Stuart James
Researcher
Researcher (Assist. Prof.) in Visual Geometry and Modelling

About
Researcher (Assistant Professor) in Visual Geometry and Modelling at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). Stuart's research focus is on Visual Reasoning across Big Data problems with a particular interest in understanding layout and abstract concepts which challenge traditional algorithms. He has worked on Scene understanding, Visual Question and Answering, 3D Reconstruction, Texture Analysis, Social Media classification, Sketch-based Interaction and Retrieval and Domain Adaptation. Stuart became a Researcher following a Postdoctoral position also at IIT working on 3D scene understanding with Dr Alessio Del Bue. Previously Stuart was a Research Associate at University College London (UCL) working with Prof. Tim Weyrich. While at the University of Surrey Stuart completed his PhD and a Postdoctoral position with Dr John Collomosse. Stuart continues to hold an honorary position at UCL to this day and collaborates with researchers across universities and institutes.
Interests
Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval Cultural Heritage Digital HumanitiesIIT Publications
- 2020
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Machine Learning for Cultural Heritage: A Survey
Pattern Recognition Letters - 2019
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Autonomous 3D reconstruction, mapping and exploration of indoor environments with a robotic arm
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters -
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Mixing realities for sketch retrieval in Virtual Reality
Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI '19) -
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re-OBJ: Jointly Learning the Foreground and Background for Object Instance Re-identification
20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP'19), pp. 402-413 - 2018
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3D sketching for interactive model retrieval in virtual reality
Proceedings - Expressive 2018: Computational Aesthetics Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering -
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Model Retrieval by 3D Sketching in Immersive Virtual Reality
25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2018 - Proceedings, pp. 559-560 -
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Multi-view Aggregation for Color Naming with Shadow Detection and Removal
IEEE 3rd International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems, IPAS 2018, pp. 115-120 -
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Visual Graphs from Motion (VGfM): Scene understanding with object geometry reasoning
Asian Conference on Computer Vision - 2017
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Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: variations across school leavers and recent retirees
Visual Studies, vol. 32, (no. 4), pp. 313-328 -
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Texture Stationarization: Turning Photos into Tileable Textures
Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 36, (no. 2), pp. 177-188 - 2016
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Evolutionary data purification for social media classification
Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 0, pp. 2676-2681 - 2014
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Admixed portrait: Refections on being online as a new parent
Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS, pp. 503-512 -
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A particle filtering approach to salient video object localization
2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014, pp. 194-198 -
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Interactive video asset retrieval using sketched queries
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 2014-November -
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ReEnact: Sketch based choreographic design from archival dance footage
ICMR 2014 - Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2014, pp. 313-320 - 2013
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Markov random fields for sketch based video retrieval
ICMR 2013 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, pp. 279-286 - 2012
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Annotated free-hand sketches for video retrieval using object semantics and motion
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7131 LNCS, pp. 473-484 -
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Skeletons from sketches of dancing poses
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC, pp. 247-248
Dissemination Talks
- 2019
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Comprendere gli archivi culturali digitali, dal passato al presente
Awards
- 2019 Best Student Paper Award ICIAP for "re-OBJ:Jointly learning the foreground and background for object instance re-identification"
- 2018 Best Paper Award IPAS for "Multi-view Aggregation for Color Naming with Shadow Detection and Removal
- 2011 BMVA Summer School Poster Runner-up "Interactive Video Asset Retrieval using Sketched Queries"
- 2006 Microsoft Imagine cup Software Design Challenge UK Top 10