Dr Yulia Hicks
Senior Lecturer - Teaching and Research
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Overview
I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. I graduated from Moscow State University in Applied Mathematics and from Cardiff Uniuversity in Computer Science and then completed my PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Cardiff University. I have extensive expertise in motion capture and tracking of human motion, statistical motion and behaviour modelling, pattern recognition, and multi-modal signal processing with particular application to medical problems. I contributed to over 60 peer reviewed publications and have secured, with colleagues, external grant support totalling more than 1.3 million pounds. I am a member of Medical Engineering Research Group, Co-Chair of the IROHMS Working Group on Ethical and Explainable AI, and a Co-Director of the Human Factors Technology Lab – an interdisciplinary research lab between the Schools of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology.
My current research interests are in
- Explainable AI
- Human action and activity recognition in video
- Modelling and characterisation of human motion for neuro-degenerative diseases and back pain
- Biomedical image and signal processing
- Applications of AI in Engineering
Publication
2024
- Zhao, Z., Hicks, Y., Sun, X., McGuiness, B. and Lim, H. 2024. Lightweight and efficient attention-based CNN models for In-field strawberry instance segmentation. Presented at: 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bari, Italy, 28 August - 01 September 20242024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. Bari, Italy: IEEE
- Hartley, T., Hicks, Y., Davies, J. L., Cazzola, D. and Sheeran, L. 2024. BACK-to-MOVE: Machine learning and computer vision model automating clinical classification of non-specific low back pain for personalised management. PLoS ONE 19(5), article number: e0302899. (10.1371/journal.pone.0302899)
2023
- Zhao, Z., Hicks, Y., Sun, X. and Luo, C. 2023. Peach ripeness classification based on a new one-stage instance segmentation model. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 214, article number: 108369. (10.1016/j.compag.2023.108369)
2022
- Tong, Y., Liang, Y., Spasic, I., Hicks, Y., Hu, H. and Liu, Y. 2022. A data-driven approach for integrating hedonic quality and pragmatic quality in user experience modelling. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 22(6), article number: 61002. (10.1115/1.4054155)
- Tong, Y., Liang, Y., Liu, Y., Spasic, I. and Hicks, Y. 2022. Understanding context of use from online customer reviews using BERT. Presented at: IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2022), Mexico City, Mexico, 20-24 August 20222022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, (10.1109/CASE49997.2022.9926649)
- Grange, J. A., Princis, H., Kozlowski, T. R. W., Amadou-Dioffo, A., Wu, J., Hicks, Y. A. and Johansen, M. K. 2022. XAI & I: Self-explanatory AI facilitating mutual understanding between AI and human experts. Presented at: 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2022), 7-9 September 2022. Elsevier, (10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.419)
- Tong, T., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. 2022. Context change and triggers for human intention recognition. Procedia Computer Science 207, pp. 3826-3835. (10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.444)
2021
- Tong, Y., Liang, Y., Liu, Y., Hicks, Y. and Spasic, I. 2021. Integrating hedonic quality for user experience modelling. Presented at: ASME IDETC/CIE 2021, Virtual, 17-20 August 202141st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) Proceedings, Vol. 2. ASME, (10.1115/DETC2021-69781)
- Woodgate, S. et al. 2021. Objectively characterizing Huntington’s disease using a novel upper limb dexterity test. Journal of Neurology 268, pp. 2550-2559. (10.1007/s00415-020-10375-8)
- Latham, J., Hicks, Y. A., Yang, X., Setchi, R. and Rainer, T. 2021. Stable automatic envelope estimation for noisy doppler ultrasound. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 68(3), pp. 465-481. (10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3011823)
2020
- Bacon, Z., Hicks, Y., Al-Amri, M. and Sheeran, L. 2020. Automatic low back pain classification using inertial measurement unit sensors: a preliminary analysis. Procedia Computer Science 176, pp. 2822-2831. (10.1016/j.procs.2020.09.272)
- Azzopardi, C., Camilleri, K. and Hicks, Y. A. 2020. Bimodal automated carotid ultrasound segmentation using geometrically constrained deep neural networks. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 24(4), pp. 1004-1015. (10.1109/JBHI.2020.2965088)
- Umemura, K., Kawanaka, H., Hicks, Y., Setchi, R., Takamatsu, D. and Tsuruoka, S. 2020. A study on classification using machine learning for dementia evaluation. Presented at: IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech 2020), Kyoto, Japan, 10-12 March 20202020 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech). IEEE pp. 101-103., (10.1109/LifeTech48969.2020.1570619133)
- Umemura, K., Kawanaka, H. and Hicks, Y. 2020. A study on development of automatic dementia evaluation system by measurement of hand motor function. Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi. C, Denshi Joho Shisutemu Bumonshi / IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems 140(12), pp. 1365-1366. (10.1541/ieejeiss.140.1365)
2019
- Abbas, H. H., Hicks, Y., Zhurov, A., Marshall, D., Claes, P., Wilson-Nagrani, C. and Richmond, S. 2019. An automatic approach for classification and categorisation of lip morphological traits. PLoS ONE 14(10), article number: e0221197. (10.1371/journal.pone.0221197)
- Vilamala, M. R., Hiley, L., Hicks, Y., Preece, A. and Cerutti, F. 2019. A pilot study on detecting violence in videos fusing proxy models. Presented at: 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion, Ottawa, Canada, 2-5 July 2019.
- Hiley, L., Preece, A., Hicks, Y., Taylor, H. and Marshall, D. 2019. Discriminating spatial and temporal relevance in deep Taylor decompositions for explainable activity recognition. Presented at: 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19), Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019.
2018
- Bennasar, M., Hicks, Y. A., Clinch, S. P., Jones, P., Holt, C., Rosser, A. and Busse-Morris, M. 2018. Automated assessment of movement impairment in Huntington's disease. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 26(10), pp. 2062-2069. (10.1109/TNSRE.2018.2868170)
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. 2018. Semantic reasoning in cognitive networks for heterogeneous wireless mesh systems. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 3(3), pp. 374-389. (10.1109/TCCN.2017.2712136)
- Kittler, J., Zor, C., Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. and Wang, W. 2018. Error sensitivity analysis of Delta divergence - a novel measure for classifier incongruence detection. Pattern Recognition 77, pp. 30-44. (10.1016/j.patcog.2017.11.031)
- Abbas, H., Hicks, Y., Marshall, A., Zhurov, A. and Richmond, S. 2018. A 3D morphometric perspective for facial gender analysis and classification using geodesic path curvature features. Computational Visual Media 4(1), pp. 17-32. (10.1007/s41095-017-0097-1)
- Alzamil, Y., Hicks, Y., Yang, X. and Marshall, C. 2018. Optimising graphical techniques applied to irreversible tracers. Presented at: 5th International Conference on Bioimaging, Optimising Graphical Techniques Applied to Irreversible Tracers, 19 - 21 January 2018.
