Professor Miroslaw Bober

Professor

Email:
Phone: Work: 01483 68 4724
Room no: 05 AB 05

Further information

Publications

Journal articles

  • Paschalakis S, Iwamoto K, Sprljan N, Oami R, Nomura T, Yamada A, Bober M. (2012) 'The MPEG-7 Video Signature Tools for Content Identification'. IEEE IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 22 (7), pp. 1050-1063.
    doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2189791
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531590/

    Abstract

    This paper presents the core technologies of the Video Signature Tools recently standardized by ISO/IEC MPEG as an amendment to the MPEG-7 Standard (ISO/IEC 15938). The Video Signature is a high-performance content fingerprint which is suitable for desktop-scale to web-scale deployment and provides high levels of robustness to common video editing operations and high temporal localization accuracy at extremely low false alarm rates, achieving a detection rate in the order of 96% at a false alarm rate in the order of five false matches per million comparisons. The applications of the Video Signature are numerous and include rights management and monetization, distribution management, usage monitoring, metadata association, and corporate or personal database management. In this paper we review the prior work in the field, we explain the standardization process and status, and we provide the details and evaluation results of the Video Signature Tools.

  • Cordara G, Bober M, Reznik Y. (2012) 'Special issue on visual search and augmented reality'. Signal Processing: Image Communication,
    doi: 10.1016/j.image.2012.11.001
  • Kucharski K, Skarbek W, Bober M. (2005) 'Feature space reduction for face recognition with dual Linear Discriminant Analysis'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3691 LNCS, pp. 587-595.
    doi: 10.1007/11556121_72
  • O'Callaghan R, Bober M. (2005) 'MPEG-7 visual-temporal clustering for digital image collections'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3689 LNCS, pp. 339-350.
    doi: 10.1007/11562382_26
  • Paschalakis S, Bober M. (2004) 'Real-time face detection and tracking for mobile videoconferencing'. Real-Time Imaging, 10 (2), pp. 81-94.
    doi: 10.1016/j.rti.2004.02.004
  • Skarbek W, Kucharski K, Bober M. (2004) 'Dual LDA for face recognition'. Fundamenta Informaticae, 61 (3-4), pp. 303-334.
  • Paschalakis S, Bober M, Lee P. (2003) 'An FPGA system for the high speed extraction, normalization and classification of moment descriptors'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2778, pp. 543-552.
  • Bober M, Kucharski K, Skarbek W. (2003) 'Face recognition by Fisher and scatter linear discriminant analysis'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2756, pp. 638-645.
  • Bober M. (2001) 'MPEG-7 visual shape descriptors'. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11 (6), pp. 716-719.
    doi: 10.1109/76.927426
  • Badenas J, Pla F, Bober M. (2001) 'Segmenting traffic scenes from grey level and motion information'. Pattern Analysis and Applications, 4 (1), pp. 28-38.
    doi: 10.1007/s100440170022
  • Georgis N, Kittler J, Bober M. (2000) 'Accurate Recovery of Dense Depth Map for 3D Motion Based Coding'. European Transactions on Telecommunications, 11 (2), pp. 219-232.
  • Bober M, Price W, Atkinson J. (2000) 'Contour shape descriptor for MPEG-7 and its applications'. Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, , pp. 286-287.
  • Bober M, Georgis N, Kittler J. (1998) 'On Accurate and Robust Estimation of Fundamental Matrix'. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 72 (1), pp. 39-53.
  • Bober M, Petrou M, Kittler J. (1998) 'Nonlinear motion estimation using the supercoupling approach'. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20 (5), pp. 550-555.
    doi: 10.1109/34.682185
  • Bober M, Kittler J, Zhang K. (1997) 'Image sequence coding using multiple-level segmentation and affine motion estimation'. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 15 (9), pp. 1704-1713.
    doi: 10.1109/49.650044
  • Cieplinski L, Bober M. (1997) 'Scalable image coding using Gaussian pyramid vector quantization with resolution-independent block size'. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 4, pp. 2949-2952.
  • Zhang K, Bober M, Kittler J. (1996) 'Hybrid codec for very low bit rate video coding'. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 1, pp. 641-644.
  • Zhang K, Bober M, Kittler J. (1995) 'Motion based image segmentation for video coding'. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 3, pp. 476-479.
  • Bober M, Kittler J. (1994) 'Estimation of complex multimodal motion: an approach based on robust statistics and Hough transform'. Image and Vision Computing, 12 (10), pp. 661-668.
  • Bober M, Kittler J. (1994) 'Robust motion analysis'. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , pp. 947-952.

