3. Stuart James

Stuart James

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

Research Lines

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Contacts

Venice, Italy
+39 010 2897 436

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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 Humanities

Projects

IIT Publications

  • 2022
  • Giunchi D., James S.iit, Bovo R., Degraen D., Steed A.
    DOI

    Explorative Study on Asymmetric Sketch Interactions for Object Retrieval in Virtual Reality

    2022 International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET)
  • Talon D.iit, Del Bue A.iit, James S.iit

    GANzzle: Reframing jigsaw puzzle solving as a retrieval task using a generative mental image

    2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
  • Ahmad J.iit, Taiana M.iit, Toso M., James S.iit, Del Bue A.iit

    Multi-view 3D Objects Localization from Street-level Scenes

    International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing
  • Taiana M.iit, Toso M., Mehdi M. S., James S.iit, Del Bue A.iit

    The MEMEX project: MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling

    Workshop AI Responsabile ed Affidabile - Ital-IA - Secondo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
  • Bala J., James S.iit, Del Bue A.iit, Nisi V.

    Writing with (Digital) Scissors: Designing a Text Editing Tool for Assisted Storytelling using Crowd-Generated Content

    International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
  • 2021
  • Dionisio M., Nisi V., Xin J., Bala P., James S.iit, Nunes N.J.
    DOI

    Amnesia in the Atlantic: An AI Driven Serious Game on Marine Biodiversity

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13056 LNCS, pp. 427-432
  • Aubry M., Costiner L., James S.iit

    Artificial Intelligence and Art History: A Necessary Debate?

    Histoire de l’art, 87 : Humanités numériques, Publisher: REVUE HISTOIRE DE L'ART
  • Elkhouly M. D., Tsesmelis T.iit, Del Bue A.iit, James S.iit
    DOI

    LIGHTS: Light Specularity Dataset For Specular Detection In Multi-View

    International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 2908-2912
  • Giunchi D., Sztrajman A., James S.iit, Steed A.
    DOI

    Mixing modalities of 3D sketching and speech for interactive model retrieval in virtual reality

    IMX 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, pp. 144-155
  • Heinis T., Giunchi D., Bovo R., Charalambous P., Liarokapis F., Shipman A., James S.iit, Steed A.

    Perceived Realism of Pedestrian Crowds Trajectories in VR

    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST
  • Bala P., Nisi V., Dionisio M., Nunes N.J., James S.iit
    DOI

    Square peg, round hole: A case study on using Visual Question & Answering in Games

    CHI PLAY 2021 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, pp. 133-139
  • 2020
  • Fiorucci M.iit, Khoroshiltseva M.iit, Pontil M.iit, Traviglia A.iit, Del Bue A.iit, James S.iit
    DOI

    Machine Learning for Cultural Heritage: A Survey

    Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 133, pp. 102-108
  • 2019
  • Wang Y.iit, James S.iit, Stathopoulou E.K., Beltran-Gonzalez C.iit, Konishi Y., Del Bue A.iit
    DOI

    Autonomous 3D reconstruction, mapping and exploration of indoor environments with a robotic arm

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Giunchi D., James S.iit, Degraen D., Steed A.
    DOI

    Mixing realities for sketch retrieval in Virtual Reality

    Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI '19)
  • Bansal V., James S.iit, Del Bue A.iit
    DOI

    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
  • Giunchi D., James S., Steed A.
    DOI

    3D sketching for interactive model retrieval in virtual reality

    Proceedings - Expressive 2018: Computational Aesthetics Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
  • Giunchi D., James S., Steed A.
    DOI

    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
  • Elkhouly M.D.iit, James S.iit, Del Bue A.iit
    DOI

    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
  • Gay P., James S.iit, Del Bue A.iit
    DOI

    Visual Graphs from Motion (VGfM): Scene understanding with object geometry reasoning

    Asian Conference on Computer Vision
  • 2017
  • Orzech K.M., Moncur W., Durrant A., James S., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    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
  • Moritz J., James S., Haines T.S.F., Ritschel T., Weyrich T.
    DOI

    Texture Stationarization: Turning Photos into Tileable Textures

    Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 36, (no. 2), pp. 177-188
  • 2016
  • James S., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    Evolutionary data purification for social media classification

    Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 0, pp. 2676-2681
  • 2014
  • Trujillo-Pisanty D., Durrant A., Martindale S., James S., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    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
  • Gray C., James S., Collomosse J., Asente P.
    DOI

    A particle filtering approach to salient video object localization

    2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014, pp. 194-198
  • James S., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    Interactive video asset retrieval using sketched queries

    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 2014-November
  • James S., Fonseca M.J., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    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
  • Hu R., James S., Wang T., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    Markov random fields for sketch based video retrieval

    ICMR 2013 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, pp. 279-286
  • 2012
  • Hu R., James S., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    Annotated free-hand sketches for video retrieval using object semantics and motion

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7131 LNCS, pp. 473-484
  • Fonseca M.J., James S., Collomosse J.
    DOI

    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
  • James S.iit

    Comprendere gli archivi culturali digitali, dal passato al presente

Scientific Talks

  • 2021
  • Giunchi D., Sztrajman A., James S.iit, Steed A.

    Mixing modalities of 3D sketching and speech for interactive model retrieval in virtual reality

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