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Professor Josef Kittler

Head of Department, Electronic Engineering and Distinguished Professor

Qualifications: MA PhD ScD(Camb) FREng

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 9294
Room no: 38 AB 05

Further information

Biography

I have been a Research Assistant in the Engineering Department of Cambridge University (1973--75), SERC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (1975-77), Royal Society European Research Fellow, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommuninations, Paris (1977--78), IBM Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford (1978--80), Principal Research Associate, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1980--84) and Principal Scientific Officer, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1985).

I also worked as the SERC Coordinator for Pattern Analysis (1982), and was Rutherford Research Fellow in Oxford University, Dept. Engineering Science (1985).

I joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of Surrey University in 1986 as a Reader in Information Technology, and became Professor of Machine Intelligence in 1991 and gained the title Distinguished Professor in 2004.

Research Interests

I have worked on various theoretical aspects of Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Computer Vision, and on many applications including System Identification, Automatic Inspection, ECG diagnosis, Mammographic Image Interpretation, Remote Sensing, Robotics, Speech Recognition, Character Recognition and Document Processing, Image Coding, Biometrics, Image and Video Database Retrieval, Surveillance. Contributions to statistical pattern recognition include k-nearest neighbour methods of pattern classification, feature selection, contextual classification, probabilistic relaxation and most recently to multiple expert fusion. In computer vision my major contributions include robust statistical methods for shape analysis and detection, motion estimation and segmentation, and image segmentation by thresholding and edge detection.

I have co-authored a book with the title `Pattern Recognition: a statistical approach' published by Prentice-Hall and  published more than 500 papers.

Publications

Highlights

  • Ortega-Garcia J, Fierrez J, Alonso-Fernandez F, Galbally J, Freire MR, Gonzalez-Rodriguez J, Garcia-Mateo C, Alba-Castro JL, Gonzalez-Agulla E, Otero-Muras E, Garcia-Salicetti S, Allano L, Ly-Van B, Dorizzi B, Kittler J, Bourlai T, Poh N, Deravi F, Ng MWR, Fairhurst M, Hennebert J, Humm A, Tistarelli M, Brodo L, Richiardi J, Drygajlo A, Ganster H, Sukno FM, Pavani SK, Frangi A, Akarun L, Savran A. (2010) 'The Multiscenario Multienvironment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 32 (6), pp. 1097-1111.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.76
  • Kim TK, Kittler J, Cipolla R. (2010) 'On-line Learning of Mutually Orthogonal Subspaces for Face Recognition by Image Sets'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T IMAGE PROCESS, 19 (4), pp. 1067-1074.
    doi: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2038621
  • Yan F, Christmas W, Kittler J. (2008) 'Layered data association using graph-theoretic formulation with applications to tennis ball tracking in monocular sequences.'. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell, United States: 30 (10), pp. 1814-1830.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70834
  • Ilonen J, Kamarainen JK, Paalanen P, Hamouz M, Kittler J, Kalviainen H. (2008) 'Image feature localization by multiple hypothesis testing of Gabor features'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T IMAGE PROCESS, 17 (3), pp. 311-325.
    doi: 10.1109/TIP.2007.916052

