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Editor-in-Chief (2020 – present)
Signal Processing: Image Communication
Senior Area Editor (2016 – present)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Associate Editor (2016 – 2019)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Associate Editor (2016 – 2018)
IEEE MultiMedia
Area Editor (2012 – 2014)
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Associate Editor (2011 – 2015)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Associate Editor (2009 – 2011)
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Associate Editor (2009 – 2010)
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Associate Editor (2008 – 2011)
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Guest editorships
Trustworthiness in Social Multimedia Analytics & Delivery
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 21, no. 3, 2019
Group and Crowd Behaviour Analysis for Intelligent Multi-Camera Video Surveillance
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 27, issue 3, 2017
Video Analytics for Audience Measurement in Retail & Digital Signage
Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 81, 2016
Intelligent Video Surveillance for Public Security and Personal Privacy
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 8, issue 10, 2013
Video Analysis on Resource-Limited Systems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 21, issue 10, 2011
Machine Vision, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 94, issue 2, 2011
Video Analytics for Surveillance: Theory and Practice
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 27, issue 5, 2010
Multi-Camera and Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 114, issue 6, 2010
Security and Surveillance: Performance Evaluation
Annals of the British Machine Vision Association, 2010
Multi-Camera Information Processing: Acquisition, Collaboration, Interpretation and Production
Journal of Image and Video Processing, 2010
Video Tracking in Complex Scenes for Surveillance Applications
Journal of Image and Video Processing, 2008
Multi-Sensor Object Detection and Tracking
Journal on Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2007
Professional bodies (membership and chairmanship)
Technical Directions Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2020 – present)
IEEE Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2011 – present)
Past Chair (2022 – 2023)
Chair (2020 – 2021)
Vice Chair (2018 – 2019)
Chair, Award Subcommittee (2013 – 2016)
Elected member (2011 – 2016)
IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communication Technical Committee (2015 – 2018)
IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (2009 – 2013)
IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (2006 – 2009)
Expert evaluator
Austrian Science Fund (FWF), START Programme for early career researchers (2022)
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency, SME Instrument Phase 2 (2020 – 2022)
European Research Council (ERC), ERC-StG grants, Evaluation panels: PE1 and PE6 (2020)
European Research Council (ERC), ERC-Synergy grants (2019)
INRIA, Evaluator for 8 research groups on Vision, Perception and Multimedia Interpretation (2018)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Prosperity Partnership programme (2018)
Research Executive Agency (REA), Information Management Research and Innovation Action (2017 - 2019)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Evaluator for Department of Information Engineering (2017)
National Research Agency, France, panel chair: Visual Analytics for Decision-Making under Uncertainty (2016)
Research Executive Agency (REA), evaluator for ICT Media Content Convergence proposals (2016)
Research Executive Agency (REA), reviewer for 3 multi-million projects (2013 – 2016)
Singapore Ministry of Education (2013)
Austrian Science Fund, FWF (2012)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK (2012)
US Office of Naval Research (ONR), expert for the SAAET programme (2011)
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), expert for “Forensic Science” (2011)
Natural Sciences and Eng. Research Council Canada (NSERC), expert for “Discovery Grant” (2010)
Fond de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Belgium, expert for “Formation à la Recherche” (2010)
European Commission, evaluator for the Future & Emerging Technologies programme (2009)
Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong, evaluator for the Innov. & Techn. Fund (2009)
European Commission, evaluator and panellist for the FP7 Security programme (2007 – 2009)
National Science Foundation, Switzerland, expert for “Microelectr. and Optoelectronics” (2008 & 2011)
National Science Foundation, USA, evaluator for the “Fellowship” programme (2008)
Microsoft Research, PhD Scholarship Programme (2007)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK, reviewer for ICT (2007)
National Research Agency, France, evaluator for “Data Masses and Ambient Knowledge” (2006)
Advisory boards and steering committees
CHIST-ERA Open Science Advisory Board (2021 – present)
Institute of Applied Data Science (IADS), Executive Board member, QMUL (2018 – present)
Management Committee, Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music, QMUL (2019 – present)
Steering Committee, PhD program in Information and Communication Tech., Univ. of Modena (2019 – present)
Steering Committee, PhD program in Telecommunications, University of Brescia (2018 – present)
Steering Committee, PhD program in Computational Intelligence, University of Genoa (2017 – present)
Steering Committee, PhD program in Media and Arts Technology, QMUL (2015 – 2020)
Steering Committee, EU Erasmus Mundus PhD programme Interactive and Cognitive Environments (2010 – 2018)
Supervisory Board, EU project APIDIS (2008 – 2010)
Steering committee, IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (2005 – 2015)
Conference organisation
Technical Program Chair, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (Bordeaux, France)
Workshops Chair, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (Taipei, Taiwan)
Students Activities Chair, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (Taipei, Taiwan)
Technical Program Chair, 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal based Surv. (Auckland, New Zealand)
Chair, Privacy Issues in Multimedia, in conjunction with IEEE ICME 2018 (San Diego, USA)
Chair, Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement, in conjunction with ICPR 2016 (Cancún, Mexico)
Chair, Workshop on Privacy Issues in Multimedia, in conjunction with IEEE ICME 2016 (Seattle, USA)
Chair, Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement, in conjunction with IEEE ICME 2015 (Turin, Italy)
Plenary Chair, 2015 IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (Turing, Italy)
Chair, Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement, in conj. with ICPR 2014 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Technical Program Chair, 2011 IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal based Surv. (Klagenfurt, Austria)
Workshops Chair, 2010 IEEE International Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (Boston, USA)
Technical Program Chair, 2010 Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (Desenzano, Italy)
General Chair, 2009 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (Como, Italy)
General Chair, 2009 British Machine Vision Conference (London, UK)
Special Sessions Chair, 2009 IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (Genoa, Italy)
Publications chair, 2009 Int. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (London, UK)
Technical Program Chair, 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Workshops Chair, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (Stanford, USA)
Special Sessions Chair, 2008 IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing (St. Thomas, USA)
Chair, Workshop Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion, in conjunction with ECCV 2008 (Marseille, France)
Chair, 2007 BMVA symposium on Security and Surveillance: Performance Evaluation (London, UK)
General chair, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (London, UK)
University service
Director of Research, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2014 – present)
Chair, Research Committee, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2014 – present)
Member, Dean for Research Advisory Group, Faculty of Science and Engineering (2014 – present)
Director, Centre for Intelligent Sensing, Queen Mary University of London (2012 – present)
Member, Senior Management Team, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2011 – present)
Appraisal of Research Assistants and Academic Staff (2006 – present)
Member, Research Strategy group, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2012 – 2014)
Director of Communications, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2011 – 2014)
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2010 – 2011)
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Electronic Engineering (2008 – 2010)
Chair, Student-Staff Liaison Committee for Electronic Engineering (2009 – 2010)
Member, Teaching and Learning Committee, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (2010 – 2011)
Counsellor, IEEE student branch, Queen Mary University of London (2007 – 2011)
Board member, Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Science (2003 – 2009)
Deputy chair, Undergraduate exam board, Department of Electronic Engineering (2004 – 2006)
External examining
External examiner (evaluator) for the BSc (Hons) Computer Engineering (2017 – 2019)
Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, University of Malta
External expert for an accreditation to supervise research, HDR (2012)
Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France