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Dr Helen Cooper

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Biography

Before University I did a Year In Industry at Cambridge Consultants Ltd. working in the ASICs department.  Through this I first got my teeth into programming; learning the basics of Matlab and C. While studying Electronic Engineering with an EU Language at Surrey I returned during my summer holidays to work in Cambridge.  My course also involved a years Placement which I completed at Philips Semiconducteurs, Caen, France. I was working on embedded software for mobile phone cameras and it was here that my interest in computer vision began.  During my final year I chose a project with Richard Bowden which was an augmented white board, in short a Plasma Screen with 2 cameras that watched for motion and calculated the position of it on the screen. A non-touch touch screen! I graduated with a 1:1 in June 2005.

I started my PhD in October 2005, continuing to work with Richard Bowden, this time in the field of Sign Language Recognition. After submission of my PhD I have continued to work in this field on an EU project called DictaSign

 

Further details can be found on my personal web page.

Publications

Highlights

  • Cooper HM, Holt B, Bowden R. (2011) Sign Language Recognition. in Moeslund TB, Hilton A, Krüger V, Sigal L (eds.) Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People Springer Verlag
  • Cooper HM. (2010) Sign Language Recognitions: Generalising to More Complex Corpora.. University Of Surrey
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2009) 'Learning Signs From Subtitles: A Weakly Supervised Approach To Sign Language Recognition'. Miami, FL, USA : In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , pp. 2568-2574.
    doi: 10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206647
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2007) 'Large lexicon detection of sign language'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, PROCEEDINGS, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: IEEE International Workshop on Human - Computer Interaction 4796, pp. 88-97.

Conference papers

  • Cooper HM, Pugeault N, Bowden R. (2011) 'Reading the Signs : A Video Based Sign Dictionary'. Barcelona: 2nd IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (ARTEMIS 2011), International Conference on Computer Vision
  • Elliott R, Cooper HM, Ong EJ, Glauert J, Bowden R, Lefebvre-Albaret F. (2011) 'Search-By-Example in Multilingual Sign Language Databases'. Dundee: 2nd International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT)
    [ Status: Accepted ]
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2010) 'Sign Language Recognition using Linguistically Derived Sub-Units'. Valetta, Malta : In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, Malta: International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Corpora and Sign Languages Technologies, pp. 57-61.
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2009) 'Learning Signs From Subtitles: A Weakly Supervised Approach To Sign Language Recognition'. Miami, FL, USA : In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , pp. 2568-2574.
    doi: 10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206647
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2009) 'Sign Language Recognition: Working with Limited Corpora'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES, PT III, San Diego, CA: 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction held at the HCI International 2009 5616, pp. 472-481.
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2007) 'Large lexicon detection of sign language'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, PROCEEDINGS, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: IEEE International Workshop on Human - Computer Interaction 4796, pp. 88-97.
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2007) 'Sign Language Recognition Using Boosted Volumetric Features'. Tokyo, Japan : In Proceedings of the IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, , pp. 359-362.

Book chapters

  • Cooper HM, Holt B, Bowden R. (2011) 'Sign Language Recognition'. in Moeslund TB, Hilton A, Krüger V, Sigal L (eds.) Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People Springer Verlag

Theses and dissertations

  • Cooper HM. (2010) Sign Language Recognitions: Generalising to More Complex Corpora.. University Of Surrey