Dr Nicholas Costen

Mölder, A.L., Drury, S., Costen, N., Hartshorne, G., Czanner, S. 'Three dimensional visualisation of microscope imaging to improve understanding of human embryo development.' pp. 249-264.

Fang, H., Costen, N.P., Grant, P., Chen, M. 'Advances in Moving Face Recognition.' In Qahwaji, R., Green, R., Evor, H. (ed.) Applied Signal and Image Processing: Multidisciplinary Advancements. IGWE Global,

Parker, D.M., Costen, N.P. 'One extreme or the other, or perhaps the golden mean? Issues of spatial resolution in face processing.' In Ellis, H., MacRae, N. (ed.) Validation in Psychology: Research Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, pp. 151-162.

Peake, J., Amos, M., Costen, N., Masala, G., Lloyd, H. 'PACO-VMP: Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for Virtual Machine Placement.' Future Generation Computer Systems: the international journal of grid computing: theory, methods and applications, 129pp. 174-186.

Benouis, M., Mostefai, L., Costen, N., Regouid, M. 'ECG based biometric identification using one-dimensional local difference pattern.' Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 64

Abu-Tabik, M., Benn, Y., Costen, N. 'Are Machine Learning Methods the Future for Smoking Cessation Apps?.' Sensors, 21(4254)

Abo-Tabik, M., Costen, N., Darby, J., Benn, Y. 'Towards a smart smoking cessation app: a 1D-CNN model predicting smoking events.' Sensors, 20(4)

Regouid, M., Touahria, M., Benouis, M., Costen, N. 'Multimodal biometric system for ECG, ear and iris recognition based on local descriptors.' Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78(16) pp. 22509-22535.

Davison, A.K., Lansley, C., Costen, N., Tan, K., Yap, M.H. 'SAMM: A Spontaneous Micro-Facial Movement Dataset.' IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 9(1) pp. 116-129.

Costen, M.D., Costen, N.P. 'Trade and Exchange in Anglo-Saxon Wessex, C AD 600–780.' Medieval Archaeology, 60(1) pp. 1-26.

Teklemariam, A., Hodson-Tole, E.F., Reeves, N.D., Costen, N.P., Cooper, G. 'A finite element model approach to determine the influence of electrode design and muscle architecture on myoelectric signal properties.' PLoS ONE, 11(2)

Mölder, A., Drury, S., Costen, N., Hartshorne, G.M., Czanner, S. 'Semiautomated analysis of embryoscope images: Using localized variance of image intensity to detect embryo developmental stages.' Cytometry Part A, 87(2) pp. 119-128.

Ng, C.C., Yap, M.H., Costen, N., Li, B. 'Wrinkle detection using hessian line tracking.' IEEE Access, 3pp. 1079-1088.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N. 'Tracking object poses in the context of robust body pose estimates.' Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 127pp. 57-72.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N. 'Tracking object poses in the context of robust body pose estimates.' Computer Vision and Image Understanding,

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N., Loram, I., Hodson-Tole, E. 'Estimating skeletal muscle fascicle curvature from B-mode ultrasound image sequences..' IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 60(7) pp. 1935-1945.

Darby, J., Hodson-Tole, E.F., Costen, N., Loram, I.D. 'Automated regional analysis of B-mode ultrasound images of skeletal muscle movement..' J Appl Physiol (1985), 112(2) pp. 313-327.

Harding, P.J., Hodson-Tole, E.F., Cunningham, R., Loram, I., Costen, N. 'Automated detection of skeletal muscle twitches from B-mode ultrasound images: An application to motor neuron disease.' Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 2630-2633.

Fang, H., Costen, N., Butcher, N., Lander, K. 'Modeling the effect of motion at encoding and retrieval for same and other race face recognition.' Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7403 LNCSpp. 184-190.

Butcher, N., Lander, K., Fang, H., Costen, N. 'The effect of motion at encoding and retrieval for same- and other-race face recognition..' Br J Psychol, 102(4) pp. 931-942.

Poh, N., Chan, C.H., Kittler, J., Marcel, S., McCool, C., Argones-Rúa, E., Alba-Castro, J.L., Villegas, M., Paredes, R., Struc, V., Pavesic, N., Salah, A.A., Fang, H., Costen, N. 'An Evaluation of Video-to-Video Face Verification..' IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., 5pp. 781-801.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N. 'Tracking known and unknown human activites.' 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems, CogSys 2010,

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N. 'Tracking human pose with multiple activity models..' Pattern Recognit., 43pp. 3042-3058.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N., Fleet, D., Lawrence, N. 'Backing off: Hierarchical decomposition of activity for 3D novel pose recovery.' British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2009 - Proceedings,

Fang, H., Costen, N. 'From Rank-N to Rank-1 face recognition based on motion similarity.' British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2009 - Proceedings,

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N. 'Activity Classification for Interactive Game Interfaces..' Int. J. Comput. Games Technol., 2008pp. 751268:1-751268:1.

