Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R, Fast Realistic Multi-Action Recognition using Mined Dense Spatio-temporal Features, In Proc. Int. Conference Computer Vision ICCV09, Kyoto, Japan. pp925-931. © IEEE
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Ong E J, Lan Y, Theobald B J, Harvey R, Bowden R, Robust Facial Feature Tracking using Selected Multi-Resolution Linear Predictors, In Proc. Int. Conference Computer Vision ICCV09, Kyoto, Japan. pp1483-1490. © IEEE
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Ong E J, Ellis L, Bowden R, Problem Solving Through Imitation. Journal of Image and Vision Computing, 27(11), Oct 2009, pp1715-1728.
DOI:10.1016/j.imavis.2009.04.016  
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Cooper H M, Bowden R, Learning Signs from Subtitles: A Weakly Supervised Approach to Sign Language Recognition. In IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR09. pp2568-2574.
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Gilbert A,  Capitain J, Bowden R, Merino L, Accurate Fusion of Robot, Camera and Wireless Sensors for Surveillance Applications, In Proc. Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance 2009, VS2009, ICCV09, Kyoto, Japan. To appear.
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Efthimiou E, Fotinea S E, Vogler C, Hanke T, Glauert J R W, Bowden R, Braffort A, Collet C, Maragos P, Segouat J, Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Modelling: A Research Effort with Applications in Deaf Communication. HCI (5) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services, 2009: 21-30.
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Cooper H M, Bowden R, Sign Language Recognition: Working with Limited Corpora. HCI (7) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services, 2009: 472-481. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0.
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Okwechime D, Bowden R, Real-Time Motion Control Using Pose Space Probability Density Estimation,  In Proc. 12th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV Workshop: IEEE International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Kyoto, 2009.pp2056-2063. © IEEE
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Moore S, Bowden R, The Effects of Pose On Facial Expression Recognition, In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'09, London 2009. pp1-11.
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Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E J, Bowden R, Feature Selection of Facial Displays for Detection of Non Verbal Communication in Natural Conversation. In Proc. 12th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV Workshop: IEEE International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Kyoto, 2009.pp1985-1992. © IEEE
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Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E J, Bowden R, Online Learning of Robust Facial Feature Trackers, In 3rd IEEE On-line Learning for Computer Vision, Kyoto, 2009. To appear.
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Oshin O, Gilbert A, Illingworth I, Bowden R, Action Recognition using Randomized Ferns, In Proc. 12th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV Workshop: IEEE workshop on Video-Oriented Object and Event Classification, Kyoto, Japan. pp530-537. © IEEE
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Lan Y, Harvey R, Theobald Barry-John, Ong E J, Bowden R, Comparing Visual Features for Lipreading, The eighth International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) 2009. To appear.
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Oshin O, Gilbert A, Illingworth I, Bowden R, Spatio-Temporal Feature Recognition using Randomised Ferns. In Proc. International Workshop on Machine Learning for Vision Based Motion Analysis, ECCV08.
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Ellis L, Matas J,Bowden R, Online Learning and Partitioning of Linear Displacement Predictors for Tracking, British Machine Vision Conference 08, Vol 1, pp33-43, Sept 2008.
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Ong E J, Bowden R, Robust Lip-Tracking using Rigid Flocks of Selected Linear Predictors, In Proc. 8th IEEE International Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG2008.
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Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R, Scale Invariant Action Recognition using Compound Features Mined from Dense Spatio-temporal Corners, European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV08, LNCS, Springer, Vol 5302/2008, pp222-233.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88682-2_18
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Dowson N, Kadir T, Bowden R, Estimating the joint statistics of images using Non-Parametric Windows with application to registration using Mutual Information, IEEE Trans Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning.
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70832
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Gilbert A, Bowden R, Incremental, scalable tracking of objects inter camera. Computer Vision and Image Understanding CVIU, Vol 111, Issue 1, Springer, July 2008.pp43-58.
