Selected Publications

Books

C. Shan, F. Porikli, T. Xiang and S. Gong (Eds.), "Video Analytics for Business Intelligence", 368 pages, Springer, March 2012. (Springer link)

S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Visual Analysis of Behaviour: From Pixels to Semantics", 376 pages, Springer, 2011. (Springer link, Amazon link)

Journal Articles

T. Haines and T. Xiang, "Active Rare Class Discovery and Classification using Dirichlet Processes", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), to appear, 2013.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Re-identification by Relative Distance Comparison", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 653-668, March 2013.  [PDF]

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Finding Rare Classes: Active Learning with Generative and Discriminative Models", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) , Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 374-386, February 2013.  [PDF]

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Video Behaviour Mining Using a Dynamic Topic Model", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 98, issue 3, pp 303-323, July 2012.  [PDF]

C.C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Incremental Activity Modelling in Multiple Disjoint Cameras", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 1799-1813, September 2012.  [PDF]

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Quantifying and Transferring Contextual Information in Object Detection", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 762-777, April 2012.  [PDF]

J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Learning Behavioural Context", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 97, no. 3, 2012.  [PDF]

T. Hospedales, J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Identifying Rare and Subtle Behaviours: A Weakly Supervised Joint Topic Model", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 2451-2464, December 2011.  [PDF]

M. Bregonzio, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Fusing Appearance and Distribution Information of Interest Points for Action Recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 1220-1234, March 2012.  [PDF]

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Detecting and Discriminating Behavioural Anomalies", Pattern Recognition, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 117-132, Jan 2011.  [PDF]

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Time-Delayed Correlation Analysis for Multi-Camera Activity Understanding", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 106-129, October 2010.  [PDF]

K. Bashir, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Gait Recognition Without Subject Cooperation", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 31, No. 13, pp. 2052-2060, October 2010.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Optimising Dynamic Graphical Models for Video Content Analysis", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. 310-323, December 2008.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Incremental and Adaptive Abnormal Behaviour Detection", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 59-73, July 2008.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Activity Based Surveillance Video Modelling", Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 2309-2326, July 2008.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Video Behaviour Profiling for Anomaly Detection", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 893-908, May 2008.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Spectral Clustering with Eigenvector Selection", Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 1012-1029, March 2008.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Model selection for unsupervised learning of visual context", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 181-201, 2006.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Beyond tracking: Modelling activity and understanding behaviour", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 21-51, 2006.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and L. Cheong, "On the Distortion of Shape Recovery from Motion", Image and Vision Computing (IVC), vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 807-817, 2004.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and L. Cheong, "Understanding the Behaviour of Structure from Motion Algorithms: A Geometric Approach", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 111-137, October 2003.  [PDF]

S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Scene event recognition without tracking", Acta Automatica Sinica, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 321-331, May 2003.  [PDF]

L. Cheong and T. Xiang, "Characterizing Depth Distortion under Different Generic Motions" in International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 199-217, October 2001.  [PDF]

Book Chapters

S. Gong, C. C. Loy, and T. Xiang, "Security and Surveillance", in Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, T. Moeslund, A. Hilton, V. Krueger, L. Sigal (Eds.), Springer, 2011.

T. Xiang and L. Cheong, "A geometric Error Analysis of 3-D Reconstruction Algorithms", in Computer Vision and Robotics, 2005.

L. Cheong and T. Xiang and V. Cornilleau-Peres and L. Tai, "Not all Motions are Equivalent in Terms of Depth Recovery", in Computer Vision and Robotics, 2005.

Conference Papers

P. Siva, C. Russell, T. Xiang and L. Agapito, "Looking Beyond the Image: Unsupervised Learning for Object Saliency and Detection", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2013.

K. Chen, S. Gong, T. Xiang and C.C. Loy, "Cumulative Attribute Space for Age and Crowd Density Estimation", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2013.

P. Siva, C. Russell and T. Xiang, "In Defence of Negative Mining for Annotating Weakly Labeled Data", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.  [PDF]

Y. Fu, T. Hospedales, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Attribute Learning for Understanding Unstructured Social Activity", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.  [PDF]

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "A Unifying Theory of Active Discovery and Learning", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.  [PDF]

R. Félez and T. Xiang, "Gait Recognition by Ranking", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.  [PDF]

T. Haines and T. Xiang, "Background Subtraction with Dirichlet Processes", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Firenze, Italy, October 2012.  [PDF]

Z. Shi, P. Siva and T. Xiang, "Transfer Learning by Ranking for Weakly Supervised Object Annotation", in British Machine Vision Conference, Guildford, UK, September, 2012.

K. Chen, C.C. Loy, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Feature Mining for Localised Crowd Counting", in British Machine Vision Conference, Guildford, UK, September, 2012.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Transfer Re-identification: From Person to Set-based Verification", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 2012.

C.C. Loy, T. Hospedales, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Stream-based Joint Exploration-Exploitation Active Learning", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 2012.

C.C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Salient Motion Detection in Crowded Scenes", in Proc. 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, May 2012.

T. Haines and T. Xiang, "Delta-Dual Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes: A pragmatic abnormal behaviour detector", in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011.

P. Siva and T. Xiang, "Weakly Supervised Object Detector Learning with Model Drift Detection", in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011.

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Learning Tags from Unsegmented Videos of Multiple Human Actions", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Vancouver, Canada, December 2011.

T. Haines and T. Xiang, "Active Learning using Dirichlet Processes for Rare Class Discovery and Classification", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2011.

P. Siva and T. Xiang, "Weakly Supervised Action Detection", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2011.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Person Re-identification by Probabilistic Relative Distance Comparison", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Colorado Springs, USA, June 2011.

