Digital Imaging Research Centre | Jean-Christophe Nebel

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Current projects

MARATHON - Recovery of athlete motion from videos

3D-AT - 3D Articulated Tracking

Past projects

MEDUSA - 3D posture recovery from video sequence	PRoCeSS - Pose Recovery in Context Specific Scenarios
V-Man - The Virtual Man.	3D Thermography - 3D Thermography in the diagnostic of equine lameness
Facial surgery planning - CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate) and orthognathic surgery planning	Virtual surgery - Techniques to generate, model and deform 3D data
Michelangelo - 3D dynamic full body scanner development	Keyframe Animation of Articulated Figures - Collision Avoidance
PAVR: Platform for Animation and Virtual Reality - Cooperation in a distributed virtual environment

Current researchers

Michal Lewandowski, PhD student, 2007-2010 Advanced dimensionality reduction methods (MARATHON project) Supervision Team: Dr Jean-Christophe Nebel (DoS), Dr Jarek Francik, Dr Dimitrios Makris, Dr James Orwell

Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon, Research Fellow, 2009-2012 3D Articulated Tracking Supervision Team: Dr Dimitrios Makris, Dr Jean-Christophe Nebel

Alexandros Moutzouris, PhD Student, 2009-2012 Pose Recovery from Multiple Cameras in Complex Scenarios Supervision Team: Dr Dimitrios Makris (DoS), Dr Jean-Christophe Nebel

Spyridon Bakas , PhD student, 2008-2011 Automated recognition of emotions from video Supervision Team: Dr Dimitrios Makris (DoS), Dr Jean-Christophe Nebel, Dr Gordon Hunter

Former researchers

Paul Kuo, Research assistant, 2006-2009 Posture recognition from video sequence Sup. Team: J.-C. Nebel, D. Makris	Amin Dadgar, MSc student, 2007-2009 Pose recovery in context specific scenarios Sup. Team: D. Makris (DoS), J.-C. Nebel, T. Ellis
Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon, Vis. PhD stud., 07-08 Robust multi-target tracking (Comp. Vision Lab, Zaragoza U., Spain) KU Sup. Team: J.-C. Nebel, D. Makris	Thibault Ammar, Visiting Master student, 2008 3D posture recovery (ISTASE, France) KU Sup. Team: J.-C. Nebel, P. Kuo

Videos

2D Manifold of a walking cycle Using Isomap and Mutual Information measure (see publication for details) Training data: walking mocap sequence from HumanEva dataset

Activity independent 3D pose recovery Exploiting human bipedal motion constraints (see publication for details) Video data: walking sequence from HumanEva dataset

Activity independent 2D pose tracking Using particle filters constrained by human biomechanics (see publication for details) Video data: walking and balancing sequences from HumanEva dataset

Publications

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2010

• Tracking Human Position and Body Parts Using Kalman and Particle Filters Constrained by Human Biomechanics, J. Martinez-del-Rincon, D. Makris, C. Orrite-Urunuela and J.-C. Nebel, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics - Part B', (Accepted), 2010
• 3D Pose Estimation from Silhouettes in Cyclic Activities Encoded by a Dense Gaussians Mixture Model, S. A. Dadgar, J.-C. Nebel and D. Makris, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2010), 17-21 May 2010, Angers, France [PDF]

2009

• Automatic configuration of spectral dimensionality reduction methods for 3D human pose estimation, M. Lewandowski, D. Makris and J.-C. Nebel, Visual Surveillance (VS2009), 3 October 2009, Kyoto, Japan [PDF]
• Exploiting Human Bipedal Motion Constraints for 3D Pose Recovery from a Single Uncalibrated Camera, P. Kuo, A. Thibault, M. Lewandowski, D. Makris and J.-C. Nebel, International conference on Computer Vision theory and Applications (VISAPP2009), February, Lisboa, Portugal [PDF]
• Automation of the CCTV-mediated detection of individuals illegally carrying firearms: combining psychological and technological approaches, I. T. Darker, P. Kuo, M. Y. Yang, A. Blechko, C. Grecos, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel and A. G. Gale, SPIE Defense Security and Sensing Conference, April 2009, Orlando, USA [PDF]

2008

• Integration of Local Image Cues for Probabilistic 2D Pose Recovery, P. Kuo, D. Makris, N. Megherbi and J.-C. Nebel, 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC2008), Springer-Verlag, December, Las Vegas, USA [PDF]
• Tracking Human Body Parts Using Particle Filters Constrained by Human Biomechanics, J. Martinez-del-Rincon, J.-C. Nebel, D. Makris and C. Orrite-Urunuela, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2008), September 2008, Leeds, UK [PDF]
• Automated Visual Surveillance: Detection of Criminal Behaviour, J.-C. Nebel, Invited Speaker at National conference on information & communication technology, 29 Feb-01 March 2008, Mumbai, India [PDF]

2007

• Camera Auto-Calibration from Articulated Motion, P. Kuo, J.-C. Nebel and D. Makris, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, 5-7 September 2007, London, UK [PDF]

