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NAME: Patrice Delmas

CURRENT POSITION: Senior Lecturer

DEPARTMENT: Computer Science

FACULTY: Science

Address: Department of Computer Science

City Campus

Private Bag 92019

Auckland, New Zealand

Email: p.delmas@auckland.ac.nz

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

2000 Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (France), PhD, Signal and Image Processing

1995 Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (France), MSc, Signal, Speech and Image Processing

1994 Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (France), MEng, Physics and Electrotechnics

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

2000 2001 Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute – Post-Doctoral Fellow

1996 2000 Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute – Research Assistant

ACADEMIC DUTIES:

Department of Computer Science Stage 2 Coordinator

Department of Computer Science Academic Committee member

Deputy-Director of the Centre for Imaging Technologies and Research (CITR) 01/04->04/09

Deputy-HOD Tamaki Campus (Dept of Computer Science) 26/11/04->17/12/04

Chair of the COMPSCI 215 S2 T course contents definition

PhD application reviewer for the Department of Computer Science PhD committee

Internal and external MSc thesis reviewer

TEACHING:

1996 – 2000: Taught Stage 2 tutorials – Mathematics (UT Grenoble)

Supervised Stage4 Practical Sessions – Electronics and Electrotechnics (National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble)

From 2001 to 2008 210 – OS-Assembly (Course supervisor)

From 2001 to 2009 773 – Early Active Vision (Course co-supervisor)

In 2003 and 2004 775 – Advanced Computer Vision

In 2003 and 2004 716 – 3D Visualization (New Course, Course supervisor)

From 2006 to 2008 375 Introduction to Image Processing

In 2009 373 Vision and Graphics

RESEARCH SPECIALTIES / CAREER

Research Specialities

· Real-time Stereovision

· Deformable Models, (Geodesic) Active Contours

· 3D body and face analysis

· Realistic 3D face mapping/animation

· 2D-3D Image Database Statistical Analysis

· Robust matching

· Image Processing for soil sciences

· Applied Early Vision

Research Publications

JOINT AUTHORSHIP: numerical superscripts after the author’s last initial: 1 (former member of this department); 2 (member of another department of this University); 3 (not a member of staff at this University); 4 (visitor to this department (eg on leave, postdoctoral fellow)), 5 (postgraduate student – current or former).

Books edited

IVCNZ 2006 Proceedings, John Morris, Patrice Delmas, Jason James Eds.

Book - Chapter

LIEVIN, M., DELMAS, P.J., JAMES, J.G., GIMEL'FARB, G. Lip Contour Extraction from Video Sequences under Natural Lighting Conditions, In:Alan Liew, Shilin Wang (ed.), Visual Speech Recognition: Lip Segmentation and Mapping., Hershey PA 17033-1240 USA, IGI Global, p.173-215, 2008

GASTELUM, A., DELMAS, P.J., MARQUEZ, J., WOODWARD, A.M., JAMES, J.G., LIEVIN, M., GIMEL'FARB, G. 3d Lip Shape SPH Based Evolution Using Prior 2D Dynamic Lip Features Extraction and Static 3D Lip Measurements, In:Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Shilin Wang (ed.), Visual Speech Recognition: Lip Segmentation and Mapping., Hershey PA 17033-1240 USA, IGI Global, p.216-241, 2008

Conference Contribution - Paper Published on Proceedings

DELMAS, P.J., DUWIG, C., MUELLER, K., PRADO, B., BAEZ, A. 'Infiltration of a Fluorescent Dye in Allophanic Soils using Image Analysis: Calibration Procedure', European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008 (EGU 2008), Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April, 2008

GASTELUM, A., MOSSO, J.L., DELMAS, P.J., MARQUEZ, J. 'A mesh-free mechanical model of the upper gastrointestinal system', Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, IEEE Proceedings(ed.), Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008, Vancouver, Canada, 20-25 August, 2008, p.555-558