doi:10.1016/j.cviu.2007.06.005
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Okwechime D, Bowden R, A Generative Model for Motion Synthesis And Blending Using Probability Density Estimation. 5th Conference on Articulated Models and Deformable Objects AMDO08. pp218-227. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70517-8_21
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Dowson N, Bowden R, Mutual Information for Lucas-Kanade tracking (MILK): An inverse compositional formulation. IEEE Trans Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning. Vol 30, Issue 1, Jan 08, pp 180-185.© IEEE
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Ellis L, Dowson N, Matas J, Bowden R. Linear Predictors for Fast Simultaneous Modeling and Tracking. Workshop on Non-rigid Registration and Tracking through Learning, IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV2007, Rio, Brazil 13-21 Oct 07. pp1-8
doi: 10.1109/ICCV.2007.4409187
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Cooper H M, Bowden R, Large Lexicon Detection of Sign Language. IEEE Workshop Human Computer Interaction, ICCV2007, Rio Brazil 07, LNCS 4796, Springer Verlag. pp88-97. © Springer
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Gilbert A, Bowden R, Multi Person Tracking within Crowded Scenes, Workshop on Human Motion, Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, ICCV2007, Rio, Brazil 07, LNCS 4814, Springer Verlag. pp166-179. © Springer
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Moore S, Bowden R, Automatic Facial Expression Recognition using Boosted Discriminatory Classifiers. IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG), ICCV07, Rio Brazil 07, LNCS 4778, Springer Verlag, pp71-83. © Springer
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Ellis L, Bowden R, Learning Responses to Visual Stimuli: A Generic Approach. In Proc. 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS'07, Bielefeld, March 2007. URL: http://biecoll.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/volltexte/2007/22
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Cooper H M, Bowden R, Sign Language Recognition Using Boosted Volumetric Features,  In Proc. IAPR Conf. on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, May 07. pp359-362.
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Ong E J, Micilotta A, Bowden R, Hilton A, Viewpoint Invariant Exemplar-Based 3D Human Tracking, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 102(2), 2006, pp178-189. © Elsevier
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Ong E, Bowden R, Learning Distances for Arbitrary Visual Features, In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference 06, BMVA Press 2006, Vol 2, pp749-758.
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Ong E, Bowden R, Learning Wormholes for Sparsely Labelled Clustering, In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition 06, IEEE, Hong Kong 2006, Vol 1, pp.916-919.
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Dowson N, Bowden R,  N-tier Simultaneous Modelling and Tracking for Arbitrary Warps,  In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference 06, BMVA Press, Vol 2, pp569-578.
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Dowson N, Bowden R,  Kadir T,  Image template matching using Mutual Information and NP-Windows, In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition 06, IEEE, Hong Kong, 2006, Vol 2, pp.1186-1191.
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Dowson N, Bowden R, A Unifying Framework for Mutual Information Methods for use in Non-Linear Optimisation. In Proc. European Conference Computer Vision. A.Leonardis,H.Bischof,and A.Prinz (Eds.):ECCV 2006, Part I, LNCS 3951, pp.365 –378, Springer Verlag 2006.
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Gilbert A, Bowden R, Tracking objects across cameras by incrementally learning inter-camera colour calibration and patterns of activity. In Proc European Conference Computer Vision. A.Leonardis,H.Bischof,and A.Prinz (Eds.):ECCV 2006, Part II, LNCS 3952, pp.125 –136, Springer Verlag 2006.
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Micilotta A, Ong E, Bowden R, Real-time Upper Body Detection and 3D Pose Estimation in Monoscopic Images. In Proc. European Conference Computer Vision, A.Leonardis,H.Bischof,and A.Pinz (Eds.):ECCV 2006, Part III, LNCS 3953, pp.139 –150, Springer Verlag 2006.
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Micilotta A, Ong E, Bowden R, Detection and Tracking of Humans by Probabilistic Body Part Assembly. In Proc. BMVC05. Oxford UK. Sept 2005. Vol 1, pp429-438.
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Gilbert A, Bowden R, Incremental Modelling of the Posterior Distribution of Objects for Inter and Intra Camera Tracking. In Proc. BMVC05. Oxford UK. Sept 2005. Vol 1, pp419-428.
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Micilotta A, Ong E, Bowden R, Real-time Upper Body 3D Reconstruction from a Single Uncalibrated Camera. In Proc. Eurographics 05. Dublin, Ireland, Sept 05, pp41-44.
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Ellis L, Bowden R, A generalised exemplar approach to modelling perception action couplings. International Workshop on Semantic Knowledge in Computer Vision SKCV05 (in Tenth IEEE Intl. Conf. Computer Vision ICCV05), Beijing, China, pp1874.
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Bowden R, Ellis L, Kittler J, Shevchenko M, Windridge D. Unsupervised Symbol Grounding and Cognitive Bootstrapping in Cognitive Vision. Proc. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP05. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3617, Nov 2005, Pages 27-36.
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Bowden R, Kadir T, Windridge D, Zisserman A, Brady M. Minimal Training, Large Lexicon, Unconstrained Sign Language Recognition. To Appear as Chapter in Cognitive Vision Systems, H.H. Nagel (Ed).
