Dr Dimitrios Makris

Dr Dimitrios Makris

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Room: SB314
Web: Personal Documents
Tel: (+44) 020 8417 7082 Ext. 67082 | Fax: (+44) 020 8547 7972
Academic Qualifications: BEng, PhD
Research Centre: Digital Imaging Research Centre
Research Group(s): Human Body Motion Group (HBM) , Visual Surveillance Research Group (VSRG) , Bioinformatics and Genomic Signal Processing (BioGSP)

Journal Papers

  1. M Lewandowski, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, "Automatic Configuration of Spectral Dimensionality Reduction Methods" in 'Pattern Recognition Letters', Elsevier, in press, (2010) abstract
  2. J Martínez del Rincón, D. Makris, C Orrite, J.-C. Nebel, "Tracking Human Position and Lower Body Parts Using Kalman and Particle Filters Constrained by Human Biomechanics" in 'IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics - Part B', 40(4) (2010) abstract
  3. F. Yin, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, J. Orwell, "Quantitative Evaluation of Different Aspects of Motion Trackers under Various Challenges" in 'The Annals of the BMVA', (5) British Machine Vision Association, pp. 1-11. (2010) abstract download
  4. F. Yin, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, "Time efficient ghost removal for motion detection in visual surveillance systems" in 'IET Electronics Letters', 44(23) Institution of Engineering and Technology, Nov, pp. 1351-1353. ISSN 0013-5194 (2008) abstract
  5. D. Makris, T. Ellis, J. Black, "Intelligent Visual Surveillance: Towards Cognitive Vision Systems" in 'The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal', 2, Bentham Science Publishers, pp. 219-229. ISSN 1874-110X (2008) abstract download
  6. N. Lazarevic, J.R. Renno, D. Makris, G.A. Jones, "An Object-based Comparative Methodology for Motion Detection based on the F-Measure" in 'Computer Vision and Image Understanding', Special Issue on Intelligent Visual Surveillance 111(1) Elsevier, July, pp. 74-85. DOI 10.1016/j.cviu.2007.07.007 (2008) abstract download
  7. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Learning Semantic Scene Models from Observing Activity in Visual Surveillance" in 'IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics - Part B', 35(3) IEEE, June, pp. 397-408. ISSN 1083-4419 (2005) abstract download
  8. J. Black, D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Hierarchical Database for a Multi-Camera Surveillance System" in 'Pattern Analysis and Applications', 7(4) Springer Verlag, December, pp. 430-446. ISSN 1433-7541 (2004) abstract download
  9. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Path Detection in Video Surveillance" in 'Image and Vision Computing', 20(12) Elsevier, October, pp. 895-903. ISSN 0262-8856 (2002) abstract download

Chapters in Books

  1. J.-C. Nebel, P. Kuo, D. Makris, Chapter "2D and 3D Pose Recovery from a Single Uncalibrated Video: A view and activity independent framework" in 'Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communication', (in press) Edited by Li, Z.; Kacprzyk, J.; Tao, D.; Izquierdo, E.; Lin, W.; Wang, H., Springer, (2010)
  2. J. Black, T. Ellis, D. Makris, Chapter "A Distributed Database for Effective Management and Evaluation of CCTV Systems" in 'Intelligent Distributed Video Surveillance Systems', Edited by S.A Velastin & P Remagnino, Institution of Electrical Engineers, pp. 55-89. ISBN 978-086341-504-3 (2006) abstract
  3. D. Makris, T. Ellis, J. Black, Chapter "Mapping an Ambient Environment" in 'Ambient Intelligence - A Novel Paradigm', Edited by Remagnino, Paolo; Foresti, Gian Luca; Ellis, Tim (Eds.), springer, ISBN 978-0-387-22990-4 (2005) abstract
  4. T. Ellis, J. Black, M. Xu, D. Makris, Chapter "A Distributed Multicamera Surveillance System" in 'Ambient Intelligence - A Novel Paradigm', Edited by Remagnino, Paolo; Foresti, Gian Luca; Ellis, Tim (Eds.), springer, ISBN 978-0-387-22990-4 (2005) abstract
  5. D. Makris, T. Ellis, J. Black, Chapter "Mapping an Ambient Environment" in 'Ambient Intelligence - A Novel Paradigm', Edited by P. Remagnino, G. Foresti, T.J. Ellis, Springer, pp. 139-164. ISBN 0-387-22990-6 (2005)
  6. T. Ellis, J. Black, M. Xu, D. Makris, Chapter "A Distributed Multicamera Surveillance System" in 'Ambient Intelligence - A Novel Paradigm', Edited by P. Remagnino, G. Foresti, T.J. Ellis, Springer, pp. 107-138. ISBN 0-387-22990-6 (2005)