GAMAGE, P., XIE, S.Q., DELMAS, P.J., XU, P., MUKHERJEE, S. 'Patient-Specific Customization of a Generic Femur Model Using Orthogonal 2D Radiographs', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 2008 (DICTA´;08), Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 2008 (DICTA´;08), Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December 2008, 2008, p.-

KRUEGER, M., DELMAS, P.J., GIMEL'FARB, G. 'Active Contour Based Segmentation of 3D Surfaces', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008), David A. Forsyth, Philip H. S. Torr, Andrew Zisserman(ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5303, Marseille, France, October 12th-18th, 2008, p.350-363

GAMAGE, P., XIE, S.Q., DELMAS, P.J., XU, P., MUKHERJEE, S. 'Radiograph Based Patient-Specific Customization of a Generic Femur', 15th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2008, 15th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2008, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-4 December, 2008, p.-

MARQUEZ, J., RAMIREZ, W., BOYER, L., DELMAS, P.J. 'Robust Ellipsoidal Model Fitting of Human Heads', Second International Workshop, RobVis 2008, Springer(ed.), Second International Workshop, RobVis 2008, LNCS 4931, Auckland, New Zealand, 18-20 February, 2008, p.381-390

24. Müller K., Duwig C., Delmas P., Morin H., Ren K., Prado B.‘Quantifying fluorescent tracer distribution to image solute transport in allophanic soils’. Accepted for oral presentation at the Preferential Flow and Transport Processes in Soil Workshop, Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità Ascona, Switzerland, 4-9 November, 2006.

23. Da An, Woodward A., Delmas P., Gimel’farb G., Morris J., Marquez J. ‘Comparison of active structure lighting mono- and stereo camera systems: Application to 3D face acquisition’. Accepted at the Mexican Society for Computer Science “Encuentro Internacional de Ciencias de la Computación”, San Luis Potosí, September 18-22, 2006.

22. Morris, J., Gimel’farb, G., Delmas, P. ‘Concurrent Stereo under Photometric Image Distortions’. Accepted at the IAPR 18^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2006, Hong Kong, China, August 20-24. (Acceptance rate: 54%)

21. Woodward, A., An, Da, Gimel’farb, G., Delmas, P. ‘An Evaluation of Three Popular Computer Vision Approaches for 3-D Face Synthesis’. Accepted at IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition 2006, Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, pp 270-278. LNCS 4109/2006

20. WOODWARD, A., AN, DA, GIMEL’FARB, G., DELMAS, P. ‘A Comparison of Three 3-D Facial Reconstruction Approaches’. Accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo 2006, July 9-12, Toronto, Canada. (lecture paper: 20% acceptance rate out of 1028 submissions)

19. PRADO, B.; DUWIG, C.; DELMAS, P.; MULLER, K.; LI, J.; ESTEVES, M. ‘Combining Image Processing and Displacement Experiments to study Solute Transport in an Andosol’. Accepted for presentation at the Meeting / Conference: "EGU (European Geophysical Union) General Assembly 2006, Vienna, April 2006, Austria.

18. LIU, J., DELMAS, P, GIMELFARB, G., MORRIS, J. ‘Stereo reconstruction using an image noise model’. Presented at the Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Conference, Cairns Convention Centre, Australia, 6-8 December, 2005, 6 pages.

17. LI, J., DELMAS, P., DUWIG, C., PRADO, B., FLORES, J.M, LIU, J. ‘Mexican volcanic soils porosity analysis using image processing techniques’. Presented at the 2^nd Workshop for Image and Optical Processing, Guanajuato, Mexico, 21-24 November 2005, 4 pages.

16. REN, K.Y., HSIAO, C.L.Y., DELMAS, P., FLORES, J.M. ‘A stereo camera system for 3D fingertip tracking’ Presented at the 2^nd Workshop for Image and Optical Processing, Guanajuato, Mexico, 21-24 November 2005, 4 pages.

15. MORRIS, J., LIU, J., GIMELFARB, G., DELMAS, P. ‘A Noise-Driven Paradigm for Solving the Stereo Correspondence Problem’. Presented at MICAI’05 (Mexican International Conference in Artificial Intelligence), Monterrey, Mexico, November 14-18, 2005, pp 307-317. LNCS 3789/2005 (38% of submission accepted), Best paper award 2^nd place.

