Personal Details

Name:	Mark Barnard
Nationality:	Dual Australian/United Kingdom
Languages:	English (native speaker), Japanese (intermediate), French (basic)
Email:	mark.barnard surrey.ac.uk

Education

2005:

Docteur ès Science (PhD) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Thesis entitled: Multimedia event modeling and recognition.

2000	Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical sciences (Honours) The University of Western Australia Triple major in Computer Science, Information Technology Applications and Linguistics. Honours thesis entitled: Visual speech recognition using template matching snakes

1998	Diploma of Modern Languages (Japanese) The University of Western Australia Completed concurrently with bachelors degree.

1988	Associate Diploma in Marine Radiocommunications The Australian Maritime College

Professional Experience

2009 - present

The University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Department of Electronic Engineering Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) Research Fellow

2006 - 2009

The University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Machine Vision Group Research Scientist

2001 - 2005

IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland Research Assistant

2001	Syrinx Speech Systems, Sydney, Australia Summer internship

2000	The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Laboratory demonstrator

1990 - 1998

P & O Polar Australia Pty Ltd, Hobart, Australia Deck communications officer on Antarctic research and supply icebreaker 'Aurora Australis'.

1989 - 1990

P & O Maritime Services Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Radio Officer on various oil exploration vessels in Bass strait and The Timor sea.

1988 - 1989

Northern Territory Police Service, Darwin, Australia Electronics technician.

Computer Experience

Operating Systems:

Linux/UNIX, Windows

Languages:

C++, C, Matlab, Perl, Java

List of Publications

Journal Publications

M. Barnard and W. Wang Audio Head Pose Estimation using the Direct to Reverberant Speech Ratio Speech Communication (to appear)

V. Kilic, M. Barnard, W. Wang, A. Hilton and J. Kittler Mean-Shift and Sparse Sampling Based SMC-PHD Filtering for Audio Informed Visual Speaker Tracking IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 18, no. 10, October 2016.

V. Kilic, M. Barnard, W. Wang, and J. Kittler Audio assisted robust visual tracking with adaptive particle filtering IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 186-200, 2015.

M. Barnard, P.K. Koniusz, W. Wang, J. Kittler, S.M. Naqvi and J.A. Chambers Robust Multi-Speaker Tracking via Dictionary Learning and Identity Modelling IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 864-880, 2014.

Q. Liu, W. Wang, P. Jackson, M. Barnard, J. Kittler, and J.A. Chambers Source Separation of Convolutive and Noisy Mixtures using Audio-Visual Dictionary Learning and Probabilistic Time-Frequency Masking IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 22, pp. 5520-5535, 2013.

M. A. Tahir, F. Yan, P. Koniusz, M. Awais, M. Barnard, K. Mikolajczyk, and J. Kittler A Robust and Scalable Visual Category and Action Recognition System using Kernel Discriminant Analysis with Spectral Regression IEEE Transactions of Multimedia vol. 15 no. 7 2013

S. M. Naqvi, W. Wang, M. S. Khan, M. Barnard, and J. A. Chambers Multimodal (Audio-Visual) Source Separation Exploiting Multi-Speaker Tracking, Robust Beamforming, and Time-Frequency Masking IET Signal Processing, 2012

Hannuksela J, Barnard M, Sangi P and Heikkilä J, Camera based motion recognition for mobile interaction. ISRN Signal Processing, 2011

Zhao G, Barnard M and Peitikainen M, Lipreading With Local Spatiotemporal Descriptors,  IEEE Transactions of  Multimedia, Vol. 11, No. 7, November 2009

I. McCowan, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, G. Lathoud, M. Barnard and D. Zhang, Automatic Analysis of Multimodal Group Actions in Meetings, In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 27, No. 3, March 2005. 

Conference Publications

Chen M. Barnard M. and Wang W. Joint Array and Spatial Sparsity Based Optimisation for DoA Estimation Proc, 6th Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD 2016) Conference.

Barnard M. and Wang W. Adaptive Bayesian sparse representation for underwater acoustic signal denoising Proc. 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing (ISP 2015), London, UK, December 1-2, 2015.

V. Kilic, M. Barnard, W. Wang, A. Hilton, and J. Kittler Audio Informed Visual Speaker Tracking with SMC-PHD Filter Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2015), Torino, Italy, June 29 - July 3, 2015.

