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DEC 2019: Our paper Discovering Influential Factors in Variational Autoencoders has been accepted to publish at Pattern Recognition.
NOV 2019: We are organising a challenge competition EmoPain Face and Movement Behaviour Challenge at IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2020) The baseline paper can be downloaded here .
NOV 2019: We organise a special issue entitled Lightweight Deep Neural Networks for Remote Sensing Image Understanding for Open Access Journal Remote Sensing (Impact factor: 4.118 (2018)). The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31st December 2020.
OCT 2019: I gave a talk on Spiking Sparse Distributed Memory Model and Its Implementation on Loihi Architecture at Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) 2019 Fall Workshop in Graz, Austria.
OCT 2019: Congratulations to Zeng Fan for his paper Convolution of Barker and Golay Codes for Low Voltage Ultrasonic Testing published at Technologies .
SEP 2019: We will organise the 16th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2020) in Xi'an of China on 1st-3rd Aug. 2020.
AUG 2019: Our paper Diffusion Tensor Image segmentation based on multi-atlas Active Shape Model has been published at Multimedia Tools and Applications .
JUL 2019: Our paper Automatic Fuzzy Clustering Framework for Image Segmentation has been published at IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
JUN 2019: I was invited to give a talk for Modernization of Doctoral Education in Science and improvement of Teaching Methodologies: MODEST (EU project) at University of Helsinki, Finland.
JUN 2019: Our paper Adaptive Morphological Reconstruction for Seeded Image Segmentation has been published at IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
MAY 2019: Congratulations to Lamiek Abraham for his final year project "Design and control of robotic hand by glove wirelessly" under my supervision is given the Innovation Award at Brunel Engineers Showcase 2019.
MAY 2019: Our paper End-to-end Change Detection Using a Symmetric Fully Convolutional Network for Landslide Mapping has been published by ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) that is held on 12-17th, May. 2019 in Brighton, UK.
APR 2019: I was invited to give a talk on Embedded Systems and Emotion Sensing for Human Computer Inteaction at Intelligent Design, Manufacturing and Service Workshop that was held on 12th, Apr. 2019 in Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
MAR 2019: We will organise the Workshop on Recognition, Treatment and Management of Pain and Distress, and the EmoPain Behaviour Recognition Challenge at 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019) in Cambridge on 3rd-6th September, 2019.
MAR 2019: EPSRC Funded DTP PhD Studentships is available for UK or EU citizens. The deadline is 31st May 2019. If you are interested, please contact me as soon as possible for the application.
FEB 2019: Congratulations to Fan Zhang who was recommended at viva voce examination for the award of the PhD degree subject to completion of minor amendments. The title of his dissertation is Music Emotion Recognition Based on Feature Combination, Deep Learning and Chord Detection.
FEB 2019: I was appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT).
FEB 2019: I was invited to give a talk with the title of Facial Expression Recognition in 2D and 3D Data at University College London.
JAN 2019: Congratulations to Jingxin Liu who was recommended at viva voce examination for the award of the PhD degree subject to completion of minor amendments. The title of his dissertation is Brainwave-Based Human Emotion Estimation using Deep Neural Network for Biofeedback.
DEC 2018: Our paper Superpixel-based Fast Fuzzy C-Means Clustering for Color Image Segmentation has been published by IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems on 20th, Dec. 2018. The code can be downloaded here.
NOV 2018: Congratulations to Rui Qin who was recommended at viva voce examination for the award of the PhD degree subject to completion of minor amendments. The title of his dissertation is Automatic Recognition of Human Behaviour in Sequential Data.
NOV 2018: Our paper SMEConvNet: A Convolutional Neural Network for Spotting Spontaneous Facial Micro-Expression from Long Videos has been published at IEEE Access on 5th, Nov. 2018.
NOV 2018: Welcome your submission to our special issue of Special Collection on High-frequency Radar for Human-machine Interactive Sensing and Localization at International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. The deadline is 30th April, 2019.
OCT 2018: Welcome Bodor Almatrouk join us as a new PhD student.
SEP 2018: Congratulations to Sebin Jung for giving a presentation"Developing a Smart Design Concepts with Assistive Technologies for Elderly Drivers" at the First International Symposium on Smart Products through-life Design Theories Methods Tools in Xian, China.
SEP 2018: Welcome Xiaowei Wang join us as a new PhD student.
AUG 2018: Welcome Vice Institute Director Weizhen Liu and his team from China Academy of Railway Sciences in Beijing for visiting us at Brunel on research discussion.
