Allan Hanbury is Senior Scientific Officer at the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), Vienna, Austria, and Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He is author or co-author of over 50 publications presented in refereed journals and international conferences. He was leader of the Evaluation, Integration and Standards work package of the MUSCLE EU Network of Excellence, and has lead of a number of Austrian national projects. He was born in George, South Africa in 1974. He was awarded the B.Sc. degree in physics and applied mathematics in 1994, the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in physics in 1995, and the M.Sc. degree in physics in 1999, all from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Morphology in 2002 from the Paris School of Mines, France, and the Habilitation in Practical Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2008.

Education

Professional Career

since 5.2009 Information Retrieval Facility (IRF)
Senior Scientific Officer

since 11.2008 Vienna University of Technology
Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent)

11.2008–4.2009 CogVis GmbH, Vienna (a spin-off company of the PRIP
group, Vienna University of Technology)
Senior Scientist & Consultant

1.2009–4.2009 University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Intelligent
Sensory Information Systems Laboratory (ISIS)
Visiting Researcher

10.2002 –10.2008 Vienna University of Technology
Assistant Professor

5. 2002–9. 2002 Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Pattern
Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) group
Postdoctoral Research Assistant

4. 2002 Paris School of Mines, France, Centre for Mathematical
Morphology
Postdoctoral Research Assistant

1994–1996 University of Cape Town, Department of Physics,
(6 months) Research Assistant

Job Responsibilities

Since 2002: engaged in research, teaching, project management and project acquisition.

Projects Acquired and Managed

3.2004–2.2008 MUSCLE: EU Network of Excellence IST-FP6-507752, Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning. This network focused on the automated extraction of semantic information from multimedia data. I was workpackage leader of the Evaluation, Integration and Standards workpackage and member of the steering committee.

6.2004–5.2007 SESAME: Leader of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) Project P17189-N04, Effective Segmentation for Semantic Extraction.

3.2008–2.2011 OMOR: Leader of the FIT-IT Visual Computing Project Optimisation Methods in Object Recognition (Project 815994).

1.2007–7.2008 SATCV: Leader of the Summer School on Advanced Techniques in Computer Vision project funded by FIT-IT Visual Computing (Project 815993).

4.2008–7.2008 Investigation of Features for Image Retrieval: Leader of this project funded by the Austrian Press Agency (APA).

Employed as Researcher on Projects

1998–2000 SCANMATCH: EU project No. BES2-5314, IMT/SMT programme. In this project, we successfully developed an automated system for classifying and matching wood based on its colour and texture characteristics.

2002 Graph pyramids: Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) project P14445-MAT. This project aimed at the application of methods from combinatorial optimization to a model based building and rebuilding of graph pyramids.

2002 Geograph: Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) project P14662-INF. This project aimed at developing methods for the use of graphs in geoinformatics.

Research

Interests: Information Retrieval, multi-modal Information Retrieval, evaluation of Information Retrieval, colour and texture image analysis, image segmentation, mathematical morphology, computer vision, medical and industrial applications of image analysis.

Since 2002: Reviewer for the following journals (amongst others): IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing; Pattern Recognition; Pattern Recognition Letters; IEE Electronics Letters, Machine Vision and Applications. Reviewer for international conferences (ECIR, BMVC, ICPR, ECDL, CVPR, ICCV, ACCV and others). Full list available upon request.

Since 2007: External project reviewer for the European Commission (X-Media project).

Professional Activities

• Co-chair of the Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW) 2005
• Co-chair of the MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation in 2005, 2006 and 2007
• Demo chair of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2007
• Co-organiser of the ImageCLEF evaluation campaign 2006, 2007 and 2008
• Member of the Steering Committee of the International Association of Pattern Recognition Technical Committee 5 (IAPR TC5) on Benchmarking & Software
• Co-organiser of the 2nd International “Language Resources for Content-Based Image Retrieval” Workshop, held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’2008)
• Organiser of the 16th Summer School on Image Processing (SSIP), Vienna, July 2008
• Guest editor of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding special issue on the Evaluation of Image and Video Retrieval Systems (to appear mid 2009)
• Special Session Chair of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2009
• Demo Chair of the 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) 2009
• Member of the Organisation Committee of the 1st IRF Conference 2010
• General Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval (AsPIRe'10), collocated with the ECIR 2010.

