Industrial Informatics and Signal Processing Research Group

Recognition, Tracking, Surveillance & Security Systems Research

 

Recent Journal Publications

  1. "An Adaptive Sample Count Particle Filter",Waqas Hassan, Nagachetan Bangalore, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Accepted For Publication.
  2. " Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects that become Stationary in Demanding Indoor and Outdoor Environments"Waqas Hassan, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, , Journal of Image & Vision Computing, Under Review.
  3. “Real-Time Occlusion Tolerant Detection of Illegally Parked Vehicles”, Waqas Hassan, Philip Birch, Rupert Young and Chris Chatwin, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (2012) 10(5):1-10;ISSN:1598-6446; eISSN:2005-4092; DOI: http://www.springer.com/12555
  4. Designing an Efficient and Secure Credit Card-based Payment System based on ANSI X9.59-2006 with Web Services, Chi Po Cheong, Simon Fong , Pouwan Lei, Chris Chatwin, Rupert Young, Journal of Information Processing Systems, Korea Information Processing Society, Volume 8, 2012, ISSN: 1976-913X (Print), ISSN: 2092-805X (Online)
  5. "Acoustic Analysis of Diphthongs in Sindhi",Ayaz Keerio, Muhammad Zeeshan Patoli, Bhargav Kumar Mitra, Chris Chatwin, Rupert Young, Philip Birch Grassroots Biannual Research Journal, Pakistan Studies Centre University of Sindh Jamshoro, Vol. 41(1), June-2010.
  6. “Tracking Moving Objects Using Bandpass Filter Enhanced Localisation and Automated Initialisation of Active Contour Snakes”, Nagachetan Bangalore, Rupert Young, Philip Birch, Chris Chatwin ;ICGST-GVIP Journal, Volume 10, Issue IV, October 2010, Pages (1--8); 1687-398X Print, 1687-3998 Online, 1687-4005 CD-ROM, http://www.icgst.com/gvip/Volume10/Issue4/P1151031180.html
  7. A Scene Classification Technique to Eliminate Moving Shadows in Videos; Bhargav Mitra*, Philip Birch, Waqas Hassan, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, Asian Journal of Physics (2010).
  8. Tracking Objects Using Normalised Correlation of 2-D Colour Signatures; Waqas Hassan , Bhargav Mitra, Nagachetan Bangalore, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin; Asian Journal of Physics (2010)
  9. Efficient denoising of images using a nonaggressive median filtering scheme; Bhargav Mitra, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, and Chris Chatwin; Optical Engineering, Volume 49, 117004 Nov. 30, 2010
  10. “De-blurring, de-noising and restoring colour images through enhanced Retinex image processing”, David Nolent, Khurram Hameed, Atta Badii, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin,Philip Birch, Asian Journal of Physics, Vol 19, No 1, pg 65-78, Jan-March 2010.
  11. “Change-of-illumination tolerant scene surveillance using a multi-stage edge detector”, Bhargav Mitra, Nagachetan Bangalore, Waqas Hassan, Phil Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, Asian Journal of Physics, Vol 19, No 1, pg 87-97, Jan-March 2010.
  12. “Approximate models to determine the bandpass and frequency response of the difference of Gaussian filter”, Philip Birch, Bhargav Mitra, Nagachetan M Bangalore, Saad Rehman, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, Optical Communications, Vol. 283, No. 24, pp. 4942-4948, 2010, DOI 10.1016/j.optcom.2010.07.047
  13. On Preprocessing of Speech Signals – International Journal of Signal Processing; Ayaz Keerio*, Bhargav Kumar Mitra, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, and Chris Chatwin Accepted Summer, 2009
  14. “Fully Scale and In-Plane Invariant Synthetic Discriminant Function Bandpass Difference of Gaussian Composite Filter for Object Recognition and Detection in Still Images”, Saad Rehman, Rupert Young, Phil Birch, Chris Chatwin, Ioannis Kypraios, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Vol 5, No 2, pages 232-241, 2009.
