Hadfield S, Lebeda K, Bowden R, Natural action recognition using invariant 3D motion encoding. Accepted, to appear ECCV 2014.
DOI: TBA
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Koller O, Ney H, Bowden R, Read My Lips: Continuous Signer Independent Weakly Supervised Viseme Recognition. Accepted, to appear ECCV 2014.
DOI: TBA
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Oshin O, Gilbert A, Bowden R, Capturing Relative Motion and Finding Modes for Action Recognition In The Wild. Int. Journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU. Vol 125, 2014, pp155-171.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.04.005
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Ong E J, Koller O, Pugeault N, Bowden R, Sign Spotting using Hierarchical Sequential Patterns with Temporal Intervals. In Proc IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2014), 2014.
DOI: TBA
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Krejov P, Gilbert A, Bowden R, Multi-Touchless Interfaces: Interacting beyond the screen. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, CG&A, Vol 34(3), 2014, pp40-48..
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2014.44
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Hadfield S, Bowden R, Scene Particles: Unregularized Particle Based Scene Flow Estimation. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI, 36(3), pp 564-576. 
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2013.162
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Koller O, Ney H, Bowden R, Weakly Supervised Automatic Transcription of Mouthings for Gloss-Based Sign Language Corpora. LREC Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel. In LREC Proceedings 2014. pp94-98.
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Hadfield S, Bowden R, Hollywood 3D: Recognizing Actions in 3D Natural Scenes. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR2013, pp3398-3405. 
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2013.436
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Holt B, Bowden R, Efficient Estimation of Human Upper Body Pose in Static Depth Images, Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Apllication Communications in Computer and Information Science. Vol 359, pp299-410.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38241-3_27
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Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, Xavier Baró, Miguel Reyes, Isabelle Guyon, Vassilis Athitsos, Hugo J. Escalante, Leonid Sigal, Antonis Argyros, Cristian Sminchisescu, Bowden R, Stan Sclaroff. ChaLearn Multi-Modal Gesture Recognition 2013: Grand Challenge and Workshop Summary. In Proc. ICMI’13, Sydney Australia, Dec 9-13, 2013.
DOI: 10.1145/2522848.2532597
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Lebeda K, Hadfield S, Matas J, Bowden R. Long-Term Tracking Through Failure Cases. VOT2013 Challenge workshop, ICCV2013
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Kristan M, Pflugfelder R, Leonardis A, Matas J, Porikli F, Cehovin L, Nebehay G, Fernandez G, Vojir T, Gatt A, Khajenezhad A, Salahledin A, Soltani-Farani A, Zarezade A, Petrosino A, Milton A, Bozorgtabar B, Li B, Chan CS, Heng C, Ward D, Kearney D, Monekosso D, Karaimer HC, Rabiee HR, Zhu J, Gao J, Xiao J, Zhang J, Xing J, Huang K, Lebeda K, Cao L, Maresca ME, Lim MK, ELHelw M, Felsberg M, Remagnino P, Bowden R, Goecke R, Stolkin R, YueYing Lim S, Maher S, Poullot S, Wong S, Satoh S, Chen W, Hu W, Zhang X, Li Y, Niu Z. The Visual Object Tracking VOT2013 challenge results. VOT2013 Challenge workshop, ICCV2013.
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Bowden R, Seeing and Understanding People, Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV, VIPIMAGE2013, Part 1, Chapter 2, CRC Press, pp9-15.
DOI: 10.1201/b15810-4
Invited Speaker.
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Bowden R, Cox S, Harvey R, Lan Y, Ong J, Owen G, Theobald B, Recent Developments in Automated Lip-Reading. In Proc. SPIE 8901, Optics and Photonics for Counterterrorism, Crime Fighting and Defence IX; and Optical Materials and Biomaterials in Security and Defence Systems Technology X, 89010J, Oct, 2013.
DOI: 10.1117/12.2029464
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Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E J, Bowden R, Non-linear Predictors for Facial feature Tracking across Pose and Expression. 10th IEEE Int. Conf on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG2013, Shanghai, China. 22-26 April 2013, pp1-8.