Visiting Positions

7.–8. 1997 Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

10. 2001 Image and Pattern Analysis Group, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Teaching Experience

1997–1998 Coordinator of the introductory physics laboratory course (PHY104W) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

2003 Selected lectures in Introduction to Pattern Recognition (183.066) at the Vienna University of Technology.

2003 Contribution to laboratory exercises for Introduction to Pattern Recognition (183.067) at the Vienna University of Technology.

2003–2005 Co-coordinator of the Computer Science Seminar (183.271) at the Vienna University of Technology.

2003–2008 Supervision of practical work at the Vienna University of Technology (183.270, 183.272, 183.273 as well as previous versions of these courses).

2004–2008 Course lecturer and laboratory coordinator for Introduction to Pattern Recognition (183.066 and 183.067) at the Vienna University of Technology.

2004–2007 Course lecturer and laboratory coordinator for Image Understanding (183.040 and 183.051) at the Vienna University of Technology.

2005–2009 Lecture on Content-based Image Retrieval for the Image Management course at the Danube University, Krems.

2008 Coordinator of the Research Seminar in Computer Graphics and Image Processing (183.255), at the Vienna University of Technology.

2008–2009 Course lecturer for Image Understanding (183.040) at the Vienna University of Technology.

2008–2009 Selected lectures in the course Data Mining (188.464) at the Vienna University of Technology.

2009 Selected lectures in the course Advanced Multimedia Computing at the University of Amsterdam.

Masters Thesis Supervision

At the Vienna University of Technology (unless otherwise stated):

• Florian Seitner, Robust Detection and Tracking of Objects, December 2005
• Stefan Kuthan, Extraction of Attributes, Nature and Context of Images, December 2005
• Julian Stöttinger, Local Colour Features for Image Retrieval, April 2007
• Katrien Beuls, Automated Patent Categorization: The Effect of Different Input Formats and Learning Algorithms, August 2009 (University of Edinburgh)
• Jana Machajdik, Affective Image Classification, October 2009

PhD Thesis Co-Supervision

At the Vienna University of Technology:

Lech Szumilas, Rotation and Scale Invariant Shape Matching, February 2008 (with
ao. Prof. Dr. Robert Sablatnig)

PhD Committee

Christophe Millet, Construction et utilisation de la sémantique dans le cadre de l’annotation automatique d’images (Construction and use of semantics in automatic image annotation), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications, Paris, January 2008 (Examiner)

Scientific Associations

Since 2003 Member of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (ÖAGM/AAPR).

Since 2003 Member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

Since 2003 Member of the International Society for Stereology (ISS).

Presentations and Participation in National and International Meetings

[References are to the list of publications at the end of the CV]

1998:

• Cape Town, South Africa. South African Institute of Physics Conference, 1998, Presentation

2000:

• Paris, France. Journée de l'ISS (International Society for Stereology), February 2000, Presentation
• Strasbourg, France. Frontiers of Mathematical Morphology workshop, April 2000, Presentation
• Le Creusot, France. Journée “Signal et Image pour le Contrôle en Industrie” (Signals and Images for Industrial Control), May 2000, Poster

2001:

• Paris, France. Journée de l'ISS (International Society for Stereology), February 2001, Presentation
• Pau, France. Spring School on Colour Imaging, Ecole des Mines d'Alès, March 2001, Two presentations
• Le Creusot, France. 5th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision, May 2001, Presentation [C1]
• Bordeaux, France. 8th European Congress for Stereology and Image Analysis, September 2001, Presentation [A2]
• Manchester, United Kingdom. 12th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2001, Poster (chosen as the best poster) [C2]

2002:

• Bad Aussee, Austria. 7th Computer Vision Winter Workshop, February 2002, Presentation [C3]
• Graz, Austria. Vision with Non-Traditional Sensors, 26th ÖAGM conference, 11 September 2002, Presentation [A3]