Brown, M., Costen, N.P. 'Exploratory basis pursuit classification.' Pattern Recognition Letters, 26(12) pp. 1907-1915.

Brown, M., Costen, N.P., Akamatsu, S. 'Efficient calculation of the complete optimal classification set.' Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2pp. 307-310.

Costen, N.P., Brown, M., Akamatsu, S. 'Sparse models for gender classification.' Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 201-206.

Costen, N.P., Cootes, T.F., Taylor, C.J. 'Compensating for ensemble-specific effects when building facial models.' Image and Vision Computing, 20(9-10) pp. 673-682.

Costen, N.P., Cootes, T.F., Edwards, G.J., Taylor, C.J. 'Automatic extraction of the face identity-subspace.' Image and Vision Computing, 20(5-6) pp. 319-329.

Parker, D.M., Costen, N.P. 'One extreme or the other or perhaps the golden mean? Issues of spatial resolution in face processing.' Current Psychology, 18(1) pp. 118-127.

Craw, I., Costen, N., Kato, T., Akamatsu, S. 'How Should We RepresentFaces for Automatic Recognition?.' IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 21pp. 725-736.

Costen, N.P., Parker, D.M., Craw, I. 'Effects of high-pass and low-pass spatial filtering on face identification..' Percept Psychophys, 58(4) pp. 602-612.

Costen, N.P., Parker, D.M., Craw, I. 'Spatial content and spatial quantisation effects in face recognition..' Perception, 23(2) pp. 129-146.

Costen, N.P., Shepherd, J., Ellis, H., Craw, I.G. 'Masking of Faces by Facial and Non-Facial Stimuli.' Visual Cognition, 1pp. 227-251.

Abo-Tabik, M., Costen, N., Darby, J., Benn, Y. 'Decision Tree Model of Smoking Behaviour.' In 5th IEEE Internet of People and Smart City Innovation 2019. Leicester, UK, 19/8/2019 - 23/8/2019. IEEE,

Benouis, M., Abo-Tabik, M., Benn, Y., Salmon, O., Barret-Chapman, A., Costen, N. 'Behavioural Smoking Identification via Hand-Movement Dynamics.' In 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI). Leicester, UK, 19/8/2019 - 23/8/2019. IEEE, pp. 1734-1739.

Costen, N., Leida Molder, A., Hartshorne, G., Czanner, S. 'Multiclass SVM for embryo time-lapse image classification.' In Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC 2019). Berlin, Germany, 23/7/2019 - 27/7/2019.

Molder, A.L., Hartshorne, G., Czanner, S., Costen, N., Drury, S. 'Image analysis of human embryos grown in vitro as a new non-invasive tool to determine embryo health.' In 33rd Annual Meeting of the European-Society-of-Human-Reproduction-and-Embryology (ESHRE). 32. Geneva, Switzerland, 2/7/2017 - 5/7/2017. Oxford University Press,

Ng, C.C., Yap, M.H., Costen, N., Li, B. 'Will Wrinkle Estimate the Face Age?.' pp. 2418-2423.

McCormick, S.A., Costen, N., Holmes, 'Normalized eye movement metrics across motor simulation states: a difference of perspective?.' In European Conference Eye Movements. 8. Vienna, 16/8/2015 - 21/8/2015.

Davison, A.K., Yap, M.H., Costen, N., Tan, K., Lansley, C., Leightley, D. 'Micro-facial movements: An investigation on spatio-temporal descriptors.' 8926. pp. 111-123.

Ng, C.C., Yap, M.H., Costen, N., Li, B. 'Automatic wrinkle detection using hybrid Hessian filter.' 9005. pp. 609-622.

Ng, C.C., Yap, M.H., Costen, N., Li, B. 'An investigation on local wrinkle-based extractor of age estimation.' 1. pp. 675-681.

Teklemariam, A., Cooper, G., Hodson-Tole, E.F., Reeves, N.D., Costen, N.P. 'A Finite Element Model simulation of surface EMG signals based on muscle tissue dielectric properties and electrodes configuration.' pp. 193-197.

Mölder, A., Czanner, S., Costen, N., Hartshorne, G. 'Automatic detection of embryo location in medical imaging using trigonometric rotation for noise reduction.' pp. 3239-3244.

Darby, J., Li, B., Cunningham, R., Costen, N. 'Object localisation via action recognition.' pp. 817-820.

Harding, P.J., Topsom, M., Costen, N. 'Mutual Information Based Gesture Recognition..' 6854. Real, P., Díaz-Pernil, D., Molina-Abril, H., Berciano, A., Kropatsch, W.G. (ed.) Springer, pp. 571-578.

Fang, H., Costen, N. 'From Rank-N to Rank-1 Face Recognition Based on Motion Similarity..' Cavallaro, A., Prince, S., Alexander, D.C. (ed.) British Machine Vision Association, pp. 1-11.

