Dr Kirill Sidorov
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research
School of Computer Science and Informatics
Overview
I am a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics and a member of the Visual Computing research section. My research interests span a wide range of interdisciplinary areas, especially applications of machine learning and computer vision to robotics, medicine, psychology, archaeology, crime prevention, and computational music. I also serve as Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research and lead the Computational Music research group.
Publication
2024
- Alqurashi, N., Li, Y. and Sidorov, K. 2024. Improving speech emotion recognition through hierarchical classification and text integration for enhanced emotional analysis and contextual understanding. Presented at: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Yokohama, Japan, 30 June – 5 July 2024Proceedings of IJCNN. IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650087)
- Hulme, E., Marshall, D., Sidorov, K. and Jones, A. 2024. Acoustic classification of guitar tunings with deep learning. Presented at: DLfM 2024, Stellenbosh, South Africa, 27 June 2024Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. ACM pp. 6-14., (10.1145/3660570.3660574)
- Alqurashi, N., Li, Y., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, A. 2024. Decision fusion based multimodal hierarchical method for speech emotion recognition from audio and text. Presented at: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges, Belgium, 9-11 October 2024.
2021
- Humphreys, D., Sidorov, K., Jones, A. and Marshall, D. 2021. An investigation of music analysis by the application of grammar-based compressors. Journal of New Music Research 50(4), pp. 312-341. (10.1080/09298215.2021.1978505)
2020
- Redfern, J., Sidorov, K., Rosin, P. L., Corcoran, P., Moore, S. C. and Marshall, D. 2020. Association of violence with urban points of interest. PLoS ONE 15(9), article number: e0239840. (10.1371/journal.pone.0239840)
- Hartley, T., Sidorov, K., Willis, C. and Marshall, D. 2020. SWAG: Superpixels weighted by average gradients for explanations of CNNs. Presented at: Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2021), Online, 5-9 January 2021.
- Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, A. 2020. Robust temporal point event localization through smoothing and counting. Presented at: ICML Workshop on Uncertainty & Robustness in Deep Learning (UDL) 2020, Online, July 17, 2020.
- Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, A. 2020. Learning multi-instance sub-pixel point localization. Presented at: 15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2020), Virtual (Kyoto), 30 November - 4 December 2020.
2019
- Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, D. 2019. Weakly-supervised temporal localization via occurrence count learning. Presented at: 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, Long Beach, CA, USA, 9-15 June 2019 Presented at Chaudhuri, K. and Salakhutdinov, R. eds.Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. Volume 97: International Conference on Machine Learning, 9-15 June 2019, Long Beach, California, USA, Vol. 97. pp. 5649-5659.
2018
- Syed, Z. S., Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, D. 2018. Computational paralinguistics: Automatic assessment of emotions, mood and behavioural state from acoustics of speech. Presented at: Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2--6 September 2018.
- Sidorov, K. A. 2018. Estimating the age of birch bark manuscripts using computational paleography. Programming and Computer Software 44, pp. 286-294. (10.1134/S0361768818040114)
2017
- Redfern, J., Sidorov, K., Rosin, P. L., Moore, S. C., Corcoran, P. and Marshall, D. 2017. An open-data, agent-based model of alcohol related crime. Presented at: 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Lecce, 29 August - 1 September 2017Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2017 14th IEEE International Conference. IEEE Xplore, (10.1109/AVSS.2017.8078513)
- Syed, Z. S., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, D. 2017. Depression severity prediction based on biomarkers of psychomotor retardation. Presented at: 7th Annual Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, 23 October 2017, Mountain View, CA, USAAVEC '17: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge. New York: ACM pp. 37-43., (10.1145/3133944.3133947)
- Sidorov, K. 2017. Paleographic dating of birch bark manuscripts. Presented at: GraphiCon' 2017, Perm, Russia, 24-28 September 2017.
2016
- Sidorov, K., Jones, A. C. and Marshall, A. D. 2016. A smallest grammar approach to the symbolic analysis of music. In: Kostagiolas, P., Martzoukou, K. and Lavranos, C. eds. Trends in Music Information Seeking, Behavior, and Retrieval for Creativity. Advances in Multimedia and Interactive Technologies Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: IGI Global, pp. 228-257., (10.4018/978-1-5225-0270-8.ch011)
2015
- 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
- Sidorov, K., Jones, A. C. and Marshall, D. 2014. Music analysis as a shortest grammar problem. Presented at: 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR '14), Taipei, Taiwan, 27-31 October 2014.
