Publication List - M.Spann
Books
R.G.Wilson M.Spann. Image Segmentation and the Problem of Uncertainty. Research Studies
Press (Ed. J.Kittler), 1987.
H. Ujir, M. Spann. Facial Expression Recognition Using FAP-Based 3D MMM’s. Topics in Medical
Image Processing and Computational Vision. Eds. Jaoa Manuel R.S.Tavares, R.M. Natal Jorge. pp
33-47, 2013
Journal Papers
M.Spann R.G.Wilson. A Quadtree Approach to Image Segmentation Which Combines Statistical
and Spatial Information. Pattern Recognition, 18(3,4), pp. 257-269, 1985.
R.G.Wilson M.Spann. Finite Prolate Spheroidal Sequences and their Applications II: Image Feature
Description and Segmentation. IEEE Trans. PAMI, 10(2), 1988.
M.Spann A.Nieminen. Adaptive Gaussian Weighted Filtering for Image Segmentation. Pattern
Recognition Letters, 8, pp. 251-255, 1988.
M.Spann C.Horne. Image Segmentation Using a Dynamic Thresholding Pyramid. Pattern
Recognition, 22(6) pp. 719-732, 1989.
M.Spann C.Horne J.M.H.du Buf. The Detection of Thin Structures in Images. Pattern Recognition
Letters, 10, pp. 175-179, 1989.
J.M.H. du Buf M.Kardan M.Spann. Texture Feature Performance for Image Segmentation. Pattern
Recognition, 23(3,4), pp. 291-309, 1990.
R.G. Wilson M.Spann. A New Approach to Clustering. Pattern Recognition, 23(12), pp. 1413-1425,
1990.
A.E.Grace M.Spann. A Comparison between Fourier-Mellin descriptors and moment based features
for invariant object recognition using neural networks. Pattern Recognition Letters, 12, pp 635-643,
1991.
M. Spann. Figure/Ground Separation Using Stochastic Pyramid Re-linking. Pattern Recognition,
24(10), pp. 993-1002, 1991.
M. Spann A.E.Grace. Adaptive Segmentation of Noisy and Textured Images. Pattern Recognition,
Vol. 27, No. 12, pp 1717-1733, 1994.
B.F.M Bushofa, M.Spann. Segmentation and Recognition of Printed Arabic Characters using
Structural Classification. Image and Vision Computing, 15, 167-179, 1997.
X.Shen, M.Spann. 3D region representation based on run-lengths : Operations and Efficiency.
Pattern Recognition, 31(5), pp. 575-585, 1998.
X.Shen, M.Spann, P.Nacken. Segmentation of 2D and 3D Images through Hierarchical Clustering
based on Region Modelling, Pattern Recognition, 31(9), pp. 1295-1310, 1998.
E.P.Ong, M. Spann Robust Optical Flow Computation based on Least-Median-of-Squares
Regression. Int. Journal of Computer Vision, 31(1), pp 51-82, 1999.
K.Koester, M.Spann. Unsupervised Segmentation of 3D and 2D Seismic Reflection Data. Int. J. of
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 13(5), pp 643-663, 1999.
D. Gibson, M.Spann. Robust Motion Trajectory Estimation for Long Image Sequences. Int. J. of
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 13(5), pp 781-802, 1999.
K.Koester, M.Spann. MIR: An Approach to Robust Clustering - Application to Range Image
Segmentation. IEEE Trans PAMI, 22(5), pp 430-444, 2000.
D. Gibson, M. Spann. Robust Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Sparse Motion Trajectory Set.
IEEE Trans Image Proc. 12(4), pp 431-445, 2003
D. Gibson, M. Spann, S.I.Woolley. A Wavelet-Based Region of Interest Encoder for the
Compression of Angiogram Video Sequences," IEEE Trans. On Information in Biomedicine, Vol 8(2),
June 2004, pp 103-113.
G. Diamonopolous, M. Spann. “Event Detection for Intelligent Car Park Video Surveillance”,
Journal of Real Time Imaging: Special issue on video object processing for surveillance applications,
Vol 11(3), June 2005, pp 233-243.
D. Gibson, M. Spann, J, Turner, T. Wright. “Fault Surface Detection in 3D Seismic Data”, IEEE
Trans. Remote Sensing and Geoscience, Vol 43(9), September 2005, pp 2094-2102.
G. Diamantopoulos, S. I. Woolley M. Spann. “A Critical Review of Past Research into the NeuroLinguistic Programming Eye-Accessing Cues Model”, Current Research in NLP, 1, December 2009,
ISBN 1-84469-019-9, pp8-22
H. Ujir, M. Spann. “Surface Normals with Modular Approach and Weighted Voting Scheme in 3D
Facial Expression Classification”, Int Journal of Computer and Information Technology, Vol 3(5), Sept
2014.
Conference Papers
M.Spann R.G.Wilson. A Multi-Resolution Approach to Image Segmentation. Proc. 4th Scandinavian
Conference on Image Analysis, Trondeim, Norway, pp. 31-38, 1985.
M.Spann R.G.Wilson T.Dodgeson. Coding Textures. Proc. SPIE Conf. on Image Coding, Cannes,
France, 1985.
C.Horne M.Spann. Region Extraction Using a Dynamic Thresholding Pyramid. Proc SPIE Conf. on
Vision, Communications and Image Processing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1988.