2005

• Pre-commercial 3D Digital TV studio, J.-C. Nebel, W. P. Cockshott, V. Yarmolenko, E. Borland and D. MacVicar, IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image & Signal Processing, Volume 152, Issue 6, pp. 665-667, December, 2005 [PDF]

2004

• Experimental 3D Digital TV studio, J.-C. Nebel, Poster for competition for Britain's Top Younger Engineer, 14 December 2004, House of Commons, UK, poster [PDF] and certificate [PDF]
• 3D thermography imaging standardization technique for inflammation diagnosis, X. Ju, J.-C. Nebel and J. P. Siebert, Photonics Asia 2004, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5640-46, 8-12 November 2004, Beijing, China [PDF]

2003

• A New Automated Workflow for 3D Character Creation Based on 3D Scanned Data, A. Sibiryakov, X. Ju and J.-C. Nebel, LNCS 2897, Virtual Storytelling, O. Balet, G. Subsol and P. Torguet (Editors), pp 155-162, 2003 [PDF]
• V-Man Generation for 3-D Real Time Animation, J.-C. Nebel, A. Sibiryakov and X. Ju, A Symposium on Intelligent Motion and Interaction Within Virtual Environments, Poster presentation, London, UK, 15-17 September 2003, Sponsored by NASA Ames, UCL and RIACS, abstract [PDF], poster [PDF]
• 3D Thermography for the quantification of heat generation resulting from inflammation, P. Aksenov, I. Clark, D. Grant, A. Inman, L. Vartikovski and J.-C. Nebel, Proc. 8th 3D Modelling symposium, Paris, France, 2003 [PDF] (Cited by 9)
• An Experimental 3D Digital TV studio, W. P. Cockshott, S. Hoff and J.-C. Nebel, IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image & Signal Processing, Vol. 150, Issue 1, pp 28-33, February 2003 (A H Reeve Premium awarded by the IEE Council) [PDF] (Cited by 11)

2002

• Range flow from stereo-temporal matching: application to skinning, J.-C. Nebel and A. Sibiryakov, IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, Malaga, Spain, 2002 [PDF] (Cited by 10)
• A pilot study: 3D stereo photogrammetric image superimposition on to 3D CT scan images - the future of orthognathic surgery, B. Khambay, J.-C. Nebel, J. Bowman, A. Ayoub, F. Walker and D. Hadley,
  • The International Journal of Adult Orthodontics & Orthognathic Surgery, Winter 2002, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp 331-341 [PDF] (Cited by 30)
  • British Orthodontic Conference 2002, Poster presentation, Glasgow, UK, 22-25 September 2002, poster [PDF]
  • Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2002, Poster presentation, Portsmouth, UK, 22-23 July 2002, paper [PDF]
• An Experimental 3D Digital TV studio, W. P. Cockshott, S. Hoff and J.-C. Nebel, Dpt of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK, Internal Report TR-2002-109, 18 pages, April 2002 [PDF]
• Study of the breathing pattern based on 4D data collected by a dynamic 3D body scanner, L. Benton and J.-C. Nebel, Proc. 7th Numérisation 3D/Scanning 2002 Congress, Paris, France, 2002 [PDF]

2001

• Avatars and virtual characters, Invited speakers: B. Bouju, L. Martin, J.-C. Nebel, C. Guiard and T. Cheysson, The third international forum for animation technologies - Cartoon Master, 15-17 November 2001, Angouleme, France, Proceedings (in French) [PDF]
• Soft Tissue Modelling from 3D Scanned Data, J.-C. Nebel, Deformable Avatars, N. Magnenat-Thalmann and D. Thalmann (Editors), Kluwer, pp. 85-97, 2001 [PDF] (Cited by 14)
• Generation of True 3D Films, J.-C. Nebel, LNCS 2197, Virtual Storytelling, O. Balet, G. Subsol and P. Torguet (Editors), Springer-Verlag, pp 10-19, 2001 [PDF]
• Stroboscopic stereo rangefinder, J.-C. Nebel, F. J. Rodriguez-Miguel and W. P. Cockshott, 3DIM2001, May 28 - June 1, 2001, Québec City, Canada [PDF] (Cited by 8)

2000

• Soft Tissue Modelling from 3D Scanned Data, J.-C. Nebel, Deform2000, Geneva, Switzerland, 29-30 November 2000 [PDF]
• Realistic collision avoidance of upper limbs based on neuroscience models, J.-C. Nebel, Computer Graphics Forum, 2000, volume 19(3), pp 219-228, August 2000 [PDF] (Cited by 7)

1999

• Keyframe interpolation with self-collision avoidance, J.-C. Nebel, Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation, Milan, Italy, September 1999 [PDF] (Cited by 13)
• Collaborative animation over the network, F. Faure, C. Faisstnauer, G. Hesina, A. Aubel, M. Escher, F. Labrosse, J.-C. Nebel and J.-D. Gascuel, CA'99 Conference, 26-29 May 1999, Geneva, Switzerland [PDF] (Cited by 11)
• Keyframe Animation of Articulated Figures Using Autocollision-Free Interpolation, J.-C. Nebel, 17th Eurographics UK Conference'99, 13-15 April 1999, Cambridge, UK (Honourable mention at the best paper award) [PDF] (Cited by 7)