Publications:  Prof Peter McOwan

MCOWAN PW, MCCALLUM L(2017). Extending Human-Robot Relationships Based in Music with Virtual Presence. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

MCOWAN PW, williams H(2017). The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design. PLoS ONE vol. aug 17, (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181877)

MCOWAN PW, wiliams H(2016). Manufacturing Magic and Computational Creativity. Front. Psychol.,

Williams H, McOwan PW(2016). Magic in Pieces: An Analysis of Magic Trick Construction Using Artificial Intelligence as a Design Aid. Applied Artificial Intelligence vol. 30, (1) 16-28.

Soyel H, Yurtkan K, Demirel H, McOwan PW (2015). Brain MR image denoising for Rician noise using intrinsic geometrical information. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. vol. 363, 275-284.

McCallum L, McOwan PW (2015). Face the Music and Glance: How Nonverbal Behaviour Aids Human Robot Relationships Based in Music. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. vol. 2015-March, 237-244.

MCOWAN PW, Williams H(2014). Magic in the machine: a computational magician's assistant. Frontiers in Psychology

McCallum L, McOwan PW (2014). Shut up and play: A musical approach to engagement and social presence in Human Robot Interaction. Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. vol. 2014-October, 949-954.

Rider AT, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2014). Asymmetric global motion integration in drifting Gabor arrays. J Vis vol. 14, (8)

Castellano G, Leite I, Pereira A, Martinho C, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2014). Context-sensitive affect recognition for a robotic game companion. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems vol. 4, (2)

Williams H, McOwan PW(2014). Magic in the machine: a computational magician's assistant. Front Psychol vol. 5,

McCallum L, McOwan PW (2014). Shut up and play: A musical approach to engagement and social presence in Human Robot Interaction. IEEE RO-MAN 2014 - 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions. 949-954.

Faruq S, McOwan PW, Chittka L(2013). The biological significance of color constancy: an agent-based model with bees foraging from flowers under varied illumination. J Vis vol. 13, (10)

Black J, Brodie J, Curzon P, Myketiak C, McOwan PW, Meagher LR (2013). Making Computing Interesting to School Students: Teachers’ Perspectives. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE). Editors: Carter, J, Utting, I, Clear, A, Conference: ITiCSE '13 Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (Canterbury, UK) from: 01/07/2013 to: 03/07/2013, 255-260.

Soyel H, McOwan PW(2013). Towards an affect sensitive interactive companion. Computers and Electrical Engineering vol. 39, (4) 1312-1319.

Castellano G, McOwan PW(2013). Towards affect sensitive and socially perceptive companions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) vol. 7407, 42-53.

Castellano G, Leite I, Pereira A, Martinho C, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2013). MULTIMODAL AFFECT MODELING AND RECOGNITION FOR EMPATHIC ROBOT COMPANIONS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANOID ROBOTICS vol. 10, (1) Article ARTN 1350010,

Nagle F, Johnston A, McOwan PW(2013). Perception of the dynamic form of flames in hearth fire. PERCEPTION vol. 42, 123-124.

Soyel H, McOwan PW(2013). Towards an affect sensitive interactive companion. Computers and Electrical Engineering

Castellano G, Leite I, Pereira A, Martinho C, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2012). Detecting engagement in hri: An exploration of social and task-based context. Proceedings - 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom/PASSAT 2012421-428.

Black J, Curzon P, Myketiak C, McOwan PW, Meagher LR(2012). Teachers' perceptions of the value of research-based school lectures. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series145-146.

Ekeus H, Abdallah SA, Plumbley MD, McOwan PW (2012). The melody triangle: Exploring pattern and predictability in music. AAAI Workshop - Technical Report. vol. WS-12-16, 35-42.

Myketiak C, Curzon P, Black J, McOwan PW, Meagher LR(2012). cs4fn: A flexible model for computer science outreach. Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE297-302.

Castellano G, Mancini M, Peters C, McOwan PW(2012). Expressive copying behavior for social agents: A perceptual analysis. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans vol. 42, (3) 776-783.

Soyel H, McOwan PW(2012). Automatic image enhancement using intrinsic geometrical information. Electronics Letters vol. 48, Article 15, 917-919.

Soyel H, Ozmen B, McOwan PW(2012). Illumination robust face representation based on intrinsic geometrical information. IET Conference Publications vol. 2012, Article CP600,

Mancini M, Castellano G, Peters C, McOwan PW(2011). Evaluating the communication of emotion via expressive gesture copying behaviour in an embodied humanoid agent. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) vol. 6974 LNCS, (PART 1) 215-224.

Griffin HJ, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2011). Relative faces: encoding of family resemblance relative to gender means in face space. J Vis vol. 11, (12)

Black J, Curzon P, Myketiak C, McOwan PW (2011). A Study in Engaging Female Students in Computer Science Using Role Models. Proceedings of ITiCSE 2011, The 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education ACM SIGCSE. 63-67-63-67.