- Sidorov, K., Hawkins, R., Jones, A. C. and Marshall, D. 2014. muTunes: a study of musicality perception in an evolutionary context. Presented at: 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC '14), Athens, Greece, 14-20 September 2014.
- Sidorov, K. A. and Marshall, A. D. 2014. Learnt real-time meshless simulation. Computer Graphics Forum 33(5), pp. 147-156. (10.1111/cgf.12440)
2013
- Wang, H., Sidorov, K. A., Sandilands, P. and Komura, T. 2013. Harmonic Parameterization by Electrostatics. ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(5), article number: 155. (10.1145/2503177)
2012
- Richmond, S. et al. 2012. Detailing patient specific modeling to aid clinical decision-making. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics 5, pp. 105-131. (10.1007/978-94-007-4552-0_5)
2011
- Sidorov, K. A., Richmond, S. and Marshall, A. D. 2011. Efficient groupwise non-rigid registration of textured surfaces. Presented at: 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011), Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 20-25 June 2011IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011, Providence, RI, 20-25 June 2011. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 2401-2408., (10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995632)
2010
- Sidorov, K. A. 2010. Groupwise non-rigid registration for automatic construction of appearance models of the human craniofacial complex for analysis, synthesis and simulation. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2009
- Sidorov, K. A., Richmond, S. and Marshall, A. D. 2009. An efficient stochastic approach to groupwise non-rigid image registration. Presented at: CVPR 2009, Miami Beach, FL, USA, 20-25 June 2009IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009 (CVPR 2009), Miami, FL, 20-25 June 2009. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 2208-2213., (10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206516)
- Sidorov, K. A., Richmond, S. and Marshall, D. 2009. An efficient stochastic approach to groupwise non-rigid image registration. IEEE. (10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206516)
2007
- Sidorov, K. A., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Richmond, S. 2007. Towards efficient 3D facial appearance models. Presented at: The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, USA, 3-4 August 2007 Presented at Gleicher, M. and Thalmann, D. eds.Computer Animation 2007 : ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation : San Diego, California, August 3-4, 2007. New York, N.Y.: Eurographics Association pp. 1-2.
2006
- Cosker, D. P., Krumhuber, E., Sidorov, K., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Manstead, A. 2006. Discovering Realistic Facial Dynamics for Animation. Presented at: The 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK, 29–30 November 2006 Presented at Grau, O. ed.Proceedings: The 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006): part of the 2nd Multimedia Conference 2006. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers pp. 173.
- 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.
Articles
- Humphreys, D., Sidorov, K., Jones, A. and Marshall, D. 2021. An investigation of music analysis by the application of grammar-based compressors. Journal of New Music Research 50(4), pp. 312-341. (10.1080/09298215.2021.1978505)
- Redfern, J., Sidorov, K., Rosin, P. L., Corcoran, P., Moore, S. C. and Marshall, D. 2020. Association of violence with urban points of interest. PLoS ONE 15(9), article number: e0239840. (10.1371/journal.pone.0239840)
- Sidorov, K. A. 2018. Estimating the age of birch bark manuscripts using computational paleography. Programming and Computer Software 44, pp. 286-294. (10.1134/S0361768818040114)
- Sidorov, K. A. and Marshall, A. D. 2014. Learnt real-time meshless simulation. Computer Graphics Forum 33(5), pp. 147-156. (10.1111/cgf.12440)
- Wang, H., Sidorov, K. A., Sandilands, P. and Komura, T. 2013. Harmonic Parameterization by Electrostatics. ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(5), article number: 155. (10.1145/2503177)
- Richmond, S. et al. 2012. Detailing patient specific modeling to aid clinical decision-making. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics 5, pp. 105-131. (10.1007/978-94-007-4552-0_5)
Book sections
- Sidorov, K., Jones, A. C. and Marshall, A. D. 2016. A smallest grammar approach to the symbolic analysis of music. In: Kostagiolas, P., Martzoukou, K. and Lavranos, C. eds. Trends in Music Information Seeking, Behavior, and Retrieval for Creativity. Advances in Multimedia and Interactive Technologies Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: IGI Global, pp. 228-257., (10.4018/978-1-5225-0270-8.ch011)
Books
- Sidorov, K. A., Richmond, S. and Marshall, D. 2009. An efficient stochastic approach to groupwise non-rigid image registration. IEEE. (10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206516)
Conferences
- Alqurashi, N., Li, Y. and Sidorov, K. 2024. Improving speech emotion recognition through hierarchical classification and text integration for enhanced emotional analysis and contextual understanding. Presented at: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Yokohama, Japan, 30 June – 5 July 2024Proceedings of IJCNN. IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650087)
- Hulme, E., Marshall, D., Sidorov, K. and Jones, A. 2024. Acoustic classification of guitar tunings with deep learning. Presented at: DLfM 2024, Stellenbosh, South Africa, 27 June 2024Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. ACM pp. 6-14., (10.1145/3660570.3660574)
- Alqurashi, N., Li, Y., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, A. 2024. Decision fusion based multimodal hierarchical method for speech emotion recognition from audio and text. Presented at: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges, Belgium, 9-11 October 2024.
