Professor Andrea Cavallaro, PhD MIET MIEEE

Profile

Andrea Cavallaro is Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and Full Professor at Queen Mary University of London, a Russell Group university. He is the founding Director of the Centre for Intelligent Sensing and the Director of Research of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) for “contributions to image processing and multi-sensor scene understanding,” and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing: Image Communication, as Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, as member of the IEEE Video Signal Processing and Communication Technical Committee and as member of the Technical Directions Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Professor Cavallaro received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2002. He was a Research Fellow with British Telecommunications (BT) in 2004 and was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Teaching Prize in 2007; three student paper awards on target tracking and perceptually sensitive coding at IEEE ICASSP in 2005, 2007 and 2009; and the best paper award at IEEE AVSS 2009. He was selected as IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021) and is the past Chair of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2020-2021). He also served as elected member of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee and chair of the Awards committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee. He served as Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014); and as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2011-2015), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2009-2010), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2008-2011) and IEEE Multimedia (2016-2018). He also served as Guest Editor the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2019), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2017, 2011), Pattern Recognition Letters (2016), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2013), International Journal of Computer Vision (2011), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2010), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (2010), Annals of the British Machine Vision Association (2010), Journal of Image and Video Processing (2010, 2008), and Journal on Signal, Image and Video Processing (2007).

Professor Cavallaro has published over 270 journal and conference papers, one monograph on Video tracking (2011, Wiley) and three edited books: Multi-camera networks (2009, Elsevier); Analysis, retrieval and delivery of multimedia content (2012, Springer); and Intelligent multimedia surveillance (2013, Springer).

Teaching

Introduction to Computer Vision (Postgraduate/Undergraduate)

In recent years, research in computer vision has made significant progress. This is largely driven by the recognition that effective visual perception is crucial in understanding intelligent behaviour - unless we understand how we perceive, we will never understand how we reason The first part of the module will introduce the relevant concepts and techniques in machine learning. In the second part we will show how these techniques can be applied to various areas in computer vision.

Research

Research Interests:

Professor Cavallaro has an established track record in building bridges between disciplines, such as linking signal processing and wireless networks for distributed tracking, machine learning and image processing for scene analysis, and audio-visual sensing and robotics for autonomous, collaborative systems. His research interests include machine learning for multimodal perception, computer vision, machine listening, and information privacy. 

Publications

• Emberton S, Chittka L, Cavallaro A et al. (publicationYear). Sensor Capability and Atmospheric Correction in Ocean Colour Remote Sensing. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Poiesi F, Cavallaro A (2015). Predicting and recognizing human interactions in public spaces. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Wang L, Hon T-K, Reiss JD et al. (2016). Self-Localization of Ad-Hoc Arrays Using Time Difference of Arrivals. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Wang Y, Cavallaro A (2015). Coalition Formation for Distributed Tracking in Wireless Camera Networks. 2015 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)

  
  

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• Li W, Song Y-Z, Cavallaro A (2015). Refining Graph Matching Using Inherent Structure Information. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

  
  

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• Poiesi F, Cavallaro A (2015). Self-Positioning of a Team of Flying Smart Cameras. 2015 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)

  
  

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• Hon TK, Wang L, Reiss JD et al. (2015). Audio Fingerprinting for Multi-Device Self-Localisation. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Poiesi F, Cavallaro A (2015). MTTV - An Interactive Trajectory Visualization and Analysis Tool. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications

  
  

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• Khan A, Rinner B, Cavallaro A (2015). Multiscale Observation of Multiple Moving Targets Using Micro Aerial Vehicles. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  
  

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• Katragadda S, Sanmiguel JC, Cavallaro A (2014). Consensus protocols for distributed tracking in wireless camera networks. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Tahir SF, Cavallaro A (2014). Low-Cost Multi-Camera Object Matching. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

  
  

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• Nawaz T, Poiesi F, Cavallaro A (2014). Assessing tracking assessment measures. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Babaguchi N, Cavallaro A, Chellappa R et al. (2013). Guest editorial special issue on intelligent video surveillance for public security and personal privacy. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Sariyanidi E, Gunes H, Gökmen M et al. (2013). Local Zernike Moment Representation for Facial Affect Recognition. Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2013

  
  

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• Anjum N, Cavallaro A (2012). Automated Localization of a Camera Network. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Tziakos I, Cavallaro A, Xu L-Q (2010). Local Abnormality Detection in Video Using Subspace Learning. 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance

  
  

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• Tziakos I, Cavallaro A, Xu LQ (2010). Event monitoring via local motion abnormality detection in non-linear subspace. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Daniyal F, Taj M, Cavallaro A (2010). Content and task-based view selection from multiple video streams. nameOfConference

  
  

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• De Vleeschouwer C, Cavallaro A, Frossard P et al. (2010). Multicamera Information Processing: Acquisition, Collaboration, Interpretation, and Production. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Maggio E, Cavallaro A (2009). Learning scene context for multiple object tracking. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Nair P, Cavallaro A (2009). 3-D Face Detection, Landmark Localization, and Registration Using a Point Distribution Model. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Maggio E, Cavallaro A (2009). Accurate appearance-based Bayesian tracking for maneuvering targets. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Popkin T, Cavallaro A, Hands D (2009). Distance blurring for space-variant image coding. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Popkin T, Cavallaro A, Hands D (2009). Multi-foveation filtering. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Tziakos I, Cavallaro A, Xu LQ (2009). Video event segmentation and visualisation in non-linear subspace. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Tziakos I, Cavallaro A, Xu L (2009). Event monitoring via local motion abnormality detection in non–linear subspace. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Aghajan H, Cavallaro A (2009). Multi-Camera Networks: Principles and Applications. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Pachoud S, Gong S, Cavallaro A (2009). Space-time audio-visual speech recognition with multiple multi-class probabilistic Support Vector Machines. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Tziakos I, Cavallaro A, Xu L (2009). Video Event Segmentation and Visualisation in Non-linear Subspace. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Anjum N, Cavallaro A (2008). Multi-feature object trajectory clustering for video analysis. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Maggio E, Taj M, Cavallaro A (2008). Efficient multitarget visual tracking using random finite sets. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Zhou H, Taj M, Cavallaro A (2008). Target detection and tracking with heterogeneous sensors. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Pachoud S, Gong S, Cavallaro A (2008). Video Augmentation for Improving Audio Speech Recognition under Noise. Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2008

