Nick Pears

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• 2024

  An Active-gaze Morphable Model for 3D Gaze Estimation

  Sun, H., Pears, N. E. & Smith, W. A. P., 27 May 2024, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. IEEE Computer Society, 9 p.

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• Enhancing Learning from Demonstration with DLS-IK and ProMPs

  Yang, S., Liu, P. & Pears, N. E., 30 Aug 2024, The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2024).

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• N Heads Are Better Than One: Exploring Theoretical Performance Bounds of 3D Face Reconstruction Methods

  Rowan, W., Huber, P., Pears, N. E. & Keeling, A., 4 Oct 2024, European Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ECCVw) 2024: Foundation Models for 3D Humans. Springer Science + Business Media, 9 p.

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• Parts-based Implicit 3D Face Modeling

  Gu, Y. & Pears, N. E., 27 Feb 2024, Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications: VISAPP 2024. Gu, Y. & N., P. (eds.). SciTePress, Vol. 2. p. 201-212 12 p. (VISIGRAPP).

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• 2023

  Benchmarking of robot arm motion planning in cluttered environments

  Yang, S., Liu, P. & Pears, N. E., 1 Sept 2023, The 28th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC2023). IEEE

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• Benchmarking OMPL Planning Algorithms for Robot Arms in Cluttered Settings

  Yang, S., Liu, P. & Pears, N. E., 16 Jun 2023, Yorkshire Innovation in Science and Engineering Conference (YISEC 2023).

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• Laplacian ICP for Progressive Registration of 3D Human Head Meshes

  Pears, N. E., Dai, H., Smith, W. A. P. & Sun, H., 7 Jan 2023, International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. IEEE, 8 p.

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• Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Probabilistic Movement Primitives in Hybrid Scenarios

  Yang, S., Liu, P. & Pears, N. E., 5 Jul 2023, (Accepted/In press) The 24th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS2023).

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• Text2Face: 3D Morphable Faces from Text

  Rowan, W., Huber, P., Pears, N. E. & Keeling, A., 1 May 2023, International Conference on Learning Representations 2023: Proceedings. IEEE, 7 p.

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• 2022

  Adversarial 3D Face Disentanglement of Identity and Expression

  Gu, Y., Pears, N. E. & Sun, H., 11 Sept 2022, (Accepted/In press) International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. IEEE

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• 2021

  A Human Ear Reconstruction Autoencoder: HERA

  Sun, H., Pears, N. E. & Dai, H., 8 Feb 2021, 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications: VISIGRAPP 2021. SciTePress, Vol. 5. p. 136-145 10 p.

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• FatNet: A Feature-attentive Network for 3D Point Cloud Processing

  Kaul, C., Pears, N. E. & Manandhar, S., 10 Jan 2021, 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Springer

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• FocusNet++: Attentive Aggregated Transformations for Efficient and Accurate Medical Image Segmentation

  Kaul, C., Pears, N. E., Dai, H., Murray-Smith, R. & Manandhar, S., 25 May 2021, 2021 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI).

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• Information Bottlenecked Variational Autoencoder for Disentangled 3D Facial Expression Modelling

  Sun, H., Pears, N. E. & Gu, Y., 4 Oct 2021, (Accepted/In press) Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision, Proceedings. IEEE

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• Penalizing small errors using an Adaptive Logarithmic Loss

  Kaul, C., Pears, N. E., Dai, H., Murray-Smith, R. & Manandhar, S., 10 Jan 2021, 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition: AIHA-2020 – ICPR International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications. Springer

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• 2019

  Combining 3D Morphable Models: A Large scale Face-and-Head Model

  Ploumpis, S., Wang, H., Pears, N. E., Smith, W. A. P. & Zafeiriou, S., 11 Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019.

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• FocusNet: An attention-based Fully Convolutional Network for Medical Image Segmentation

  Kaul, C., Manandhar, S. K. & Pears, N. E., Apr 2019, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). Venice

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• 2018

  A Data-augmented 3D Morphable Model of the Ear

  Dai, H., Pears, N. E. & Smith, W. A. P., 15 May 2018, The 13th IEEE International Conference on AUTOMATIC FACE AND GESTURE RECOGNITION (FG 2018) . IEEE, 5 p.

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• Symmetric Shape Morphing for 3D Face and Head Modelling

  Dai, H., Pears, N. E., Smith, W. A. P. & Duncan, C., 15 May 2018, The 13th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. IEEE, 7 p.

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• 2017

  A 3D Morphable Model of Craniofacial Shape and Texture Variation

  Dai, H., Pears, N. E., Smith, W. A. P. & Duncan, C., 25 Dec 2017, Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017. Vol. 2017-October. p. 3104-3112 9 p. 8237597. ( Title Proceedings / IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.).

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• 2012

  3D Landmark Model Discovery from a Registered Set of Organic Shapes

  Creusot, C., Pears, N. & Austin, J., 16 Jun 2012, 2012 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) . p. 57-64 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
• 2011

  Automatic Keypoint Detection on 3D Faces Using a Dictionary of Local Shapes

  Creusot, C., Pears, N. & Austin, J., 2011, Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 204-211 8 p. (3DIMPVT '11).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
• 2009

  A Multi-Scale Piecewise-Linear Feature Detector for Spectrogram Tracks

  Lampert, T., Pears, N. & O'Keefe, S., 2009, AVSS: 2009 6TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED VIDEO AND SIGNAL BASED SURVEILLANCE. NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 330-335 6 p.