- Hartley, T., Sidorov, K., Willis, C. and Marshall, D. 2020. SWAG: Superpixels weighted by average gradients for explanations of CNNs. Presented at: Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2021), Online, 5-9 January 2021.
- Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, A. 2020. Robust temporal point event localization through smoothing and counting. Presented at: ICML Workshop on Uncertainty & Robustness in Deep Learning (UDL) 2020, Online, July 17, 2020.
- Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, A. 2020. Learning multi-instance sub-pixel point localization. Presented at: 15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2020), Virtual (Kyoto), 30 November - 4 December 2020.
- Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, D. 2019. Weakly-supervised temporal localization via occurrence count learning. Presented at: 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, Long Beach, CA, USA, 9-15 June 2019 Presented at Chaudhuri, K. and Salakhutdinov, R. eds.Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. Volume 97: International Conference on Machine Learning, 9-15 June 2019, Long Beach, California, USA, Vol. 97. pp. 5649-5659.
- Syed, Z. S., Schroeter, J., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, D. 2018. Computational paralinguistics: Automatic assessment of emotions, mood and behavioural state from acoustics of speech. Presented at: Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2--6 September 2018.
- Redfern, J., Sidorov, K., Rosin, P. L., Moore, S. C., Corcoran, P. and Marshall, D. 2017. An open-data, agent-based model of alcohol related crime. Presented at: 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Lecce, 29 August - 1 September 2017Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2017 14th IEEE International Conference. IEEE Xplore, (10.1109/AVSS.2017.8078513)
- Syed, Z. S., Sidorov, K. and Marshall, D. 2017. Depression severity prediction based on biomarkers of psychomotor retardation. Presented at: 7th Annual Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, 23 October 2017, Mountain View, CA, USAAVEC '17: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge. New York: ACM pp. 37-43., (10.1145/3133944.3133947)
- Sidorov, K. 2017. Paleographic dating of birch bark manuscripts. Presented at: GraphiCon' 2017, Perm, Russia, 24-28 September 2017.
- 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.
- Sidorov, K., Jones, A. C. and Marshall, D. 2014. Music analysis as a shortest grammar problem. Presented at: 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR '14), Taipei, Taiwan, 27-31 October 2014.
- Sidorov, K., Hawkins, R., Jones, A. C. and Marshall, D. 2014. muTunes: a study of musicality perception in an evolutionary context. Presented at: 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC '14), Athens, Greece, 14-20 September 2014.
- Sidorov, K. A., Richmond, S. and Marshall, A. D. 2011. Efficient groupwise non-rigid registration of textured surfaces. Presented at: 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011), Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 20-25 June 2011IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011, Providence, RI, 20-25 June 2011. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 2401-2408., (10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995632)
- Sidorov, K. A., Richmond, S. and Marshall, A. D. 2009. An efficient stochastic approach to groupwise non-rigid image registration. Presented at: CVPR 2009, Miami Beach, FL, USA, 20-25 June 2009IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009 (CVPR 2009), Miami, FL, 20-25 June 2009. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 2208-2213., (10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206516)
- Sidorov, K. A., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Richmond, S. 2007. Towards efficient 3D facial appearance models. Presented at: The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, CA, USA, 3-4 August 2007 Presented at Gleicher, M. and Thalmann, D. eds.Computer Animation 2007 : ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation : San Diego, California, August 3-4, 2007. New York, N.Y.: Eurographics Association pp. 1-2.
- Cosker, D. P., Krumhuber, E., Sidorov, K., Marshall, A. D., Rosin, P. L. and Manstead, A. 2006. Discovering Realistic Facial Dynamics for Animation. Presented at: The 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006), London, UK, 29–30 November 2006 Presented at Grau, O. ed.Proceedings: The 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006): part of the 2nd Multimedia Conference 2006. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers pp. 173.
- 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.
Thesis
- Sidorov, K. A. 2010. Groupwise non-rigid registration for automatic construction of appearance models of the human craniofacial complex for analysis, synthesis and simulation. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.