Research

statistical scene and image models, depth-cameras and multi-view scene reconstruction., binocular vision, eye-movements and 3D displays.

Publications

Publications of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics

2021

Vitanov I, Farkhatdinov I, Denoun B, Palermo F, Otaran A, Brown J, Omarali B, Abrar T, Hansard M, Oh C, Poslad S, Liu C, Godaba H, Zhang K, Jamone L and Althoefer K (2021). A Suite of Robotic Solutions for Nuclear Waste Decommissioning. Robotics  vol. 10, (4) 112-112. 10.3390/robotics10040112

Paredes JA, Álvarez FJ, Hansard M and Rajab KZ (2021). A Gaussian Process model for UAV localization using millimetre wave radar. Expert Systems with Applications  vol. 185, 10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115563

Denoun B, Leon B, Hansard M and Jamone L (2021). Grasping Robot Integration and Prototyping: The GRIP Software Framework. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine  vol. 28, (2) 101-111. 10.1109/MRA.2021.3066049

Paredes JA, Hansard M, Rajab KZ, Álvarez FJ and Aguilera T (2021). Drone Positioning From Combined mmWave Radar and Depth Camera Data. CEUR Workshop Proceedings  vol. 3097,

2019

Hansard M (2019). Fast synthesis of atmospheric image effects. European Conference on Visual Media Production on - CVMP '19  Conference: European Conference on Visual Media Production  10.1145/3359998.3369406

Vasilyev A and Hansard M (2019). Spatial distribution of eye-movements after central vision loss is consistent with an optimal visual search strategy. International Journal of Neural Systems  10.1142/s0129065719500266

Ismail AMH, Solomon JA, Hansard M and Mareschal I (2019). A perceptual bias for man-made objects in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences  vol. 286, (1914) 10.1098/rspb.2019.1492

2018

Ahmed S, Hansard M and Cavallaro A (2018). Constrained optimization for plane-based stereo. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing  vol. 27, (8) 3870-3882. 10.1109/TIP.2018.2823543

Vasilyev A, Hansard M, Mareschal I and Patras I (2018). A Model of Visual Search in the Presence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration. PERCEPTION  vol. 47, (5) 573-573. Conference: Proceedings of the AVA Christmas meeting 

2017

Ismail AMH, Solomon JA, Hansard M and Mareschal I (2017). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Orientation Processing During Scene Recognition. PERCEPTION  vol. 46, (10) 1220-1221. Conference: Proceedings of the AVA Christmas Meeting 

Dewar A, Hansard M and Mareschal I (2017). Could Commodity Eye Trackers Provide a Viable Low-Cost Alternative for Neuropsychological Studies? PERCEPTION  vol. 46, (10) 1225-1225. Conference: Proceedings of the AVA Christmas meeting 

Zhao L, Hansard M and Cavallaro A (2017). Layered Scene Models from Single Hazy Images. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics  vol. Early online, 1-1. 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2708108

2016

SELFRIDGE R, Noland K and Hansard M (2016). Vision of Motion Blur and Strobing Artefacts in Video at 100 Frames per Second. Conference: Conference on Visual Media Production (London)  10.1145/2998559.2998562

Ismail AMH, Solomon JA, Hansard M and MARESCHAL I (2016). A tilt after-effect for images of buildings: Evidence of selectivity for the orientation of everyday scenes. Proceedings of the royal society, open science  10.1098/rsos.160551

Hussain Ismail AM, Solomon J, Hansard M and Mareschal I (2016). A Generalized Tilt After-Effect. Journal of Vision  vol. 16, (12) 10.1167/16.12.877

TERZIC K and Hansard M (2016). Methods for Reducing Visual Discomfort in Stereoscopic 3D: A Review. Signal Processing: Image Communication  10.1016/j.image.2016.08.002

Horaud R, Hansard M, Evangelidis G and Ménier C (2016). An overview of depth cameras and range scanners based on time-of-flight technologies. Machine Vision and Applications: an international journal  10.1007/s00138-016-0784-4

Ismail AMH, Hansard M, Solomon JA and Mareschal I (2016). Adaptation to Tilted Scenes. PERCEPTION  vol. 45, (6) 699-700.