  15. “A High Speed Sum of Absolute Difference FPGA based Implementation”, Saad Rehman, Rupert Young, Phil Birch, Chris Chatwin, International Journal of Engineering, 2009. ( Under Review )
  16. “An FPGA Based Generic Framework for High Speed Sum of Absolute Difference Implementation”, Saad Rehman, Rupert Young, Phil Birch, Chris Chatwin, European Journal of Scientific Research, 2009. ( accepted for publication)
  17. De-blurring, de-noising and restoring colour images through enhanced Retinex image processing; David Nolent, Khurram Hameed, Atta Badii, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwinand Philip Birch; Asian Journal of Physics, accepted
  18. ‘An agent-oriented mobile payment system secured using a biometrics approach’; LH, Claret-Tournier F, Chatwin C, Young R, Liu Z, International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Vol. 3 ,(2/3): 163-187, 2009.
  19. “Performance assessment of the Modified-Hybrid Optical Neural Network filter”; I. Kypraios, P. W. Lei, P. M. Birch, R. C. D. Young and C. R. Chatwin, – Applied Optics, Optical Society of America (OSA), pg 3378-3389, Vol 47, No 18, June 2008
  20. " Design of a Verilog cross-compiler for image recognition using a Sum of Absolute Differences Processor", Saad Rehman, Phil Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, Journal of Computer and information Sciences, Vol2, No 2, 2008, ISSN: 1995-5391
  21. An Efficient Moving-Shadow Detection Technique for Indoor Scene Activity Tracking; Bhargav K. Mitra, Muhammad Kamran Fiaz, Ioannis Kypraios, Philip M.Birch, Rupert C.D. Young and Chris R. Chatwin – Submitted to Optics and Lasers in Engineering
  22. “On a method to eliminate moving shadows in video sequences”,B. K. Mitra, P. M. Birch, I. Kypraios, R. C. D. Young, C. R. Chatwin, Proceedings SPIE Europe/Photonics Europe-Optical and Digital Image Processing, Vol. 7000, 700012-1 – 700012-9 (2008)
  23. “A Comparative Study between Correlation and Non-Correlation Based Technique for Object Detection and Recognition in Still Images,” Saad Rehman, Phil Birch, Rupert Young and Chris Chatwin, Journal of Computer and Information Sciences, Vol 2, No 1, 2008.

Recent Conference & Seminar Publications

  1. Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Participant Domain Name Token For Enhancing WS-Security Chi Po Cheong, Chris Chatwin, Rupert Young; 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE2011), June 10-12, 2012, in Shanghai, China
  2. “Global Security”, Chris Chatwin, R. Young, Phil Birch, Sponsored by: IET, March 6th , 2012, Hawth, Crawley.