14. MORRIS, J., LIU, J., GIMELFARB, G., DELMAS, P. ‘Concurrent Stereo Matching: An image noise-driven model’. Presented at the Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (EMMCVPR’05), 9-11 November , 2005, pp 46-59. LNCS 3757/2005 (Impact Factor: 0.38, top 55% in the CS conference/journal ranking).

13. CHAN ⁵, M., DELMAS, P., GIMELFARB, G., CHEN, C. Y., LECLERCQ ⁴, P. ‘Comparative Study of 3D Face Acquisition Techniques’. Proc. the IAPR Conference in Advances in Image Processing (CAIP’05), Paris, September 4–8, 2005, pp 740-747. LNCS 3691/2005 (Impact factor: 0.21) Also CITR-TR-159 report.

12. WOODWARD⁵, A., DELMAS, P. ‘Combining Computer Graphics and Image Processing
for Low Cost Realistic 3D Face Generation and Animation’. Presented at the IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Tsukuba, Japan, May 18-20 2005, 6 pages. (28% of submission accepted).

11. LECLERCQ ⁴, P., LIU ⁵, J., WOODWARD ⁵, A., DELMAS, P. ‘Which Stereo Matching Algorithm for Accurate 3D Face Creation? ’. Presented at the International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, Auckland, New Zealand, December 1^st-3^rd 2004, pp 690-704. (Acceptance rate: 60%). LNCS 3322 / 2004. Also CITR-TR-162 report.

10. DELMAS, P., WOODWARD⁵, A., LECLERCQ ⁴, P., GIMELFARB, G. ‘Generation of an accurate facial ground truth for stereo algorithm evaluation’. Presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics, Warsaw, September 21^st-24^th September 2004, 8 pages. (Acceptance rate: 50%) Also CITR-TR-160 report.

9. LECLERCQ ⁴, P., LIU ⁵, J., CHAN ⁵, M., WOODWARD ⁵, A., GIMELFARB, G., DELMAS, P. ‘Comparative study of Stereo algorithms for 3D face reconstruction’. Presented at the Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Conference, Brussels, August 31^st–September 3^rd, 2004, 6 pages. Also CITR-TR report

8. CHAN ⁵, M., DELMAS, P., GIMELFARB, G., CHEN, C. Y., LECLERCQ ⁴, P. ‘Study and Comparison of 3D Face Generation Techniques’. Presented at the Pacific Rim IEEE International Conference International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, August 9^th–13^th, 2004, pp 987-988. LNCS 3157/2004 (Impact Factor: 0.19, acceptance rate: 43%).

7. CHAN ⁵, M., CHEN, C. Y., BARTON ⁵, G., DELMAS, P., GIMELFARB, G., LECLERCQ ⁴, P. FISHER ¹, T. ‘Evaluation of 3D Face Analysis and Synthesis Techniques’. Paper presented at the IEEE International Conference of Multimedia Expo, Taiwan, June 27^th–30^th, 2004. (Impact Factor: 0.26, acceptance rate: 24.8%).

6. DELMAS, P., LIEVIN ³, M. ‘From Face Features Analysis to Automatic Lipreading’. Paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, December 3-6, 2002, vol.3, pp 1421-1425. (Acceptance rate: 40%)

5. DELMAS, P., EVENO ³, N., LIEVIN ³, M. ‘Towards robust lip tracking’. Paper presented at the International Conference for Pattern Recognition, Quebec, 5-9 August, 2002, pp 528-531. (25 % submission accepted, oral presentation: 16%).

4. LIEVIN ³, M., DELMAS, P., COULON ³, P.Y., LUTHON ³, F., FRISTOT ³, V. ‘Automatic lip tracking: active contours and Bayesian segmentation in a cooperative scheme’. Paper presented at the IEEE International conference for Multimedia and Computer Systems, Firenze, June 1999, pp 691-696. (Impact Factor: 0.26, acceptance ratio: 25%, 4 citations).