Journal articles

  • Arashloo SR, Kittler J, Christmas WJ. (2011) 'Pose-invariant face recognition by matching on multi-resolution MRFs linked by supercoupling transform'. Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 115 (7), pp. 1073-1083.
    doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.12.006
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2011) 'A Unified Framework for Multimodal Biometric Fusion Incorporating Quality Measures.'. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell,
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.102
  • Kim TK, Stenger B, Kittler J, Cipolla R. (2011) 'Incremental Linear Discriminant Analysis Using Sufficient Spanning Sets and Its Applications'. SPRINGER INT J COMPUT VISION, 91 (2), pp. 216-232.
    doi: 10.1007/s11263-010-0381-3
  • Poh N, Chan CH, Kittler J, Marcel S, Mc Cool C, Rua EA, Castro JLA, Villegas M, Paredes R, Struc V, Pavesic N, Salah AA, Fang H, Costen N. (2010) 'An Evaluation of Video-to-Video Face Verification'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T INF FOREN SEC, 5 (4), pp. 781-801.
    doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2010.2077627
  • Rahimzadeh Arashloo S, Kittler J. (2010) 'Energy Normalization for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition Based on MRF Model Image Matching.'. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell,
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.209
  • Bourlai T, Kittler J, Messer K. (2010) 'On design and optimization of face verification systems that are smart-card based'. SPRINGER MACH VISION APPL, 21 (5), pp. 695-711.
    doi: 10.1007/s00138-009-0187-x
  • Olvera-Lopez JA, Carrasco-Ochoa JA, Martinez-Trinidad JF, Kittler J. (2010) 'A review of instance selection methods'. SPRINGER ARTIF INTELL REV, 34 (2), pp. 133-143.
    doi: 10.1007/s10462-010-9165-y
  • Ortega-Garcia J, Fierrez J, Alonso-Fernandez F, Galbally J, Freire MR, Gonzalez-Rodriguez J, Garcia-Mateo C, Alba-Castro JL, Gonzalez-Agulla E, Otero-Muras E, Garcia-Salicetti S, Allano L, Ly-Van B, Dorizzi B, Kittler J, Bourlai T, Poh N, Deravi F, Ng MWR, Fairhurst M, Hennebert J, Humm A, Tistarelli M, Brodo L, Richiardi J, Drygajlo A, Ganster H, Sukno FM, Pavani SK, Frangi A, Akarun L, Savran A. (2010) 'The Multiscenario Multienvironment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 32 (6), pp. 1097-1111.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.76
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Bourlai T. (2010) 'Quality-Based Score Normalization With Device Qualitative Information for Multimodal Biometric Fusion'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T SYST MAN CY A, 40 (3), pp. 539-554.
    doi: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2041660
  • Kim TK, Kittler J, Cipolla R. (2010) 'On-line Learning of Mutually Orthogonal Subspaces for Face Recognition by Image Sets'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T IMAGE PROCESS, 19 (4), pp. 1067-1074.
    doi: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2038621
  • Poh N, Bourlai T, Kittler J. (2010) 'A multimodal biometric test bed for quality-dependent, cost-sensitive and client-specific score-level fusion algorithms'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD PATTERN RECOGN, 43 (3), pp. 1094-1105.
    doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.09.011
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/111091/
  • Tahir MA, Yan F, Barnard M, Awais M, Mikolajczyk K, Kittler J. (2010) 'The University of Surrey visual concept detection system at ImageCLEF@ICPR: Working notes'. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Recognising Patterns in Signals, Speech, Images and Videos, 6388, pp. 162-170.
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-17711-8_17
  • Windridge D, Kittler J. (2010) 'Perception-Action Learning as an Epistemologically-Consistent Model for Self-Updating Cognitive Representation'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN BRAIN INSPIRED COGNITIVE SYSTEMS 2008, Sao Luis, BRAZIL: 657, pp. 95-134.
    doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-79100-5_6
  • Sadeghi MT, Samiei M, Kittler J. (2010) 'Fusion of PCA-Based and LDA-Based Similarity Measures for Face Verification'. HINDAWI PUBLISHING CORPORATION EURASIP J ADV SIG PR, Article number 647597
    doi: 10.1155/2010/647597
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/111087/
