PUBLICATIONS

(followed by DELIVERABLES)

 

2014

Dissertations:

• Jie Shen, Realising Affect-Sensitive Multimodal Human-Computer Interface: Hardware and Software Infrastructure, Ph.D. Thesis, 2014, Imperial College London: U.K. To request a copy apply to the library.

• Martijn C. Liem, Multi-Person Localization and Orientation Estimation in Volumetric Scene Reconstructions, Ph.D. Thesis, ASCI dissertation series number 311, October 2014, ISBN: 978-90-5335-930-3 download pdf

Journal papers:

• A. Asthana, S. Zafeiriou, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Cheng and M. Pantic, From pixels to response maps: Discriminative image filtering for face alignment in the wild. In: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2014 (accepted for publication).

• M. A. Nicolaou, V. Pavlovic, M. Pantic, Dynamic Probabilistic CCA for Analysis of Affective Behaviour and Fusion of Continuous Annotations. In: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Issue 99. 2014. download pdf

• I. Marras, Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou & M. Pantic, Online Learning and Fusion of Orientation Appearance Models for Robust Rigid Object Tracking In: Elsevier Image and Vision Computing, 32(10), pp. 707-727, October 2014.

• Javier Pérez-Lara, Fernando Caballero, and Luis Merino, Enhanced Monte Carlo Localization with Visual Place Recognition for Robust Robot Localization In: Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems, (submitted)

• F. Flohr, M. Dumitru-Guzu, J. P. F. Kooij and D. M. Gavrila, A probabilistic framework for joint pedestrian head and body orientation estimation In: IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (under review – minor revision)

• L. Zafeiriou, M. A. Nicolaou, S. Zafeiriou, S. Nikitidis, M.Pantic, Probabilistic Slow Features for behaviour Analysis. In: Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (TNNLS) (has gone through first major revision)

 

Contributions to proceedings:

• Javier Pérez-Lara, Fernando Caballero, and Luis Merino, Integration of Monte Carlo Localization and Place Recognition for Reliable Long-Term Robot Localization. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (IEEE ICARSC), 2014. Best Paper Award

• Rafael Ramón-Vigo, Javier Pérez-Lara, Fernando Caballero, and Luis Merino, Navigating among people in crowded environment: Datasets for localization and human robot interaction. In: 3rd Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Perception and Interaction in Clutter (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS’14), 2014. download pdf

• Javier Pérez-Lara, Fernando Caballero, and Luis Merino, Long-term Ground Robot Localization Architecture for Mixed Indoor-Outdoor Scenarios. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics, ISR, 2014.

• Rafael Ramón-Vigo, Noé Pérez-Higueras, Fernando Caballero, and Luis Merino, Transferring human navigation behaviors into a robot local planner. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2014.

• Noé Pérez-Higueras Rafael Ramón-Vigo, Fernando Caballero and Luis Merino, Robot local navigation with learned social cost functions. In: the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2014).

• L. Zafeiriou, E. Antonakos, S. Zafeiriou and M. Pantic, Joint Unsupervised Face Alignment and Behaviour Analysis In: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2014). Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 167 – 183, September 2014. download pdf

•  M. A. Nicolaou, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic, A Unified Framework for
  Probabilistic Component Analysis. In: European Conf. Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD’14), Nancy, France. September 2014. download pdf

• M. A. Nicolaou, Y. Panagakis, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic, Robust Canonical Correlation Analysis: Audio-visual Fusion for Learning Continuous Interest. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014). 2014. download pdf

•  L. Zafeiriou, S. Nikitidis, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic, Slow Features Nonnegative Matrix Factorization For Temporal Data Decomposition. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014). Paris, France.

• J. Kossaifi, G. Tzimiropoulos, M. Pantic, Fast Newton Active Appearance Models. In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, 2014 download pdf

• G. Tzimiropoulos, M. Pantic, Gauss-Newton Deformable Part Models for face alignment in-the-wild. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Columbus 2014 download pdf

• C. Sagonas, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic, 300 faces in-the-Wild challenge: The first facial landmark localization challenge. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV-W), Sydney, 2013 download pdf

• Karreman, D., Utama, L., Joosse, M., Lohse, M., van Dijk, B., & Evers, V. , Robot etiquette: how to approach a pair of people? In: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2014) (pp. 196-197). ACM. Best Late Breaking Report Nominee. Bielefeld, March 2014 download pdf   poster