Poh, N., Chan, C.H., Kittler, J., Marcel, S., McCool, C., Argones-Rúa, E., Alba-Castro, J.L., Villegas, M., Paredes, R., Struc, V., Pavesic, N., Salah, A.A., Fang, H., Costen, N. 'Face Video Competition..' 5558. Tistarelli, M., Nixon, M.S. (ed.) Springer, pp. 715-724.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N., Fleet, D.J., Lawrence, N.D. 'Backing Off: Hierarchical Decomposition of Activity for 3D Novel Pose Recovery..' Cavallaro, A., Prince, S., Alexander, D.C. (ed.) British Machine Vision Association, pp. 1-11.

Fang, H., Costen, N.P. 'Tracking Face Localization with a Hierarchical Progressive Face Model.' Gonzàliz, J., Moeslund, T.B., Wang, L. (ed.) pp. 89-99.

Fang, H., Costen, N., Cristinacce, D., Darby, J. '3D facial geometry recovery via group-wise optical flow..' IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-6.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N.P. 'Behaviour based particle filtering for human articulated motion tracking..' IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N. 'Tracking a walking person using activity-guided annealed particle filtering..' IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-6.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N. 'Human Activity Tracking from Moving Camera Stereo Data..' Everingham, M., Needham, C.J., Fraile, R. (ed.) British Machine Vision Association, pp. 1-10.

Fang, H., Costen, N. 'Behavioral Consistency Extraction for Face Verification..' 5641. Esposito, A., Vích, R. (ed.) Springer, pp. 291-305.

Darby, J., Li, B., Costen, N.P. 'Human Activity Recognition: Enhancement for Gesture Based Game Interfaces.' Prakesh, E. (ed.) Manchester, U.K.: pp. 115-120.

Fang, H., Costen, N.P. '3D Face Reconstruction Under Imperfect Tracking Circumstances Using Shape Model Constraints..' 4842. Bebis, G., Boyle, R.D., Parvin, B., Koracin, D., Paragios, N., Syeda-Mahmood, T.F., Ju, T., Liu, Z., Coquillart, S., Cruz-Neira, C., Müller, T., Malzbender, T. (ed.) Springer, pp. 519-528.

Meng, Q., Li, B., Costen, N., Holstein, H. 'Functional Modelling of Large Scattered Data Sets Using Neural Networks..' 4668. Sá, J.M.D., Alexandre, L.A., Duch, W., Mandic, D.P. (ed.) Springer, pp. 441-449.

Brown, M., Costen, N.P. 'Non-Linear Feature Selection for Classification.' 2. pp. 607-616.

Costen, N.P., Brown, M. 'Exploratory Sparse Models for Face Recognition.' 1. pp. 13-22.

Costen, N., Cootes, T.F., Taylor, C.J. 'Markov fields for recognition derived from facial texture error..' Cootes, T.F., Taylor, C.J. (ed.) British Machine Vision Association, pp. 1-10.

Costen, N.P., Cootes, T.F., Taylor, C.J. 'Compensating for ensemble-specific effects when building facial models.' 1. pp. 62-71.

Costen, N., Cootes, T.F., Edwards, G.J., Taylor, C.J. 'Simultaneous Extraction of Functional Face Subspaces..' IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1492-1492.

Costen, N.P., Cootes, T.F., Edwards, G.J., Taylor, C.J. 'Simultaneous extraction of functional face sub-spaces.' 1. pp. 492-497.

Costen, N., Cootes, T.F., Edwards, G.J., Taylor, C.J. 'Automatic Extraction of the Face Identity-Subspace..' Pridmore, T.P., Elliman, D. (ed.) British Machine Vision Association, pp. 1-10.

Tagashira, S., Costen, N.P., Akamatsu, S. 'A Face Image Retrieval System Based on Principal Component Analysis.'

Costen, N., Kato, T., Akamatsu, S., Craw, I., Robertson, G. 'Manifold Caricatures: on the Psychological Consistency of Computer Face Recognition..' IEEE Computer Society, pp. 4-9.

Costen, N.P., Craw, I.G., Kato, T., Robertson, G., Akamatsu, S. 'Manifold caricatures: On the psychological consistency of computer face recognition.' pp. 1-4.

Costen, N.P., Craw, I.G., Kato, T., Akamatsu, S. 'Manifold Caricatures: Predicting Facial Transformations.' pp. 338-339.

Costen, N.P., Craw, I.G., Akamatsu, S. 'Automatic face recognition: what representation ?.' HIP 95–32. pp. 37-42.

Costen, N., Craw, I., Robertson, G., Akamatsu, S. 'Automatic Face Recognition: What Representation?.' 1064. Buxton, B.F., Cipolla, R. (ed.) Springer, pp. 504-513.

Craw, I.G., Costen, N.P., Kato, T., Robertson, G.M., Akamatsu, S. 'Automatic face recognition: Combining configuration and texture.' pp. 53-58.

Costen, N.P., Taylor, C.J., Cootes, T.F., Edwards, G. FACE SUB-SPACE DETERMINATION.