DOI: 10.1109/FG.2013.6553763
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Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E, Pugeault N, Bowden R, Improving Recognition and Identification of Facial Areas Involved in Non-verbal Communication by Feature Selection, 10th IEEE Int. Conf on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG2013, Shanghai, China. 22-26 April 2013.
DOI: 10.1109/FG.2013.6553764
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Holt B, Ong E J, Bowden R, Accurate Static Pose Estimation Combining Direct Regression and Geodesic Extrema, 10th IEEE Int. Conf on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG2013, Shanghai, China. 22-26 April 2013, pp1-7.
DOI: 10.1109/FG.2013.6553768
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Koller O, Ney H, Bowden R, May the Force be with you: Force-Aligned SignWriting for Automatic Subunit Annotation of Corpora, 10th IEEE Int. Conf on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG2013, Shanghai, China. 22-26 April 2013, pp1-6.
DOI:10.1109/FG.2013.6553777
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Krejov P, Bowden R, Multitouchless: Real-Time Fingertip Detection and Tracking Using Geodesic Maxima, 10th IEEE Int. Conf on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG2013, Shanghai, China. 22-26 April 2013, pp.
DOI: 10.1109/FG.2013.6553778
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Ellis L, Pugeault N, Öfjäll K, Hedborg J, Bowden R, Felsberg M, Autonomous navigation and sign detector learning, 2013 IEEE Workshop on Robot Vision (WORV), Jan. 2013, pp 144-151.
DOI: 10.1109/WORV.2013.6521929
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Gilbert A, Bowden R, A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tags: Automatic Web Based Image Tag Expansion, In Proc 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2012), LNCS 7725, Springer, pp447-460.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37444-9_35
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Lebeda K, Matas J, Bowden R, Tracking the Untrackable: How to Track When Your Object Is Featureless, In Proc. ACCV Workshop on Detection and Tracking in Challenging Environements, DTCE, ACCV2012, Part II, LNCS7729, Daejeon, Korea, Nov 2012, pp347-359.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37484-5_29
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Shaukat A, Gilbert A, Windridge D, Bowden R, Meeting in the Middle: A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Detect Pedestrians, In Proc International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR12), 2012, pp874-877. 
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Ong E J, Cooper H, Pugeault N, Bowden R, Sign Language Recognition using Sequential Pattern Trees, In IEEE Int. Conf Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR), 2012, pp 2200-2207. 
DOI:10.1109/CVPR.2012.6247928
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Hadfield S, Bowden R, Go with the Flow: 3D Hand Trajectories via Scene Flow, In Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR2012, Springer, LNCS Vol 7324/2012, pp285-295.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31295-3_34
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Holt B, Bowden R, Static Pose Estimation from Depth Images using Random Regression Forests and Hough Voting, In Int. Joint Conf on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISAPP2012, pp557-564. 
Winner of the Best Student Paper Prize.
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Gupta A, Bowden R, Unity in Diversity: Discovering Topics from Words - Information Theoretic Co-clustering for Visual Categorization, In Int. Joint Conf on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISAPP2012, pp628-633. 
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Cooper H, Pugeault N, Ong E J, Bowden R, Sign Language Recognition using Sub-Units, Int. Journal Machine Learning Research. Vol 13, Jul 2012, pp2205-2231.
DOI: jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/v13/cooper12a.html
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Merino L, Gilbert A, Capitán J, Bowden R, Illingworth J and Ollero A, Data Fusion in Ubiquitous Networked Robot Systems for Urban Services, In Annals of Telecommunications, Springer, June 2012.
