Adrian H.
Profile Summary
Professor of Computer Vision & Graphics.
FREng, FIAPR FIET, CEng, DPhil, BSc(Hons)
I have successfully commercialised technologies for 3D and 4D shape capture exploited in entertainment, manufacture & health, receiving two EU IST Innovation Prizes, a Manufacturing Industry Achievement Award, and a Royal Society RS Industry Fellowship with Framestore on Digital Doubles for Film (2008-11). I am a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder in 4D Vision (2013-18) and is currently PI on the S3A Programme Grant in Future Spatial Audio at Home combining audio and vision expertise and InnovateUK project ALIVE, led by The Foundry, developing tools for 360 video reconstruction and editing.
I lead the Visual Media Research (V-Lab) in CVSSP, which is conducting research in video analysis, computer vision and graphics for next generation communication and entertainment applications.
Expertise
Speech & Signal Processing
> 5 Year Experience5/5
Electrical Engineering
> 5 Year Experience5/5
Employment History
Director, Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)
Head, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Research)
Royal Society Industry Fellow,
Research and technology transfer for Digital Doubles in Film Production
Lecturer/Reader - CVSSP
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
Visual Capture of Dynamic 3D Human Motion
Education
Professor of Computer Vision & Graphics.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Looking For
Preferred work-style
Publications
Journal 60; Conference 300
Google Scholar (h-index 42, i10index 150, citation 10k); DBLP; University of Surrey
[1] Armin Mustafa, Marco Volino, Hansung Kim, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Adrian Hilton: Temporally Coherent General Dynamic Scene Reconstruction. Int. J. Comput. Vis. 129(1): 123-141(2021)
[2] Jia Chen, Yasong Chen, Weihao Li, Guoqin Ning, Mingwen Tong, Adrian Hilton: Channel and spatial attention based deep object co-segmentation. Knowl. Based Syst. 211: 106550 (2021)
[3] Armin Mustafa, Adrian Hilton: Semantically Coherent 4D Scene Flow of Dynamic Scenes. Int. J. Comput. Vis. 128(2): 319-335(2020)
[4] Charles Malleson, John Collomosse, Adrian Hilton: Real-Time Multi-person Motion Capture from Multi-view Video and IMUs. Int. J. Comput. Vis.128(6): 1594-1611 (2020)
[5] Andrew Gilbert, Matthew Trumble, Adrian Hilton, John P. Collomosse: Inpainting of Wide-Baseline Multiple Viewpoint Video. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 26(7): 2417-2428 (2020)
[6] Changjae Oh, Bumsub Ham, Hansung Kim, Adrian Hilton, Kwanghoon Sohn: OCEAN: Object-centric arranging network for self-supervised visual representations learning.Expert Syst. Appl. 125: 281-292 (2019)
[7] Andrew Gilbert, Matthew Trumble, Charles Malleson, Adrian Hilton, John P. Collomosse: Fusing Visual and Inertial Sensors with Semantics for 3D Human Pose Estimation. Int. J. Comput. Vis. 127(4): 381-397 (2019)
[8] Charles Malleson, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Adrian Hilton: Hybrid Modeling of Non-Rigid Scenes From RGBD Cameras. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol. 29(8): 2391-2404 (2019)
[9] Armin Mustafa, Hansung Kim, Adrian Hilton: MSFD: Multi-Scale Segmentation-Based Feature Detection for Wide-Baseline Scene Reconstruction. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 28(3): 1118-1132 (2019)
[10] Thomas B. Moeslund, Graham A. Thomas, Adrian Hilton, Peter Carr, Irfan Essa: Computer Vision in Sports. Computer Vision and Image Understanding 159: 1-18 (2017)
[11] J.Blat, A.Evans, H.Kim, E.Imre, L.Polok, V.Ila, N.Nikolaidis, P.Zemeık, A.Tefas, P.Smrz, A.Hilton, and I.Pitas. Big data analysis for media production. Proceedings of the IEEE, 104(11):2085–2113, 2016.
[12] 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 Trans. Multi- media, 18(12):24172431, 2016.
[13] P. Huang, T. Margara, J. Collomosse, and A. Hilton. Hybrid skeletal-surface motion graphs for character animation from 4d performance capture. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 34(2):article 17, 2015.