3. DELMAS, P., COULON ³, P.Y., FRISTOT ³, V.’Automatic snakes for robust lip boundaries extraction’. Paper presented at the IEEE International Conference for Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Phoenix, March 1999, vol.6, pp 3069-3072. (Acceptance rate: 57%, largest conference in the field, 2 citations).

2. CAPLIER ³, A., DELMAS, P., LAM ³, D. ‘Robust Initialisation for lips edges detection’. In: Proc. 11th Scandinavian Conference for Image Analysis, Greenland, June 1999, pp. 523-528.

1. GAVIN ³, P., MARS ³, J., BUISSON ³, E., DELMAS ³, P., ESSEBAR ³, A. ‘Wavefield decomposition using parametric inversion’. Paper presented at the European Signal and Image Processing Conference, Edimburg, July 1994.

Papers in Refereed National Conference Proceedings

Note that IVCNZ conferences have a typical acceptance rate of 50-60%

WOODWARD, A.M., DELMAS, P.J., GIMEL'FARB, G. 'A 3D Video Scanner for Face Performance Capture', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Kenjie Irie(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Lincoln, NZ, Nov 26-28, 2008, p.42-47

KHAN, W.A., DELMAS, P.J., GIMEL'FARB, G., MORRIS, J. 'Subspace Methods for Face Recognition', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Kenjie Irie(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Lincoln, NZ, Nov 26-28, 2008, p.9-14

GIMEL'FARB, G., DELMAS, P.J., SHORIN, A.S., MORRIS, J. 'Quadratic Programming Vs. Concurrent Correlation Matching under Non-Uniform Image Contrast and Offset', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Kenjie Irie(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Lincoln, NZ, Nov 26-28, 2008, p.124-129

SHORIN, A.S., GIMEL'FARB, G., DELMAS, P.J., MORRIS, J. 'Image Matching with Spatially Variant Contrast and Offset: A Quadratic Programming Approach', Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2008) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2008), Takis Kasparis and James T Kwok (ed.), LNCS, Orlando, Florida, Dec 4-6, 2008, p.100-107

KRUEGER, M., DELMAS, P.J., GIMEL'FARB, G. 'On 3D Face Feature Segmentation Using Implicit Surface Active Contours', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Kenjie Irie(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Lincoln, NZ, Nov 26-28, 2008, p.134-139

CHAN, Y.H., DELMAS, P.J., GIMEL'FARB, G., VALKENBURG, R.J. 'On Fusion of Active Range Data and Passive Stereo Data for 3D Scene Modelling', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Kenjie Irie(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Lincoln, NZ, Nov 26-28, 2008, p.234-239

GASTELUM, A., KRUEGER, M., GIMEL'FARB, G., MARQUEZ, J., DELMAS, P.J. 'Automatic 3D Lip shape Segmentation and SPH Modeling', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Kenjie Irie(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Lincoln, NZ, Nov 26-28, 2008, p.424-429

NGUYEN, M., GIMEL'FARB, G., DELMAS, P.J. 'Web-Based On-Line Computational Stereo Vision', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Kenjie Irie(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'2008), Lincoln, NZ, Nov 26-28, 2008, p.542-547

21. Márquez Jorge, Patrice Delmas, Isabelle Bloch and Francis Schmitt. ‘Morphological Averaging of Anatomical Shapes Using Three-Dimensional Distance Transforms’, Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, P. Delmas, J. Morris(ed.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, Nov 27-29, 2006, pp. 337-342.

20. GIMEL'FARB, G., MORRIS, J., DELMAS, P.J., LIU, J. 'Stereo Vision: Concurrent Matching vs Optimization', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, P. Delmas, J. James, J. Morris (eds.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, Nov 27-29, 2006, p.479-485

19. LIN, Y., WOODWARD, A.M., AN, D., MORRIS, J., GIMEL’FARB, G., DELMAS, P.J. 'Rectifying Images for Stereo Vision', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, P Delmas, J James, J Morris (eds.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, Nov 27-29, 2006, p.13-17.