  
  

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• Regazzoni CS, Cavallaro A, Porikli F (2008). Video Tracking in Complex Scenes for Surveillance Applications. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Maggio E, Smeraldi F, Cavallaro A (2007). Adaptive multi-feature tracking in a particle filtering framework. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Maggio E, Smerladi F, Cavallaro A (2007). Adaptive multifeature tracking in a particle filtering framework. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Xu L-Q (2007). Video signal analysis. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A (2007). Multi-sensor object detection and tracking. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Maggio E, Taj M (2007). Person and Vehicle Detection and Tracking: Experiments on the CLEAR dATASET. Proceedings of Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships (CLEAR) Workshop. Baltimore, Maryland, USA, May 8-9 2007

  
  

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• Taj M, Maggio E, Cavallaro A (2007). Objective evaluation of pedestrian and vehicle tracking on the CLEAR surveillance dataset. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Nair P, Cavallaro A (2007). Landmark detection in 2.5D facial scans. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Zhou HY, Taj M, Cavallaro A (2007). Audiovisual tracking using STAC sensors. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Taj M, Cavallaro A (2007). Multi-camera scene analysis using an object-centric Continuous Distribution Hidden Markov Model. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Kayumbi G, Cavallaro A (2007). Robust homography-based trajectory transformation for multi-camera scene analysis. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Ziliani F (2006). Evaluation of multi-sensor surveillance event detectors. IET Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP 2006), London, 13-14 June 2006

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Xu L-Q (2006). Surveillance scene change detection. IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS2006), in conjunction with ECCV, Graz, Austria, 7-13 May 2006

  
  

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• Cavallaro A, Winkler S (2006). Digital Multimedia Perception and Design. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Nair PM, Zou L (2005). Facial Scan change detection. 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT), London, 29 November - 1 December 2005

  
  

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• Cavallaro A, Steiger O, Ebrahimi T (2005). Semantic video analysis for adaptive content delivery and automatic description. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Smeraldi F, CAVALLARO A, Maggio E (2005). Combining Colour and Orientation for Adaptive Particle Filter-based Tracking. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Oxford, 6-8 September 2005

  
  

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• Cavallaro A, Salvador E, Ebrahimi T (2005). Shadow-aware object-based video processing. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Ziliani F (2005). Characterisation of tracking performance. Proc. of Workshop on Image Analysis For Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS-2005), Montreux (CH), 13-15 April 2005

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Steiger O, Ebrahimi T (2005). Real-time generation of annotated video for surveillance. Proc. of Workshop on Image Analysis For Multimedia Interactive Service (WIAMIS-2005), Montreux (CH), 13-15 April 2005

  
  

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• Cavallaro A, Steiger O, Ebrahimi T (2005). Tracking video objects in cluttered background. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Steiger O, Ebrahimi T, Cavallaro A (2005). Evaluating perceptually prefiltered video. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Maggio E, Cavallaro A (2005). Multi-part target representation for color tracking. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A (2005). Universal Multimedia Access: accessing information anywhere, anytime. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A (2004). Adding Privacy Constraints to Video-based Applications. European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, London

  
  

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• Salvador E, Cavallaro A, Ebrahimi T (2004). Cast shadow segmentation using invariant color features. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, EBRAHIMI T, SALVADOR E (2004). Rule-based Analysis for Shadow Recognition. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Frossard P, Vandergheynst P et al. (2004). Scalable Colour Image Coding with Matching Pursuit. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Ebrahimi T, Salvador E (2004). Shadow Detection in Image Sequences. Proc. of IEE Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London

  
  

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• Cavallaro A (2002). From visual information to knowledge: semantic video object segmentation, tracking and description. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Ziliani F, Cavallaro A (2001). Image Analysis for Video Surveillance based on Spatial Regularization of a Statistical Change Detection. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Macq B, Ebrahimi T et al. (2001). Segmenting Moving Objects: the MODEST Video Object Kernel. Proc. of Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS-2001) [invited paper]

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Ebrahimi T, Ziliani F et al. (2001). Automatic and Interactive Segmentation of Video Sequences. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Castagno R, Cavallaro A, Ziliani F et al. (2001). Non Linear Model-based Image/Video Processing and Analysis. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Cavallaro A, Ziliani F (2000). Image Analysis for Advanced Video Surveillance. nameOfConference

  
  

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• CAVALLARO A, Marsi S, Sicuranza G (1998). A Motion Compensation Algorithm Based on Non Linear Geometric Transformation and Quadtree Decomposition. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Cavallaro A, Marsi S, Sicuranza GL (1998). Signal Analysis and Prediction. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Cavallaro A, Marsi S, Sicuranza GL (1997). A Motion Compensation Algorithm Based on Non Linear Geometric Transformation and Quadtree Structure. First European Conference on Signal Analysis and Prediction (ECSAP)

  
  

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• Cavallaro A (1996). Video Compression based on Non Linear Techniques. nameOfConference

  
  

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