  • Poh N, Bourlai T, Kittler J, Allano L, Alonso-Fernandez F, Ambekar O, Baker J, Dorizzi B, Fatukasi O, Fierrez J, Ganster H, Ortega-Garcia J, Maurer D, Salah AA, Scheidat T, Vielhauer C. (2009) 'Benchmarking Quality-Dependent and Cost-Sensitive Score-Level Multimodal Biometric Fusion Algorithms'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T INF FOREN SEC, 4 (4), pp. 849-866.
    doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2009.2034885
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/111093/
  • Shevchenko M, Windridge D, Kittler J. (2009) 'A linear-complexity reparameterisation strategy for the hierarchical bootstrapping of capabilities within perception-action architectures'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV IMAGE VISION COMPUT, 27 (11), pp. 1702-1714.
    doi: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.12.002
  • Bourlai T, Kittler J, Messer K. (2009) 'Designing a smart-card-based face verification system: empirical investigation'. SPRINGER MACH VISION APPL, 20 (4), pp. 225-242.
    doi: 10.1007/s00138-007-0119-6
  • Granai L, Tena JR, Hamouz M, Kittler J. (2009) 'Influence of compression on 3D face recognition'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV PATTERN RECOGN LETT, 30 (8), pp. 745-750.
    doi: 10.1016/j.patrec.2009.03.001
  • Olvera-Lopez JA, Martinez-Trinidad JF, Carrasco-Ochoa JA, Kittler J. (2009) 'Prototype selection based on sequential search'. IOS PRESS INTELL DATA ANAL, 13 (4), pp. 599-631.
    doi: 10.3233/IDA-2009-0383
  • Loog M, Wu XJ, Lu JP, Yang JY, Wang ST, Kittler J. (2008) 'A note on an extreme case of the generalized optimal discriminant transformation'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV NEUROCOMPUTING, 72 (1-3), pp. 664-665.
    doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2008.05.014
  • Yan F, Christmas W, Kittler J. (2008) 'Layered data association using graph-theoretic formulation with applications to tennis ball tracking in monocular sequences.'. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell, United States: 30 (10), pp. 1814-1830.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70834
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'Incorporating model-specific score distribution in speaker verification systems'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 16 (3), pp. 594-606.
    doi: 10.1109/TASL.2008.916525
  • Roh MC, Christmas B, Kittler J, Lee SW. (2008) 'Gesture spotting for low-resolution sports video annotation'. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD PATTERN RECOGNITION, Graz, AUSTRIA: 41 (3), pp. 1124-1137.
    doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.07.013
  • Ilonen J, Kamarainen JK, Paalanen P, Hamouz M, Kittler J, Kalviainen H. (2008) 'Image feature localization by multiple hypothesis testing of Gabor features'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T IMAGE PROCESS, 17 (3), pp. 311-325.
    doi: 10.1109/TIP.2007.916052
  • Gonzalez-Jimenez D, Argones-Rua E, Alba-Castro JL, Kittler J. (2007) 'Evaluation of point localisation and similarity fusion methods for Gabor jet-based face verification'. INST ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY-IET IET COMPUT VIS, 1 (3-4), pp. 101-112.
    doi: 10.1049/iet-cvi:20070024
  • Kim TK, Kittler J, Cipolla R. (2007) 'Discriminative learning and recognition of image set classes using canonical correlations'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 29 (6), pp. 1005-1018.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1037
  • Prabhakar S, Kittler J, Maltoni D, O'Gorman L, Tan T. (2007) 'Introduction to the special issue on biometrics: Progress and directions'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 29 (4), pp. 513-516.
  • Kittler J, Poh N, Fatukasi O, Messer K, Kryszczuk K, Richiardi J, Drygajlo A. (2007) 'Quality dependent fusion of intramodal and multimodal biometric experts - art. no. 653903'. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN IDENTIFICATION IV, Orlando, FL: 6539, pp. 53903-53903.
  • Chan CH, Kittler J, Messer K. (2007) 'Multispectral local binary pattern histogram for component-based color face verification'. IEEE 2007 FIRST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS, Crystal City, VA: , pp. 306-312.
  • Kim TK, Kittler J. (2006) 'Design and fusion of pose-invariant face-identification experts'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T CIRC SYST VID, 16 (9), pp. 1096-1106.
    doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2006.881197