Conference papers

  • Paschalakis S, Bober M, Wnukowicz K. (2011) 'Low-cost hierarchical video segmentation for consumer electronics applications'. Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, , pp. 79-80.
    doi: 10.1109/ICCE.2011.5722871
  • Smith RS, Bober M, Windeatt T. (2011) 'A comparison of random forest with ECOC-based classifiers'. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Multiple Classifier Systems, Naples, Italy: 10th International Workshop, MCS 2011 6713, pp. 207-216.
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21557-5_23
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/37250/

    Abstract

    We compare experimentally the performance of three approaches to ensemble-based classification on general multi-class datasets. These are the methods of random forest, error-correcting output codes (ECOC) and ECOC enhanced by the use of bootstrapping and class-separability weighting (ECOC-BW). These experiments suggest that ECOC-BW yields better generalisation performance than either random forest or unmodified ECOC. A bias-variance analysis indicates that ECOC benefits from reduced bias, when compared to random forest, and that ECOC-BW benefits additionally from reduced variance. One disadvantage of ECOC-based algorithms, however, when compared with random forest, is that they impose a greater computational demand leading to longer training times.

  • Brasnett P, Paschalakis S, Bober M. (2010) 'Recent developments on standardisation of MPEG-7 visual signature tools'. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2010, , pp. 1347-1352.
    doi: 10.1109/ICME.2010.5583215
  • Bober M, Brasnett P. (2009) 'MPEG-7 visual signature tools'. Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2009, , pp. 1540-1543.
    doi: 10.1109/ICME.2009.5202798
  • Brasnett P, Bober M. (2008) 'Fast and robust image identification'. Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition,
  • Jin Y, Bober M, Mokhtarian F, Illingworth J. (2008) 'Fuzzy chamfer distance and its probabilistic formulation for visual tracking'. 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR,
    doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587570
  • Sibiryakov A, Bober M. (2007) 'Graph-based multiple panorama extraction from unordered image sets'. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6498
    doi: 10.1117/12.704025
  • Sibiryakov A, Bober M. (2007) 'Low-complexity motion analysis for mobile video devices'. Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics,
    doi: 10.1109/ICCE.2007.341532
  • Sibiryakov A, Bober M. (2006) 'Image registration using RST-clustering and its application in remote sensing'. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6365
    doi: 10.1117/12.687360
  • Sibiryakov A, Bober M. (2005) 'A method of statistical template matching and its application to face and facial feature detection'. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, 2 (9), pp. 1285-1293.
  • Kucharski K, Skarbek W, Bober M. (2005) 'Dual LDA - An effective feature space reduction method for face recognition'. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance - Proceedings of AVSS 2005, 2005, pp. 336-341.
    doi: 10.1109/AVSS.2005.1577291
  • Santamaria C, Bober M, Szajnowski W. (2004) 'Texture analysis using level-crossing statistics'. Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2, pp. 712-715.
    doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334358
  • Santamaria C, Bober M, Szajnowski W, Aso N. (2004) 'Analysis of remotely-sensed imagery using the level-crossing statistics texture descriptor'. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 5573, pp. 115-125.
    doi: 10.1117/12.565507
  • Berriss WP, Price WG, Bober MZ. (2003) 'The use of MPEG-7 for intelligent analysis and retrieval in video surveillance'. IEE Colloquium (Digest), 3-10062, pp. 41-45.
  • Ghanbari S, Cieplinski L, Bober MZ. (2003) 'Recovery of lost motion vectors for error concealment in video coding'. Picture Coding Symposium, , pp. 239-242.
  • Berriss WP, Bober MZ, Price WG. (2002) '™: A video intelligent surveillance system'. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 4861, pp. 13-21.
    doi: 10.1117/12.470200
  • Bober M. (1999) 'Motion analysis for video coding and retrieval'. IEE Colloquium (Digest), (103), pp. 51-56.
  • Bober M, Kittler J. (1996) 'Video coding for mobile communications - MPEG4 perspective'. IEE Colloquium (Digest), (248)
  • Kittler J, Matas J, Bober M, Nguyen L. (1995) 'Image interpretation: exploiting multiple cues'. IEE Conference Publication, (410), pp. 1-5.