Sanghvi J, Castellano G, Leite I, Pereira A, McOwan PW, Paiva A(2011). Automatic analysis of affective postures and body motion to detect engagement with a game companion. HRI 2011 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction305-311.

Liang X, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2011). Biologically inspired framework for spatial and spectral velocity estimations. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science and Vision vol. 28, (4) 713-723.

Castellano G, Mancini M, Peters C, McOwan PW(2011). Expressive Copying Behavior for Social Agents: A Perceptual Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Roberts T, Griffin H, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2011). Judging political affiliation from faces of UK MPs. Perception vol. 40, (8) 949-952.

Deshmukh A, Castellano G, Lim MY, Aylett R, McOwan PW(2010). Ubiquitous social perception abilities for interaction initiation in human-robot interaction. AFFINE'10 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments, Co-located with ACM Multimedia 201055-60.

Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L(2010). FReD: the floral reflectance database--a web portal for analyses of flower colour. PLoS One vol. 5, (12)

Verma M, McOwan PW(2010). A semi-automated approach to balancing of bottom-up salience for predicting change detection performance. Journal of Vision vol. 10, (6)

Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L(2010). FReD: the floral reflectance database--a web portal for analyses of flower colour. PloS one vol. 5, (12)

Griffin HJ, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2010). Function over form: An identity-free dynamic facial avatar. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Berisha F, Johnston A, McOwan PW(2010). Identifying regions that carry the best information about global facial configurations. Journal of vision vol. 10, (11)

Castellano G, Leite I, Pereira A, Martinho C, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2010). Inter-ACT: An affective and contextually rich multimodal video corpus for studying interaction with robots. MM'10 - Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference1031-1034.

Berisha F, Johnston A, McOwan PW(2010). Identifying regions that carry the best information about global facial configurations. Journal of Vision vol. 10, (11) 1-8.

Berisha F, Johnston A, McOwan PW(2010). Identifying regions that carry the best information about global facial configurations. J Vis vol. 10, (11)

Verma M, McOwan PW(2010). A semi-automated approach to balancing of bottom-up salience for predicting change detection performance. Journal of Vision vol. 10, (6) Article 3,

Castellano G, Leite I, Pereira A, Martinho C, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2010). Affect recognition for interactive companions: Challenges and design in real world scenarios. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces vol. 3, (1) 89-98.

Rider AT, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2009). Motion-induced position shifts in global dynamic Gabor arrays. J Vis vol. 9, (13) 8.1-8.8.

Liang X, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2009). A color neuromorphic approach for motion estimation. 2009 Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, WMVC '09

Leite I, Castellano G, Pereira A, Martinho C, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2009). Designing a game companion for long-term social interaction. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affective-Aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots, AFFINE '09, held during the ICMI-MLMI'09 Conference

Castellano G, Pereira A, Leite I, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2009). Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features. ICMI-MLMI'09 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interfaces119-125.

Castellano G, Leite I, Pereira A, Martinho C, Paiva A, McOwan PW(2009). It's all in the game: Towards an affect sensitive and context aware game companion. Proceedings - 2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, ACII 2009

Rider AT, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2009). Motion-induced position shifts in global dynamic Gabor arrays. Journal of vision vol. 9, (13)

McOwan PW, Burton EJ(2009). Sodarace: Continuing adventures in artificial life. 61-77.

Curzon P, McOwan PW, Cutts Q, Bell T(2009). Enthusing & inspiring with reusable kinaesthetic activities. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin vol. 41, Article 3, 94-98.

Shan CF, Gong SG, McOwan PW(2009). Facial expression recognition based on Local Binary Patterns: A comprehensive study. IMAGE VISION COMPUT vol. 27, (6) 803-816.

Curzon P, McOwan PW, Black J (2009). The magic of HCI: Enthusing kids in playful ways to help solve the Computer Science recruitment problem. Proceedings of HCI Educators 2009 - Playing with our Education.

Verma M, McOwan PW(2009). Generating customised experimental stimuli for visual search using Genetic Algorithms shows evidence for a continuum of search efficiency. Vision Research vol. 49, (3) 374-382.

Castellano G, McOwan PW (2009). ANALYSIS OF AFFECTIVE CUES IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION: A MULTI-LEVEL APPROACH. 2009 10TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE SERVICES. 258-261.

Curzon P, McOwan PW, Cutts QI, Bell T (2009). Enthusing & Inspiring with Reusable Kinaesthetic Activities. ITICSE 2009: PROCEEDING OF THE 2009 ACM SIGSE ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION. 94-98.

Rider AT, McOwan PW, Johnston A(2009). Motion-induced position shifts in global dynamic gabor arrays. Journal of Vision vol. 9, (13) 1-8.