2017
- Harbi, Z., Hicks, Y. and Setchi, R. 2017. Clock drawing test interpretation system. Procedia Computer Science 112, pp. 1641-1650. (10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.259)
- Azzopardi, C., Hicks, Y. A. and Camilleri, K. P. 2017. Automatic carotid ultrasound segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks and phase congruency maps. Presented at: 14th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Melbourne, Australia, 18-21 Apr 201714th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017). IEEE pp. 624-628., (10.1109/ISBI.2017.7950598)
2016
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. M., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2016. Routing protocol for heterogeneous wireless mesh networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65(12), pp. 9773-9786. (10.1109/TVT.2016.2518931)
- Dawood, S., Hicks, Y. and Marshall, D. 2016. Speech-driven facial animation using manifold relevance determination. In: Hua, G. and Jégou, H. eds. Computer Vision – ECCV 2016 Workshops., Vol. 9914. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham: Springer, pp. 869-882., (10.1007/978-3-319-48881-3_57)
- Shigemori, T., Kawanaka, H., Hicks, Y., Setchi, R., Takase, H. and Tsuruoka, S. 2016. Dementia detection using weighted direction index histograms and SVM for clock drawing test. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1240-1248. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.168)
- Elmasri, K., Hicks, Y. A., Yang, X., Sun, X., Pettit, R. J. and Evans, W. 2016. Automatic detection and quantification of abdominal aortic calcification in dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1011-1021. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.116)
- Bennasar, M., Hicks, Y. A., Clinch, S., Jones, P., Rosser, A. E., Busse, M. and Holt, C. A. 2016. Huntington's Disease assessment using tri axis accelerometers. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1193-1201. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.163)
- Harbi, Z., Hicks, Y. A. and Setchi, R. M. 2016. Clock drawing test digit recognition using static and dynamic features. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1221-1230. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.166)
2015
- Bennasar, M., Hicks, Y. and Setchi, R. 2015. Feature selection using Joint Mutual Information Maximisation. Expert Systems with Applications 42(22), pp. 8520-8532. (10.1016/j.eswa.2015.07.007)
- Azzopardi, C., Camilleri, K. P. and Hicks, Y. A. 2015. Carotid ultrasound segmentation using radio-frequency derived phase information and gabor filters. Presented at: 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Milan, Italy, 25-29 August 20152015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) pp. 6338-6341., (10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319842)
- Mohammad, M. A., Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Setchi, R. 2015. Ontology-based framework for risk assessment in road scenes using videos. Presented at: 19th Annual Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES-2015), Singapore, 7-9 September 2015Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 60. Elsevier pp. 1532-1541., (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.300)
- Shigemori, T., Harbi, Z., Kawanaka, H., Hicks, Y. A., Setchi, R., Takase, H. and Tsuruoka, S. 2015. Feature extraction method for clock drawing test. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 1707-1714., article number: htto://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.280. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.280)
- Harbi, Z., Hicks, Y. A., Setchi, R. and Bayer, A. J. 2015. Segmentation of clock drawings based on spatial and temporal features. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 1640-1648. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.274)
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2015. Cognitive network framework for heterogeneous wireless networks. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 216-225. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.121)
- Asikhia, O. K., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Walters, A. 2015. Conceptual framework for evaluating intuitive interaction based on image schemas. Interacting with Computers 27(3), pp. 287-310. (10.1093/iwc/iwu050)
- Mohammad, M. A., Kaloskampis, I. and Hicks, Y. 2015. Evolving GMMs for road-type classification. Presented at: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Seville, Spain, 17-19 March 2015Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 1670-1673., (10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125337)
- Mohammad, M. A., Kaloskampis, I. and Hicks, Y. A. 2015. New method for evaluation of video segmentation quality. Presented at: International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2015), Berlin, Germany, 11-14 March 2015. pp. -., (10.5220/0005306205230530)
- Marshall, A. D., Hicks, Y. A. and Abbas, H. 2015. Automatic classification of facial morphology for medical applications. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 1649-1658. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.275)
- Owen, A., Marshall, A. D., Sidorov, K., Hicks, Y. A. and Brown, R. 2015. Assistive sports video annotation: modelling and detecting complex events in sports video. Presented at: MathSport International 2015, Loughborough, UK, 29 June -- 1 July 2015Proc. MathSport International 2015. pp. 144-148.
2014
- Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2014. Multi-rate medium access protocol based on enforcement learning. Presented at: IEEE international Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, USA, 5-8 October 2014.
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. and Bayer, A. J. 2014. Cascade classification for diagnosing dementia. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, USA, 5-8 October 20142014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). pp. 2535-2540., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974308)
- Asikhia, O. K., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Walters, A. 2014. Exploring sustainable design using image schemas. Presented at: International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing SDM'14,, Cardiff, UK, 28-30 April 2014Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Conference (SDM-14). pp. 67-78.
- Kaloskampis, I. and Hicks, Y. A. 2014. Estimating adaptive coefficients of evolving GMMs for online video segmentation. Presented at: 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Athens, Greece, 21-23 May 20142014 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP). Picastaway, NY: IEEE pp. 513-516., (10.1109/ISCCSP.2014.6877925)
- Peng, S., Hicks, Y. and Setchi, R. 2014. Joint EEG-fMRI model for EEG source separation. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, 5-8 October 20142014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). IEEE pp. 2234-2239., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974257)
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2014. Multi-rate medium access protocol based on reinforcement learning. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, 5-8 October 2014Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 2875-2880., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974366)
2013
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R., Bayer, A. J. and Hicks, Y. A. 2013. Feature selection based on information theory in the clock drawing test. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Kitakyushu, Japan, 9 -12 September 2013Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 22. pp. 902-911., (10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.173)
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2013. Feature interaction maximisation. Pattern Recognition Letters 34(14), pp. 1630-1635. (10.1016/j.patrec.2013.04.002)
- Azzopardi, C., Hicks, Y. A. and Camilleri, K. P. 2013. Exploiting gastrointestinal anatomy for organ classification in capsule endoscopy using locality preserving projections. Presented at: 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Osaka, Japan, 3-7 July 2013 Presented at Sunagawa, K. and Roux, C. eds.Proceedings of the 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 3654-3657., (10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610335)
2012
- Havell, B., Rosin, P. L., Sanei, S., Aubrey, A., Marshall, A. D. and Hicks, Y. A. 2012. A hybrid phoneme based clustering approach for audio driven facial animation. Presented at: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March 20122012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing: Proceedings. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 2261-2264., (10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288364)
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2012. Unsupervised discretization method based on adjustable intervals. Presented at: KES 2012 - 16th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, San Sebastian, Spain, 10-12 September 2012 Presented at Graña, M. et al. eds.Advances in knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Vol. 243. Amsterdam: IOS Press pp. 79-87., (10.3233/978-1-61499-105-2-79)
2011
- Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Marshall, A. D. 2011. Automatic analysis of composite activities in video sequences using Key Action Discovery and hierarchical graphical models. Presented at: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Barcelona, Spain, 6-13 November 2011Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 890-897., (10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130346)
- Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Marshall, A. D. 2011. Analysing engineering tasks using a hybrid machine vision and knowledge based system application. Presented at: 12th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2011), Nara, Japan, 13-15 June 2011Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications MVA 2011. Tokyo, Japan: MVA Organisation pp. 495-498.
- Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Marshall, D. 2011. Reinforcing conceptual engineering design with a hybrid computer vision, machine learning and knowledge based system framework. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 9-12 October 2011IEEE SMC 2011 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics October 9-12, 2011 : Anchorage Alaska USA : Conference proceedings. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 3242-3249., (10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084169)
2010
- Aubrey, A., Hicks, Y. A. and Chambers, J. 2010. Visual voice activity detection with optical flow. IET Image Processing 4(6), pp. 463-472. (10.1049/iet-ipr.2009.0042)
- Havell, B., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, D., Rosin, P. and S., S. 2010. Comparison of techniques for Audio Driven Facial Animation. Presented at: Proceedings of ACM/SSP Net Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation, Edinburgh, UK.
- Charron, C. and Hicks, Y. A. 2010. An evolving MOG for online image sequence segmentation. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Image processing (ICIP 2010), Hong Kong, China.
2009
- Ghodsi, M., Hassani, H., Sanei, S. and Hicks, Y. A. 2009. The use of noise information for detection of temporomandibular disorder. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 4(2), pp. 79-85. (10.1016/j.bspc.2008.10.001)
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, D. and Cosker, D. P. 2009. Real-time generation of interactive virtual human behaviours. Presented at: Computer vision and computer graphics : theory and applications, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 22-25 January 2008 Presented at Ranchordas, A. et al. eds.Computer vision and Computer Graphics : Theory and Applications International Conference (VISIGRAPP 2008), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 22-25 January 2008, Vol. 24. Communications in computer and information science Springer pp. 70-82., (10.1007/978-3-642-10226-4_6)
- Charron, C., Hicks, Y. A. and Hall, P. 2009. Applying incremental learning to parallel image segmentation. Presented at: IEEE International Workshop on Emergent Issues in Large Amounts of Visual Data, Kyoto, Japan. pp. 2064-2071.
- Charron, C., Hicks, Y. A., Hall, P. and Cosker, D. 2009. Incremental learning of Dynamical Models of Faces. Presented at: Proceedings of (BMVC 2009) British Machine Vision Conference, London, UK.
2008
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D. and Cosker, D. P. 2008. Generating human interactive behaviours using the windowed Viterbi algorithm. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP' 2008), Funchal, Portugal. pp. 353-358.
2007
- Mann, D. G., Bayer, M. M., Droop, S. J. M., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R. and Rosin, P. L. 2007. New methods for preparing, imaging and typifying desmids (Chlorophyta, Zygnematophyceae), including extended depth of focus and 3-D reconstruction. Phycologia 46(1), pp. 29-45. (10.2216/04-60.1)
- Ghodsi, M., Hassani, H., Sanei, S. and Hicks, Y. A. 2007. A new approach in detection of temporomandibular disorder using singular spectrum analysis. Presented at: Proceedings IEEE (ICSPC07), Dubai, UAE.
- Ghodsi, M., Sanei, S. and Hicks, Y. A. 2007. Detection of temporomandibular disorder from facial pattern. Presented at: Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2007), Cardiff, Uk.
- Ghodsi, M., Sanei, S., Hicks, Y. A., Lee, T. and S., D. 2007. A facial pattern recognition approach for detection of temporomandibular disorders. Presented at: 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007), Poznan, Poland.
- Aubrey, A., Rivet, B., Hicks, Y. A., Girin, L., Chambers, J. and Jutten, C. 2007. Two novel visual voice activity detectors based on appearance models and retinal filtering. Presented at: 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO).
- Rivet, B., Aubrey, A., Girin, L., Hicks, Y. A., Jutten, C. and Chambers, J. 2007. Development and comparison of two approaches for visual speech analysis with application to voice activity detection.. Presented at: International Conference on Auditory Visual Speech Processing (AVSP), Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands.
2006
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Mostaza, J. and Chambers, J. 2006. Virtual Friend: Tracking and Generating Natural Interactive Behaviours in Real Video. Presented at: ICSP '06: 2006 8th International Conference on Signal Processing, Guilin, China, 16-20 November 2006 Presented at Baozong, Y., Qiuqi, R. and Xiaofang, T. eds.Proceedings: ICSP '06: 2006 8th International Conference on Signal Processing, Vol. 2. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, (10.1109/ICOSP.2006.345649)
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L., Martin, R. R., Mann, D. G. and Droop, S. J. M. 2006. A model of diatom shape and texture for analysis, synthesis and identification. Machine Vision and Applications 17(5), pp. 297-307. (10.1007/s00138-006-0035-1)
- Mann, D. G., Droop, S. J. M., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R. and Rosin, P. L. 2006. Alleviating the Taxonomic Impediment in Diatoms: Prospects for Automatic and Web-based Identification Systems. Presented at: 18th International Diatom Symposium, Międzyzdroje, Poland, 2-7 September 2004 Presented at Withowski, A. ed.Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Diatom Symposium. Bristol: Biopress pp. 265-285.
- Marshall, A. D., Cosker, D. P., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2006. Speech and expression driven animation of a video-realistic appearance based hierarchical facial model. Presented at: IEEE CVPR Workshop on Learning, Representation and Context for Human Sensing in Video, New York, NY, USA, 22 June 2006.