DOI: 10.1007/s12243-012-0311-1
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Efthimiou E, Fotinea S, Hanke T, Glauert J,  Bowden R, Braffort A, Collet C, Maragos P, Lefebvre-Albaret F,  The Dicta-Sign Wiki: Enabling Web Communication for the Deaf, In Computers Helping People with Special Needs, LNCS 7383, Springer, 2012, pp205-212.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_32
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Hadfield S, Bowden R, Generalised Pose Estimation Using Depth. In. Trends and Topics in Computer Vision. ECCV2010 Workshops, Revised Seleected Papers, Part I, LNCS 6553, pp 312-325.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35749-7_24
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Gupta A, Bowden R, Fuzzy Encoding for Image Classication using Gustafson-Kessel Algorithm, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP2012, Orlando, 2012, pp3137-3140.
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467565
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Ong E J, Bowden R, Robust Facial Feature Tracking using Shape-Constrained Multi-Resolution Selected Linear Predictors. IEEE Trans Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning, Vol 33(9), pp1844-1859, Sept 2011. 
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.205
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Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R, Action Recognition using Mined Hierarchical Compound Features, IEEE Trans Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning, Vol 33(5), pp883-897, May 2011. 
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.144
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Okwechime D, Ong E J, Bowden R, MIMiC: Multimodal Interactive Motion Controller, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. (TMM 2011), Vol 13(2), pp255-265.
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2010.2096410 
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Ellis L, Downson N, Matas J, Bowden R, Linear Regression and Adaptive Appearance Models for Fast Simultaneous Modeling and Tracking, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol 95(2), pp154-179, Springer, 2011. 
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-010-0364-4
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Moore S, Bowden R, Local Binary Patterns for Multi-view Facial Expression Recognition. In Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 115(4), pp541-558. April 2011.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.12.001
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Gilbert A, Bowden R, iGroup: Weakly supervised image and video grouping, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conference Computer Vision, ICCV2011, Barcelona, Nov 2011, pp2166-2173. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2011.6126493
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Hadfield S, Bowden R, Kinecting the Dots: Particle Based Scene Flow From Depth Sensors, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conference Computer Vision, ICCV2011, Barcelona, Nov 2011, pp2290-2295.
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2011.6126509 
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Gilbert A, Bowden R, Push and Pull: Iterative Grouping of Media, In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'11, pp66.1-66.12, Dundee, Sept 2011.
DOI: 10.5244/C.25.66
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Ong E J, Bowden R, Learning Sequential Patterns for Lipreading, In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'11, pp 55.1--55.10, Dundee, Sept 2011.
DOI: 10.5244/C.25.55
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Gupta A,  Bowden R, Evaluating Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Visual Category Recognition using Renyi Entropy, In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2011).
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Cooper H, Holt B, Bowden R, Sign Language Recognition, In Looking at People: Automatic visual analysis of humans, Part 4. Thomas B. Moeslund, Adrian Hilton, Volker Krüger, Leonid Sigal (Eds).  Springer 2011. pp539-562.
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-997-0_27
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Okwechime D, Ong E J, Gilbert A, Bowden R, Visualisation and Prediction of Conversation Interest through Mined Social Signals, In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops (FG 2011), pp951-956. 
DOI: 10.1109/FG.2011.5771380
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Oshin O, Gilbert A, Bowden R, There is more than one way to get out of a car: Automatic Mode Finding for Action Recognition in the Wild, In Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. 5th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2011, LNCS Vol 6669, Springer 2011, pp41-48.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21257-4_6
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Oshin O, Gilbert A, Bowden R, Capturing the Relative Distribution of Features for Action Recognition, In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops (FG 2011), pp111-116.
DOI: 10.1109/FG.2011.5771382
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Cooper H, Pugeault N, Bowden R, Reading the Signs: A Video Based Sign Dictionary, In Proc IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Nov 2011, pp914-919. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130349
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Ong E J, Bowden R, Learning Temporal Signatures for Lip Reading, In Proc IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Nov 2011, pp958-965.
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130355
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Holt B, Ong E J, Cooper H, Bowden R, Putting the pieces together: Connected Poselets for Human Pose Estimation, In Proc IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Nov 2011, pp1196-1201..