AUG 2018: Congratulations to Sebin Jung for giving a presentation at the 2018 BMW Summer School.
AUG 2018: Welcome Prof Tao Lei from Shaanxi University of Science and Technology of China for visiting us on the research exchange project sponsored by Royal Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) .
MAY 2018: Congratulations to Nima Mohammadi Meshky for his final year project of Real time facial expression recognition and heart-rate estimation on Raspberry Pi has won The Anson Fund Prize at Brunel Engineers Showcase on 31st, May 2018.
MAY 2018: I was invited to give a keynote speech of Recent Advances in Automatic Emotion Detection from Facial Expressions at 8th Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding in conjunction with 2nd Int. Workshop on Automatic Face Analytics for Human Behavior Understanding at The 13th IEEE FG 2018 on 15th, May 2018 in Xian, China.
MAY 2018: Congratulations to Ioannis Intzes for his paper High Data Rate FinFET On-Off Keying Transmitter for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy published at VLSI Design.
MAY 2018: I am very pleased to announce that it was a great success for our Holoscopic Micro-Gesture Recognition Challenge 2018 (HoMGR 2018) at The 13th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2018) on 19th, May 2018 in Xian, China.
MAY 2018: Congratulations to Yi Liu for her paper Holoscopic 3D Micro-Gesture Database for Wearable Device Interaction has been presented at The 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018) Workshop HoMGR2018.
FEB 2018: Congratulations to Asim Jan for his paper Accurate Facial Parts Localization and Deep Learning for 3D Facial Expression Recognition has been accepted by The 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018) .
FEB 2018: Congratulations to Yona Falinie for her paper Linear and Non-Linear Multimodal Fusion for Continuous Affect Estimation in-the-Wild has been accepted by The 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018) .
FEB 2018: Congratulations to Yona Falinie who was recommended at viva voce examination for the award of the PhD degree subject to completion of minor amendments. The title of her dissertation is Artificial Intelligence System for Continuous Affect Estimation from Naturalistic Human Expressions.
JAN 2018: Our paper Significantly Fast and Robust Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm Based on Morphological Reconstruction and Membership Filtering has been published at IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems on 23rd, Jan. 2018. The code can be downloaded here.
JAN 2018: Congratulations to Jingxin Liu for his paper Emotion detection from EEG recordings based on supervised and unsupervised dimension reduction has been accepted at Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience on 19th, Jan. 2018.
JAN 2018: Congratulations to Saeed Turabzadeh for his paper Facial Expression Emotion Detection for Real-Time Embedded Systems has been published at Technologies on 26th, Jan. 2018.
Dec 2017: Our paper Holoscopic 3D Micro-Gesture Database for Wearable Device Interaction has been put on arXiv.org with an ID 1712.05570 for the Holoscopic Micro-Gesture Recognition Challenge 2018 (HoMGR 2018).
Nov 2017: I am very pleased to announce tha Dr. Bernardino Romera Paredes from DeepMind will give us a talk of "Deep learning methods for instance segmentation" on 21st Nov. 2017. The detailed information can be found here.
Nov 2017: The official website for Holoscopic Micro-Gesture Recognition Challenge 2018 (HoMGR 2018) has been launched on 12th Nov. 2017 at 3DVIE . The detailed call for participants can be found here.
OCT 2017: I am very pleased to announce that we will organise Holoscopic Micro-Gesture Recognition Challenge 2018 (HoMGR 2018) at The 13th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2018) on 15th - 19th, May 2018 in Xian, China. The call for participants is here.
OCT 2017: Congratulations to Juvaria Syeda who has been granted a place at Tech Tour of Deep Tech Summit 2017 on 17th - 18th, Oct. 2017 in London.
SEP 2017: Our "RIOT" prototype using real-time facial emotion recogntion has been successfully shown at London Design Festival at V&A (Victoria and Arbert Museum) on 23rd - 24th Sept 2017.
SEP 2017: Our paper "Infrared and Visible Images Registration with Adaptable Local-Global Feature Integration for Rail Inspection" has been published at Infrared Physics & Technology .
SEP 2017: EU Horizon 2020 IoRL (Internet of Radio Light) project meeting was successfully held at Brunel with all the 20 partners attended.
SEP 2017: Congratulations to Asim Jan who was recommended at viva voce examination for the award of the PhD degree subject to completion of minor amendments. The title of his dissertation is "Deep Learning Based Facial Expression Recognition and Its Applications".
AUG 2017: Welcome Dr Huibin Li visit us from Xi'an Jiaotong University of China.