Books

  • Mokhtarian F, Bober MZ. (2003) Curvature Scale Space Representation: Theory, Applications, and MPEG-7 Standardization. Springer Netherlands

Book chapters

  • Bober MZ, Preteux F, W-Y Kim . (2002) 'Shape Descriptors'. in Manjunath BS, Salembier P, Sikora T (eds.) Introduction to MPEG-7 John Wiley & Sons Inc

Patents

  • Bober MZ, Sibiryakov A. (2011) Robust image registration.
  • Bober MZ, Cooper J. (2011) Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image.
  • Bober MZ, Paschalakis S. (2010) Methods of representing and analysing images.
  • Bober MZ, Paschalakis S. (2010) Methods of representing and analysing images.
  • Bober MZ. (2010) Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object using shape.
  • Bober MZ. (2010) Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object using shape. US:
  • Bober MZ, Santamaria C. (2010) Algorithm for line tracking using a circular sector search window.
  • Bober MZ, Sibiryakov A. (2010) Dominant motion analysis. US:
  • Bober MZ. (2010) Method and apparatus for motion vector field encoding.
  • Bober MZ, Paschalakis S, Brasnett P. (2010) Video Identification. US: Article number 12/693,220
  • Bober MZ, Santamaria C. (2009) Direction-sensitive line detection operator for image data.
  • Bober MZ. (2009) Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image.
  • Bober MZ, Zaharia R, Cieplinski L. (2009) Adaptive quantization of depth signal in 3D visual coding.
  • Bober MZ. (2009) Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image.
  • Bober MZ, Brasnett P. (2009) SCALE ROBUST FEATURE-BASED IDENTIFIERS FOR IMAGE IDENTIFICATION. US: Article number 12/989,362
  • Bober MZ. (2009) Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image.
  • Bober MZ, Skarbek W. (2008) Method and apparatus for processing image data. US:
  • Bober MZ, Szajnowski WJ. (2008) Method and apparatus for image processing.
  • Bober MZ, Szajnowski WJ. (2008) Determining statistical descriptors of a signal from a set of its samples. US:
  • Bober MZ, Brasnett P. (2008) HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE IDENTIFICATION. US: Article number 12/663,479
  • Bober MZ. (2007) Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system and computer-readable storage for representing and searching for an object in an image. US:
  • Bober MZ. (2007) Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object using shape.
  • Bober MZ. (2007) Method and device for processing and for searching for an object by signals corresponding to images. US:
  • Bober MZ, Sibiryakov A. (2007) SPARSE INTEGRAL IMAGE DESCRIPTORS WITH APPLICATION TO MOTION ANALYSIS. US: Article number 12/375,998
  • Bober MZ, Sibiryakov A. (2007) Sparse Integral Image Descriptors with Application to Motion Analysis. Article number 12/375,998
  • Bober MZ. (2007) Method for efficient coding of shape descriptor parameters.
  • Bober MZ. (2007) Method and device for processing and for searching for an object by signals corresponding to images.
  • Bober MZ. (2007) Method and device for processing and for searching for an object by signals corresponding to images.
  • Bober MZ, Cooper J, Paschalakis S. (2007) Method and apparatus for detecting and/or tracking one or more colour regions in an image or sequence of images.
  • Bober MZ, Paschalakis S. (2006) Method and apparatus for video navigation. US: Article number 11/991,092
  • Bober MZ, O'Callaghan R. (2006) Mutual-Rank Similarity-Space for Navigating, Visualising and Clustering in Image Databases. Article number 11/990,452
  • Bober MZ, Szajnowski W. (2006) Image Analysis and representation. US: Article number 11/886,232
  • Bober MZ, Sibiryakov A. (2006) Fast Method of Object Detection by Statistical Template Matching. US: Article number 11/884,699
  • Bober MZ. (2005) Method and device for displaying or searching for object in image and computer-readable storage medium.
  • Bober MZ. (2005) Method and apparatus for motion vector field encoding.
  • Bober MZ, Zaharia R. (2004) Occupant monitoring apparatus. Article number 10/838,370
  • Bober MZ. (2002) Hough transform based method of estimating parameters.
  • Bober MZ. (2001) Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system and computer-readable storage for representing and searching for an object in an image.

Stay Connected

Contact Us

Accessibility | Contacting the University | Cookies | Disclaimer | Freedom of Information

© University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. +44 (0)1483 300800

Page Owner: mb0012
Page Created: Wednesday 28 September 2011 14:54:39 by lb0014
Last Modified: Wednesday 28 September 2011 14:59:47 by lb0014
Expiry Date: Friday 28 December 2012 14:33:37
Assembly date: Tue Mar 26 22:41:25 GMT 2013
Content ID: 65577
Revision: 1
Community: 1379