Dr Ioannis (Yiannis) Patras

Title: Senior Lecturer in Computer Vision
Tel: +44 20 7882 7523
Fax: +44 20 7882 7997
Email: I.Patras@eecs.qmul.ac.uk
Room: Eng. E103, Department of Electronic Engineering
Research Group: Multimedia and Vision Research Group

My research is in the area of Computer Vision and Pattern recognition with applications in Multimedia Analysis and Multimodal Human Computer Interaction. This includes low level analysis as well as learning from large datasets or from user interaction. I am particularly interested in the problems of Motion Analysis (including tracking and motion estimation), (semantic) Object Segmentation and (Human) Action Recognition (including face and gesture analysis). A recent line of activity involves multimodal human sensing for gesture-based gaming and for Brain Computer Interfaces. I am an associate editor of the Image and Vision Computing Journal and of the journal of Multimedia, the general chair of the 10th Int'l Workshop of Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services and in the organisation committee of a number of conferences and workshops.

Applications are invited for two fully funded PhD Student to undertake research in the area of Human Motion Analysis and Understanding. One position is supported by an EU project and falls in the general area of modeling and recognition of Human Actions from multi-view image sequences. The work is expected to build on recent developments in Computer Vision and Machine Learning for learning human facial/body/hand gestures from few examples, with emphasis on transfer learning for cross-modality, cross-category and cross-view learning. The second position is supported by the school of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science and can address any of the problems of tracking, segmentation, 3D modelling, recognition, in the context of Human Motion Analysis.

The studentships cover both tuition fees and a stipend.

Contact me with a copy of your CV and a transcript of your grades at I.Patras at eecs.qmul.ac.uk.

Recent News

• Our paper "Tree-Structured Feature Extraction Using Mutual Information", appears in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (Jan 2012). bibtex
• Our paper "Tensor Learning for Regression", appears in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Feb 2012). bibtex, (CODE AVALAILABLE)
• Our paper "Support Tucker Machines" has been presented in CVPR 2011. (CODE AVALAILABLE)
• Our paper “DEAP: A Database for Emotion Analysis using Physiological Signals” has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
• Our paper on "Single Trial Classification of EEG and Peripheral Physiological Signals for Recognition of Emotions Induced by Music Videos" , has been presented in the Int'l Conf. Brain Informatics.
• Our paper "Spatiotemporal Localization and Categorization of Human Actions in Unsegmented Image Sequences" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Trans. Image Processing.
• Our paper on "Coupled prediction-classification for robust visual tracking" has been published in the September issue of IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (Extended results and a short description of the method can be found here)
• Our paper on Facial Expression Analysis using Dynamic Textures will be published in the November issue of IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
• Our paper on Gesture recognition using spatiotemporal descriptors has been accepted to Image and Vision Computing Journal, Special Issue on Spontaneous Behaviour.
• General chair of WIAMIS 2009 (10th Int'l Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services)

Education

• Ph.D. (2001), Delft University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information and Communication Theory group (NL)
• M.Sc. (1997), B.Sc (1994) Computer Science department , University of Crete (GR)

Professional Experience

• Senior Lecturer (Associate professor), Queen Mary, University of London, Multimedia and Vision group, UK
• Lecturer (Assistant Professor), The University of York, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group, UK
• Research Fellow, Delft University of Technology, Man Machine Interaction group , NL
• Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam, Intelligent Sensory Information Systems group, NL

Team members

• Dr Irene Kotsia (Post Doctorate researcher)
• Farid Oveisi (PhD student)
• Vijay Kumar (PhD student)
• Weiwei Guo (PhD student)
• Sander Koelstra (PhD student)
• Stefanos Vrochidis (PhD student - cosupervision with Y. Kompatsiaris)
• Spiros Nikolopoulos (PhD student - cosupervision with Y. Kompatsiaris)
• Antonis Oikonomopoulos (PhD student - cosupervision with Maja Pantic) - graduated 2010
• Giussepe Pasino (PhD student - cosupervision with E. Izquierdo) - graduated 2010

Professional activities

Associate editor in

• Image and Vision Computing Journal
• Journal of Multimedia 2007-2009

Organizing Committee Member

• ACM Multimedia 2013,
• International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2011,
• 10th Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services 2009 (General chair),
• British Machine Vision Conference 2009
• AMC/IEEE Int'l Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras 2009
• Int'l Conf. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interfaces 2009
• British Machine Vision Conference, 2009,
• IEEE Face and Gesture Recognition, 2008,
• IEEE Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics, 2004

Reviewer for the following journals

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B; EURASIP Signal Processing; EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing; EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing; Real-Time Imaging Journal; Signal Processing; Image and Vision Computing; Computer Vision and Image Understanding; Machine Vision and Applications Journal; Signal Processing Image Communication

Reviewer for the following international conferences

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), IAPR International conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS), ACM Multimedia