Ardhendu Behera, Professor of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, Co-director of Intelligent Visual Computing Research Centre
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University
A Post-doc opportunity for the SCAnDi project (Application Link) is available!
News
February 2024: Funding success from the HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. TSAR: Trustworthy Search And Rescue uncrewed aerial vehicle. Congratulations Dr Siddhardha Kedarisetty.
February 2024: Funding success from the HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges. SynAM: Integration of Advanced Experiments, Imaging and Computation for Synergistic Structure-Performance
Design of Powders and Materials in Additive Manufacturing.
February 2024: Funding success from the British Academy Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners.
ARMOUR: Developing AI Tools and PRocesses for IMprOved Intelligence and AUtonomy in Disaster Resilience.
November 2023: Funding success from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). SCAnDi: Single-cell and single molecule analysis for DNA identification in collaboration
with Earlham Institute (Leading), The University of Edinburgh, The James Hutton Institute,
University of Portsmouth, Liverpool John Moores University, and University of Derby
November 2023: A paper (3D Object Detection from Point Clouds) has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Congratulations Sun!
October 2023: A paper (SLAV-Sim: Self-learning Vehicle Simulation) has been accepted in MDPI Sensor. Congratulations Aditya and Jacob!
December 2022: A paper (Deep Segmentation of OCTA) has been accepted in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
October 2022: Funding success from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). ATRACT: A Trustworthy Robotic Autonomous system to support Casualty Triage in collaboration
with Loughborough University London, University of Brighton and University of Portsmouth
October 2022: Happy to be outstanding reviewer for ECCV 2022.
September 2022: SR-GNN: Spatial Relation-aware Graph Neural Network for Fine-Grained Image Categorization is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
August 2022: Retinal Structure Detection in OCTA Image via Voting-based Multi-task Learning is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
July 2022: Funding success from Cancer Research UK (CRUK). LungHealth AI: Using AI to improve early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer, in collaboration with University of Liverpool.
July 2022: Happy to be outstanding reviewer for ICML 2022.
March 2022: A Step Towards Automated Functional Assessment of Activities of Daily Living, presented in The 6th International Workshop on Health Intelligence in conjunction with AAAI 2022.
February 2022: Appeared in UK-India Research Connect to talk about the CHARM (UKIERI-DST) project.
October 2021: A paper has been accepted in BMVC 2021. Congratulation Zachary!
October 2021: Organizing first international workshop on Hazard Perception in Intelligent Vehicle HPIV@WACV 2022 ( Paper submission: 31st October 2021).
October 2021: Welcoming Jacob Crewe as an MRes student.
September 2021: Welcoming Aditya Humnabadkar as a PhD Student and Pratibha Sindhe as a Research Assistant to the group.
September 2021: Presented our paper (Driver Distraction Recognition-Driven Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Active Vehicle Safety) in 24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2021).
It is in collaboration with The Automotive Controls Laboratory at
IIT Madras.
August 2021: Funding success from PhenomUK (DeepEarNet: Accurate Segmentation and Measurement of Cereal Grain Spikes Directly in Point Clouds Using Latest Deep Learning and Domain Knowledge) in collaboration with Aberystwyth University
July 2021: Start of the CRUK-PCUK-EPSRC project PANC-CYS-GAN: A Multimodal Longitudinal Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to Discriminate High-risk Cysts for the Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer.
June 2021: Happy to be outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2021.
Past News
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Research Projects
List of publications can be found in Google Scholar.
Attention-Driven Hierarchical Representation
An Attention-driven Hierarchical Multi-scale
Representation for Visual Recognition. Z. Wharton, A. Behera and A. Bera.
The 32nd British Machine Vision Conference 2021 (BMVC 2021). Preprint|
Project Webpage| Supplementary
Collision Avoidance
Driver Distraction Recognition-driven Collision Avoidance Algorithm
for Active Vehicle Safety. K. B. Devika, A. Bera, V. R. S. Yellapantula, A. Behera, Y. Liu, and S. C. Subramanian. Accepted in
24th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2021). Preprint
Context-aware Attentional Pooling (CAP)
Context-aware Attentional Pooling (CAP) for Fine-grained Visual Classification. A. Behera, Z. Wharton, P. Hewage and A. Bera.
The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021 (AAAI 2021). Poster| Preprint|
Project Webpage| Supplementary|
Code
Attend and Guide (AG-Net)
Attend and Guide (AG-Net): A Keypoints-driven Attention-based Deep Network for Image Recognition.
A. Bera, Z. Wharton, Y. Liu, N. Bessis and A. Behera.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol 30, pp 3691-3704, 2021. Preprint|
Project Webpage| Supplementary|
Coarse Temporal Attention Network (CTA-Net)
Coarse Temporal Attention Network (CTA-Net) for Driver's Activity Recognition.
Z. Wharton, A. Behera, Y. Liu and N. Bessis.
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2021. Preprint|
Project Webpage
Attentional Learnable Pooling
Attentional Learn-able Pooling for Human Activity Recognition.
B. Debnath, M. O'Brien, S. Kumar and A. Behera.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021. Preprint|
Project Webpage
Regional Attention Network (RAN)
Regional Attention Network (RAN) for Head
Pose and Fine-grained Gesture Recognition. A. Behera, Z. Wharton, Y. Liu, M. Ghahremani, S. Kumar and N. Bessis.
IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing (Early Access), 2020. ArXiv Preprint|
Project Webpage
Driver's Activity Monitoring
Deep CNN, Body Pose and Body-Object
Interaction Features for Drivers' Activity Monitoring. A. Behera, Z. Wharton, A. Keidel and B. Debnath.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Early Access), 2020. Preprint|
Project Webpage
Adversarial Domain Adaptation
Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation for Night-time Images using
Adversarial Domain Feature Adaptation. M. Vankadari, S. Garg, S. Kumar, A. Majumder and A. Behera.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Vol 12373, pp 443-459, 2020. ArXiv Preprint|
Project Webpage
Point Cloud Analysis
Orderly Disorder in Point Cloud Domain.
M. Ghahremani, B. Tiddeman, Y. Liu and A. Behera.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Vol 12373, pp 494-509, 2020. ArXiv Preprint|
Code| Project Webpage
Head Pose Estimation
Rotation Axis Focused Attention Network (RAFA-Net) for Estimating Head Pose.
A. Behera, Z. Wharton, P. Hewage and S. Kumar.
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2020. Paper|
Code| Project Webpage
Body Pose Encoding
Attention-driven Body Pose Encoding for Human Activity Recognition.
B. Debnath, M. O'brien, S. Kumar and A. Behera.
25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2020. ArXiv Preprint|
Project Webpage
Hand Over Face Emotion
Associating facial expressions and upper-body gestures with learning tasks for enhancing intelligent tutoring systems.
A. Behera, P. Matthew, A. Keidel, P. Vangorp, H. Fang and S. Canning.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 2020. Open Access|
Project Webpage
Compressive Sensing
Remote sensing image fusion via compressive sensing.
M. Ghahremani, Y. Liu, P. Yuen and A. Behera.
ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, Vol 152, pp. 34-48, 2019. Preprint|
Project Webpage