• Karreman. D.E., Ludden, G.D.S., (van Dijk, E.M.A.G.), Evers, V., DREAM: a Thin-Slice Approach to Annotate and Analyze HRI In-The-Wild Data.  In: 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015) 2015. (submitted)

• Karreman. D.E., Ludden, G.D.S., Evers, V., Beyond R2D2: Exploring approaches to design behavior for non-humanoid robots. In: Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 2015. (submitted)

Miscellaneous:

• Paulo Alvito presented the FROG Project in a Workshop organized by the System Evaluation Group on Ambient Assisted Living & CENELEC Technical Committee 100X in Brussels, on March 10, 2014 1st slide

• Paulo Alvito presented the FROG Project in a Workshop attended by Masters’ Students, related with topic “Making  Business with Robotics” at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, on June 4, 2014

• Luis Merino presented the FROG Project on European Researchers Night in Seville on 26 September 2014 poster   60seconds  youtube

Posters

 

2013

Journal papers:

• Jie Shen and Maja Pantic, HCI^2 Framework: A Software Framework for Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction Systems. In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics–Part B (IEEE TSMC-B), 2013 (accepted for publication). download pdf

 

Contributions to proceedings:

• I. Marras, J.A. Medina, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou & M. Pantic, Online Learning and Fusion of Orientation Appearance Models for Robust Rigid Object Tracking. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2013), April 2013. download pdf

 

• J. Ballesteros, L. Merino, M. A. Trujillo, A. Viguria, and A. Ollero, Improving the Efficiency of Online POMDPs by using Belief Similarity Measures. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), pp. 1784-1790, ISBN: 978-1-4673-5642-8, 2013. download pdf

 

• D.E. Karreman, G.U. Sepúlveda Bradford, E.M.A.G. van Dijk, M. Lohse, and V. Evers, What happens when a robot favors someone? How a tour guide robot uses gaze behavior to address multiple persons while storytelling about art. In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2013), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, USA, pp. 157-158, 2013. download pdf   poster

 

• D.E. Karreman, G.U. Sepúlveda Bradford, E.M.A.G. van Dijk, M. Lohse and V. Evers, Picking Favorites: The Influence of Robot Eye-Gaze on Interactions with Multiple Users. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, USA, pp. 123-128, November 3-7, 2013, Tokyo, Japan download pdf

 

• D.E. Karreman, E.M.A.G. Van Dijk, and V. Evers, Position paper : design of robot specific behavior for tour guide robots. In: Proceedings of Embodied Communication of Goals and Intentions, workshop at International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2013), 2013. download pdf

 

• Mihalis A. Nicolaou, Stefanos Zafeiriou and Maja Pantic, Correlated-Spaces Regression for Learning Continuous Emotion Dimensions. In: Proceedings of 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM’13), 2013 – 978-1-4503-2404-5, pp. 773-776, Oct. 2013. download pdf

 

• Yannis Panagakis, Mihalis A. Nicolaou, Stefanos Zafeiriou and Maja Pantic, Robust Canonical Time Warping for the Alignment of Grossly Corrupted Sequences. In: Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013), Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 540-547, June 2013. download pdf

 

• Lazaros Zafeiriou, Mihalis A. Nicolaou, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Symeon Nikitidis and Maja Pantic, Learning Slow Features for Behaviour Analysis. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2013), 2013 download pdf.

 

• G. Tzimiropoulos and M. Pantic, Optimization problems for fast AAM fitting in-the-wild. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2013), Sydney, 2013 download pdf.

 

• L. Merino, Joaquin Ballesteros, Noe Perez-Higueras, Rafael Vigo, Javier Perez-Lara, and Fernando Caballero, Robust Person Guidance by using Online POMDPs. In: Proceedings of the First Iberian Robotics Conference (Robot 2013), Nov. 2013 (accepted for publication).

Poster presentations:

• D. E. Karreman, E. M. A. G. van Dijk, and V. Evers, The effect on human-robot interaction of visible camera lenses on top of a tour guide robot. In: Towards social humanoid robots: how to make interaction human-like? , poster presented at workshop at IROS 2013, 2013
• University of Twente (Netherlands, Prof. Vanessa Evers), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands, Prof. Dariu Gavrila), Imperial College London (UK, Prof. Maja Pantic), IDMind (Lisbon, Portugal, Paulo Alvito), YDreams (Lisbon, Portugal, Fernando Nabais) and Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain, Dr. Luis Merino), FROG: A Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide, poster presented at the First Iberian Robotics Conference (Robot 2013), Nov. 2013

2012

Journal papers:

• L. Merino, A. Gilbert, J. Capitan, R.Bowden, J. Illingworth, and A. Ollero, Data Fusion in Ubiquitous Networked Robot Systems for Urban Services. In: Annals of Telecommunications, Special Issue Ubiquitous Robots, 67, 2012. download pdf : Impact factor 2011 – 0.633

 

• G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou and M. Pantic, Subspace Learning from Image Gradient Orientations, In: IEEE Transactions onPattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 2454-2466, DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2012.40. download pdf : Impact factor 2011 – 4.908

 

• S. Liwicki, S. Zafeiriou, G. Tzimiropoulos and M. Pantic, Efficient Online Subspace Learning with an Indefinite Kernel for Visual Tracking and Recognition, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 1624-1636, October 2012. download pdf : Impact factor 2011 – 2.952

 

• S. Liwicki, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou and M. Pantic, Euler Principal Component Analysis, In: International Journal of Computer Vision, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s11263-012-0558-z. download pdf : Impact factor 2011 – 3.741

 

Contributions to proceedings:

• M. Nicolaou, V. Pavlovic and M. Pantic, Dynamic Probabilistic CCA for Analysis of Affective Behaviour, In: 12th European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV 2012), Florence, Italy. October 2012. download pdf

 

• D.E. Karreman, E.M.A.G. van Dijk, V. Evers, Using the visitor experiences for mapping the possibilities of implementing a robotic guide in outdoor sites, In: Proceedings of 2012 IEEE RO-MAN: The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, IEEE Computer Society, USA, ISBN 978-1-4673-4604-7, ISSN 1944-9445, pp. 1059-1065, 2012. download pdf

 

• D.E. Karreman, E.M.A.G. van Dijk, V. Evers, Contextual analysis of human-non-verbal guide behaviors to inform the development of FROG, the Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide, In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU 2012), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 7, 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7559/2012, 113-124, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34014-7_10. download pdf

 

• G. Tzimiropoulos, J. Alabort, S. Zafeiriou and M. Pantic, Generic Active Appearance Models Revisited, In: 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, (ACCV 2012). Daejeon, Korea, November 2012. download pdf

 

2011

Contributions to proceedings:

• L. Merino, J. Capitán,and A. Ollero, Person Tracking in Urban Scenarios by Robots Cooperating with Ubiquitous Sensors. In Proceedings of the Workshop ROBOT’11, pp. 1–8, 2011. download pdf

 

DELIVERABLES

Here are the deliverables in PDF format in the chronological order in which they were submitted:

* D1.1 – Functional requirements, interaction and constraints

* D5.1 – Iterative integration and evaluation report

* D1.2 – Initial robot platform

* D2.3  – Sensor data and Multimedia database with the virtual content for AR application

* D1.3 – Customised mobile platform

D2.4 – AR Robot Application component – rejected

* D1.4 – Platform user and developer manual

* D2.1 – Robot 6DOF precise localization component

* D4.1 part b – Identification, evaluation and design of guide robot personality and behaviours: Contextual Analysis of Effective (non-verbal) Human Tour Guide Behaviour

D3.1 – Final feature extraction component – demo video

D1.4-update – Platform user and developer manual

D4.1 part c – Identification, evaluation and design of guide robot personality and behaviors: Design Guidelines for Effective Robot Guide Behavior

D2.2 – Path planning and execution component for efficient and human-aware navigation – updated

D3.3 – Person guidance navigation component – updated

D4.1 part a – Identification, evaluation and design of guide robot personality and behaviours: Engaging Personalities and Behaviours

D3.2 – Demonstrator of human affective signals analyzer  – The demo software package can be found at the bottom of this page: http://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/frog-facial-tracking-component-code/

D5.3 – FROG Robot Integrated Demonstrator

D5.2 – Simulation environment for FROG AR

D4.2– Demonstrator of human conversational signals analyzer

D6.2 – Data sets for Benchmarking – see also our Datasets page.

D5.1-revised –  Iterative integration and evaluation report

D2.4-revised – AR Robot Application component

D4.3 – Library of Behaviours and Demonstrator of Adaptive Robot Behaviour System –  demonstrator.

D4.1 part d – Identification, evaluation and design of guide robot personality and behaviors: Design Guidelines for Robot Personality

D5.4 – Demonstrator Evaluation Report

D2.3-revised – Sensor data and Multimedia database with the virtual content for AR application

D6.1 – Dissemination Activities Report

* These deliverables have already been approved by the European Commission.