  3. “Urban Surveillance Systems” ; Chatwin, Birch, Young, 2020 Imaging Limited, Ticehurst, East Sussex, 20th March 2012
  4. Performance Enhancement of WS-Security Using Participant Domain Name (PDNT), Chi Po Cheong, Chris Chatwin, Rupert Young; 1st June 2012, Ninth International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, JCSSE’12, 30/5/12 to 1/6/12, IEEE; University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC), Bangkok, Thailand – Won Best Paper Award – Double Blind reviewed
  5. Data Centres for Security Applications, Seminar, 24th April 2012, Corinthia Hotel, Tripoli Compass, Tripoli, Libya
  6. “Computer Vision – Cloud, Smart or Both” Prof Chris Chatwin, Dr Rupert Young, Dr Phil Birch, Dr Nagachetan Bangalore, Waqas Hassan, Venue: University of Sussex, COGS seminars Summer 2012, Tuesday 22nd May – 16:00 – 17:30, Arts C133
  7. “Tracking of motor vehicles from aerial video imagery using the OT-MACH correlation filter”, Dr Rupert Young, Dr Phil Birch, Prof Chris Chatwin, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SECURITY, ITSEC-2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 15-16 October 2012
  8. “ Improving OT-MACH filter performance for target recognition applications with the use of a Rayleigh distribution filter”, Ahmad Alkandri, Nagachetan Bangalore, Akber Gardezi, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin Proceedings of SPIE, Opitcal Pattern Recognition XXIII, Vol 8398 2012 USA
  9. Tracking illegally parked vehicles using correlation of multiscale difference of Gaussian filtered patches, Bhargav K. Mitra, Waqas Hassan, Nagachetan Bangalore, Philip M. Birch, Rupert C. D. Young, Chris Chatwin, Invited paper, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Optical Pattern Recognition XXI, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8055, Art No 805503. pp. xx to xx, Editors: D.P. Casasent, T-H. Chao, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, SPIE, April 2011
  10. Detection and Tracking Using Adaptive Correlation, Birch, P., Young, R., Chatwin, C. Presentation to MOD DSTL, Porton Down, July 2011
  11. Parameter optimization of the Optimal Trade-off Maximum Average Correlation Height filter (OT-MACH) for FLIR imaging in high clutter environments, Ahmad T. Alkandri, Univ. of Sussex (United Kingdom) and Kuwait Naval Force (Kuwait); Akber A. Gardezi, Rupert C. D. Young, Philip M. Birch, Chris Chatwin, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Optical Pattern Recognition XXI, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8055, art no. 805503 pp. xx to xx, Editors: D.P. Casasent, T-H. Chao, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, SPIE, April 2011
  12. Enhancement of the speed of space-variant correlation filter implementations by using low-pass pre-filtering for kernel placement and applications to real-time security monitoring, Akber A. Gardezi, Ahmad T. Alkandri, Philip M. Birch, Rupert C. D. Young, Chris Chatwin, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Optical Pattern Recognition XXI, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8055, Editors: D.P. Casasent, T-H. Chao, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, SPIE, April 2011
  13. Robust human intrusion detection techniques using intensity and hue-saturation histograms Waqas Hassan, Bhargav K. Mitra, Nagachetan Bangalore, Philip M. Birch, Rupert C. D. Young, Chris Chatwin, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Optical Pattern Recognition XXI, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8055, pp. xx to xx, Editors: D.P. Casasent, T-H. Chao, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, SPIE, April 2011
  14. Door surveillance using edge map-based Harris corner detector and active contour orientation Nagachetan Bangalore, Waqas Hassan, Bhargav K. Mitra, Philip M. Birch, Rupert C. D. Young, Chris Chatwin, SPIE Defence Security and Sensing, Visual Information Processing XX, Vol. 8056, 8056608, pp. xx-xx, April 2011 Orlando, USA
  15. “Stationary Traffic Monitor”, Philip Birch, Waqas Hassan, Nagachetan Bangalore, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin 4th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-2011) 2011 London, UK
  16. “Smart Cameras?”, Philip Birch, R. Young, C. Chatwin Sponsored by: IET 2011, Falmer, University of Sussex Invited Paper
  17. "Parameter optimization of the optimal trade-off maximum average correlation height filter for FLIR imaging in high clutter environments"; Alkandri, A., Gardezi, A., Birch, P., Young, R., Chatwin, C., in Optical Pattern Recognition XXII, edited by David P. Casasent, Tien-Hsin Chao, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8055 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2011) 805508
  18. Detection and Tracking Using Adaptive Correlation, Chatwin, C. , Birch, P., Young, R., University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9th September 2011, Charlotte , North Carolina, USA. Invited Seminar.