JUL 2017: Welcome Prof Tao Lei join us as an academic visitor from Shaanxi University of Science and Technology of China.
JUL 2017: Congratulations to Asim Jan, Yona Falinie and Fan Zhang for our paper "Artificial Intelligent System for Automatic Depression Level Analysis through Visual and Vocal Expressions" published by IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems .
JUL 2017: Congratulations to Sebin Jung for her paper "Exploring challenges in developing a smart and effective assistive system for improving the experience of the elderly drivers" published by Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering of Springer.
JUN 2017: I am very pleased for the honour of IEEE Senior Membership by IEEE.
JUN 2017: Our new EU Horizon 2020 project "IoRL: Internet of Radio Light" is launched on 1st June 2017. The detailed information can be found its official website: https://5g-ppp.eu/iorl/
MAY 2017: Congratulations to Yona Falinie for her paper "Decoupling Temporal Dynamics for Naturalistic Affect Recognition in a Two-Stage Regression Framework" accepted by the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF-2017) for oral presentation.
MAY 2017: Welcome Hugues Moreau join us from France for the summer internship.
MAR 2017: Our real-time emotion detection for interasctive film project " RIOT " has been reported as "It's a riot: the stressful AI simulation built to understand your emotions" in The Guardian newspaper.
MAR 2017: Our funding application of "Differential Geometry and Deep Learning for Dynamic Facial Expression Analysis" to Royal Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in collaboration with Dr Huibin Li from Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) is successful.
JAN 2017: I and my PhD students were invited for a industrial visit and I have given a talk on Machine Learning and Facial Expression Recognition from Videos at Vertu in UK on Jan. 13.
JAN 2017: Welcome Zeng Fan join us as a new PhD student.
JAN 2017: I was invited for a talk on Facial Expression Analysis from Videos at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China on Jan. 3.
OCT 2016: The RIOT project has been successfully shown at The Future of StoryTelling Festival (FoST FEST) in New York on Oct. 7 - 9. Details can be found at NY Theatre .
OCT 2016: Congratulations to Sebin Jung for her paper "Exploring challenges in developing a smart and effective assistive system for improving the experience of the elderly drivers" accepted by Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering of Springer.
OCT 2016: Congratulations to Yona Falinie and Asim Jan for giving presentations at MediaEval2016 workshop.
SEP 2016: Congratulations to Rui Qin and Jingxin Liu for demonstrating real-time facial expression analysis tool integrated in RIOT project shown at Festival of the Mind in Sheffield on Sept. 15 - 18.
AUG 2016: I was invited for a talk on Deep Learning for Facial Expression Analysis at Deep Learning Summit in London on Sept. 22 - 23.
AUG 2016: Congratulations to Yona Falinie for acceptance by SMART School on Computational Social and Behavioural Sciences where she will give a poster presentation, Paris, Sept. 5 - 9.
AUG 2016: It was a great pleasure to host Prof Weihua Zhang from Southwest Jiaotong University of China as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow funded by Royal Academy of Engineering for a research visiting in UK ( Brunel, TWI, Salford, Huddersfield, etc. ) in July and Aug.
JUL 2016: I was invited for a talk on facial expression recognition at the Affective Computing Workshop held in Beijing Samsung Telecom R&D Center on 7th July.
JUN 2016: Welcome Justine Bougnol and Telmo Santana Fernandes join us from France for the summer internships.
APR 2016: Congratulation to Yona Falinie for giving an oral presentation entitled "Social Touch Gesture Recognition using Random Forest and Boosting on Distinct Feature Sets" at Malaysia-Singapore Research Conference that takes place on 9th April, 2016 in University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
APR 2016: Congratulation to Sebin Jung for her paper "Creating a Smart Application System to Provide a Beneficial Maintenance Service for Elderly Drivers" accepted by the Fifth International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technology Innovation 2016 that will take place from October 28 to November 01, 2016 in Taichung, Taiwan.
MAR 2016: Congratulation to Sebin Jung for her paper "Exploring challenges in developing a smart and effective assistive system for improving the experience of the elderly drivers" accepted by The International Workshop on Digital Design and Manufacturing Technologies, 12-13 April 2016, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8SW, UK
MAR 2016: Welcome Juvaria Syeda join us as a new PhD student.
JAN 2016: Congratulation to Jingxin Liu for for his success with topic "Emotion Recognition from EEG" at the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition at college level. Now he is selected for the Final on 26th May 2016 at the univeristy level.