- Zhen, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D. and Chambers, J. 2006. Generating 3D Interactive Behaviours. Presented at: 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK, 29-30 November 2006Proceedings: The 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006): part of the 2nd Multimedia Conference 2006. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers pp. 178., (10.1049/cp:20061944)
- Aubrey, A. J., Hicks, Y. A., Lees, J. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Using the bi-modality of speech for convolutive frequency domain blind source separation. Presented at: Proceedings of IMA 7th International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Cirencester, UK.
- Sidorov, K. A., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, D., Sanei, S. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Real time multi camera 3D tracking system. Presented at: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK.
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Cosker, D. P., Marshall, D. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Generating 3D interactive behaviours.. Presented at: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK.
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Cosker, D. P., Marshall, D., Mostaza, J. C. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Virtual Friend: Tracking and Generating Natural Interactive Behaviours in Real Video. Presented at: Proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'2006), Guilin, China.
2005
- Wang, W., Cosker, D. P., Hicks, Y. A., Sanei, S. and Chambers, J. A. 2005. Video assisted speech source separation. Presented at: ICASSP 2005. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 18-23 March 2005.
- Hicks, Y. A., Holt, C. A. and Marshall, D. 2005. Markerless motion capture with a single video camera. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Biomechanics of the Lower Limb in Health, Disease and Rehabilitation, Salford, UK.
- Aubrey, A., Chambers, J. A., Hicks, Y. A., Sanei, S. and Marshall, D. 2005. Video assisted speech source separation. Presented at: Proceedings of the International Conference of Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), Philadelphia, USA.
2004
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2004. Speech-driven facial animation using a hierarchical model. IEE Proceedings - Vision Image and Signal Processing 151(4), pp. 314-321. (10.1049/ip-vis:20040752)
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R., Rosin, P. L., Droop, S. J. M. and Mann, D. G. 2004. Building shape and texture models of diatoms for analysis and synthesis of drawings and identification. Presented at: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, Dublin, 1-3 Sept 2004.
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2004. Speech driven facial animation using a hidden Markov coarticulation model. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 23-26 August.
- Mann, D. G., Droop, S. J. M., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R. and Rosin, P. L. 2004. Heroic failure or new dawn? Image-based identification of microalgae. The Phycologist 66, pp. 24-25.
2003
- Hicks, Y. A., Hall, P. M. and Marshall, A. D. 2003. A method to add Hidden Markov Models with application to learning articulated motion. Presented at: British Machine Vision Conference, Norwich, England, 8-11 Sept 2003.
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2003. Video realistic talking heads using hierarchical non-linear speech-appearance models. Presented at: Mirage 2003, Rocquencourt, France, 10-11 March 2003.
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2003. Speaker-independent speech-driven facial animation using a hierarchical model. Presented at: International Conference on Visual Information Engineering 2003, University of Surrey, UK, 7-9 July 2003.
2002
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L., Martin, R. R., Bayer, M. M. and Mann, D. G. 2002. Modelling life cycle related and individual shape variation in biological specimens. Presented at: 13th British Machine Vision Conference, Cardiff, Wales, 2-5 Sept 2002.
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R., Rosin, P. L., Bayer, M. M. and Mann, D. G. 2002. Automatic landmarking for building biological shape models. Presented at: 2002 International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, 22-25 Sept 2002.
Articles
- Hartley, T., Hicks, Y., Davies, J. L., Cazzola, D. and Sheeran, L. 2024. BACK-to-MOVE: Machine learning and computer vision model automating clinical classification of non-specific low back pain for personalised management. PLoS ONE 19(5), article number: e0302899. (10.1371/journal.pone.0302899)
- Zhao, Z., Hicks, Y., Sun, X. and Luo, C. 2023. Peach ripeness classification based on a new one-stage instance segmentation model. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 214, article number: 108369. (10.1016/j.compag.2023.108369)
- Tong, Y., Liang, Y., Spasic, I., Hicks, Y., Hu, H. and Liu, Y. 2022. A data-driven approach for integrating hedonic quality and pragmatic quality in user experience modelling. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 22(6), article number: 61002. (10.1115/1.4054155)
- Tong, T., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. 2022. Context change and triggers for human intention recognition. Procedia Computer Science 207, pp. 3826-3835. (10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.444)
- Woodgate, S. et al. 2021. Objectively characterizing Huntington’s disease using a novel upper limb dexterity test. Journal of Neurology 268, pp. 2550-2559. (10.1007/s00415-020-10375-8)
- Latham, J., Hicks, Y. A., Yang, X., Setchi, R. and Rainer, T. 2021. Stable automatic envelope estimation for noisy doppler ultrasound. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 68(3), pp. 465-481. (10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3011823)
- Bacon, Z., Hicks, Y., Al-Amri, M. and Sheeran, L. 2020. Automatic low back pain classification using inertial measurement unit sensors: a preliminary analysis. Procedia Computer Science 176, pp. 2822-2831. (10.1016/j.procs.2020.09.272)
- Azzopardi, C., Camilleri, K. and Hicks, Y. A. 2020. Bimodal automated carotid ultrasound segmentation using geometrically constrained deep neural networks. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 24(4), pp. 1004-1015. (10.1109/JBHI.2020.2965088)
- Umemura, K., Kawanaka, H. and Hicks, Y. 2020. A study on development of automatic dementia evaluation system by measurement of hand motor function. Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi. C, Denshi Joho Shisutemu Bumonshi / IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems 140(12), pp. 1365-1366. (10.1541/ieejeiss.140.1365)
- Abbas, H. H., Hicks, Y., Zhurov, A., Marshall, D., Claes, P., Wilson-Nagrani, C. and Richmond, S. 2019. An automatic approach for classification and categorisation of lip morphological traits. PLoS ONE 14(10), article number: e0221197. (10.1371/journal.pone.0221197)
- Bennasar, M., Hicks, Y. A., Clinch, S. P., Jones, P., Holt, C., Rosser, A. and Busse-Morris, M. 2018. Automated assessment of movement impairment in Huntington's disease. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 26(10), pp. 2062-2069. (10.1109/TNSRE.2018.2868170)
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. 2018. Semantic reasoning in cognitive networks for heterogeneous wireless mesh systems. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 3(3), pp. 374-389. (10.1109/TCCN.2017.2712136)