  19. "Object Tracking in a Multi Camera Environment", Waqas Hassan, Nagachetan Bangalore, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA 2011), November 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  20. Application of speed enhanced spatial domain correlation filters for real-time security monitoring
    Paper number: 8189A-26; Akber Gardezi, Nagachetan Bangalore, Ahmad Al-Kandri, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin; SPIE DEFENCE AND SECURITY PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC 19-22 Sept 2011 , Tracking number: ESD11-SD110-18
  21. Automatic adjustment of difference of Gaussian (DOG) filter to improve OT-MACH filter performance for target-recognition application; Paper number: 8185-23; Ahmad Alkandri1, Akber Gardezi, Nagachetan Bangalore, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin, SPIE DEFENCE AND SECURITY PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC 19-22 Sept 2011; Tracking number: ESD11-SD102-5, in Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications VIII, edited by David A. Huckridge, Reinhard R. Ebert, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8185 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2011) 81850M
  22. “Future Smart Cameras”, Philip Birch, R. Young, C. Chatwin Public Talk, Sponsored by W& DARC 2011 Lancing, Sussex Invited Paper
  23. Enhancement of the speed of space-variant correlation filter implementations by using low-pass pre-filtering for kernel placement and applications to real-time security monitoring, Akber A. Gardezi, Ahmad T. Alkandri, Philip M. Birch, Rupert C. D. Young, Chris Chatwin, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Optical Pattern Recognition XXI, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8055, 805509J, pp. xx to xx, Editors: D.P. Casasent, T-H. Chao, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, SPIE, April 2011
  24. Satellite Communications, Surveillance & Security, Chatwin, C; Birch, P.; Young, R.,. Presentation to Nigerian Government Security Advisors, Ticehurst, 14th October 2011
  25. Global Security Systems, Chris Chatwin, Rupert Young, Philip Birch, Wei Wang Internation Conference on INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGN, IT&D-2010, Free International University of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova,29 – 30 January, Proceedings ISTN, Vol 1, Pg 130 to 135, ISBN 978-9975-101-50-9, 2010, Best Paper Award.
  26. Image processing methods for event detection from video surveillance sequences, Hassan Waqas, Mitra Bhargav, Bangalore Nagachetan, Birch Philip, Young Rupert and Chatwin Christopher, Invited paper, ITSN-2010, Chisinau, Moldova, February 2010. Awarded diploma for best paper in Signal and Image Processing Session.
  27. A Robust Two-Tier Process to Detect and Track Illegally Parked Vehicles,WaHassan, Bhargav Mitra, Nagachetan Bangalore, Philip Birch, Rupert Young and Chris Chatwin, SPIE 2010 France
  28. Door Motion Surveillance using Edge-map based Harris Corner Detector, Nagachetan Bangalore, Bhargav Mitra, Waqas Hassan, Philip Birch, Rupert Young and Chris Chatwin, SPIE 2010 France
  29. A Two-Stage Approach to Detect Abandoned Baggage in Public Places, B.K. Mitra, W. Hassan, Philip Birch, A. Gardezi, R. Young, C. Chatwin, in Visual Information Processing XIX, edited by Zia-ur Rahman, Stephen E. Reichenbach, Mark A. Neifeld, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7701 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2010) 770107, SPIE, Defence Security and Sensing 2010 Orlando, USA
  30. Illumination Invariant Method to Identify and Track Abandoned Objects in Public Places”, W. Hassan, B. K. Mitra, Philip Birch, R. Young, C. Chatwin, SPIE Defence Security and Sensing 2010 Orlando, USA
  31. Volume holographic MACH correlator , Philip Birch, A. Gardezi, R. Young, C. Chatwin, SPIE Defence Security and Sensing 2010 Orlando, USA
  32. Imaging Technologies for Industry, P. Birch, R.Young, C.R.Chatwin; Knowledge Transfer Seminar Series (KTSS), for GE Intelligent Platforms , University of Sussex, 28th April 2010.
  33. "Implementation of the Maximum Average Correlation Height (MACH) filter in the spatial domain for object recognition from clutter backgrounds"; Gardezi, A., Birch, P., Kypraios, I., Young, R., Chatwin, C., in Automatic Target Recognition XX; Acquisition, Tracking, Pointing, and Laser Systems Technologies XXIV; and Optical Pattern Recognition XXI, edited by David P. Casasent, Tien-Hsin Chao, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7696, SPIE ORLANDO , USA , APRIL 4-8 2010 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2010) 76961S.