2003:

• Valtice, Czech Republic. 8th Computer Vision Winter Workshop, 5 February 2003, Presentation [C4]
• Laxenburg, Austria. Vision in a Dynamic World, 27th ÖAGM conference, 5 June 2003, Presentation [A4]
• Göteborg, Sweden. Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 2 July 2003, Presentation [C5]
• Timişoara, Romania. 11th Summer School on Image Processing, July 2003, Two lectures.
• Magdeburg, Germany. German Pattern Recognition Association (DAGM) conference, 10 September 2003, Poster [C6]
• Mantua, Italy. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP’2003), 18 September 2003, Poster [C7]
• Vienna, Austria. Österreichische Statistiktage 2003, 31 October 2003, Invited presentation entitled “Biometric Identification”

2004:

• Aachen, Germany. Second European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV’2004), 5 April 2004, Poster [A5]
• Hagenberg, Austria. 28th ÖAGM conference, 17 June 2004, Presentation [A7].
• Cambridge, United Kingdom. 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’2004), 23 August 2004, Poster [C10]
• Malaga, Spain. Second MUSCLE NoE scientific meeting, 4 November 2004, Presentation on “Progress in the Benchmarking Workpackage”

2005:

• Paris, France. 7th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM’2005), 19th April 2005, Presentation [C13]
• Paris, France. Third MUSCLE NoE Scientific Meeting, 27th April 2005, Presentation entitled “Semi-automatic segmentation of textured images”
• Szeged, Hungary. 13th Summer School on Image Processing, 5th July 2005, lecture.
• Versailles, France. 11th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP’2005), 8th September 2005, Presentation [C15]

2006:

• Hyderabad, India. 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV’2006), 15th January 2006, Poster [C16]
• Istanbul, Turkey. Forth MUSCLE NoE Scientific Meeting, 15th February 2006, Presentation on Benchmarking Workpackage activities
• Fontainebleau, France. Presentation entitled “Segmentation Evaluation” at the Centre for Mathematical Morphology, 21st April 2006
• Graz, Austria. PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge Workshop, Presentation entitled “The MUSCLE / ImageCLEF Image Retrieval Evaluation Campaigns”, 7th May 2006
• Genoa, Italy. OntoImage International Workshop, 22nd May 2006, Presentation [A8]
• Szeged, Hungary. 14th Summer School on Image Processing, 6th July 2006, lecture
• Berlin, Germany. MUSCLE CIS Coin Competition Workshop, 11th September 2006, Presentation [U1]
• Alicante, Spain. Second MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, 19th September 2006, Presentation [U2]
• Barcelona, Spain. Presentations entitled “Hierarchical Morphological Segmentation on Learned Boundaries” and “Content-Based Image Retrieval” at the Computer Vision Center, UAB (26th and 27th September 2006) and a presentation entitled “Hierarchical Morphological Segmentation on Learned Boundaries” at the Image and Video Processing Group, UPC (27th September 2006)
• Paris, France. Fifth MUSCLE NoE Scientific Meeting, 6–8 December. 2 presentations

2007:

• Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Presentation entitled “Segmentation on Learned Boundaries” at the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, 12th April 2007
• Budapest, Hungary. Presentation at the MUSCLE project meeting, 23rd April 2007.
• Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007), 9th July 2007, Demo presentation
• Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ImagEVAL Workshop, 12th July 2007, Presentation [A9]
• Vienna, Austria. 12th Conference on the Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2007), 28th August 2007, Presentation [C28]
• Budapest, Hungary. Third MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, 18th September 2007, Presentation [U3]
• Vina del Mar, Chile. 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2007), 14th November 2007, Presentation [C31]
• Paris, France. Presentation at the MUSCLE project meeting (30th November 2007).
• Genoa, Italy. 2nd International Conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2007), 5th December 2007, Poster [C33]

2008:

• Cannes, France. Presentation entitled “Recognising Animals” at the MUSCLE Conference joint with VITALAS Conference, 11th February 2008 (see http://videolectures.net/mcvc08_hanbury_ran/).
• Szeged, Hungary. Presentation entitled “Hierarchical Morphological Segmentation” at the Image Processing and Computer Graphics Dept., University of Szeged, 21st May 2007
• Havana, Cuba. 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2008), 10th September 2008, Presentation [C36]
• Novi Sad, Serbia. Presentation entitled “Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval” at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 13th November 2008
• Hagenberg, Austria. Presentation entitled “Image Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval” at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, 24th November 2008
• Tampa, Florida, USA. 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), 9th December 2008, Poster [C38]

2009:

• Boston, Massachusetts, USA. SIGIR Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation, 23rd July 2009, Poster [C41]
• Graz, Austria. 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, 4th September 2009, Presentation entitled “Patentsuche – Die Menge macht‘s”.
• Berlin, Germany. Multilingual Information Access (MLIA) Technology Day, 8th December 2009, Member of the discussion panel.

2010:

• Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 10th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR), 25th January 2010, Presentation [C44]

Publications – Allan Hanbury

Journal papers
[J1] D. W. Kurtz, P. Martinez, P. Tripe and A. Hanbury, The oblique dipole pulsation mode of the rapidly oscillating AP star HD80316, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 289, Issue 3, pages 645-650, 1997.

[J2] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, Morphological Operators on the Unit Circle, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 10, No. 12, pages 1842–1850, 2001.

[J3] D. Chetverikov and A. Hanbury, Finding Defects in Texture using Regularity and Local Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35, No. 10, pages 2165–2180, 2002.

[J4] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, Mathematical Morphology in the CIELAB Space, Image Analysis and Stereology, Vol. 21, No. 3, pages 201–206, 2002.

[J5] M. Kampel, H. Wildenauer, P. Blauensteiner and A. Hanbury, Improved motion segmentation based on shadow detection, Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Vol. 6, No. 3, pages 1–12, 2007.

[J6] A. Hanbury, Constructing Cylindrical Coordinate Colour Spaces, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 29, No. 4, pages 494–500, 2008.

[J7] A. Hanbury, A Survey of Methods for Image Annotation, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 19, No. 5, pages 617–627, 2008.

[J8] A. Hanbury and B. Marcotegui, Morphological Segmentation on Learned Boundaries, Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 27, No. 4, Pages 480–488, 2009.

[J9] A. Hanbury, H. Müller and P. Clough, Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation (special issue editorial), Computer Vision and Image Understanding, to appear.

Invited Paper (reviewed)
[I1] A. Hanbury, Image Segmentation by Region-based and Watershed Algorithms, In: Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, Ed. Benjamin W. Wah, Wiley Interscience, Vol. 3, pages 1543–1552, 2009.

Invited Paper (not reviewed)
[I2] A. Hanbury, Mathematical Morphology Applied to Circular Data, In: Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Ed. P. W. Hawkes, Academic Press, Vol. 128, pages 123–205, 2003.

Books (editor)
[B1] A. Hanbury and H. Bischof (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW’2005), February 2–4, Zell an der Pram, Austria.

[B2] W. G. Kropatsch, R. Sablatnig and A. Hanbury (Eds.), Pattern Recognition – Proceedings of the 27th DAGM Symposium, Springer LNCS 3663, 2005.

[B3] W. G. Kropatsch, M. Kampel and A. Hanbury (Eds.), Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns – Proceedings of the 12th International CAIP Conference, Springer LNCS 4673, 2007.

Conference Papers (full paper reviewed)
[C1] A. Hanbury and F. Gardeux, A Quantitative Description of Wood Texture, 5th International Conference on Quality Control By Artificial Vision, Le Creusot, France, pages 200–205, 2001.

[C2] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, Mathematical Morphology in the HLS Colour Space, 12th British Machine Vision Conference, Manchester, UK, pages 451–460, 2001.

[C3] A. Hanbury, The Taming of the Hue, Saturation and Brightness Colour Space, 7th Computer Vision Winter Workshop, Bad Aussee, Austria, pages 234–243, 2002.