- Kittler, J., Zor, C., Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. and Wang, W. 2018. Error sensitivity analysis of Delta divergence - a novel measure for classifier incongruence detection. Pattern Recognition 77, pp. 30-44. (10.1016/j.patcog.2017.11.031)
- Abbas, H., Hicks, Y., Marshall, A., Zhurov, A. and Richmond, S. 2018. A 3D morphometric perspective for facial gender analysis and classification using geodesic path curvature features. Computational Visual Media 4(1), pp. 17-32. (10.1007/s41095-017-0097-1)
- Harbi, Z., Hicks, Y. and Setchi, R. 2017. Clock drawing test interpretation system. Procedia Computer Science 112, pp. 1641-1650. (10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.259)
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. M., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2016. Routing protocol for heterogeneous wireless mesh networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65(12), pp. 9773-9786. (10.1109/TVT.2016.2518931)
- Shigemori, T., Kawanaka, H., Hicks, Y., Setchi, R., Takase, H. and Tsuruoka, S. 2016. Dementia detection using weighted direction index histograms and SVM for clock drawing test. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1240-1248. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.168)
- Elmasri, K., Hicks, Y. A., Yang, X., Sun, X., Pettit, R. J. and Evans, W. 2016. Automatic detection and quantification of abdominal aortic calcification in dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1011-1021. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.116)
- Bennasar, M., Hicks, Y. A., Clinch, S., Jones, P., Rosser, A. E., Busse, M. and Holt, C. A. 2016. Huntington's Disease assessment using tri axis accelerometers. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1193-1201. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.163)
- Harbi, Z., Hicks, Y. A. and Setchi, R. M. 2016. Clock drawing test digit recognition using static and dynamic features. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1221-1230. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.166)
- Bennasar, M., Hicks, Y. and Setchi, R. 2015. Feature selection using Joint Mutual Information Maximisation. Expert Systems with Applications 42(22), pp. 8520-8532. (10.1016/j.eswa.2015.07.007)
- Shigemori, T., Harbi, Z., Kawanaka, H., Hicks, Y. A., Setchi, R., Takase, H. and Tsuruoka, S. 2015. Feature extraction method for clock drawing test. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 1707-1714., article number: htto://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.280. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.280)
- Harbi, Z., Hicks, Y. A., Setchi, R. and Bayer, A. J. 2015. Segmentation of clock drawings based on spatial and temporal features. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 1640-1648. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.274)
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2015. Cognitive network framework for heterogeneous wireless networks. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 216-225. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.121)
- Asikhia, O. K., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Walters, A. 2015. Conceptual framework for evaluating intuitive interaction based on image schemas. Interacting with Computers 27(3), pp. 287-310. (10.1093/iwc/iwu050)
- Marshall, A. D., Hicks, Y. A. and Abbas, H. 2015. Automatic classification of facial morphology for medical applications. Procedia Computer Science 60, pp. 1649-1658. (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.275)
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2013. Feature interaction maximisation. Pattern Recognition Letters 34(14), pp. 1630-1635. (10.1016/j.patrec.2013.04.002)
- Aubrey, A., Hicks, Y. A. and Chambers, J. 2010. Visual voice activity detection with optical flow. IET Image Processing 4(6), pp. 463-472. (10.1049/iet-ipr.2009.0042)
- Ghodsi, M., Hassani, H., Sanei, S. and Hicks, Y. A. 2009. The use of noise information for detection of temporomandibular disorder. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 4(2), pp. 79-85. (10.1016/j.bspc.2008.10.001)
- Mann, D. G., Bayer, M. M., Droop, S. J. M., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R. and Rosin, P. L. 2007. New methods for preparing, imaging and typifying desmids (Chlorophyta, Zygnematophyceae), including extended depth of focus and 3-D reconstruction. Phycologia 46(1), pp. 29-45. (10.2216/04-60.1)
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L., Martin, R. R., Mann, D. G. and Droop, S. J. M. 2006. A model of diatom shape and texture for analysis, synthesis and identification. Machine Vision and Applications 17(5), pp. 297-307. (10.1007/s00138-006-0035-1)
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2004. Speech-driven facial animation using a hierarchical model. IEE Proceedings - Vision Image and Signal Processing 151(4), pp. 314-321. (10.1049/ip-vis:20040752)
- Mann, D. G., Droop, S. J. M., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R. and Rosin, P. L. 2004. Heroic failure or new dawn? Image-based identification of microalgae. The Phycologist 66, pp. 24-25.
Book sections
- Dawood, S., Hicks, Y. and Marshall, D. 2016. Speech-driven facial animation using manifold relevance determination. In: Hua, G. and Jégou, H. eds. Computer Vision – ECCV 2016 Workshops., Vol. 9914. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham: Springer, pp. 869-882., (10.1007/978-3-319-48881-3_57)
Conferences
- Zhao, Z., Hicks, Y., Sun, X., McGuiness, B. and Lim, H. 2024. Lightweight and efficient attention-based CNN models for In-field strawberry instance segmentation. Presented at: 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bari, Italy, 28 August - 01 September 20242024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. Bari, Italy: IEEE
- Tong, Y., Liang, Y., Liu, Y., Spasic, I. and Hicks, Y. 2022. Understanding context of use from online customer reviews using BERT. Presented at: IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2022), Mexico City, Mexico, 20-24 August 20222022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, (10.1109/CASE49997.2022.9926649)
- Grange, J. A., Princis, H., Kozlowski, T. R. W., Amadou-Dioffo, A., Wu, J., Hicks, Y. A. and Johansen, M. K. 2022. XAI & I: Self-explanatory AI facilitating mutual understanding between AI and human experts. Presented at: 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2022), 7-9 September 2022. Elsevier, (10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.419)
- Tong, Y., Liang, Y., Liu, Y., Hicks, Y. and Spasic, I. 2021. Integrating hedonic quality for user experience modelling. Presented at: ASME IDETC/CIE 2021, Virtual, 17-20 August 202141st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) Proceedings, Vol. 2. ASME, (10.1115/DETC2021-69781)
- Umemura, K., Kawanaka, H., Hicks, Y., Setchi, R., Takamatsu, D. and Tsuruoka, S. 2020. A study on classification using machine learning for dementia evaluation. Presented at: IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech 2020), Kyoto, Japan, 10-12 March 20202020 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech). IEEE pp. 101-103., (10.1109/LifeTech48969.2020.1570619133)
- Vilamala, M. R., Hiley, L., Hicks, Y., Preece, A. and Cerutti, F. 2019. A pilot study on detecting violence in videos fusing proxy models. Presented at: 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion, Ottawa, Canada, 2-5 July 2019.
- Hiley, L., Preece, A., Hicks, Y., Taylor, H. and Marshall, D. 2019. Discriminating spatial and temporal relevance in deep Taylor decompositions for explainable activity recognition. Presented at: 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19), Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019.
