Dr Mark Everingham
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
+44 113 3435370 (phone)
+44 113 3435468 (fax)
Office: 6.23
E-mail: me@comp.leeds.ac.uk
Activities
PASCAL VOC2008
Co-organizer
BMVC2008
General chair
PhD Students
Patrick Buehler
Basela Hasan
Sam Johnson
Patrick Ott
Josiah Wang
RCUK Academic Fellow
I am an RCUK Academic Fellow in the Vision Group of the School of Computing at the University of Leeds.
Previously I was a Research Fellow in the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford, where I worked on the EU-funded CLASS and CogViSys projects with Andrew Zisserman. I was a Fulford Junior Research Fellow of Somerville College. I completed my PhD in 2002 at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, and received my BSc in Computer Science from the University of Manchester.
My primary research interests are in high-level understanding of images and video, with an emphasis on probabilistic approaches derived by statistical learning from examples. One application of this work has been a mobility aid for the severely visually impaired. My work in this domain has led to applications of probabilistic approaches in other areas such as object extraction from video sequences, and formal methods for evaluating complex vision techniques such as image segmentation algorithms. More recently I have worked on methods for recognizing people in unconstrained video including TV footage and movies, and learning to recognize people from weak supervision. I am co-organizer of the PASCAL Visual Object Classes (VOC) challenge.
Recent Publications
M.R. Everingham, C.J. Needham and R. Fraile (editors). Proceedings of the 19th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2008, BMVA Press, ISBN 978-1-901725-36-0.
P. Buehler, M.R. Everingham, D.P. Huttenlocher and A. Zisserman. "Long term arm and hand tracking for continuous sign language TV broadcasts". In Proceedings of the 19th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2008), pages 1105-1114, September 2008. [PDF] [Data]
M.R. Everingham, J. Sivic, and A. Zisserman. "Taking the bite out of automatic naming of characters in TV video". Image and Vision Computing, to appear. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, J. Sivic, and A. Zisserman. "'Hello! My name is... Buffy' - Automatic naming of characters in TV video". In Proceedings of the 17th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2006), pages 889-908, September 2006. [PDF] [Data/Code]
Winner of best industrial paper prize, BMVC2006.
J. Ponce, T.L. Berg, M.R. Everingham, D.A. Forsyth, M. Hebert, S. Lazebnik, M. Marszalek, C. Schmid, B.C. Russell, A. Torralba, C.K.I. Williams, J. Zhang, and A. Zisserman. "Dataset Issues in Object Recognition". In Toward Category-Level Object Recognition., eds. J. Ponce, M. Hebert, C. Schmid, and A. Zisserman, LNCS 4170, Springer-Verlag, 2006 (In press). [PDF]
M.R. Everingham and A. Zisserman. "Regression and classification approaches to eye localization in face images". In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2006), pages 441-446, April 2006. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, A. Zisserman, C.K.I. Williams, L. Van Gool, et al. "The 2005 PASCAL Visual Object Classes challenge". In Machine Learning Challenges. Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty, Visual Object Classification, and Recognising Textual Entailment., eds. J. Quinonero-Candela, I. Dagan, B. Magnini, and F. d'Alche-Buc, LNAI 3944, pages 117-176, Springer-Verlag, 2006. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham and A. Zisserman. "Automated detection and identification of persons in video using a coarse 3-D head model and multiple texture maps". IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, special section on Recent Advances in Image and Video Retrieval, vol. 152 (6), pages 902-910, December 2005. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham and A. Zisserman. "Identifying individuals in video by combining generative and discriminative head models". In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2005), pages 1103-1110, October 2005. [PDF]
J. Sivic, M.R. Everingham, and A. Zisserman. "Person spotting: video shot retrieval for face sets". In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2005), pages 226-236, July 2005. [PDF] [Demo]
M.R. Everingham and A. Zisserman. "Automated visual identification of characters in situation comedies". In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2004), pages 983-986, August 2004. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham and A. Zisserman. "Automated person identification in video". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2004), pages 289-298, July 2004. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, B. T. Thomas, and T. Troscianko. "A wearable mobility aid for low vision using scene classification in a Markov random field model framework". International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, special issue on mediated reality, vol. 15 (2), pages 231-244, 2003. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, H. Muller, and B. T. Thomas. "Evaluating image segmentation algorithms using the Pareto front". In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2002), pages IV:34-48, May 2002. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, H. Muller, and B. T. Thomas. "Algorithm evaluation by probabilistic fitness/cost analysis and application to image segmentation". In Proceedings of the 5th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2002), pages 580-586, January 2002. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham and B. T. Thomas. "Supervised segmentation and tracking of nonrigid objects using a 'mixture of histograms' model". In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2001), pages 62-65, October 2001. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, H. Muller, and B. T. Thomas. "Evaluating image segmentation algorithms using monotonic hulls in fitness/cost space". In Proceedings of the 12th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2001), pages 363-372, September 2001. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, B. T. Thomas, and T. Troscianko. "Head-mounted mobility aid for low vision using scene classification techniques". International Journal of Virtual Reality, vol. 3 (4), pages 3-12, August 1999. [PDF]
M.R. Everingham, B. T. Thomas, T. Troscianko, and D. Easty. "Neural network virtual reality mobility aid for the severely visually impaired". In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ECDVRAT98), pages 183-192. September 1998.
M. R. Everingham, B. T. Thomas, T. Troscianko, N. Karia, and D. Easty. "A neural network virtual reality mobility aid for the severely visually impaired". In European Conference on Visual Perception 1998 (ECVP98), Perception Vol. 27 Supplement. August 1998.