Conference papers

  • Huang Q, Cox S, Yan F, deCampos TE, Windridge D, Kittler J, Christmas W. (2011) 'Improved Detection of Ball Hit Events in a Tennis Game Using Multimodal Information'. Volterra, Italy : KTH Computer Science and Communication 11th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP), Volterra, Italy: International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/74814/
  • FarajiDavar N, deCampos TE, Kittler J, Yan F. (2011) 'Transductive Transfer Learning for Action Recognition in Tennis Games'. 3rd International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval for Real-World Applications (VECTaR), in conjunction with ICCV,
  • Goswami B, Chan CH, Kittler J, Christmas B. (2011) 'Speaker Authentication using Video-based Lip information'. ICASSP,
  • Almajai I, Yan F, de Campos T, Khan A, Christmas W, Windridge D, Kittler J. (2010) 'Anomaly Detection and Knowledge Transfer in Automatic Sports Video Annotation'. Proceedings of DIRAC Workshop on Detection and Identification of Rare Audivisual Cues, Barcelona, Spain: DIRAC Workshop on Detection and Identification of Rare Audivisual Cues, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • Almajai I, Kittler J, De Campos T, Christmas W, Yan F, Windridge D, Khan A. (2010) 'BALL EVENT RECOGNITION USING HMM FOR AUTOMATIC TENNIS ANNOTATION'. Proceedings of Intl. Conf. on Image Proc.,
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/123379/
  • Taya S, Windridge D, Kittler J, Osman M. (2010) 'Rule-based modulation of visual attention allocation'. PION LTD PERCEPTION, 39, pp. 81-81.
  • Khan A, Windridge D, Campos TD, Kittler J, Christmas W. (2010) 'Lattice-based Anomaly Rectification for Sport Video Annotation'. Proceedings of ICPR 2010,
  • Almajai I, Yan F, de Campos TE, Khan A, Christmas W, Windridge D, Kittler J. (2010) 'Anomaly Detection and Knowledge Transfer in Automatic Sports Video Annotation'. Proceedings of DIRAC Workshop, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2010),
  • Chan CH, Kittler J, Tahir MA. (2010) 'Kernel Fusion of Multiple Histogram Descriptors for Robust Face Recognition'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN STRUCTURAL, SYNTACTIC, AND STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION, Izmir, TURKEY: Joint IAPR International Workshop on SSPR & SPR 6218, pp. 718-727.
  • Yan F, Mikolajczyk K, Kittler J, Tahir MA. (2010) 'Combining Multiple Kernels by Augmenting the Kernel Matrix'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, Cairo, EGYPT: 9th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems 5997, pp. 175-184.
  • Chan CH, Kittler J. (2010) 'SPARSE REPRESENTATION OF (MULTISCALE) HISTOGRAMS FOR FACE RECOGNITION ROBUST TO REGISTRATION AND ILLUMINATION PROBLEMS'. IEEE 2010 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 2441-2444.
  • Yan F, Mikolajczyk K, Barnard M, Cai H, Kittler J. (2010) 'Lp Norm Multiple Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Object and Image Categorisation'. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Tahir MA, Kittler J, Mikolajczyk K, Yan F. (2010) 'Improving Multilabel Classification Performance by Using Ensemble of Multi-label Classifiers'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, Cairo, EGYPT: 9th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems 5997, pp. 11-21.
  • Yan F, Kittler J, Mikolajczyk K, Tahir A. (2009) 'Non-sparse multiple kernel learning for fisher discriminant analysis'. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM, , pp. 1064-1069.
  • Mortazavian P, Kittler J, Christmas W. (2009) 'A 3-D assisted generative model for facial texture super-resolution'. IEEE 2009 IEEE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS, Washington, DC: 3rd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2009), pp. 452-458.
  • Goswami B, Christmas W, Kittler J. (2009) 'Robust Statistical Estimation Applied to Automatic Lip Segmentation'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, PROCEEDINGS, Povoa de Varzim, PORTUGAL: 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis 5524, pp. 200-207.
  • Poh N, Wong R, Kittler J, Roli F. (2009) 'Challenges and Research Directions for Adaptive Biometric Recognition Systems'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, Comp Vis Lab, Alghero, ITALY: 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics 5558, pp. 753-764.
  • Tahir MA, Kittler J, Mikolajczyk K, Yan F. (2009) 'A Multiple Expert Approach to the Class Imbalance Problem Using Inverse Random under Sampling'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, Univ Iceland, Reykjavik, ICELAND: 8th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems 5519, pp. 82-91.
  • Tahir MA, Kittler J, Yan F, Mikolajczyk K. (2009) 'Kernel Discriminant Analysis using Triangular Kernel for Semantic Scene Classification'. IEEE CBMI: 2009 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Chania, GREECE: International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, pp. 1-6.
  • Arashloo SR, Kittler J. (2009) 'Pose-Invariant Face Matching Using MRF Energy Minimization Framework'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ENERGY MINIMIZATION METHODS IN COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, PROCEEDINGS, Univ Bonn, Bonn, GERMANY: 7th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 5681, pp. 56-69.
  • Poh N, Merati A, Kittler J. (2009) 'Adaptive Client-Impostor Centric Score Normalization: A Case Study in Fingerprint Verification'. IEEE 2009 IEEE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS, Washington, DC: 3rd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2009), pp. 245-251.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2009) 'A Biometric Menagerie Index for Characterising Template/Model-Specific Variation'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, Comp Vis Lab, Alghero, ITALY: 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics 5558, pp. 816-827.
  • Poh N, Chan CH, Kittler J, Marcel S, Mc Cool C, Rua EA, Castro JLA, Villegas M, Paredes R, Struc V, Pavesic N, Salah AA, Fang H, Costen N. (2009) 'Face Video Competition'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, Comp Vis Lab, Alghero, ITALY: 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics 5558, pp. 715-724.
  • Yan F, Mikolajczyk K, Kittler J, Tahir M. (2009) 'A Comparison of l(1) Norm and l(2) Norm Multiple Kernel SVMs in Image and Video Classification'. IEEE CBMI: 2009 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Chania, GREECE: International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, pp. 7-12.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'On Using Error Bounds to Optimize Cost-Sensitive Multimodal Biometric uthentication'. IEEE IEEE Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Florida, USA: ICPR 2008, pp. 684-687.
    doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761115
  • Zou X, Wang W, Kittler J. (2008) 'Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Face Illumination Analysis'. Proc. ICA Research Network International Workshop, Liverpool, UK: ICARN 2008, pp. 52-55.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'A Family of Methods for Quality-based Multimodal Biometric Fusion using Generative Classifiers'. IEEE 2008 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AUTOMATION ROBOTICS & VISION: ICARV 2008, VOLS 1-4, Hannoi, VIETNAM: 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, pp. 1162-1167.
  • Windridge D, Shevchenko M, Kittler J. (2008) 'An Entropy-Based Approach to the Hierarchical Acquisition of Perception-Action Capabilities'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN COGNITIVE VISION, Santorini, GREECE: 4th International Cognitive Vision Workshop (ICVW 2008) 5329, pp. 79-92.
  • Kittler J, Windridge D, Goswami D. (2008) 'Subsurface Scattering Deconvolution for Improved NIR-Visible Facial Image Correlation'. IEEE 2008 8TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATIC FACE & GESTURE RECOGNITION (FG 2008), VOLS 1 AND 2, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS: 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 889-894.
  • Zou X, Kittler J, Hamouz M, Tena JR. (2008) 'Robust albedo estimation from face image under unknown illumination - art. no. 69440A'. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN IDENTIFICATION V, Orlando, FL: Conference on Biometric Technology for Human IdentificationV 6944, pp. A9440-A9440.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'A METHODOLOGY FOR SEPARATING SHEEP FROM GOATS FOR CONTROLLED ENROLLMENT AND MULTIMODAL FUSION'. IEEE 2008 BIOMETRICS SYMPOSIUM (BSYM), Tampa, FL: 6th Biometrics Symposium (BSYM 2008), pp. 17-22.
  • Fatukasi O, Kittler J, Poh N. (2008) 'Estimation of Missing Values in Multimodal Biometric Fusion'. IEEE 2008 IEEE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS (BTAS), Washington, DC: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2008), pp. 117-122.
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Smith R, Tena JR. (2007) 'A method for estimating authentication performance over time, with applications to face biometrics'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Valparaiso, CHILE: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition 4756, pp. 360-369.
  • Zou X, Kittler J, Messer K. (2007) 'Motion compensation for face recognition based on active differential imaging'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Advances in Biometrics, Proceedings, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA: International Conference on Biometrics 4642, pp. 39-48.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2007) 'Predicting biometric authentication system performance across different application conditions: A bootstrap enhanced parametric approach'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Advances in Biometrics, Proceedings, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA: International Conference on Biometrics 4642, pp. 625-635.
  • Bourlai T, Kittler J, Messer K. (2007) 'Smart-card-based face verification system: Empirical optimization of system meta-parameters'. IEEE 41ST ANNUAL IEEE INTERNATIONAL CARNAHAN CONFERENCE ON SECURITY TECHNOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS, Ottawa, CANADA: 41st Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, pp. 85-92.
  • Kolonias I, Kittler J, Christmas WJ, Yan F. (2007) 'Improving the accuracy of automatic tennis video annotation by high level grammar'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING WORKSHOPS, PROCEEDINGS, Modena, ITALY: 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, pp. 154-159.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2007) 'On the use of log-likelihood ratio based model-specific score normalisation in biometric authentication'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Advances in Biometrics, Proceedings, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA: International Conference on Biometrics 4642, pp. 614-624.
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Bourlai T. (2007) 'Improving biometric device interoperability by likelihood ratio-based quality dependent score normalization'. IEEE 2007 FIRST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS, Crystal City, VA: 1st IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2007), pp. 325-329.
  • Tena JR, Smith RS, Hamouz A, Kittler J, Hilton A, Illingworth J. (2007) '2D face pose normalisation using a 3D morphable model'. IEEE 2007 IEEE CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED VIDEO AND SIGNAL BASED SURVEILLANCE, London, ENGLAND: IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, pp. 51-56.
  • Zou X, Kittler J, Messer K. (2007) 'Illumination invariant face recognition: A survey'. IEEE 2007 FIRST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS, Crystal City, VA: 1st IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2007), pp. 113-120.
  • Khan A, Christmas W, Kittler J. (2007) 'Lip contour segmentation using kernel methods and level sets'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN VISUAL COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, PT 2, Lake Tahoe, NV: 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing 4842, pp. 86-95.
  • Fatukasi O, Kittler J, Poh N. (2007) 'Quality controlled multimodal fusion of biometric experts'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Valparaiso, CHILE: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition 4756, pp. 881-890.
  • Wu XJ, Lu JP, Yang JY, Wang ST, Kittler J. (2007) 'An extreme case of the generalized optimal discriminant transformation and its application to face recognition'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV NEUROCOMPUTING, Hefei, PEOPLES R CHINA: International Conference on Intelligent Computing 70 (4-6), pp. 828-834.
    doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.10.014
  • Kamarainen JK, Hamouz M, Kittler J, Paalanen P, Ilonen J, Drobchenko A. (2007) 'Object localisation using generative probability model for spatial constellation and local image features'. IEEE 2007 IEEE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION, VOLS 1-6, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 2784-2791.
  • Chan CH, Kittler J, Messer K. (2007) 'Multi-scale local binary pattern histograms for face recognition'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Advances in Biometrics, Proceedings, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA: International Conference on Biometrics 4642, pp. 809-818.