  34. "A space variant maximum average correlation height (MACH) filter for object recognition in real time thermal images for security applications"; Gardezi, A., Alkandri, A., Birch, P., Young, R., Chatwin, C., in Optics and Photonics for Counterterrorism and Crime Fighting VI and Optical Materials in Defence Systems Technology VII, edited by Colin Lewis, Doug Burgess, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7838; SPIE TOULOUSE , FRANCE Sept 20-23 2010 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2010) 78380N.
  35. Volume holographic MACH correlator; Paper No. 7696-55; Citation: Birch, P. M.,Gardezi, A., Young, R., Chatwin, C., "Volume holographic MACH correlator" in Automatic Target Recognition XX; Acquisition, Tracking, Pointing, and Laser Systems Technologies XXIV; and Optical Pattern Recognition XXI, edited by David P. Casasent, Tien-Hsin Chao, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7696 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2010) 76961L.
  36. "An implementation and performance evaluation of a space variant OT-MACH filter for a security detection application using FLIR sensor,"; Gardezi, A.; Alkandri, A.; Birch, P.; Qureshi, T.; Young, R.; Chatwin, C.; , Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2010 IEEE 39th , vol., no., pp.1-7, 13-15 Oct. 2010, doi: 10.1109/AIPR.2010.5759687
  37. “Robust Human Intrusion Detection using Cross-Bin Dissimilarity Measures”, Waqas Hassan, Bhargav Mitra, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin MiFor 2010
  38. Safety And Disaster Preparedness For Strategic Global Infrastructure: Communication Satellite Systems, L.S Lawal*, C.R Chatwin, 5th IET International Conference on System Safety, 18-20 October, Hallmark Hotel, Manchester, UK.
  39. Optimized And Advanced Multi-Mission Communication Satellite System, L.S Lawal*, C.R Chatwin, 28th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference and Exposition 2010, 30 August-2 September, at Anaheim Convention Center and Hilton Anaheim, California, USA.
  40. “ Imaging Technologies for Industry”, Philip Birch, R Young, C Chatwin Knowledge Transfer Seminar Series (KTSS), for GE Intelligent Platforms 2010 University of Sussex
  41. A Symbian Based Mobile User Authorization System Using Mobile Networks; L.Lu, C.R.Chatwin, R.C.D.Young, Shahin Wireless Advanced (formerly known as SPWC); hosted by the Center for Telecommunication Research of King’s College London between 27th-29th June 2010. Strand Campus of King’s College London; technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE UKRI Communications Chapter and IEEE UKRI Information Theory Society and the proceedings will be archived in the IEEE Xplore
  42. “Optical Correlation”, Philip Birch, R Young, C Chatwin Cross Group Colloquia 2010 University of Surrey

Book Chapters

  1. Iris Recognition on Low Computational Power Mobile Devices; Chapter 6, Huiqi Lu, Chris R. Chatwin, Rupert C.D. Young - Book called Biometrics - Unique and Diverse Applications in Nature, Science, and Technology, Midori Albert (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-187-9, InTech Publisher, 2010.
  2. Logarithmic r-theta map for hybrid optical neural network filter for object recognition within complex scenes; I. Kypraios, R. C. D. Young, C. R. Chatwin, in: Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications, Studies in Computational Intelligence, by SPRINGER, (Peer Reviewed), Vol. 231/2009, pp. 91-120, DOI: 100, 1007/978-3-642-02900-4,5
  3. “Tackling Product Counterfeiting with a Secure Online Track-and-Trace System,” F.Claret-Tournier, P.Lei, C.R. Chatwin and R.C.D.Young (2006). chapter in Handbook of Research on Mobile Business: Technical, Methodological and Social perspective, Idea Group Publishing, Book Chapter. ISBN 1-5914-817-2.