18. GIMEL'FARB, G., SHORIN, A., DELMAS, P.J. 'Joint Outliers and Principal Component Analysis', Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, P Delmas, J James, J Morris (eds.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, Nov 27-29, 2006, pp. 461-466.

17. Moqing Zhang and Patrice Delmas ‘A study of 3rd and 4th order Tikhonov smoothing term influence on the convergence of active contours’, Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, P Delmas, J James, J Morris (eds.), Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2006, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, Nov 27-29, 2006, pp. 103-108.

16. D. An, A. Woodward, P. Delmas, G. Gimel’farb, J. Morris and J. Marquez. ‘Comparison of Active Structure Lighting Mono and Stereo Camera Systems: Application to 3D Face Acquisition’, Seventh Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC'06), San Luis Potosí, September 18-22, Mexico, 2006, pp. 135-141.

15. Márquez J., Gastelum A., Jiménez V., Delmas P. “Analysis and Construction of Human Head Models for Anthropometrical and Craniofacial-Surgery Applications”, VII Simposio Mexicano en Cirugía Asistida por Computadora y Procesamiento de Imágenes Médicas (MEXCAS 2006), UNAM, 7

Y 8 de septiembre 2006.

14. Márquez J., Gastelum A., Delmas P. “Generación Monte-Carlo de Modelos Anatómicos con Mallado Adaptivo Guiado por la Geometría Local”, XLIX Congreso Nacional de Física, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 16-20 de Octubre 2006.

13. GIMELFARB, G., MORRIS, J., DELMAS, P., LIU, J. ‘Noise-driven Symmetric Concurrent Stereo Matching’. Presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, 26-28 November, 2005, 6 pages. Best paper award

12. WOODWARD⁵, A., DELMAS, P. ‘Synthetic Ground Truth for Comparison of Gradient Field Integration Methods for Human Faces’. Presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, 26-28 November, 2005, 6 pages.

11. DA AN⁵, WOODWARD⁵, A., DELMAS, P., CHEN, C.Y. ‘Comparison of Structured Lighting Techniques with a View for Facial Reconstruction’ Presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, 26-28 November, 2005, 6 pages.

10. WOODWARD⁵, A., DELMAS, P. ‘Computer Vision for Low Cost 3-D Golf Ball and Club Tracking’ Presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, 26-28 November, 2005, 6 pages.

9. DELMAS, P., WOODWARD⁵, A., LECLERCQ ⁴, P. ‘Can Stereo-matching algorithms accurately render face features?’. To appear at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Akaroa, New Zealand, 21-23 November, 2004.

8. WOODWARD⁵, A., DELMAS, P. ‘Toward a Low Cost Realistic Human Face Modelling and Animation Framework’ To appear at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Akaroa, New Zealand, 21-23 November, 2004.

7. DELMAS, P., LIEVIN ³, M. ‘Active Contours and Logarithmic Hue-like Colour Space Applied to Lip Tracking’. Paper presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Palmerston North, 26-28 November, 2003, pp29-34.

6. CHAN ⁵, M., CHEN, C. Y., BARTON ⁵, G., DELMAS, P., GIMELFARB, G., LECLERCQ ⁴, P. FISHER ¹, T. ‘A Strategy for 3D Face Analysis and Synthesis’. Paper presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Palmerston North, 26-28 November, 2003, pp 384-389.

5. DELMAS, P., PETITJEAN ³, C. ‘Level Set for Face Feature Extraction’. Paper presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Auckland, 26-28 November, 2002

4. BARTON ⁵, G., DELMAS, P.“A semi-automated colour predicate for robust skin detection”. Paper presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Auckland, 26-28 November, pp121-125, 2002.

3. DELMAS, P., EVENO ³, N., COULON ³, P.Y. ‘Towards automatic lip tracking’. Paper presented at the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, 26-28 November, 2001.

2. EVENO ³, N., DELMAS P., COULON ³, P.Y. ‘Vers l'extraction automatique d'un visage parlant’. GRETSI01, Toulouse, 2001, pp 193-196.

