video (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hansen, M. F., Smith, M., Smith, L., & Hales, I. (2015, September). Non-intrusive automated measurement of dairy cow body condition using 3D video. Presented at British Machine Vision Conference - Workshop of Machine Vision and Animal Behaviour, Swansea, Wales, UK

Regular scoring of a dairy herd in terms of various physical metrics such as Body Condition Score (BCS), mobility and weight are essential for maintaining high animal welfare. This paper presents preliminary results of an automated system capable of... Read More about Non-intrusive automated measurement of dairy cow body condition using 3D video.

Testing the validity of Lambert's law for micro-scale photometric stereo applied to paper substrates (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Azhar, F., Emrith, K., Pollard, S., Smith, M., Adams, G., & Simske, S. (2015, March). Testing the validity of Lambert's law for micro-scale photometric stereo applied to paper substrates. Paper presented at 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2015), Berlin, Germany

This paper presents an empirical study to investigate the use of photometric stereo (PS) for micro-scale 3D measurement of paper samples. PS estimates per-pixel surface orientation from images of a surface captured from the same viewpoint but under d... Read More about Testing the validity of Lambert's law for micro-scale photometric stereo applied to paper substrates.

Photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Emrith, K., Slabaugh, G., Poullis, A. P., Goves, C., & Smith, M. (2014, July). Photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue. Paper presented at Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2014, City University London

We introduce photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue. Photometric stereo captures images of a surface from a single camera, but illuminated from different light sources. From the set of images, a detailed surface rec... Read More about Photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue.

Non contact pulmonary functional testing through an improved photometric stereo approach (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Ahmad, J., Sun, J., Smith, L., & Smith, M. (2014, July). Non contact pulmonary functional testing through an improved photometric stereo approach. Paper presented at Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2014, City University London

A non-contact computer vision based system is developed for Pulmonary Functional Testing. The unique and novel features of the system are that it views the patients from both front and back and creates a 3D structure of the whole torso. By observing... Read More about Non contact pulmonary functional testing through an improved photometric stereo approach.

Using nasal curves matching for expression robust 3D nose recognition (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Emambakhsh, M., Evans, A., & Smith, M. (2013, September). Using nasal curves matching for expression robust 3D nose recognition. Paper presented at IEEE Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS2013), Washington DC, USA

The development of 3D face recognition algorithms that are robust to variations in expression has been a challenge for researchers over the past decade. One approach to this problem is to utilize the most stable parts on the face surface. The nasa... Read More about Using nasal curves matching for expression robust 3D nose recognition.

BRDF estimation for faces from a sparse dataset using a neural network (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., & Smith, M. (2013, August). BRDF estimation for faces from a sparse dataset using a neural network. Paper presented at Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2013, York, UK

We present a novel �ve source near-infrared photometric stereo 3D face capture device. The accuracy of the system is demonstrated by a comparison with ground truth from a commercial 3D scanner. We also use the data from the �ve captured images to mo... Read More about BRDF estimation for faces from a sparse dataset using a neural network.

Multi-scale integration of slope data on an irregular mesh (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Saracchini, R., Stolfi, J., Leitão, H., Atkinson, G., & Smith, M. (2011, November). Multi-scale integration of slope data on an irregular mesh. Paper presented at Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, Gwangju, South Korea, 2011, Gwangju, South Korea

Twins 3D face recognition challenge (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Vijayan, V., Bowyer, K. W., Flynn, P. J., Huang, D. S., Chen, L., Hansen, M. F., …Kakadiaris, I. (2011, October). Twins 3D face recognition challenge. Paper presented at International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Washington DC, USA

Existing 3D face recognition algorithms have achieved high enough performances against public datasets like FRGC v2, that it is difficult to achieve further significant increases in recognition performance. However, the 3D TEC dataset is a more chall... Read More about Twins 3D face recognition challenge.

Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2011, September). Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition. Paper presented at British Machine Vision Conference 2011, Dundee, UK

We present a number of related novel methods for reducing the dimensionality of data for the purposes of 2D and 3D face recognition. Results from psychology show that humans are capable of very good recognition of low resolution images and caricature... Read More about Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition.

The photoface database (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Zafeirou, S., Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Argyriou, V., Petrou, M., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2011, June). The photoface database. Paper presented at Biometrics Workshop of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Reflection component separation using statistical analysis and polarisation (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, L., Hancock, E. R., & Atkinson, G. (2011, June). Reflection component separation using statistical analysis and polarisation. Paper presented at Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Counter camouflage through the removal of reflectance (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sun, J. (2010, December). Counter camouflage through the removal of reflectance. Paper presented at 2010 IEEE The 3rd International Conference on Machine Vision, Hong Kong

This paper presents a new strategy to counter camouflage by capturing (one more) additional images of same scene. The strategy is based on a technique we call 'two-light photometric stereo', which can remove disruptive reflectance from luminance imag... Read More about Counter camouflage through the removal of reflectance.

Compensation of illumination radiance in photometric stereo (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sun, J. (2010, December). Compensation of illumination radiance in photometric stereo. Paper presented at 2010 IEEE The 3rd International Conference on Machine Vision, Hong Kong

This paper presents a new strategy to counter camouflage by capturing (one more) additional images of same scene. The strategy is based on a technique we call 'two-light photometric stereo', which can remove disruptive reflectance from luminance imag... Read More about Compensation of illumination radiance in photometric stereo.

Human subjectivity to apparent randomness of surface textures (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Emrith, K., Chantler, M. J., Green, P. R., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2010, September). Human subjectivity to apparent randomness of surface textures. Presented at 2nd CIE Expert Symposium on Appearance, Gent, Belgium

Baseline face recognition using photometric stereo data (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Zafeiriou, S., Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Petrou, M., & Smith, M. (2010, September). Baseline face recognition using photometric stereo data. Paper presented at International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, 2010, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India