[C4] A. Hanbury, Circular Statistics Applied to Colour Images, Proceedings of the 8th Computer Vision Winter Workshop, Valtice, Czech Republic, pages 55–60, 2003.

[C5] A. Hanbury, A 3D-polar Coordinate Colour Representation Well Adapted to Image Analysis, Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Springer LNCS 2749, pages 804–811, Göteborg, Sweden.

[C6] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, Colour Image Analysis in 3D-polar Coordinates, Proceedings of the Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2003), Springer LNCS 2781, pages 124–131, Magdeburg, Germany.

[C7] A. Hanbury, P. Kammerer and E. Zolda, Painting Crack Elimination Using Viscous Morphological Reconstruction, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2003), pages 226–231, Mantua, Italy.

[C8] J. Marchadier, W. G. Kropatsch and A. Hanbury, Homotopic Transformations of Combinatorial Maps, Proceedings of the Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2003), Springer LNCS 2886, pages 134–146, Naples, Italy.

[C9] H. Pottmann, T. Steiner, M. Hofer, C. Haider and A. Hanbury, The Isophotic Metric and its Application to Feature Sensitive Morphology on Surfaces, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004), Springer LNCS 3024, pages 4:561-572, Prague, Czech Republic.

[C10] A. Hanbury, The Morphological Top-Hat Operator Generalised to Multi-channel Images, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), pages 672-675, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

[C11] J. Marchadier, W. G. Kropatsch and A. Hanbury, The Redundancy Pyramid and Its Application to Segmentation on an Image Sequence, Proceedings of the Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2004), Springer LNCS 3175, pages 432-439, Tübingen, Germany.

[C12] B. Mičušík and A. Hanbury, Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Textured Images, Proceedings of the 10th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (2005), pages 53-62, Zell an der Pram, Austria.

[C13] A. Hanbury, U. Kandaswamy and D. A. Adjeroh, Illumination-invariant Morphological Texture Classification, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (2005), pages 377–386, Paris, France.

[C14] B. Mičušík and A. Hanbury, Steerable Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Textured Images, Proceedings of the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2005), Springer LNCS 3540, pages 35–44, Joensuu, Finland.

[C15] B. Mičušík and A. Hanbury, Supervised Texture Detection in Images, Proceedings of the Conference on the Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2005), Springer LNCS 3691, pages 441–448, Versailles, France.

[C16] A. Hanbury and B. Marcotegui, Waterfall Segmentation of Complex Scenes, Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2006), Springer LNCS 3851, pages I:888–897, Hyderabad, India.

[C17] S. Kuthan and A. Hanbury, Extraction of Attributes, Nature and Context of Images, Proceedings of the 11th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (2006), pages 28–33, Telč, Czech Republic.

[C18] F. H. Seitner and A. Hanbury, Fast Pedestrian Tracking based on Spatial Features and Colour, Proceedings of the 11th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (2006), pages 105–110, Telč, Czech Republic.

[C19] L. Szumilas, B. Mičušík and A. Hanbury, Texture Segmentation through Salient Texture Patches, Proceedings of the 11th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (2006), pages 111–116, Telč, Czech Republic.

[C20] P. Blauensteiner, H. Wildenauer, A. Hanbury and M. Kampel, On Colour Spaces for Change Detection and Shadow Suppression, Proceedings of the 11th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (2006), pages 117–122, Telč, Czech Republic.

[C21] B. Mičušík and A. Hanbury, Automatic Image Segmentation by Positioning a Seed, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006), Springer LNCS 3952, pages II: 468–480, Graz, Austria.

[C22] B. Mičušík and A. Hanbury, Template Patch Driven Image Segmentation, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2006), pages II:819–828, Edinburgh, UK.

[C23] L. Szumilas and A. Hanbury, Color Pair Clustering for Texture Detection, Second International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2006), Springer LNCS 4292, pages II:255–264, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.

[C24] H. Wildenauer, P. Blauensteiner, A. Hanbury and M. Kampel, Motion Detection using an Improved Colour Model, 2nd International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2006), Springer LNCS 4292, pages II:607–616, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.