V. Kilic, X. Zhong, M. Barnard, W. Wang, and J. Kittler Audio-Visual Tracking of a Variable Number of Speakers with a Random Finite Set Approach Proc. 16th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2014), Salamanca, Spain, July 7-10, 2014.

V. Kilic, M. Barnard, W. Wang and J. Kittler Adaptive Particle Filtering Approach to Audio-Visual Tracking Proceedings of the 21st European Signal Processing Conference, Marrakesh, Morocco 2013.

M. Barnard, W. Wang, J. Kittler, S.M.R. Naqvi, and J.A. Chambers Audio-Visual Face Detection for Tracking in a Meeting Room Environment Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Istanbul, Turkey, 2013.

M. Barnard, W. Wang and J. Kittler Audio Head Pose Estimation using the Direct to Reverberant Speech Ratio Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, Canada, 2013.

V. Kilic, M. Barnard, W. Wang and J. Kittler Audio Constrained Particle Filter Based Visual Tracking Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), Vancouver, Canada, 2013.

Q. Liu, W. Wang, P. Jackson and M. Barnard Reverberant Speech Separation Based on Audio-visual Dictionary Learning and Binaural Cues Proc. IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) 2012, Ann Arbor, USA.

M. Barnard, W. Wang, J. Kittler, S.M.R. Naqvi, and J.A. Chambers A Dictionary Learning Approach to Tracking Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012), Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012.

Steven Grima, Mark Barnard and Wenwu Wang, Robust Multi-Camera Audio-Visual Tracking, The 11th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 2011

T.E. deCampos, M. Barnard, K. Mikolajczyk, J. Kittler, F. Yan, W. Christmas, D. Windridge, An Evaluation of Bags-of-Words and Spatio-Temporal Shapes for Action Recognition, Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) as part of IEEE Winter Vision Meetings, Kona, Hawaii, USA, 2011

R Hu, M Barnard and J Collomosse, Gradient Field Descriptor for Sketch based Retrieval and Localization In Proceedings of Intl. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP), 2010

M. A. Tahir, F. Yan, M. Barnard, M. Awais, K. Mikolajczyk and J. Kittler, The University of Surrey Visual Concept Detection System at ImageCLEF 2010: Working Notes, In International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010

Fei Yan, Krystian Mikolajczyk, Mark Barnard, Hongping Cai and Josef Kittler, Lp Norm Multiple Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Object and Image Categorisation, In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010

K. Mikolajczyk, M. Barnard, J. Matas and T. Tuytelaars, Feature Detectors and Descriptors: The state of the art and beyond, In Feature Workshop at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009

Matilainen M, Barnard M and Silven O, Unusual Activity Recognition in Noisy Environments, 11th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2009, France.

Barnard M and Heikkilä J, On Bin Configuration of Shape Context Descriptors in Human Silhouette Classification,  10th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2008, Juan-les-Pins, France. 

Barnard M, Matilainen M and Heikkilä J,  Body Part Segmentation of Noisy Human Silhouette Images, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2008), Hannover, Germany, 1189-1192.  

Hannuksela J, Barnard M, Sangi P & Heikkilä J, Adaptive Motion-based Gesture Recognition Interface for Mobile Phones, In: Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5008, 271-280.

Mark Barnard, Jari Hannuksela, Pekka Sangi, Janne Heikkilä ,  A Vision Based Motion Interface for Mobile Phones, Proc. 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2007), Bielefeld, Germany, 1-10.

Mark Barnard,    Multimedia Event Modelling and Recognition.   PhD Thesis, Thèse EPFL, no 3370 (2005). Dir.: Hervé Bourlard. 

Mark Barnard and Jean-Marc Odobez,  Sports Event Recognition using Layered HMMs, In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), 2005, Amsterdam.  

Mark Barnard and Jean-Marc Odobez,  Robust Playfield Segmentation using MAP Adaptation, In Proceedings International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2004, Cambridge. 

Mark Barnard, Jean-Marc Odobez, and Samy Bengio,  Multi-Modal Audio-Visual Event Recognition for Football Analysis, In Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP), 2003, Toulouse.

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Iain McCowan, Mark Barnard, Samy Bengio, and Hervé Bourlard , On Automatic Annotation of Meeting Databases,   In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2003, Barcelona.

Barnard, M., Holden, E. J. and Owens, R. , Lip tracking using pattern matching snakes,  In Proceedings The 5th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2002), 2002, Melbourne, Australia.

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