- Alzamil, Y., Hicks, Y., Yang, X. and Marshall, C. 2018. Optimising graphical techniques applied to irreversible tracers. Presented at: 5th International Conference on Bioimaging, Optimising Graphical Techniques Applied to Irreversible Tracers, 19 - 21 January 2018.
- Azzopardi, C., Hicks, Y. A. and Camilleri, K. P. 2017. Automatic carotid ultrasound segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks and phase congruency maps. Presented at: 14th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Melbourne, Australia, 18-21 Apr 201714th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017). IEEE pp. 624-628., (10.1109/ISBI.2017.7950598)
- Azzopardi, C., Camilleri, K. P. and Hicks, Y. A. 2015. Carotid ultrasound segmentation using radio-frequency derived phase information and gabor filters. Presented at: 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Milan, Italy, 25-29 August 20152015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) pp. 6338-6341., (10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319842)
- Mohammad, M. A., Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Setchi, R. 2015. Ontology-based framework for risk assessment in road scenes using videos. Presented at: 19th Annual Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES-2015), Singapore, 7-9 September 2015Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 60. Elsevier pp. 1532-1541., (10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.300)
- Mohammad, M. A., Kaloskampis, I. and Hicks, Y. 2015. Evolving GMMs for road-type classification. Presented at: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Seville, Spain, 17-19 March 2015Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 1670-1673., (10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125337)
- Mohammad, M. A., Kaloskampis, I. and Hicks, Y. A. 2015. New method for evaluation of video segmentation quality. Presented at: International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2015), Berlin, Germany, 11-14 March 2015. pp. -., (10.5220/0005306205230530)
- Owen, A., Marshall, A. D., Sidorov, K., Hicks, Y. A. and Brown, R. 2015. Assistive sports video annotation: modelling and detecting complex events in sports video. Presented at: MathSport International 2015, Loughborough, UK, 29 June -- 1 July 2015Proc. MathSport International 2015. pp. 144-148.
- Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2014. Multi-rate medium access protocol based on enforcement learning. Presented at: IEEE international Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, USA, 5-8 October 2014.
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. and Bayer, A. J. 2014. Cascade classification for diagnosing dementia. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, USA, 5-8 October 20142014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). pp. 2535-2540., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974308)
- Asikhia, O. K., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Walters, A. 2014. Exploring sustainable design using image schemas. Presented at: International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing SDM'14,, Cardiff, UK, 28-30 April 2014Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Conference (SDM-14). pp. 67-78.
- Kaloskampis, I. and Hicks, Y. A. 2014. Estimating adaptive coefficients of evolving GMMs for online video segmentation. Presented at: 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Athens, Greece, 21-23 May 20142014 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP). Picastaway, NY: IEEE pp. 513-516., (10.1109/ISCCSP.2014.6877925)
- Peng, S., Hicks, Y. and Setchi, R. 2014. Joint EEG-fMRI model for EEG source separation. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, 5-8 October 20142014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). IEEE pp. 2234-2239., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974257)
- Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2014. Multi-rate medium access protocol based on reinforcement learning. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, 5-8 October 2014Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 2875-2880., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974366)
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R., Bayer, A. J. and Hicks, Y. A. 2013. Feature selection based on information theory in the clock drawing test. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Kitakyushu, Japan, 9 -12 September 2013Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 22. pp. 902-911., (10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.173)
- Azzopardi, C., Hicks, Y. A. and Camilleri, K. P. 2013. Exploiting gastrointestinal anatomy for organ classification in capsule endoscopy using locality preserving projections. Presented at: 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Osaka, Japan, 3-7 July 2013 Presented at Sunagawa, K. and Roux, C. eds.Proceedings of the 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 3654-3657., (10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610335)
- Havell, B., Rosin, P. L., Sanei, S., Aubrey, A., Marshall, A. D. and Hicks, Y. A. 2012. A hybrid phoneme based clustering approach for audio driven facial animation. Presented at: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March 20122012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing: Proceedings. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 2261-2264., (10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288364)
- Bennasar, M., Setchi, R. and Hicks, Y. A. 2012. Unsupervised discretization method based on adjustable intervals. Presented at: KES 2012 - 16th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, San Sebastian, Spain, 10-12 September 2012 Presented at Graña, M. et al. eds.Advances in knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Vol. 243. Amsterdam: IOS Press pp. 79-87., (10.3233/978-1-61499-105-2-79)
- Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Marshall, A. D. 2011. Automatic analysis of composite activities in video sequences using Key Action Discovery and hierarchical graphical models. Presented at: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), Barcelona, Spain, 6-13 November 2011Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 890-897., (10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130346)
- Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Marshall, A. D. 2011. Analysing engineering tasks using a hybrid machine vision and knowledge based system application. Presented at: 12th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2011), Nara, Japan, 13-15 June 2011Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications MVA 2011. Tokyo, Japan: MVA Organisation pp. 495-498.
- Kaloskampis, I., Hicks, Y. A. and Marshall, D. 2011. Reinforcing conceptual engineering design with a hybrid computer vision, machine learning and knowledge based system framework. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 9-12 October 2011IEEE SMC 2011 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics October 9-12, 2011 : Anchorage Alaska USA : Conference proceedings. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 3242-3249., (10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084169)
- Havell, B., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, D., Rosin, P. and S., S. 2010. Comparison of techniques for Audio Driven Facial Animation. Presented at: Proceedings of ACM/SSP Net Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation, Edinburgh, UK.
- Charron, C. and Hicks, Y. A. 2010. An evolving MOG for online image sequence segmentation. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Image processing (ICIP 2010), Hong Kong, China.
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, D. and Cosker, D. P. 2009. Real-time generation of interactive virtual human behaviours. Presented at: Computer vision and computer graphics : theory and applications, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 22-25 January 2008 Presented at Ranchordas, A. et al. eds.Computer vision and Computer Graphics : Theory and Applications International Conference (VISIGRAPP 2008), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 22-25 January 2008, Vol. 24. Communications in computer and information science Springer pp. 70-82., (10.1007/978-3-642-10226-4_6)
- Charron, C., Hicks, Y. A. and Hall, P. 2009. Applying incremental learning to parallel image segmentation. Presented at: IEEE International Workshop on Emergent Issues in Large Amounts of Visual Data, Kyoto, Japan. pp. 2064-2071.
- Charron, C., Hicks, Y. A., Hall, P. and Cosker, D. 2009. Incremental learning of Dynamical Models of Faces. Presented at: Proceedings of (BMVC 2009) British Machine Vision Conference, London, UK.
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D. and Cosker, D. P. 2008. Generating human interactive behaviours using the windowed Viterbi algorithm. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP' 2008), Funchal, Portugal. pp. 353-358.