1. DELMAS P., COULON ³, P.Y. FRISTOT ³, V. ‘Contours actifs adaptés pour la labiométrie’. Paper presented at the ORASIS Conference, June 1999, Aussois, 12 pages.

Reviews/Technical Committee/Conference organisation

Co-organizer of IVCNZ 2006

I am/was a member of the Program Committee of the following conferences:

5. Virtual Concept 2006, Cancun, Mexico.

4. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference 2006, GBI.

3. 2006 IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT'06).

2. Vision and Imaging Applications 2006 (VISAPP’06), Portugal.

1. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference 2005, Dunedin.

Organizing committee member

2. IVCNZ 2006, Great Barrier Island, 26-29 November, New Zealand.

1. IWCIA’04, 1^st-3^rd December, Auckland.

I (am/did/will) review(ing) submitted papers for the following conferences/journals/book:

20. Robot Vision 2008, Auckland.

19. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, Texas, September 16-19, 2007

18. ACS/IEEE Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Jordan, May 13-16, 2007

17. 8^th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 18-22, 2007

16. Virtual Concept 2006, Cancun, Mexico.

15. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference 2006, GBI.

14. Journal submission for IMAVIS, Image and Vision Computing (August 2006)

13. IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT'06).

12. Vision and Imaging Applications 2006 (VISAPP’06), Portugal.

11. IEEE ICIP (International Conference for Image Processing) 2006

10. IEEE ICPR (Internal Conference in Pattern Recognition) 2006

9. Journal submission for the IEEE Sensors (October 2005, January 2006)

8. Journal submission for the IEEE Transactions in Image Processing Journal (May 2005, January 2006)

7. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference 2005, Dunedin.

6. International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA2004)

5. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Conference (ACIVS2004).

4. The 18th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2004).

3. "Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data" Book chapter review, Kluwer Eds 2004

2. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2003).

1. 9th International Conference in Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2001).

Technical reports

BARTON ⁵, G. and DELMAS P. ‘A Semi-Automated Colour Predicate for Robust Skin Detection’. CITR-TR-118, Technical Report, The University of Auckland, 2002.

DELMAS P. ‘Lip Contours extraction by means of Active Contours applied to multimodal communication’. PhD thesis, Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (France), 2000.

DELMAS P. ‘Skeletonization for grey level images’. MSc thesis (Image Processing), Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (France), 1995.

DELMAS P. ‘Radar exploration of a comet nucleus using a multi-layer model. Pre-study for the CNES-ESA Rosetta Mission’. MEng thesis (Majors: Physics and Signal Processing), Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (France), 1994.

Students Supervision/Research Fellows/Visitors

Post-Doc Fellow

· 03/->08/2004 Philippe Leclercq (Assessment of stereo vision algorithms for 3D face acquisition).

PhD students

· 2005 -> … Alex Woodward (A new theoretical foundation to bring together Image processing and Computer Graphics for hyper realistic virtual reality). Funded by a Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship.

· 2007->… Matthias Krueger (3D Active contours on surface manifolds). Funded by the University of Auckland and TechNZ.

· 2007à… Alfonso Strozzi (a multi-sensor-based multi-layer 3D face model for accurate surgery simulation). Funded by the University of Auckland and the CONACYT (Mexico)

MSc Students

· 2002-2003 Gareth Barton A+ (Hand gesture analysis based on 2D and 3D data).

· 2003-2004 Mark Chan A+ (3D face analysis and synthesis using 3D acquisition techniques).

· 2004-2005 Alex Woodward A+ (Bringing together Image processing and Computer Graphics for realistic 3D face animation).

· 2004-2006 Jason James A (Design of a line-based laser scanner for acquisition of small objects).

· 2005-2006 Jingyi Li (2D/3D Image processing techniques applied to the analysis of volcanic soils porosity and topology).

· 2005-2006 Da An (Comparison of structure lighting techniques and application to higher order meshes rendering for 3D object acquisition).