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Micilotta A, Ong E, Bowden R, Human Body Part Detection and Tracking.  To Appear as Chapter in Cognitive Vision Systems, H.H. Nagel (Ed).
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Ong E, Bowden R, Learning Multi-Kernel Distance Metrics using Relative Comparisons. International Journal of Pattern Recognition. Vol 38, issue 12, Dec 2005, pp2653-2657.
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Bowden R, Gilbert A, KaewTraKulPong P, Tracking Objects Across Uncalibrated Arbitary Topology Camera Networks. Chapter 6, In Intelligent Distributed Video Surveillance Systems, S A Velastin and P Remagnino (Eds), IEE Professional Applications of Computing Series 5,  2005, pp157-183
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Windridge D, Bowden R, Hidden Markov Chain Estimation and Parameterisation via ICA-based Feature Selection, Pattern Analysis & Applications, Volume 8, Issue 1 - 2, Springer, Sep 2005, Pages 115 - 124.
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Dowson N, Bowden R, Simultaneous Modeling and Tracking (SMAT) of feature sets. In IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR05, Vol 2, pp99-105. San Diego, USA June 2005.
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Bowden R, KaewTraKulPong P, Towards Automated Wide Area Visual Surveillance: Tracking Objects Between Spatially Separated, Uncalibrated Views. In IEE Proc. Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol 152, issue 02, April 05, pp213-224.
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Dowson N, Bowden R, Metric Mixtures for Mutual Information (M³I) Tracking, International Conference Pattern Recognition. ICPR04, Cambridge 2004. Vol 2, pp752-756.
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Kadir T, Bowden R,  Ong E, Zisserman A. Minimal Training, Large Lexicon, Unconstrained Sign Language Recognition. In Proc. BMVC04. Kingston UK. Sept 2004. Vol 2, pp939-948.
Winner of the 2004 Industrial Paper Prize.
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Micilotta A, Bowden R, View-based Location and Tracking of Body Parts for Visual Interaction.   In Proc. BMVC04, Kingston UK. Sept 2004. Vol 2, pp849-858.
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Bowden R, Progress in Sign Lanuage and Gesture Recognition. In Proc. Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: Third International Workshop, AMDO 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 22-24, 2004.
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Windridge D, Bowden R,  A General Strategy for Hidden Markov Chain Parameterisation in Composite Feature Space.   SSPR04 Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3138, August 2004, pp1069-1077.
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Bowden R, Windridge D, Kadir T, Zisserman A, Brady M. A Linguistic Feature Vector for the Visual Interpretation of Sign Language, In Tomas Pajdla, Jiri Matas (Eds), Proc. 8th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV04. LNCS3022, Springer-Verlag (2004), Volume 1, pp391- 401.
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Ong E, Bowden R, Detection and Segmentation of hand shapes using Boosted Classifiers, In Proc. 6th Int Conf on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FGR'04, IEEE Comp Soc TC PAMI, Korea 2004, pp889-894.
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Windridge D, Bowden R, Induced Decision Fusion In Automatic Sign Language Interpretation: Using ICA to Isolate the Underlying Components of Sign. In 5th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS04, Roli Kittler & Windeatt(Eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3077, Springer 2004, Page: 303-13.
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KaewTraKulPong P, Bowden R, Probabilistic Learning of Salient Patterns across Spatially Separated Uncalibrated Views, In Proc. IDSS-04, Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems, Institute of Electrical Engineers, London, Feb 2004, pp 36-40.
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KaewTraKulPong P, Bowden R, A Real-Time Adaptive Visual Survelance System for Tracking Low Resolution Colour Targets In Dynamically Changing Scenes,  Journal of Image and Vision Computing. Vol 21, Issue 10, pp913-929, Sept 2003, Elsevier Science Ltd.
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Bowden R, Zisserman A, Kadir T, Brady M. Vision based Interpretation of Natural Sign Languages. Exhibition at ICVS03, The 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, Graz. Austria, April 2003.
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Special Issue Journal of Image and Vision Computing, Probabilistic Models in Vision and Signal Processing, Bowden R (Ed). Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages 841-939 (Sept 2003)
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Bowden R, Sarhadi M, A non-linear Model of Shape and Motion for Tracking Finger Spelt American Sign Language, Image and Vision Computing, vol 20/9-10, pp597-607, Aug 2002, Elsevier Science Ltd
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Bowden R, KaewTraKulPong P, Lewin M, Jeremiah: The Face of Computer Vision, Smart Graphics'02, 2nd International Symposium on Smart Graphics, ACM Int. Conf. Proc. Series, pp 124-128, Hawthorn NY USA, June 2002
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Bowden R, Jeremiah: Increasing Public Engagement with Science, Popular Science Poster at SET for Science 2002, House of Commons Reception, UK. 18 March 2002.