Conferences

  1. M Lewandowski, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, "View and Style-Independent Action Manifolds for Human Activity Recognition", European Conference on Computer Vision, September 5-11, Crete, Greece, (2010) abstract
  2. M Lewandowski, J Martínez del Rincón, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, "Temporal Extension of Laplacian Eigenmaps for Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction of Time Series", International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 23-26, Istanbul, Turkey, (2010) abstract
  3. S. A. Dadgar, J.-C. Nebel, D. Makris, "3D Pose Estimation from Silhouettes in Cyclic Activities Encoded by a Dense Gaussians Mixture Model", International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2010), 17-21 May, Angers, France, (2010) abstract download
  4. M Lewandowski, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, "Automatic configuration of spectral dimensionality reduction methods for 3D human pose estimation", Visual Surveillance (VS2009), October 3, Kyoto, Japan, (2009) abstract download
  5. N. Buch, F. Yin, J. Orwell, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, "Urban Vehicle Tracking using a Combined 3D Model Detector and Classifier", 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems KES2009, Part I, LNAI 5711 Springer, September, Santiago, Chile, pp. 169–176. (2009) abstract download
  6. I. T. Darker, P. Kuo, M. Y. Yang, A. Blechko, C. Grecos, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, A. G. Gale, "Automation of the CCTV-mediated detection of individuals illegally carrying firearms: combining psychological and technological approaches", SPIE Defense Security and Sensing Conference, April, Orlando, USA, (2009) abstract download
  7. P. Kuo, A. Thibault, M Lewandowski, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, "Exploiting Human Bipedal Motion Constraints for 3D Pose Recovery from a Single Uncalibrated Camera", International conference on Computer Vision theory and Applications (VISAPP2009), February, Lisboa, Portugal, (2009) abstract download
  8. P. Kuo, D. Makris, N. Megherbi, J.-C. Nebel, "Integration of Local Image Cues for Probabilistic 2D Pose Recovery", 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC2008), Springer-Verlag, December, Las Vegas, USA, (2008) abstract download
  9. F. Yin, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, "Real-time ghost removal for foreground segmentation methods", IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance VS2008, October 17, Marseille, France, (2008) abstract download
  10. B Vrusias, D. Makris, A. Popoola, G.A. Jones, "A System for Tracking and Annotating Illegally Parked Vehicles", IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, IEEE, October 17th, Marseille, (2008) abstract download
  11. S Boragno, BA Boghossian, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, "Object Classification for Real-Time Video-Surveillance Applications", Visual Information Engineering 2008, IET, July, Xi'an, China, pp. 192-197. ISBN 0537-9989/978-0-86341-914-0 (2008) abstract download
  12. J Martínez del Rincón, J.-C. Nebel, D. Makris, C. Orrite-Urunuela, "Tracking Human Body Parts Using Particle Filters Constrained by Human Biomechanics", British Machine Vision Conference 2008, Leeds, (2008) abstract download
  13. F. Yin, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, "Performance Evaluation of Object Tracking Algorithms", 10th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS2007), October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2007) abstract download
  14. S Boragno, BA Boghossian, J. Black, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, "A DSP-based system for detecting vehicles stopping in prohibited area", Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS2007), September, London, UK, (2007) abstract download
  15. P. Kuo, J.-C. Nebel, D. Makris, "Camera Auto-Calibration from Articulated Motion", Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS2007), London UK, (2007) abstract download
  16. J.R. Renno, D. Makris, G.A. Jones, "Object Classification In Visual Surveillance Using Adaboost", Seventh International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, IEEE, Friday June 22nd, Minneapolis, (2007) abstract download
  17. B Vrusias, D. Makris, J.R. Renno, N. Newbold, K. Ahmad, G.A. Jones, "A Framework for Ontology Enriched Semantic Annotation of CCTV Video", International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, IEEE, June 6-8, Santorini, Greece, DOI 10.1109/WIAMIS.2007.4 (2007) abstract download
  18. T.I. Botley, D. Makris, "Evaluation of Facial Expression Recognition", 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), November, London, UK, (2006) abstract
  19. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "The Potential of using Computer Vision Systems in Intelligent Interactive Buildings", 2nd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 06), July, Athens, Greece, (2006) abstract download
  20. N. Lazarevic, J.R. Renno, D. Makris, G.A. Jones, "Designing Evaluation Methodologies: the case of motion detection", Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, (Invited Talk), June 18, New York, (2006) abstract download
  21. J.R. Renno, N. Lazarevic, D. Makris, G.A. Jones, "Evaluating Motion Detection Algorithms: Issues and Results", Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, May 13, Graz, Austria, pp. 97-104. ISBN 0-0-9553003-0-4 (2006) abstract download
  22. J. Black, D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Validation of Blind Region Learning and Tracking", Joint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation, October, pp. 9-16. (2005) abstract download
  23. J.R. Renno, D. Makris, T. Ellis, G.A. Jones, "Application and Evaluation of Colour Constancy in Visual Surveillance", Joint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation (VS-PETS 2005), China, Beijing, (2005) abstract download
  24. J. Black, T. Ellis, D. Makris, "A Hierarchical Database for Visual Surveillance Applications", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2004), June, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1571 - 1574. (2004) abstract download
  25. D. Makris, T. Ellis, J. Black, "Bridging the Gaps between Cameras", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2004, June, Washington DC, USA, pp. 205-210. (2004) abstract download
  26. D. Makris, T. Ellis, J. Black, "Learning Scene Semantics", ECOVISION 2004 Early Cognitive Vision Workshop, May, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, (2004) abstract download
  27. J. Black, T. Ellis, D. Makris, "Wide Area Surveillance With a Multi Camera Network", IEE Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems, February, Savoy Place, London, pp. 21-25. (2004) abstract download
  28. T. Ellis, D. Makris, J. Black, "Learning a Multi-camera Topology", Joint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, October, Nice, France, pp. 165-171. (2003) abstract download
  29. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Automatic Learning of an Activity-Based Semantic Scene Model", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, July, Miami, FL, USA, pp. 183-188. (2003) abstract download
  30. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Spatial and Probabilistic Modelling of Pedestrian Behaviour", British Machine Conference 2002, September, Cardiff, UK, pp. 557-566. (2002) abstract download
  31. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Finding Paths in Video Sequences", British Machine Vision Conference 2001, September, Manchester, UK, pp. 263-272. (2001) abstract download
  32. N. Sarris, D. Makris, M. G. Strintzis, "Three Dimensional Model Based Rigid Tracking of a Human Head", International Workshop on Intelligent Communication Technologies and Applications with Emphasis on Mobile Communications, May, Neuchatel, Switzerland, (1999) abstract download