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130386
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Pugeault N, Bowden R, Spelling It Out: Real-Time ASL Fingerspelling Recognition, In Proc IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Nov 2011, pp1114-1119.
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130290
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Pugeault N, Bowden R, Driving me Around the Bend: Learning to Drive from Visual Gist. In Proc IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Robotic Perception, Nov 2011, pp1022-1029.
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130363
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Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E J, Bowden R, Cultural Factors in the Regression of Non-Verbal Communication Perception, In Proc IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Workshop on Human Interaction in Computer Vision, Nov 2011, pp1242-1249.
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130393
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Elliott R, Cooper H M, Ong E J, Glauert J, Bowden R, Lefebvre-Albaret F, Search-By-Example in Multilingual Sign Language Databases, In Proc. Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies Workshops, 2011.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_32
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Okwechime D, Ong E J, Gilbert A, Bowden R, Social Interactive Human Video Synthesis, In Proc.Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010) Volume I, Nov 10,, LNCS 6492, Springer 2011, pp256-270.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19315-6_20
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Ellis L, Felsberg M, Bowden R, Affordance Mining: Forming Perception Through Action, In Proc. Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010) Volume IV, Nov 10, LNCS 6495, Springer 2011, pp525-538.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19282-1_42
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Hadfield S, Bowden R,  Generalised Pose Estimation Using Depth, In Proc. Int. Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity. European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV2010, LNCS 6553, Springer 2012, pp312-325.
DOI:.10.1007/978-3-642-35749-7_24
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Pugeault N, Bowden R, Learning Pre-attentive Driving Behaviour from Holistic Visual Features. In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2010, Part VI, LNCS 6316, pp. 154–167.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15567-3_12
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Sanfeliu A, Andrade-Cetto J, Barbosa M, Bowden R,  Capitan J, Corominas A, Gilbert A, Illingworth J,  Merino L, Mirats J, Moreno P, Ollero A, Sequeira J, Spaan M, Decentralized Sensor Fusion for Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Areas, In Sensors 2010, 10, pp2274-2314. 
DOI:10.3390/s100302274
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Oshin O, Gilbert A, Illingworth J, Bowden R, Learning to Recognise Spatio-Temporal Interest Points, In Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis: Theory and Practice , Liang Wang and Li Cheng and Guoying Zhao (Eds), IGI Publishing, Ch 2, pp14-30, 2010.
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-900-7.ch002
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Cooper H,  Bowden R, Sign Language Recognition using Linguistically Derived Sub-Units, In Proc. 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, LREC2010, Malta, May 2010, pp57-61.
DOI: 10.1.1.168.6462
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Efthimiou E, Fotinea S E, Hanke T, Glauert J, Bowden R, Braffort A, Collet C, Maragos P, Goudenove F. DICTA-SIGN: Sign Language Recognition, Generation and Modelling with application in Deaf Communication. In Proc. 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, LREC2010, Malta, May 2010, LNCS 5614, pp80-84.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_3
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Moore S, Ong E J, Bowden R, Facial Expression Recognition using Spatiotemporal Boosted Discriminatory Classifiers, In International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition ICIAR 2010,  LNCS 6111, Portugal, June 2010, Springer, pp405-414.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13772-3_41
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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
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2009.5459335
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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
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2009.5459283
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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.
DOI:10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206647
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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. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457462
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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.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_3
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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
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457534
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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
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457525
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**Sheerman-Chase T, Ong E J, Bowden R, Online Learning of Robust Facial Feature Trackers, In Proc. 12th Int. Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV, Workshop: Third IEEE Workshop on On-line Learning for Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, 2009, pp1386-1392.
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457450
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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
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457657
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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.
DOI: inria-00326716
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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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M. Felsberg, G. Granlund, R. Bowden, J. Kittler, T. Werner, V. Hlavac, J.-E. Källhammer, E. Hollnagel, DIPLECS: Extending the COSPAL Architecture to Dynamic and Interactive Environments, International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008)
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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
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75773-3_10
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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
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75703-0_12
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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
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75690-3_6
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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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