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Professor Richard Bowden

Professor

Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD, SMIEEE, FHEA

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 9838
Room no: 31 AB 05

Further information

Biography

Richard Bowden received a BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of London in 1993, a MSc in 1995 from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Computer Vision from Brunel University in 1999. He is currently a Reader at the University of Surrey, where he leads the Cognitive Vision Group within CVSSP. His research centers on the use of computer vision to locate, track and understand humans. His research into tracking and artificial life received worldwide media coverage, appeared at the British Science Museum and the Minnesota Science Museum. He has won a number of awards including paper prizes for his work on sign language recognition (undertaken as a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford), as well as the Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize in 2000 for the best UK PhD thesis in vision. He was a member of the British Machine Vision Association BMVA executive committee and company director for 7 years. He is a London Technology Network Business Fellow, a member of the British Machine Vision Association, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Further details can be found on my personal web page.

A full list of publications, conference presentations, and patents can be found here.

Publications

Highlights

  • Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R. (2010) 'Action Recognition Using Mined Hierarchical Compound Features'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 33 (5), pp. 883-897.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.144
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531449/
  • Dowson N, Kadir T, Bowden R. (2008) 'Estimating the joint statistics of images using Nonparametric Windows with application to registration using Mutual Information'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, Minneapolis, MN: 30 (10), pp. 1841-1857.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70832
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531474/
  • Dowson N, Bowden R. (2008) 'Mutual information for Lucas-Kanade tracking (MILK): An inverse compositional formulation'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 30 (1), pp. 180-185.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70757
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531476/

Journal articles

  • Okwechime D, Ong EJ, Bowden R. (2011) 'MIMiC: Multimodal Interactive Motion Controller'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T MULTIMEDIA, 13 (2), pp. 255-265.
    doi: 10.1109/TMM.2010.2096410
  • Moore S, Bowden R. (2011) 'Local binary patterns for multi-view facial expression recognition'. ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE COMPUT VIS IMAGE UND, 115 (4), pp. 541-558.
    doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.12.001
  • Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E-J, Bowden R. (2011) 'Cultural factors in the regression of non-verbal communication perception'. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, , pp. 1242-1249.
  • Ellis L, Felsberg M, Bowden R. (2011) 'Affordance mining: Forming perception through action'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6495 LNCS (PART 4), pp. 525-538.
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-19282-1_42
  • Holt B, Ong E-J, Cooper H, Bowden R. (2011) 'Putting the pieces together: Connected Poselets for human pose estimation'. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, , pp. 1196-1201.
  • Hadfield S, Bowden R. (2011) 'Kinecting the dots: Particle based scene flow from depth sensors'. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, , pp. 2290-2295.
  • Ellis L, Dowson N, Matas J, Bowden R. (2011) 'Linear Regression and Adaptive Appearance Models for Fast Simultaneous Modelling and Tracking'. SPRINGER INT J COMPUT VISION, 95 (2), pp. 154-179.
    doi: 10.1007/s11263-010-0364-4
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531444/
  • Ong EJ, Bowden R. (2010) 'Robust Facial Feature Tracking Using Shape-Constrained Multi-Resolution Selected Linear Predictors.'. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell,
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.205
  • Sanfeliu A, Andrade-Cetto J, Barbosa M, Bowden R, Capitan J, Corominas A, Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Merino L, Mirats JM, Moreno P, Ollero A, Sequeira J, Spaan MTJ. (2010) 'Decentralized Sensor Fusion for Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Areas'. MOLECULAR DIVERSITY PRESERVATION INTERNATIONAL-MDPI SENSORS-BASEL, 10 (3), pp. 2274-2314.
    doi: 10.3390/s100302274
  • Sanfeliu A, Andrade-Cetto J, Barbosa M, Bowden R, Capitán J, Corominas A, Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Merino L, Mirats JM, Moreno P, Ollero A, Sequeira J, Spaan MTJ. (2010) 'Decentralized sensor fusion for ubiquitous networking robotics in urban areas'. Sensors, 10 (3), pp. 2274-2314.
    doi: 10.3390/s100302274
  • Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R. (2010) 'Action Recognition Using Mined Hierarchical Compound Features'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 33 (5), pp. 883-897.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.144
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531449/
  • Ong EJ, Ellis L, Bowden R. (2009) 'Problem solving through imitation'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV IMAGE VISION COMPUT, 27 (11), pp. 1715-1728.
    doi: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.04.016
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531462/
  • Dowson N, Kadir T, Bowden R. (2008) 'Estimating the joint statistics of images using Nonparametric Windows with application to registration using Mutual Information'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, Minneapolis, MN: 30 (10), pp. 1841-1857.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70832
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531474/
  • Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2008) 'Incremental, scalable tracking of objects inter camera'. ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE COMPUT VIS IMAGE UND, 111 (1), pp. 43-58.
    doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2007.06.005
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531475/
  • Dowson N, Bowden R. (2008) 'Mutual information for Lucas-Kanade tracking (MILK): An inverse compositional formulation'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 30 (1), pp. 180-185.
    doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70757
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531476/
  • Ong EJ, Micilotta AS, Bowden R, Hilton A. (2006) 'Viewpoint invariant exemplar-based 3D human tracking'. ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE COMPUT VIS IMAGE UND, 104 (2-3), pp. 178-189.
    doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.08.004
  • Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2006) 'Tracking objects across cameras by incrementally learning inter-camera colour calibration and patterns of activity'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2006, PT 2, PROCEEDINGS, Graz, AUSTRIA: 3952, pp. 125-136.