Presentations

  1. D. Makris, "Human Motion Analysis using Dimensionality Reduction Methods", Seminar at ITI, December, Informatics & Telematic Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece, (2010)
  2. D. Makris, "Tracking Articulated Motion in 2D and 3D", Invited Talk, Cardiff University, Wales, UK, (2009)
  3. M Lewandowski, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, "A Spatio-Temporal Extension of Laplacian Eigenmaps for Nonlinear Dimension Reduction", One Day BMVA technical meeting: Articulated Human Motion, October, British Computer Society, 5 Southampton Street, London, UK, (2009)
  4. P. Kuo, D. Makris, J.-C. Nebel, "Activity Independent 2D Pose Recovery from a Single Uncalibrated Video", One Day BMVA technical meeting: Articulated Human Motion, October, British Computer Society, 5 Southampton Street, London, UK, (2009)
  5. D. Makris, "Surveillance and Image analysis", Barco Technology Days 2007, June, BARCO, Kortrijk, Belgium, (2007)
  6. C. Marchessoux, X Desurmont, F. Bremond, D. Makris, S. Boughorbel, R. Koeleman, W. Favoreel, C. Machy, E. Jaspers, "Performance evaluation of multimedia analysis for surveillance applications", BMVA symposium on Security and surveillance: performance evaluation, 12th December, British Computer Society, London, (2007) abstract download
  7. F. Yin, D. Makris, S.A. Velastin, J. Orwell, "Quantitative evaluation of different aspects of motion trackers under various challenges", One Day BMVA symposium on Security and surveillance: performance evaluation, 12th December, British Computer Society, London, (2007) abstract
  8. D. Makris, "Automated Visual Surveillance: Enabling Intelligence to CCTV cameras", Invited Talk for IET Networks for Engineers, IET London, Kingston Section, January, "The Swan", 22 High St. Hampton Wick, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 4DB, (2007) abstract
  9. D. Makris, B Vrusias, "Linking Video Analysis to Annotation Technologies", BMVA technical meeting on Computer Vision Methods for Ambient Intelligence, May, London, UK, (2006) abstract
  10. D. Makris, "Automatic Visual Surveillance", Research Lecture, October, Shandong University, Jinan, China, (2005)
  11. D. Makris, "Automatic Learning in Visual Surveillance by Observing Activity", CfAR Weekly Seminar, June, University of Maryland, MD, USA, (2004) abstract
  12. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Learning in Visual Surveillance by Observing Activity", BMVA meeting on Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning in Machine Vision, December, London, UK, (2003)
  13. D. Makris, T. Ellis, "Visual Learning in Surveillance Systems. Learning paths of the 3D scene", BMVA Technical Meeting on Behaviour Analysis and Visual Learning, January, London, UK, (2001) abstract
  14. D. Makris, "Motion Tracking by a Network of Multiple Cameras by D. Makris", EPSRC Summer School, June, University of Surrey, UK, (2000)