[14] Evren Imre and Adrian Hilton. Order statistics of ransac and their practical application. International Journal of Computer Vision, 111(3):1–22, 2014.
[15] Evren Imre and Adrian Hilton. Covariance estimation for minimal geometry solvers via scaled un- scented transformation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2014.
[16] H. Kim and A. Hilton. 3D Scene Reconstruction From Multiple Spherical Stereo Pairs. International Journal of Computer Vision (accepted for publication Jan.2013), 104:94–116, 2013.
[17] D. Casas, M. Tejera, J.-Y. Guillemaut, and A. Hilton. Interactive Animation of 4D Performance Capture
IEEE Trans. Visualisation and Computer Graphics, TVCG.2012.314, 2012.
[18] C. Budd, P. Huang, M. Klaudiny, and A. Hilton. Global Non-Rigid Alignment of Surface Sequences.
International Journal of Computer Vision, 102(1):256—270, 2012.
[19] H. Kim, J.-Y. Guillemaut, T. Takai, M. Sarim, and A. Hilton. Outdoor Dynamic 3D Scene Recon- struction.
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 22(11):1611—-1622, 2012.
[20] D. Casas, M. Tejera, J.-Y. Guillemaut, and A. Hilton. Parametric Animation of Performance Captured Mesh Sequences. Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 23(2):101—111, 2012.
[21] J.-Y.GuillemautandA.Hilton.JointMulti-layer Segmentation and Reconstruction for Free-Viewpoint Video Applications. International Journal of Computer Vision, 93(1):73–100, 2011.
[22] A. Hilton, J.-Y. Guillemaut, J.J. Kilner, O. Grau, and G. Thomas. 3D-TV Production from Conven- tional Cameras for Sports Broadcast. IEEE Transactions Broadcasting, 57(2):462–476, 2011.
[23] P. Huang, A. Hilton, and J. Starck. Shape Similarity for 3D Video Sequences of People. International Journal of Computer Vision, 89(2-3):362—381, 2010.
[24] A. Doshi and A. Hilton. An Empirical Study of Non-Rigid Surface Feature Matching on Humans from 3D Video . Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, 7(3), 2010.
[25] P. Stroia-Williams and A. Hilton. Reflectance Transfer for Material Editing and Relighting. Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, 7(6), 2010.
Accomplishments
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Principal Investigator on current Research Grant Portfolio: £10.5m
Total funding as Principal Investigator: £22m Total funding: £24m Industry Funding: £5.5m Principal Investigator EPSRC Prosperity Partnership £7m, Programme Grant S3A: £6.5m, EU SCENE: £4.5m
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS:
- Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition FIAPR (2020)
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering FREng (2019)
- Founder/Director AI@Surrey Network (2019)
- IET Achievement Medal for research contributions in 3D and 4D Computer Vision 2013-18: - Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (personal 5 year award) (2018)
- Shortlisted ‘Best VR Experience’ Google Play Award 2017 for S3A/BBC ‘The Turning Forest’
- TVBA Awards 2016 ‘Achievement in Sound’ for S3A/BBC ‘The Turning Forest’ (2016)
- Principal Investigator EPSRC Programme Grant S3A Future Spatial Audio £6.5M
- FaceDirector ICCV 2015 paper with Disney Research, 650k downloads on YouTube
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, IEEE IVMSP 3D Video
- Top 10 book in Springer Computer Science Series (20,000 chapter downloads 2011-13)
- Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology FIET
- Best Paper Award - ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics & Games
- Best Paper Award – European Conference on Articulated Deformable Models
- Highest cite journal paper Computer Vision & Image Understanding 2007-10 (>50K downloads) 2008 BBC Best Paper Award, European Conference on Visual Media Production
- Listed in Universities UK 100 discoveries of life changing research over 50 years
35. The development of a laser scanner for 3D object modelling
- Supervisor of PhD student awarded the British Machine Vision Sullivan Thesis Award
- EU Information Technology Prize for Innovation with AvatarMe Ltd., modelling people
- IEE J.Langham Premium ‘Best Journal Paper Award’ with Prof.J.Illingworth
- DTI Manufacturing Industry Achievement Award ‘Design Product of the Year’
- Pattern Recognition Society ‘Best Journal Paper Award’ first author
- EU Information Technology Grand Prize (£200K) with 3D Scanners Ltd. 3D scanning