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
  • Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2011) 'iGroup: Weakly supervised image and video grouping'. Barcelona: International Conference Computer Vision
  • Ong E, Bowden R. (2011) 'Learning Temporal Signatures for Lip Reading'. ARTEMIS, ICCV 2011
  • 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 ]
  • Ong E, Bowden R. (2011) 'Learning Sequential Patterns for Lipreading'. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2011
  • Okwechime D, Ong E-J, Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2011) 'Visualisation and prediction of conversation interest through mined social signals'. IEEE 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition and Workshops, Santa Barbara, USA: FG 2011: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops, pp. 951-956.
    doi: 10.1109/FG.2011.5771380
  • Oshin O, Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2011) 'There Is More Than One Way to Get Out of a Car: Automatic Mode Finding for Action Recognition in the Wild'. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain: 5th IbPRIA 2011 6669, pp. 41-48.
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21257-4_6
  • Pugeault N, Bowden R. (2011) 'Spelling It Out: Real–Time ASL Fingerspelling Recognition'. 1st IEEE Workshop on Consumers Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, in conjunction with ICCV’2011,
  • Oshin O, Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2011) 'Capturing the relative distribution of features for action recognition'. IEEE 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition and Workshops, Santa Barbara, USA: 2011 IEEE FG, pp. 111-116.
    doi: 10.1109/FG.2011.5771382
  • Pugeault N, Bowden R. (2011) 'Driving me Around the Bend: Learning to Drive from Visual Gist'. 1st IEEE Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Robotic Perception, in conjunction with ICCV’2011,
  • Okwechime D, Ong E-J, Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2010) 'Social interactive human video synthesis'. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Computer Vision – ACCV 2010, Queenstown, New Zealand: 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision 6492 (PART 1), pp. 256-270.
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-19315-6_20
  • 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.
  • Efthimiou E, Fotinea SE, Hanke T, Glauert J, Bowden R, Braffort A, Collet C, Maragos P, Goudenove F. (2010) 'DICTA-SIGN: Sign Language Recognition, Generation and Modelling with application in Deaf Communication'. Malta: 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, LREC2010, pp. 80-84.
  • Moore S, Ong EJ, Bowden R. (2010) 'Facial Expression Recognition using Spatiotemporal Boosted Discriminatory Classifiers'. Portugal: International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition 6111/2010, pp. 405-414.
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13772-3_41
  • Pugeault N, Bowden R. (2010) 'Learning pre-attentive driving behaviour from holistic visual features'. ECCV 2010, Part VI, LNCS 6316, , pp. 154-167.
  • Cooper H, Bowden R. (2009) 'Learning Signs from Subtitles: A Weakly Supervised Approach to Sign Language Recognition'. IEEE CVPR: 2009 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOLS 1-4, Miami Beach, FL: IEEE-Computer-Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, pp. 2560-2566.
  • 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.
  • Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R. (2009) 'Fast realistic multi-action recognition using mined dense spatio-temporal features'. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, , pp. 925-931.
  • Okwechime D, Ong E-J, Bowden R. (2009) 'Real-time motion control using pose space probability density estimation'. 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2009, , pp. 2056-2063.
  • Ong EJ, Lan Y, Theobald BJ, Harvey R, Bowden R. (2009) 'Robust Facial Feature Tracking using Selected Multi-Resolution Linear Predictors,'. Kyoto, Japan: Int. Conference Computer Vision ICCV09, pp. 1483-1490.
  • Oshin O, Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R. (2009) 'Action recognition using randomised ferns'. 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2009, , pp. 530-537.
  • Lan Y, Harvey R, Theobald B, Ong EJ, Bowden R. (2009) 'Comparing Visual Features for Lipreading'. The eighth International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) 2009
  • Efthimiou E, Fotinea S-E, Vogler C, Hanke T, Glauert J, Bowden R, Braffort A, Collet C, Maragos P, Segouat J. (2009) 'Sign language recognition, generation, and modelling: A research effort with applications in deaf communication'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 5614 LNCS (PART 1), pp. 21-30.
  • Moore S, Bowden R. (2009) 'The Effects of Pose On Facial Expression Recognition'. London: British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'09, pp. 1-11.
  • Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R, Capitan J, Merino L. (2009) 'Accurate fusion of robot, camera and wireless sensors for surveillance applications'. 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2009, , pp. 1290-1297.
  • Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E-J, Bowden R. (2009) 'Online learning of robust facial feature trackers'. 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2009, , pp. 1386-1392.
  • Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E-J, Bowden R. (2009) 'Feature selection of facial displays for detection of non verbal communication in natural conversation'. 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2009, , pp. 1985-1992.
  • Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R. (2008) 'Scale Invariant Action Recognition Using Compound Features Mined from Dense Spatio-temporal Corners'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2008, PT I, PROCEEDINGS, Marseille, FRANCE: 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008) 5302, pp. 222-233.
  • Okwechime D, Bowden R. (2008) 'A generative model for motion synthesis and blending using probability density estimation'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ARTICULATED MOTION AND DEFORMABLE OBJECTS, PROCEEDINGS, Port d Andratx, SPAIN: 5th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects 5098, pp. 218-227.
  • Ong EJ, Bowden R. (2008) 'Robust Lip-Tracking using Rigid Flocks of Selected Linear Predictors'. 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. 247-254.
  • Ellis L, Matas J, Bowden R. (2008) 'Online Learning and Partitioning of Linear Displacement Predictors for Tracking'. British Machine Vision Conference 08, pp. 33-43.
  • Oshin O, Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R. (2008) 'Spatio-Temporal Feature Recognition using Randomised Ferns'. International Workshop on Machine Learning for Vision Based Motion Analysis, ECCV08
  • 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.
  • Moore S, Bowden R. (2007) 'Automatic facial expression recognition using boosted discriminatory classifiers'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF FACES AND GESTURES, PROCEEDINGS, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures 4778, pp. 71-83.
  • Ellis L, Dowson N, Matas J, Bowden R. (2007) 'Linear predictors for fast simultaneous modeling and tracking'. IEEE 2007 IEEE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION, VOLS 1-6, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 2792-2799.
  • Gilbert A, Bowden R. (2007) 'Multi person tracking within crowded scenes'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, Proceedings, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: 2nd Workshop on Human Motion Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation 4814, pp. 166-179.
  • Ellis L, Bowden R. (2007) 'Learning Responses to Visual Stimuli: A Generic Approach'. 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems
  • Micilotta AS, Ong EJ, Bowden R. (2006) 'Real-time upper body detection and 3D pose estimation in monoscopic images'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2006, PT 3, PROCEEDINGS, Graz, AUSTRIA: 9th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006) 3953, pp. 139-150.
  • Ong EJ, Bowden R. (2006) 'Learning wormholes for sparsely labelled clustering'. 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. 916-919.
    doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.757
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531488/
  • Ong E-J, Bowden R. (2006) 'Learning Distance for Arbitrary Visual Features'. BMVC06, , pp. II:749-758.
  • Dowson N, Bowden R. (2006) 'A unifying framework for mutual information methods for use in non-linear optimisation'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2006 , PT 1, PROCEEDINGS, Graz, AUSTRIA: 9th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006) 3951, pp. 365-378.
  • Dowson NDH, Bowden R, Kadir T. (2006) 'Image template matching using mutual information and NP-Windows'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOL 2, PROCEEDINGS, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), pp. 1186-1191.
    doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.691
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/531490/
  • Dowson NDH, Bowden R. (2006) 'N-tier Simultaneous Modelling and Tracking for Arbitrary Warps'. BMVC06, , pp. II:569-578.

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
  • Oshin O, Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R. (2009) 'Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis'. in Wang L, Cheng L, Zhao G (eds.) Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis Igi Publishing Article number 2 , pp. 14-30.

Theses and dissertations

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

Departmental Duties

Senior Tutor for Professional Training