K. Chen, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Human Pose Estimation Using Structural Support Vector Machines", in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Surveillance and Monitoring, Barcelona, Spain, November 2011.

Y. Raja, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Multi-Source Data Inference for Object Association", in Proc. IMA Conference on Mathematics in Defence, Shrivenham, UK, October 2011.

Y. Raja, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "User-Assisted Visual Search and Tracking across Distributed Multi-Camera Networks", in Proc. SPIE Security and Defence Conference on Optics and Photonics for Counter-terrorism and Crime Fighting, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2011.

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Finding Rare Classes: Adapting Generative and Discriminative Models in Active Learning", in Proc. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Shenzhen, China, May 2011.

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Stream-based Active Anomaly Detection", in Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2010.

J. Li, T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Learning Rare Behaviours", in Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2010.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Unsupervised Selective Transfer Learning for Object Recognition", in Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2010.

S. Gong, T. Xiang and S. Hongeng, "Learning Human Pose in Crowd", in ACM Workshop on Multimodal Pervasive Video Analysis, 2010.

T. Haines and T. Xiang, "Video Topic Modelling with Behavioural Segmentation", in ACM Workshop on Multimodal Pervasive Video Analysis, 2010.

P. Siva and T. Xiang, "Action Detection in Crowd", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2010, Best Poster Prize.

K. Bashir, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Cross-View Gait Recognition Using Correlation Strength", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2010.

B. Prosser, W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Person Re-Identification by Support Vector Ranking", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2010.

M. Bregonzio, J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Discriminative Topics Modelling for Action Feature Selection and Recognition", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2010.

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Modelling Activity Global Temporal Dependencies using Time Delayed Probabilistic Graphical Model", in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.  [PDF]

T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "A Markov Clustering Topic Model for Mining Behaviour in Video", in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.  [PDF]

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Quantifying Contextual Information for Object Detection", in IIEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.  [PDF]

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Multi-Camera Activity Correlation Analysis", in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009.  [PDF]

M. Bregonzio, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Recognising Action as Clouds of Space-Time Interest Points", in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009.  [PDF]

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Multi-Object Activity Modelling Using Gaussian Processes", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2009.

E. Zelniker, T. Hospedales, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "A Unified Approach for Adaptive Multiple Feature Tracking for Surveillance Applications", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2009.

K. Bashir, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Gait Representation Using Flow Fields", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2009.

W. Zheng, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Associating Groups of People", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2009.

J. Orozco, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Head Pose Classification in Crowded Scenes", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2009.

J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Discovering Multi-Camera Behaviour Correlations for On-the-Fly Global Activity Prediction and Anomaly Detection", in IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, 2009.

M. Bregonzio, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Action Recognition with Cascaded Feature Selection and Classification", in International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, 2009.

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Surveillance Video Behaviour Profiling and Anomaly Detection", in Proceedings of SPIE on Optics and Photonics for Counterterrorism and Crime Fighting , 2009.

J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang, " Scene Segmentation for Behaviour Correlation", in European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.

C. Loy, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "From Local Temporal Correlation to Global Anomaly Detection", in International Workshop on Machine Learning for Vision-based Motion Analysis, 2008.

E. Zelniker, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Global Abnormal Behaviour Detection Using a Network of CCTV Cameras", in IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance , 2008.

B. Prosser, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Multi-camera Matching under Illumination Change Over Time", in ECCV Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications, 2008.

B. Prosser, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Multi-camera Matching Using Bi-Directional Cumulative Brightness Transfer Functions", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2008.

K. Bashir, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Feature selection on gait energy image for human identification", in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 2008.

J. Li, S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Global Behaviour Inference Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2008.

K. Bashir, T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Feature Selection for Gait Recognition without Subject Cooperation", in British Machine Vision Conference, 2008.

S. Gong, C. Shan and T. Xiang, "Visual inference of human emotion and behaviour", in ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, November 2007.

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Optimal dynamic graphs for video content analysis", in British Machine Vision Conference, vol. 1, no., pp. 177-186, September 2006.

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Incremental visual behaviour modelling", in IEEE Visual Surveillance Workshop, pp. 65-72, May 2006.

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Visual learning given sparse data of unknown complexity", in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2005.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Video behaviour profiling and abnormality detection without manual labelling", in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, October 2005.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Relevance learning for spectral clustering with applications on image segmentation and video behaviour profiling", in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, September 2005.

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Online video behaviour abnormality detection using reliability measure", in British Machine Vision Conference , September 2005.

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Unsupervised learning of visual context using mixture models", in IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering , April 2005.

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Activity Based Video Content Trajectory Representation and Segmentation", in British Machine Vision Conference , September 2004.

S. Gong and T. Xiang, "Recognition of group activities using a dynamic probabilistic network", in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision vol. 2, no. , pp. 742-749, October 2003.  [PDF]

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "On the structure of dynamic Bayesian networks for complex scene modelling", in Joint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, October 2003.

T. Xiang and L. Cheong, "Error Analysis of 3-D Motion Estimation Algorithms in the Differential Case", in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 369-37, 2003.  [PDF]

T. Xiang, S. Gong and D. Parkinson, "Outdoor activity recognition using multi-linked temporal processes", in British Machine Vision Conference, pp. 619-628, September 2003.

T. Xiang and S. Gong, "Discovering Bayesian causality among visual events in a complex outdoor scene", in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video- and Signal-based Surveillance, pp. 177-182, July 2003.

T. Xiang, S. Gong and D. Parkinson, "Autonomous Visual Events Detection and Classification without Explicit Object-Centred Segmentation and Tracking", in British Machine Vision Conference, pp. 233-242, 2002.

T. Xiang and L. Cheong, "Distortion of Shape from Motion", in British Machine Vision Conference, pp. 153-162, 2002.