2015

Zhao L, HANSARD M and Cavallaro A (2015). Pop-up modelling of hazy scenes. Conference: International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (Genoa)  10.1007/978-3-319-23231-7_28

He A, Wang L, Chen Y, Hansard M and Zhangy T (2015). Comparison of CoMP and MISO for energy efficiency in HetNets. 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops, WCNCW 2015  352-357. 10.1109/WCNCW.2015.7122580

HANSARD M, Evangelidis G, Pelorson Q and Horaud R (2015). Cross-calibration of time-of-flight and colour cameras. Computer Vision and Image Understanding  vol. 134, 105-115. 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.09.001

HANSARD M, Evangelidis G and Horaud R (2015). Fusion of Range and Stereo Data for High-Resolution Scene-Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence  10.1109/TPAMI.2015.2400465

2014

HANSARD M, Horaud R, Amat M and Evangelidis G (2014). Automatic detection of calibration grids in time-of-flight images. Computer Vision and Image Understanding  vol. 121, 108-118. 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.01.007

2013

Sapienza M, Hansard M and Horaud R (2013). Real-time visuomotor update of an active binocular head. AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS  vol. 34, (1-2) 35-45. 10.1007/s10514-012-9311-2

Hansard M, Lee S, Choi O and Horaud R (2013). Characterization of time-of-flight data. Springerbriefs in Computer Science  10.1007/978-1-4471-4658-2_1

Hansard M, Lee S, Choi O and Horaud R (2013). A mixed time-of-flight and stereoscopic camera system. Springerbriefs in Computer Science  10.1007/978-1-4471-4658-2_5

Hansard M, Lee S, Choi O and Horaud R (2013). Alignment of time-of-flight and stereoscopic data. Springerbriefs in Computer Science  10.1007/978-1-4471-4658-2_4

Hansard M, Lee S, Choi O and Horaud R (2013). Calibration of time-of-flight cameras. Springerbriefs in Computer Science  10.1007/978-1-4471-4658-2_3

Hansard M, Lee S, Choi O and Horaud R (2013). Disambiguation of time-of-flight data. Springerbriefs in Computer Science  10.1007/978-1-4471-4658-2_2

2012

Hansard M, Lee S, Choi O and Horaud RP (2012). Time-of-Flight Cameras Principles, Methods and Applications. Springer

Hansard M (2012). Binocular projection of a random scene. BMVC 2012 - Electronic Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2012  10.5244/C.26.90

2011

Hansard M and Horaud R (2011). A differential model of the complex cell. Neural Computation  vol. 23, (9) 2324-2357. 10.1162/NECO_a_00163

HANSARD M, Horaud R, Amat M and Lee S (2011). Projective alignment of range and parallax data. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)  3089-3096. Conference: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition  10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995533

2010

Hansard M and Horaud R (2010). Cyclorotation models for eyes and cameras. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics  vol. 40, (1) 151-161. 10.1109/TSMCB.2009.2024211

2009

Glennerster A, Hansard ME and Fitzgibbon AW (2009). View-based approaches to spatial representation in human vision. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformat  vol. 5604 LNCS, 193-208. 10.1007/978-3-642-03061-1_10

2008

Arnaud E, Christensen H, Lu YC, Barker J, Khalidov V, Hansard M, Holveck B, Mathieu H, Narasimha R, Taillant E, Forbes F and Horaud R (2008). The CAVA Corpus: Synchronised stereoscopic and binaural datasets with head movements. ICMI'08: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces  109-116. 10.1145/1452392.1452414

Khalidov V, Forbes F, Hansard M, Arnaud E and Horaud R (2008). Detection and localization of 3D Audio-Visual objects using unsupervised clustering. ICMI'08: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces  217-224. 10.1145/1452392.1452438

Hansard M and Horaud R (2008). Cyclopean geometry of binocular vision. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision  vol. 25, (9) 2357-2369. 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002357

Khalidov V, Forbes F, Hansard M, Arnaud E and Horaud R (2008). Audio-visual clustering for 3D speaker localization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformat  vol. 5237 LNCS, 86-97. 10.1007/978-3-540-85853-9_8

2007

Hansard M and Horaud R (2007). Patterns of binocular disparity for a fixating observer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformat  vol. 4729 LNCS, 308-317. 10.1007/978-3-540-75555-5_29

2001

Glennerster A, Hansard ME and Fitzgibbon AW (2001). How could ego-centric location be defined neurally? Journal of Vision  vol. 1, (3) 10.1167/1.3.6

Glennerster A, Hansard ME and Fitzgibbon AW (2001). Fixation could simplify, not complicate, the interpretation of retinal flow. Vision Research  vol. 41, (6) 815-834. 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00300-X

2000

Hansard ME and Buxton BF (2000). Image-based rendering via the standard graphics pipeline. IEEE International Conference on Multi-Media and Expo  (III/WEDNESDAY) 1437-1440.

Hansard ME and Buxton BF (2000). Parametric view-synthesis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformat  vol. 1842, 191-202. 10.1007/3-540-45054-8_13

Grants

Grants of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics

Geometric Evaluation of Stereoscopic Video
Hansard ME
£88,495 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (31-08-2015 - 31-12-2016)

Summary

The UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies
Britton J, Hansard M, Brant S, Amos A, Aveyard P, Bauld L, Coleman TJ, Godfrey C, Hajek P, Hastings GB, Lewis SA, McNeill AD, Munafo MR and West RJ
£2,854,373 Economic and Social Research Council (31-05-2008 - 30-11-2013)

Summary