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KaewTraKulPong P, Bowden R, Adaptive Visual System for Tracking Low Resolution Colour Targets, In Proc. BMVC'01, T Cootes, C Taylor Ed, Vol 1, pp243-252, Manchester UK, Sept 2001.
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KaewTraKulPong P, Bowden R, An Improved Adaptive Background Mixture Model for Real-time Tracking with Shadow Detection,VIDEO BASED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS: Computer Vision and Distributed Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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KaewTraKulPong P, Bowden R, An Improved Adaptive Background Mixture Model for Real-time Tracking with Shadow Detection, In Proc. 2nd European Workshop on Advanced Video Based Surveillance Systems, AVBS01. Kingston, UK, Sept 2001.

Learning non-linear Models of Shape and Motion, PhD Thesis, Dept Systems Engineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK, 2000.
Winner of the 2000 Sullivan Thesis Prize

Bowden R, Mitchell T A, Sarhadi M, Non-linear Statistical Models for the 3D Reconstruction of Human Pose and Motion from Monocular Image Sequences. Image and Vision Computing, 18(9), pp729-737, June 2000.
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Mitchell T A, Bowden R, Sarhadi M, Efficient Texture Analysis for Industrial Inspection, International Journal of Production Research, 2000, 38(4), pp967-984.
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Lewin M, Bowden R, Sarhadi M, Automotive Prototyping using Augmented Reality, In Proc. 7th VRSIG Conference, Strathclyde University, Sept 2000.
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Lewin M, Bowden R, Sarhadi M, Applying Augmented Reality to Virtual Product Prototyping, International Workshop on Virtual Reality, 11-12 July 2000, Brest, France, pp59-68.
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Bowden R, Sarhadi M, Building Temporal Models for Gesture Recognition, In Proc. BMVC'00, M Mirmehdi & Barry Thomas Ed, Vol 1, pp32-41, Bristol UK, Sept 2000.
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Bowden R, Learning Statistical Models of Human Motion, IEEE Workshop on Human Modelling, Analysis and Synthesis, CVPR2000, Hilton Head Island, 16 July 2000.
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Bowden R, Fitzgibbon A W, Symposium on Augmented Reality, British Machine Vision Association , British Institute of Radiology, 3 May 2000.
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Mitchell T A, Bowden R, Sarhadi M, Automated Visual Inspection of Dry Carbon-Fibre Reinforced Composite Preforms, Proc Instn Mech Engrs, Part G, Vol 213, ImechE 1999, pp377-386.
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Bowden R, Mitchell T A, Sarhadi M, Reconstructing 3D Pose and Motion from a Single Camera View, In Proc. BMVC, John N. Carter & Mark S. Nixon Eds, Uni of Southampton, Vol 2, pp , Southampton, Sept 1998.
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Bowden R, Non-linear Point Distribution Models, In CVonline: On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision. R. Fisher (ed). Section 11.3.1.2 , Oct 98.
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Bowden R, Mitchell T A, Sarhadi M, Cluster Based non-linear Principle Component Analysis, IEE Electronics Letters, 23rd Oct 1997, 33(22), pp1858-1859.
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VRSIG'97, Proceedings of the 4th UKVRSIG Conference, Richard Bowden Ed, Brunel University, UK, Nov 1997.
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Bowden R, Mitchell T A, Sarhadi M, Real-time Dynamic Deformable Meshes for Volumetric Segmentation and Visualisation, In Proc. BMVC, Adrian F. Clark Ed, Vol 1, pp 310-319, Essex, UK, Sept 1997.
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Bowden R, Heap A J, C. Hart C, Virtual Datagloves: Interacting with Virtual Environments Through Computer Vision, In Proc. 3rd UK VR-Sig Conference, DeMontfort University, Chris Hand Ed, Leicester, UK, July 1996.
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Bowden R, Heap A J and Hogg D C, Real Time Hand Tracking and Gesture Recognition as a 3D Input Device for Graphical Applications, In Progress in Gestural Interaction, Philip. A. Harling, Alistair. D. N. Edwards Eds, York, UK, March 1996, Springer Verlag.
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