NOV 2015: Our paper "Social Touch Gesture Recognition Using Random Forest and Boosting on Distinct Feature Sets" has been presented at ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015), Seattle, USA.
OCT 2015: Image Analysis for Complex Data in Non Destructive Testing (EPSRC I-CASE PhD Studentship, please see the details here(updated), the deadline is 30th Nov 2015)
OCT 2015: Congratulation to Saeed Turabzadeh for passing the viva for his MPhil degree.
SEP 2015: I was in l’Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France as an invited professor at CNRS-LIRIS (Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information),
SEP 2015: Our presentations of two papers at IEEE FG 2015 workshop "Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space (EmoSPACE 2015)" are available online now (click here).
MAY 2015: Congratulation to Gursimran Kaur for winning The Anson Fund Prize for her final year project "Integrated Multi-Functional Health Monitor" at Brunel Engineering Show 2015.
MAY 2015: Ioannis Intzes has presented "Design of wireless swallowable capsule with minimum power consumption and high resolution images" at PACET 2015 conference.
APR 2015: Our paper "The automatic detection of chronic pain-related expression: requirements, challenges and a multimodal dataset" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.[DOI](IEEE Open Access)
MAR 2015: Our paper "Time-Delay Neural Network for Continuous Emotional Dimension Prediction from Facial Expression Sequences" has been published at IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.[DOI](IEEE Open Access)
MAR 2015: Welcome Sebin Jung join us as a new PhD student.
JAN 2015: Welcome Fan Zhang join us as a new PhD student.
DEC 2014: Welcome Jingxin Liu join us as a new PhD student.
OCT 2014: Welcome Rui Qin join us as a new PhD student.
SEP 2014: We are collaborating on the programming aspect of the production with IF Media on "Syncself II". It will be shown in London Design Festival at V&A (Victoria and Arbert Museum) on 20th - 21st Sept 2014 thanks to exellent technical development work by Christophe Longeanie and design consultancy by Ruben Kruiper. Detailed information can be found here.
AUG 2014: Our paper "Automatic Depression Scale Prediction using Facial Expression Dynamics and Regression" has been accepted by ACM Multimedia 2014 workshop "Fouth International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC2014)".
JUN 2014: Welcome Clement Fabris and Maxime Chateau join us from France for the summer internships.
MAY 2014: Welcome Ruben Kruiper join us as an EU Erasmus exchange student.
APR 2014: Our paper "Technology of swallowable capsule for medical applications" has been published by International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology.
MAR 2014: Welcome Yona Falinie join us as a new PhD student.
DEC 2013: I have given a presentation at AC@UK 2013 event in Queen Mary University of London.
OCT 2013: Our work has been awarded the "Best Entry for the Affect Recognition Sub-Challenge" at the ACM Multimedia 2013 workshop "Third International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC2013)" in Barcelona, Spain. The detailed information is here.
OCT 2013: Welcome Asim Jan join us as a new PhD student.
SEP 2013: Welcome Saeed Turabzadeh join us as a new research student.
AUG 2013: Our paper "Depression Recognition based on Dynamic Facial and Vocal Expression Features using Partial Least Square Regression" has been accepted by ACM Multimedia 2013 workshop "Third International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC2013)".
JUL 2013: Congratulation to Asim Jan for his funding application success on "School of Engineering & Design/Thomas Gerald Gray PGR Scholarship". He will join us as a PhD student in the upcoming academic year.
APR 2013: Our paper "A facial expression based continuous emotional state monitoring system with GPU acceleration" has been presented on IEEE FG2013 Workshop EmoSPACE 2013, Shanghai, China.[slides]
APR 2013: Our paper "Affective state level recognition in naturalistic facial and vocal expressions" is published by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.[PDF](IEEE Open Access)
DEC 2012: Our paper "What does touch tell us about emotions in touchscreen-based gameplay?" is published by ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. [DOI]
OCT 2012: Funding success with an BRIEF award was granted by Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund.
OCT 2012: Welcome Ioannis Intzes join us as a new PhD student.
OCT 2012: I have given a talk of "Facial expression recognition from 3D data" at Kinect for Life event in Kingston University, London.
JUN 2012: Our paper "Implementation and applications of tri-state self organising maps on FPGA" is published by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. [PDF]
MAR 2012: Major award was given on Research Exchanges with China and India scheme by UK Royal Academy of Engineering.
OCT 2011: Our paper "Naturalistic affective expression classification by a multi-stage approach based on Hidden Markov Models" has won the audio sub-challenge of AVEC2011 challenge. The detailed result information is here.