· 2006-2007 Moqing (Claire) Zhang (2D/3D active contours for medical image processing).

Honours Students

· 2001 Gareth Barton (PCA-based recognition of hand signs)

Summer Project

· 2001 Jason James (Analysis of pedestrian behaviour).

· 2003 Alex Woodward (Summer Scholarship – Design of a realistic animated 3D face model).

· 2004 Jingyi Li (Summer Scholarship – Comparative analysis of statistical methods for hand signs recognition).

· 2004 Rui Zhang (Summer Scholarship – 3D Hair, lips and eyes rendering for hyper realistic face animation).

· 2004 Elodie Barthe (Stereo pair acquisition using off-the-shelf web cameras).

· 2005 Bruce Megget (Dynamic generation of 3D faces using web cameras).

· 2006 Pavan Gamage (preliminary 3D analysis of soil core CT-scan images)

780 Projects

· More 10 project students (since 2001) in joint-supervision with CITR staff members.

Research Grants / Funding

2006-2008 SRF – Staff Research Fund (UoA 3607204): Real-time 3D acquisition and motion analysis for virtual actors 15,000 $

2006-2008 Papit (Universitad Autonoma de Mexico Staff Research grant) in collaboration with Dr Jorge Marquez (head of Image Processing Lab, CCADET): 20,000$

2005-2008 Conacyt – Mexican Research Fund. Observing rapid pesticide transport through volcanic soils: non-destructive techniques for realistic parameter estimation and proper modelling. In collaboration with Ag research Hamilton, Collegio de Postgraduados Montecillo (Mexico), Institut pour la Recherche et le Développement Grenoble (France): 200,000 $

2005-2007 SRF -- Staff Research Fund (UoA 3605863) Assessment of 3D acquisition devices and stereo collision avoidance systems on real-world conditions, 5,150$

2005 Capex fund (UoA) 3D scanner 50,000 $NZ

2004-2006 SRF – Staff Research Fund (UoA 3605211): Towards building a SD face database using off the shelf cameras 4,270 $

2004-2006 UniServices Grant 10747.99: Golf Swing analysis 15,000 $

2003-2005 SRF – Staff Research Fund (UoA 3603824): Real-time stereo Vision 15,000 $

2002-2004 NSTF - New Staff Research Grant (UoA 3602446): Feature extraction from 3D faces 15,000 $

Industrial collaboration/contacts

Past

Compac Sorting Equipment Ltd: Discussion on 3D systems for fruit sorting.

The Right Hemisphere: Discussion on 3D watermarking.

Uniservices Ltd: Golf putting analysis (delivery of a software and stereo-vision system to track golf putts trajectories).

Present

SiCAT Germany: Collaboration on 3D face surface generation for medical applications.

Ivistra: Discussion on Image Processing techniques for live game analysis.

Academic collaboration/contacts

Within the University of Auckland

Others

Invited Lectures/Stay:

2007 Comparison of 3D acquisition techniques for avatar generation

2006 3D Computer Vision at the CITR, invited talk, CCADET, UNAM Mexico City, 31 January 2006.

2006 Statistical Analysis for Image Processing, CCADET, UNAM Mexico City, 09 February 2006.

2005-2006 Face feature extraction for 3D face database management. Invited stay at the CCADET, UNAM Mexico City July 2005 – February 2006.

2005-2006 2D/3D Image Processing for soil science. Invited stay at the Colegio de Postgraduados, Texcoco, Mexico July 2005 – February 2006.

2005 3D face generation, Invited talk, Chiba University, May 2005.

2005 Analysis of volcanic soils macroporosity using Image Processing January 2005 (Invited stay 2 weeks), Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo (Mexico).

2004 Which strategy for 3D face generation? September 2004 (Invited stay 3 weeks), CAESAR Research Centre, Bonn (Germany)

2004 Generation of Stereo Panorama for faces, April 2004 (Invited stay 1 week), CAESAR Research Centre, Bonn (Germany)

2003 3D face generation at Caesar Research Centre, Invited talk, September 2003, CAESAR Research Centre, Bonn (Germany)