Seminars

  1. D. Makris, "Evaluation of Appearance-based Pedestrian Detection", SB329, 28 Jul 2010
  2. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on 3D video:
    Topology Dictionary with Markov Model for 3D Video Content-Based Skimming and Description"    , SB122, 24 Feb 2010 (Chair: Norbert Buch), abstract download
  3. D. Makris, "Conference report of ICCV", SB122, 28 Oct 2009 (Chair: Norbert Buch), abstract download
  4. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on Gaussian Processes: Sparse Probabilistic Regression for Activity-independent Human Pose Inference by R. Urtasun and T. Darrell in CVPR 2008", SB122, 02 Sep 2009 (Chair: Norbert Buch), abstract
  5. D. Makris, "Paper discussion Gaussian Processes: Sparse probabilistic regression for activity-independent human pose inference", SB122, 02 Sep 2009 (Chair: Norbert Buch), abstract
  6. S.A. Velastin, D. Makris, P Sourtzinos, "ECCV conference report", SB122, 22 Oct 2008 (Chair: Norbert Buch),
  7. D. Makris, N. Buch, "BMVC Conference report", SB122, 23 Sep 2008 (Chair: Valerie Leung),
  8. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on Tracking across non-overlapping cameras: Appearance modeling for tracking in multiple non-overlapping cameras by O. Javed, K. Shafique and M. Shah, CVPR 2005", SB122, 28 May 2008 (Chair: Valerie Leung), abstract
  9. J Martínez del Rincón, D. Makris, "Paper discussion on Body Tracking: Real-time Body Tracking Using a Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model in ICCV 2007", SB122, 19 Dec 2007 (Chair: Valerie Leung), abstract
  10. D. Makris, "ICCV Conference report", SB122, 13 Nov 2007 (Chair: Valerie Leung),
  11. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on Multi-camera tracking: Activity Topology Estimation for Large Networks of Cameras", SB122, 20 Jun 2007 (Chair: Valerie Leung), abstract
  12. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on Co-Training: Unsupervised Improvement of Visual Detectors using Co-Training, by Levin, A. Viola, P. and Freund, Y", SB122, 14 Feb 2007 (Chair: Valerie Leung), abstract
  13. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on Human Pose Recognition: Fast Pose Estimation with Parameter Sensitive Hashing, G. Shakhnarovich, P. Viola, T. Darrell", SB122, 06 Sep 2006 (Chair: Valerie Leung), abstract
  14. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on Face Recognition: A weighted probabilistic approach to face recognition from multiple images and video sequences, Yongbin Zhang and Aleix Martinez", SB122, 23 Aug 2006 (Chair: Valerie Leung), abstract
  15. D. Makris, "Paper discussion on AdaBoost: Robust Real-time Object Detection, Paul Viola and Michael Jones", SB122, 31 May 2006 (Chair: Valerie Leung), abstract
  16. D. Makris, A. Szarowicz, N. Nikolaou, J. Francik, A.I. Shihab, "Summary of Research Interests", SB329, 07 Dec 2005 abstract
  17. D. Makris, "Tutorial on Hidden Markov Model", SB121, 30 Mar 2004 abstract
  18. D. Makris, "Bridging the gaps between Cameras", SB121, 10 Feb 2004 abstract

Theses

  1. D. Makris, "Learning an Activity-Based Semantic Scene Model", City University, London, UK, PhD April (Not finally copy), (2004) abstract download