  • Hamouz M, Tena JR, Kittler J, Hilton A, Illingworth J. (2007) '3D assisted face recognition: A survey'. SPRINGER 3D IMAGING FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY, San Diego, CA: Workshop on Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security held in Conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 35, pp. 3-23.
  • Poh N, Heusch G, Kittler J. (2007) 'On combination of face authentication experts by a mixture of quality dependent fusion classifiers'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Multiple Classifier Systems, Proceedings, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC: 7th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems 4472, pp. 344-356.
  • Guillemaut JY, Kittler J, Sadeghi MT, Christmas WJ. (2006) 'General pose face recognition using frontal face model'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Cancun, MEXICO: 11th Iberoamerican Conference in Pattern Recognition 4225, pp. 79-88.
  • Kittler J, Shevchenko M, Windridge D. (2006) 'Visual bootstrapping for unsupervised symbol grounding'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR INTELLIGENT VISION SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, Antwerp, BELGIUM: 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems 4179, pp. 1037-1046.
  • Kim TK, Kittler J, Cipolla R. (2006) 'Learning discriminative canonical correlations for object recognition with image sets'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2006, PT 3, PROCEEDINGS, Graz, AUSTRIA: 9th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006) 3953, pp. 251-262.
  • Llano EG, Kittler J, Messer K, Vazquez HM. (2006) 'A comparative study of face representations in the frequency domain'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Cancun, MEXICO: 11th Iberoamerican Conference in Pattern Recognition 4225, pp. 99-108.
  • Short J, Kittler J, Messer K. (2006) 'Photometric normalisation for component-based face verification'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, British Mach Vis Assoc, Southampton, ENGLAND: 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 114-119.
  • Kittler J, Shevchenko M, Windridge D. (2006) 'Cognitive learning with automatic goal acquisition'. I O S PRESS STAIRS 2006, Riva del Garda, ITALY: 3rd Starting Artificial Intelligence Researchers Symposium 142, pp. 3-13.
  • Yan F, Christmas W, Kittler J. (2006) 'A maximum a posteriori probability Viterbi data association algorithm for ball tracking in sports video'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol 1, Proceedings, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), pp. 279-282.
  • Roh MC, Christmas B, Kittler J, Lee SW. (2006) 'Robust player gesture spotting and recognition in low-resolution sports video'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2006, PT 4, PROCEEDINGS, Graz, AUSTRIA: 9th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006) 3954, pp. 347-358.
  • Rua EA, Kittler J, Castro JLA, Jimenez DG. (2006) 'Information fusion for local Gabor features based frontal face verification'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, PROCEEDINGS, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: International Conference on Biometrics 3832, pp. 173-181.
  • Sanchez UR, Kittler J. (2006) 'Fusion of talking face biometric modalities for personal identity verification'. IEEE 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol V, Proceedings, Toulouse, FRANCE: 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1073-1076.
  • Hamouz M, Tena JR, Kittler J, Hilton A, Illingworth J. (2006) 'Algorithms for 3D-assisted face recognition'. IEEE 2006 IEEE 14th Signal Processing and Communications Applications, Vols 1 and 2, Antalya, TURKEY: IEEE 14th Signal Processing and Communications Applications, pp. 826-829.
  • Bourlai T, Kittler J, Messer K. (2006) 'Database size effects on performance on a smart card face verification system'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, British Mach Vis Assoc, Southampton, ENGLAND: 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 61-66.
  • Sadeghi MT, Kittler J. (2006) 'Confidence based gating of multiple face authentication experts'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN STRUCTURAL, SYNTACTIC, AND STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION, PROCEEDINGS, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: Joint International Workshop on Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition 4109, pp. 667-676.
  • Zou X, Kittler J, Messer K. (2006) 'Ambient illumination variation removal by active near-IR imaging'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, PROCEEDINGS, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: International Conference on Biometrics 3832, pp. 19-25.
  • Messer K, Kittler J, Short J, Heusch G, Cardinaux F, Marcel S, Rodriguez Y, Shan S, Su Y, Gao W, Chen X. (2006) 'Performance characterisation of face recognition algorithms and their sensitivity to severe illumination changes'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, PROCEEDINGS, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: International Conference on Biometrics 3832, pp. 1-11.
  • Smith RS, Kittler J, Hamouz M, Illingworth J. (2006) 'Face recognition using angular LDA and SVM ensembles'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol 3, Proceedings, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), pp. 1008-1012.
  • Zou X, Kittler J, Messer K. (2006) 'Accurate face localisation for faces under active near-IR illumination'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, British Mach Vis Assoc, Southampton, ENGLAND: 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 369-374.
  • Sanchez UR, Kittler J. (2006) 'Fusion of talking face biometric modalities for personal identity verification'. IEEE 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13, Toulouse, FRANCE: 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 5931-5934.
  • Kittler J, Hamouz M, Tena JR, Hilton A, Illingworth J, Ruiz M. (2005) '3D assisted 2D face recognition: Methodology'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Havana, CUBA: 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition 3773, pp. 1055-1065.
  • Kittler J, Ghaderi R, Windeatt T, Matas J. (2001) 'Face identification and verification via ECOC'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AUDIO- AND VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION, PROCEEDINGS, Halmstad, SWEDEN: 3rd International Conference on Audio- and Video- Based Biometric Person Authentication 2091, pp. 1-13.