J.M.H. du Buf M.Spann. Visual Versus Machine Performance in Boundary Detection Between
Textured Regions. Int. Conf. on Visual Search, Durham, UK, 1988.
C.Horne M.Spann. Image Segmentation/Estimation Using a Multi-Scale Planar Model. Proc. 6th
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Oulu, Finland, pp. 1142-1147, 1989.
A.E.Grace M.Spann. Model Based Image Segmentation Using Optimisation Networks. Proc. 2nd
Singapore Int. Conf. On Image Processing, Singapore, pp. 716-720, 1992.
A.E.Grace M.Spann. Edge Enhancement and Fine Feature Restoration of Segmented Objects using
Pyramid Based Adaptive Filters. Proc. British Machine Vision Conference, Guildford, UK, 1993.
B.M.F.Bushofa, M.Spann. Segmentation and Recognition of Printed Arabic Characters. Proc.
BMVC '95, Birmingham 1995.
P.D.James, M.Spann. Multiresolution Motion Estimation and Segmentation Incorporating Feature
Correspondance and Optical Flow. Proc. BMVC '95, Birmingham 1995.
E.P.Ong, M.Spann. Robust Computation of Optical Flow. Proc. BMVC '95, Birmingham 1995.
E.P.Ong, M.Spann. Robust Multiresolution Computation of Optical Flow. ICASSP'96, 4, 1939-1942,
1996.
B.F.M Bushofa, M.Spann. Segmentation of Arabic Characters Using their Contour Information.
Proc. DSP97, Santorini, Greece, 1997.
X. Shen, M.Spann. Segmentation of 2D and 3D Images Through a Hierarchical Clustering Based on
Region Modelling. Proc. ICIP 97, Santa-Barbara, USA, Vol. 3, pp. 50-53, 1997.
X. Shen, M.Spann. 3D Shape Modelling Using a Multi-Scale Surface Model. Proc. ICIP 97, SantaBarbara, USA, Vol. 2, pp. 478-482, 1997.
D. Gibson, M.Spann. Robust Motion Trajectory Estimation for Long Image Sequences. Proc. VI ’98,
Vancouver, Canada, pp. 43-50, 1998.
K. Koester, M.Spann. A Robust Approach to Unsupervised Segmentation of Seismic Datasets.
Proc. VI ’98, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 121-128, 1998.
K. Koester, M. Spann. A System for Seismic Data Processing. Proc. Eusipco, Rhodes, Greece,
Sept. 1998.
X. Shen, M. Spann. 3D Shape Modelling through a Constrained Estimation of a Bicubic B-Spline
Surface. Proc. British Machine Vision Conference, Southampton, UK, 1998.
D. Gibson, M.Spann. Robust Motion Trajectory Estimation for Long Image Sequences with
Applications to Optical Flow Estimation and Motion Compensated Prediction. Proc. ISCAS’99,
Orlando, USA, 1999.
J. S. Y. Tey, M. Spann. Robust Region-Based Motion Estimation for Video Compression. Proc. ICIP
2000, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 2000.
M. Spann. An Invisible Watermarking Algorithm based on Wavelet Coefficient Bit-Plane Embedding.
Proc. ISPACS 2000, Hawaii, Nov. 2000.
D. M. Gibson, M. Spann, S. I. Woolley. A Comparative Study of Compression Methodologies for
Digital Angiogram Video. Proc. ISPACS 2000, Hawaii, Nov. 2000.
D. M. Gibson, G. Tsibidis, M. Spann, S. I. Woolley. Diagnostically lossless video compression for
angiogram data using a wavelet-based texture modelling approach. Electronic Imaging 2001, San
Jose, California, Jan. 2001.
D. M. Gibson, G. Tsibidis, M. Spann, S. I. Woolley. Angiogram video compression using a
wavelet-based texture modelling approach. Medical Image Understanding 2001, University of
Birmingham, UK, July 2001.
D. M. Gibson, J. Turner, M. Spann, T. Wright. Automated interpretation of geological fault
surfaces imaged in 3D seismic data. In: Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe and Global
Perspectives, Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference, 1557-1565, 2005
M. J. Knowles, M. Spann. Motion Compensated Background Filtering Using Scheduled Motion
Estimation and Estimated Rank Comparison. The Fifth IASTED International Conference on
Visualization, Imaging, & Image Processing, Benidorm, 2005
M. J. Knowles, M. Spann. Motion Compensated Background Filtering for Real-Time Tracking in
Moving Background Sequences. Proc. IEEE-SMC 2005, Hawaii, USA, 2005.
M. E. Barilla, M. Spann, M. G. Forero. Colour-based texture segmentation. Proc Fifth International
WorkShop on Information Optics, Toledo, Spain, 2006
M. E. Barilla, M.Spann. Image classification with colour and texture using the Complex Wavelet
Transform in New Trends in Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control, Computing and
Comunications Sciences, Logos Verlag, Berlin, 2008, pp 445-457.
P. Gomo, M. Spann. FFT-based Conjugate Gradient Strategies for Numerical Simulation of GVF
Snakes. Proc 1st International Conf. On Mathematical and Computational Biomedical Engineering.
Swansea, UK, 2009, pp 226-229.
H. Ujir, M. Spann. Facial Expression Recognition using MPEG-4 FAP-based 3D MMM Facial
Expression Recognition using MPEG-4 FAP-based 3D MMM. Proc. VIPImage, Algarve, Portugal,
2011.