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• Landmark Localisation in 3D Face Data

  Romero, M. & Pears, N., 2009, AVSS: 2009 6TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED VIDEO AND SIGNAL BASED SURVEILLANCE. NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 73-78 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Line Detection Methods for Spectrogram Images

  Lampert, T., O'Keefe, S. & Pears, N., 1 May 2009, Computer Recognition Systems. Kurzynski, M. & Wozniak, M. (eds.). Springer, Vol. 3. p. 127-134 (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing; vol. 57/2009).

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• Motion Feature Combination for Human Action Recognition in Video

  Meng, H., Pears, N. & Bailey, C., 2009, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications : International Conference VISIGRAPH 2007, Barcelona, Spain, March 8-11, 2007. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, p. 151-163 13 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science ; vol. 21).

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• Point-Pair Descriptors for 3D Facial Landmark Localisation

  Romero, M. & Pears, N., 2009, 2009 IEEE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS. NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 80-85 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Road Vehicle Classification using Support Vector Machines

  Chen, Z., Pears, N., Freeman, M. & Austin, J., 2009, Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems, 2009. ICIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on . IEEE, Vol. 4. p. 214-218 5 p.

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• 2008

  3D Facial Landmark Localisation by Matching Simple Descriptors

  Romero-Huertas, M. & Pears, N., 2008, 2008 IEEE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS (BTAS). NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 346-351 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Display registration for device interaction - A proof of principle prototype

  Pears, N., Olivier, P. & Jackson, D., 2008, VISAPP 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 1. Araujo, HJ. (ed.). SETUBAL: INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, Vol. 1. p. 446-451 6 p.

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• 2007

  A human action recognition system for embedded computer vision application

  Meng, H., Pears, N. & Bailey, C., 2007, 2007 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOLS 1-8. NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 3213-3218 6 p.

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• Isoradius Contours: New representations and techniques for 3D face registration and matching

  Pears, N. & Heseltine, T., 2007, Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, Proceedings. Pollefeys, M. & Daniilidis, K. (eds.). LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE Computer Society, p. 176-183 8 p.

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• Motion information combination for fast human action recognition

  Meng, H., Pears, N. & Bailey, C., 2007, VISAPP 2007: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Volume IU/MTSV. Ranchordas, AK., Araujo, H. & Vitria, J. (eds.). SETUBAL: INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, p. 21-28 8 p.

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• Practical single view metrology for cuboids

  Pears, N., Wright, P. & Bailey, C., 2007, VISAPP 2007: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Volume IU/MTSV. Ranchordas, AK., Araujo, H. & Vitria, J. (eds.). SETUBAL: INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, p. 85-90 6 p.

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• 2006

  Human action classification using SVM_2K classifier on motion features

  Meng, H., Pears, N. & Bailey, C., 2006, MULTIMEDIA CONTENT REPRESENTATION, CLASSIFICATION AND SECURITY. Gunsel, B., Jain, AK., Tekalp, AM. & Sankur, B. (eds.). BERLIN: Springer, p. 458-465 8 p.

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• 2005

  Two-stage visual localisation: Landmark-based pose initialisation and model-based pose refinement

  Chen, Z. Z., Pe, P., McDermid, J. & Pears, N., 2005, 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vols 1-4. NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 3763-3769 7 p.

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• 2004

  Plane segmentation from two views in reciprocal-polar image space

  Chen, Z. Z., Pears, N. E., Liang, B. J. & McDermid, J., 2004, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, PT 1, PROCEEDINGS. Campilho, A. & Kamel, M. (eds.). BERLIN: Springer, p. 638-646 9 p.

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• Uncalibrated two-view metrology

  Liang, B. J., Chen, Z. Z. & Pears, N., 2004, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOL 1. Kittler, J., Petrou, M. & Nixon, M. (eds.). LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE Computer Society, p. 96-99 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• 2002

  Evaluation of image pre-processing techniques for eigenface based face recognition

  Heseltine, T., Pears, N. & Austin, J., 2002, SECOND INTERNATION CONFERENCE ON IMAGE AND GRAPHICS, PTS 1 AND 2. Sui, W. (ed.). BELLINGHAM: SPIE, p. 677-685 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Ground plane segmentation from multiple visual cues

  Liang, B. J. & Pears, N., 2002, SECOND INTERNATION CONFERENCE ON IMAGE AND GRAPHICS, PTS 1 AND 2. Sui, W. (ed.). BELLINGHAM: SPIE, p. 822-829 8 p.

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• Visual navigation using planar homographies

  Liang, B. J. & Pears, N., 2002, 2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, VOLS I-IV, PROCEEDINGS. NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 205-210 6 p.

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• 2001

  Ground plane segmentation for mobile robot visual navigation

  Pears, N. & Liang, B. J., 2001, IROS 2001: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2001 IEEE/RJS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-4. NEW YORK: IEEE, p. 1513-1518 6 p.

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