Departmental Duties

  •  Course Organiser for the MSc Course in Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence. 
  •  Teaching includes Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Advanced Signal Processing

Affiliations

Served as a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence during 1982-85. Currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Analysis and Applications.

Served on the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) as one of the two British representatives during the period 1982-2005. President of the IAPR during 1994-1996. Currently a member of the KS Fu Prize Committee of IAPR.

Achievements and Honours

Received Best Paper awards from the Pattern Recognition Society, the British Machine Vision Association and IEE.

Received ``Honorary Medal'' from the Electrotechnical Faculty of the Czech Technical University in Prague in September 1995 for contributions to the field of pattern recognition and computer vision.

Elected Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 1998

Elected Fellow of Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1999

Received Honorary Doctorate from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, for contributions to Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision in 1999

Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2000

Received Institution of Electrical Engineers Achievemments Medal 2002 for outstanding contributions to Visual Information Engineering

Elected BMVA Distinguished Fellow 2002

Received, from the Czech Academy of Sciences, the 2003 Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in the Mathematical Sciences

Awarded the title Distinguished Professor of the University of Surrey in 2004

Appointed as Series Editor for Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2004

Awarded the KS Fu Prize 2006, by the International Association for Pattern Recognition, for outstanding contributions to Pattern Recognition (the prize awarded biennially)

Received Honorary Doctorate from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2007, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of its foundation.

Awarded the IET Faraday Medal 2008.