Shan CF, Gong SG, McOwan PW(2008). Fusing gait and face cues for human gender recognition. NEUROCOMPUTING vol. 71, (10-12) 1931-1938.

Curzon P, McOwan PW (2008). Engaging with Computer Science Through Magic Shows. ITICSE '08: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION. 179-183.

Shan C, Gong S, McOwan P (2007). Beyond Facial Expressions: Learning Human Emotion from Body Gestures. British Machine Vision Conference.

Shan C, Gong S, McOwan P (2007). Capturing Correlations among Facial Parts for Facial Expression Analysis. British Machine Vision Conference.

Shan CF, Gong SG, McOwan PW (2007). Learning gender from human gaits and faces. 2007 IEEE CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED VIDEO AND SIGNAL BASED SURVEILLANCE. 505-510.

Shan C, Gong S, McOwan P (2006). A Comprehensive empirical study on linear subspace methods for facial expression analysis. IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human Computer Interaction. ???-???.

Anderson K, McOwan PW(2006). A real-time automated system for the recognition of human facial expressions. IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern vol. 36, (1) 96-105.

Shan C, Gong S, McOwan PW(2006). Dynamic facial expression recognition using a Bayesian temporal manifold model. BMVC 2006 - Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2006297-306.

Verma MA, McOwan PW (2005). An adaptive methodology for synthesising mobile phone games using genetic algorithms. 2005 IEEE CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, VOLS 1-3, PROCEEDINGS. 864-871.

Shan CF, Gong SG, McOwan PW (2005). Appearance manifold of facial expression. COMPUTER VISION IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, PROCEEDINGS. Editors: Sebe, N, Lew, MS, Huang, TS, vol. 3766, 221-230.

Gong S, MCOWAN PW, Shan C (2005). Conditional Mutual Information Based Boosting for Facial Expression Recognition. Conference: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'05), Oxford, UK

Shan CF, Gong SG, McOwan PW (2005). Recognizing facial expressions at low resolution. AVSS 2005: Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Proceedings. 330-335.

Shan CF, Gong SG, McOwan PW (2005). Robust facial expression recognition using local binary patterns. 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP), VOLS 1-5. 2225-2228.

Anderson K, McOwan PW(2004). Robust real-time face tracker for cluttered environments. COMPUT VIS IMAGE UND vol. 95, (2) 184-200.

MCOWAN PW, Anderson K(2004). Changing Faces: The Science of Facial Expression. As Others see us, Ed Phillips Hills21-35.

MCOWAN PW, Burton E(2004). Sodarace Adventures in Artificial Life. Artificial Life Models in Software, Springer Verlag.

Everitt RAJ, McOwan PW(2003). Java-based Internet biometric authentication system. IEEE T PATTERN ANAL vol. 25, (9) 1166-1172.

Anderson AJ, McOwan PW(2003). Humans deceived by predatory stealth strategy camouflaging motion. P ROY SOC LOND B BIO vol. 270, S18-S20.

Anderson AJ, McOwan PW(2003). Model of a predatory stealth behaviour camouflaging motion. P ROY SOC LOND B BIO vol. 270, (1514) 489-495.

Johnston A, McOwan PW, Benton CP(2003). Biological computation of image motion from flows over boundaries. J Physiol Paris vol. 97, (2-3) 325-334.

Sherwood AC, McOwan PW (2003). A biologically plausible gradient-based model for robust measures of spatial orientation. PERCEPTION. vol. 32, 46-46.

MCOWAN PW, Anderson A(2003). Learning Lessons from biology from hoverfly stealth to missile camouflage. Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Quaterly vol. 113, (1)

Anderson K, McOwan PW (2003). Real-time emotion recognition using biologically inspired models. AUDIO-AND VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION, PROCEEDINGS. Editors: Kittler, J, Nixon, MS, vol. 2688, 119-127.

Anderson AJ, McOwan PW (2002). 3D simulation of a sensorimotor stealth strategy for camouflaging motion. ICONIP'02: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING. Editors: Wang, L, Rajapakse, JC, Fukushima, K, Lee, SY et al., 1805-1809.

Anderson AJ, McOwan PW (2002). Towards an autonomous motion camouflage control system. PROCEEDING OF THE 2002 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOLS 1-3. 2006-2011.

Benton CP, Johnston A, McOwan PW(2001). Computational modeling of non Fourier motion. Journal of Vision vol. 1, (3)

Johnston A, Clifford CWG, Benton CP, McOwan PW(2001). Why correlation, energy and gradient motion models are not equivalent. Journal of Vision vol. 1, (3)

Benton CP, Johnston A, McOwan PW, Victor JD(2001). Computational modeling of non-Fourier motion: further evidence for a single luminance-based mechanism. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis vol. 18, (9) 2204-2208.