- Ghodsi, M., Hassani, H., Sanei, S. and Hicks, Y. A. 2007. A new approach in detection of temporomandibular disorder using singular spectrum analysis. Presented at: Proceedings IEEE (ICSPC07), Dubai, UAE.
- Ghodsi, M., Sanei, S. and Hicks, Y. A. 2007. Detection of temporomandibular disorder from facial pattern. Presented at: Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2007), Cardiff, Uk.
- Ghodsi, M., Sanei, S., Hicks, Y. A., Lee, T. and S., D. 2007. A facial pattern recognition approach for detection of temporomandibular disorders. Presented at: 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007), Poznan, Poland.
- Aubrey, A., Rivet, B., Hicks, Y. A., Girin, L., Chambers, J. and Jutten, C. 2007. Two novel visual voice activity detectors based on appearance models and retinal filtering. Presented at: 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO).
- Rivet, B., Aubrey, A., Girin, L., Hicks, Y. A., Jutten, C. and Chambers, J. 2007. Development and comparison of two approaches for visual speech analysis with application to voice activity detection.. Presented at: International Conference on Auditory Visual Speech Processing (AVSP), Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands.
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Mostaza, J. and Chambers, J. 2006. Virtual Friend: Tracking and Generating Natural Interactive Behaviours in Real Video. Presented at: ICSP '06: 2006 8th International Conference on Signal Processing, Guilin, China, 16-20 November 2006 Presented at Baozong, Y., Qiuqi, R. and Xiaofang, T. eds.Proceedings: ICSP '06: 2006 8th International Conference on Signal Processing, Vol. 2. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, (10.1109/ICOSP.2006.345649)
- Mann, D. G., Droop, S. J. M., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R. and Rosin, P. L. 2006. Alleviating the Taxonomic Impediment in Diatoms: Prospects for Automatic and Web-based Identification Systems. Presented at: 18th International Diatom Symposium, Międzyzdroje, Poland, 2-7 September 2004 Presented at Withowski, A. ed.Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Diatom Symposium. Bristol: Biopress pp. 265-285.
- Marshall, A. D., Cosker, D. P., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2006. Speech and expression driven animation of a video-realistic appearance based hierarchical facial model. Presented at: IEEE CVPR Workshop on Learning, Representation and Context for Human Sensing in Video, New York, NY, USA, 22 June 2006.
- Zhen, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D. and Chambers, J. 2006. Generating 3D Interactive Behaviours. Presented at: 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK, 29-30 November 2006Proceedings: The 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006): part of the 2nd Multimedia Conference 2006. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers pp. 178., (10.1049/cp:20061944)
- Aubrey, A. J., Hicks, Y. A., Lees, J. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Using the bi-modality of speech for convolutive frequency domain blind source separation. Presented at: Proceedings of IMA 7th International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Cirencester, UK.
- Sidorov, K. A., Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, D., Sanei, S. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Real time multi camera 3D tracking system. Presented at: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK.
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Cosker, D. P., Marshall, D. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Generating 3D interactive behaviours.. Presented at: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK.
- Zheng, Y., Hicks, Y. A., Cosker, D. P., Marshall, D., Mostaza, J. C. and Chambers, J. A. 2006. Virtual Friend: Tracking and Generating Natural Interactive Behaviours in Real Video. Presented at: Proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'2006), Guilin, China.
- Wang, W., Cosker, D. P., Hicks, Y. A., Sanei, S. and Chambers, J. A. 2005. Video assisted speech source separation. Presented at: ICASSP 2005. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 18-23 March 2005.
- Hicks, Y. A., Holt, C. A. and Marshall, D. 2005. Markerless motion capture with a single video camera. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Biomechanics of the Lower Limb in Health, Disease and Rehabilitation, Salford, UK.
- Aubrey, A., Chambers, J. A., Hicks, Y. A., Sanei, S. and Marshall, D. 2005. Video assisted speech source separation. Presented at: Proceedings of the International Conference of Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), Philadelphia, USA.
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R., Rosin, P. L., Droop, S. J. M. and Mann, D. G. 2004. Building shape and texture models of diatoms for analysis and synthesis of drawings and identification. Presented at: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, Dublin, 1-3 Sept 2004.
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2004. Speech driven facial animation using a hidden Markov coarticulation model. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 23-26 August.
- Hicks, Y. A., Hall, P. M. and Marshall, A. D. 2003. A method to add Hidden Markov Models with application to learning articulated motion. Presented at: British Machine Vision Conference, Norwich, England, 8-11 Sept 2003.
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2003. Video realistic talking heads using hierarchical non-linear speech-appearance models. Presented at: Mirage 2003, Rocquencourt, France, 10-11 March 2003.
- Cosker, D. P., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Hicks, Y. A. 2003. Speaker-independent speech-driven facial animation using a hierarchical model. Presented at: International Conference on Visual Information Engineering 2003, University of Surrey, UK, 7-9 July 2003.
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L., Martin, R. R., Bayer, M. M. and Mann, D. G. 2002. Modelling life cycle related and individual shape variation in biological specimens. Presented at: 13th British Machine Vision Conference, Cardiff, Wales, 2-5 Sept 2002.
- Hicks, Y. A., Marshall, A. D., Martin, R. R., Rosin, P. L., Bayer, M. M. and Mann, D. G. 2002. Automatic landmarking for building biological shape models. Presented at: 2002 International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, 22-25 Sept 2002.
- Bennasar, M., Hicks, Y. A., Clinch, S., Jones, P., Rosser, A. E., Busse, M. and Holt, C. A. 2016. Huntington's Disease assessment using tri axis accelerometers. Procedia Computer Science 96, pp. 1193-1201. (10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.163)
Research
Sensitive, objective and consistent clinical assessments for neurodegenerative diseases
Neurodegenerative disease is an umbrella term for a range of conditions, which primarily affect the neurons in the human brain. Examples of neurodegenerative diseases include Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington’s disease. Neurodegenerative diseases are currently incurable and debilitating conditions that result in progressive degeneration and/or death of nerve cells. This causes problems with movement (called ataxias), or mental functioning (called dementias).
In clinical practice, these diseases and their symptoms are assessed using a number of special tests, such as Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Clock Drawing Test (CDT) for dementias or Unified Huntington’s (Parkinson’s) Disease Rating Scale (UH(P)DRS) for Huntington’s (Parkinson’s) disease.
Traditionally, these tests are administered by expert clinicians and are assessed on the basis of observations, thus the assessments are limited by inter- and intra-rater variability, subjective bias and categorical design. At the same time, there is ongoing research in more effective treatments for such diseases, thus necessitating the development of more sensitive, consistent and objective means of assessment for such diseases.
Over the last ten years, we have developed, together with the School of Medicine, a number of machine learning algorithms addressing this need.
Please contact Dr Yulia Hicks for more information.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for health and sports monitoring
We are developing advanced AI algorithms for analysis of the data obtained with a variety of devices, such as mobile phones, video cameras, inertial measurement units (IMU) and electromyography (EMG) units for sport and health monitoring. The data is analysed and appropriate feedback is provided to the subject and medical professionals in order to monitor the condition of the patient and to develop personalised treatment appropriate for the condition. The applications so far have included Huntington’s disease and lower back pain.
This research is a result of collaboration with the School of Medicine and with the School of Healthcare Sciences.
Please contact Dr Yulia Hicks for more information.
Explaining deep learning models for human action and activity recognition
The popularisation of video surveillance and the vast increase of video content on the web has rendered video one of the fastest growing resources of data. In such videos, humans are arguably the most interesting subjects.
Deep learning methods have demonstrated success in many areas of computer vision, including human action and activity recognition. However, to be confident in their predictions, their decisions need to be transparent and explainable. The aim of this project is to develop algorithms capable of explaining the decisions made by the deep learning methods, specifically when applied to human activity recognition.
This research is a result of collaboration with the School of Computer Science and Informatics.
Please contact Dr Yulia Hicks for more information.
Contracts
Title | People | Sponsor | Value | Duration |
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Bridging the gaps | Featherston C, Hicks Y, Davies C, Preece A, Patrick J, Elias S, Found P | EPSRC | 47152 | 01/04/2012 - 31/03/2013 |
Improving EEG reading of brain states for clinical applications using a data-driven joint model of FMRI and EEG. | Wise R (PSYCH), Hicks YA, Charron CS | EPSRC | 26595 | 01/05/2011 - 30/04/2012 |
Signal processing solutions for the networked battlespace | McWhirter J, Hicks Y | EPSRC via Loughborough | 515519 | 01/04/2013 - 31/03/2018 |
Automated assessment of timing and movement signatures in Huntingdon's disease | Busse (HCARE) Holt C, Hicks Y | Wellcome Trust | 16301 | 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2016 |
Multi-modal blind source separation algorithms | Chambers JA, Hicks YA, Sanei S, (with COMSC) | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (transferred to Loughborough) | 223190 | 01/05/2005 - 01/05/2008 |
Modelling, analysing and exploiting dependencies between the parts of a moving human figure in the context of computer graphics applications | Hicks YA | The Nuffield Foundation | 1200 | 01/08/2005 - 30/09/2005 |
Multi-Camera Real Time 3D Reconstruction of Urban Environments | Hicks Y | General Dynamics | 19060 | 01/10/2007 - 30/09/2010 |
Adaptive models of human motion | Dr YA Hicks | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | 206291 | 01/01/2007 - 30/06/2009 |
Video-assisted audio source separation | Dr YA Hicks | QinetiQ Ltd | 13200 | 01/10/2004 - 30/09/2007 |
Teaching
I teach the following modules in the School of Engineering:
- 1st year Engineering Computing
- 2nd year Programming for Engineering
- 3rd year Object-Oriented Engineering Computing
- 4th year Artificial Intelligence
In addition to teaching on the above modules, I supervise undergraduate projects in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI.
Biography
Education
- 2003: PhD (Computer Vision), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- 1997: BSc (Computer Science), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- 1996: MSc (Applied Mathematics), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Career overview
- 2011 - present Senior Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, School of Engineering, Cardiff University
- 2004 - 2011 Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, School of Engineering, Cardiff University
- 2001 - 2003 Research Associate, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
Professional memberships
IEEE Senior Member, BMVA member.
Technical Committees
- From 2017 ExCo member of IET Vision and Imaging professional network.
- From 2017 ExCo co-opt member of British Machine Vision Association (BMVA).
Academic positions
PhD External examiner for Nottingham Trent University, UK (2019); Loughborough University, UK (2014, 2017, 2018); Strathclyde University, UK (2016); Kingston University, UK (2011, 2013); Newcastle University, UK (2016); Ulster University, UK (2015); Deakin University, Australia (2015, 2018); Strasbourg University, France (2019).
MSc degree external examiner for the School of Computer Science, Kingston University, UK (2014-2017).
Academic Prizes
- Best Paper Award at IEEE LifeTech 2020, Kyoto, Japan.
- Best paper award at Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, September 2004, Dublin, Ireland.
- Best Demonstration Paper prize at British Machine Vision Conference 2000.
Invited talks
- Aberystwyth University, February 2020: Towards more sensitive, objective and consistent clinical assessments for neurodegenerative disorders.
- Newcastle University, July 2017: Towards more sensitive, objective and consistent clinical assessments for neurodegenerative disorders.
- Bath University, July 2010: Statistical Models in Audio, Image and Video Processing.
- Kingston University, June 2010: Incremental Gaussian Mixture Models and Hidden Markov Models
- Surrey University, February 2010: Incremental Gaussian Mixture Models
- Swansea University, December 2009: Statistical Models in Audio, Image and Video processing
- Grenoble Institute of Techology, March 2008: Multimodal Blind Source Separation.
Organising conferences
- General Chair for the 30th British Machine Vision Conference, Cardiff, September 2019.
- Invited Session Chair for 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 24th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent information and Engineering Systems (KES2015, KES2016, KES2017, KES2018, KES2020).
- Organising Chair for the 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2010) hosted by Cardiff School of Engineering in September 2010.
- Publicity Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing hosted by Cardiff School of Engineering in August 2009.
- Publicity Chair for the International Digital Signal Processing Conference (DSP2007), hosted by Cardiff School of Engineering in July 2007.
Supervisions
Dr Hicks is a co-director of the Human Factors Technology Lab, an interdisciplinary Research Centre which brings together the Schools of Engineering, Psychology and Computer Science. It houses a variety of motion capture equipment, a 3D video camera and a dedicated research office space with desks and computers. Dr Hicks successfully supervised 18 PhD students (ten as the main supervisor and eight as a co-supervisor) and two MPhil (one main supervisor and one co-supervisor). She is currently supervising five PhD students.
She is currently actively pursuing research and looking for new collaborations in these areas:
- Explainable AI
- Human action and activity recognition in video
- Modelling and characterisation of human motion for neuro-degenerative diseases and back pain
- Biomedical image and signal processing
- Applications of AI in Engineering