[C25] P. Blauensteiner, H. Wildenauer, A. Hanbury and M. Kampel, Motion and Shadow Detection with an Improved Colour Model, IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP 2006), Hubli, India.

[C26] J. Stöttinger, N. Sebe, T. Gevers and A. Hanbury, Colour Interest Points for Image Retrieval, Proceedings of the 12th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW’07), St. Lambrecht, Austria.

[C27] L. Szumilas, R. Donner, G. Langs and A. Hanbury, Local Image Structure Detection with Orientation-invariant Radial Configuration, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), Minneapolis, USA.

[C28] A. Hanbury and B. Marcotegui, Colour Adjacency Histograms for Image Matching, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2007), Springer LNCS 4673, pages 424-431, Vienna, Austria.

[C29] J. Stöttinger, A. Hanbury, N. Sebe and T. Gevers, Do Colour Interest Points Improve Image Retrieval?, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2007), pages I-169–I-172, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

[C30] P. Clough, M. Grubinger, T. Deselaers, A. Hanbury and H. Müller, Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 Photographic Retrieval and Object Annotation Tasks, Proceedings of the CLEF 2006 Workshop, Springer LNCS 4730, pages 579-594, Alicante, Spain.

[C31] A. Hanbury, Morphological Distinguished Regions, Proceedings of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP) 2007, Springer LNCS 4756, pages 202–211, Viña del Mar-Valparaiso, Chile.

[C32] L. Szumilas, H. Wildenauer, A. Hanbury and R. Donner, Radial Edge Configuration for Semi-Local Image Structure Description, 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2007), Springer LNCS 4841, pages 633–643, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.

[C33] A. Hanbury, A Study of Vocabularies for Image Annotation, Proceedings of the second international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT) 2007, Springer LNCS 4816, pages 284–287, Genoa, Italy.

[C34] T. Deselaers, A. Hanbury, V. Viitaniemi, A. Benczúr, M. Brendel, B. Daróczy, H. Escalante Balderas, T. Gevers, C. Hernández Gracidas, S. C. H. Hoi, J. Laaksonen, M. Li, H. Marin Castro, H. Ney, X. Rui, N. Sebe, J. Stöttinger and L. Wu, Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 Object Retrieval Task, Proceedings of the CLEF 2007 Workshop, Springer LNCS 5152, Budapest, Hungary.

[C35] M. Grubinger, P. Clough, A. Hanbury and H. Müller, Overview of the ImageCLEFphoto 2007 photographic retrieval task, Proceedings of the CLEF 2007 Workshop, Springer LNCS 5152, Budapest, Hungary.

[C36] A. Hanbury, How do Superpixels Affect Image Segmentation?, Proceedings of the 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP) 2008, Springer LNCS 5197, pages 178–186, Havana, Cuba.

[C37] J. Stöttinger, R. Donner, L. Szumilas and A. Hanbury, Evaluation of Gradient Vector Flow for Interest Point Detection, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2008, Springer LNCS 5358, pages 338–348, Las Vegas, USA.

[C38] A. Hanbury and J. Stöttinger, On Segmentation Evaluation Metrics and Region Counts, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA.

[C39] J. Stöttinger, A. Hanbury, T. Gevers and N. Sebe, Lonely but Attractive: Sparse Color Salient Points for Object Retrieval and Categorization, CVPR 2009 Workshop on Feature Detectors and Descriptors: The State of The Art and Beyond, Miami, Florida, USA.

[C40] A. Hanbury and H. Müller, Toward Automated Component-Level Evaluation, Proc. SIGIR Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation, 2009, pages 29–30, Boston, USA.

[C41] L. Szumilas, H. Wildenauer and A. Hanbury, Invariant Shape Matching for Detection of Semi-local Image Structures, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR) 2009, Springer LNCS 5627, pages 551–562, Halifax, Canada.

[C42] J. Stöttinger, J. Banova, T. Pönitz, N. Sebe and A. Hanbury, Translating Journalists' Requirements into Features for Image Search, 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM) 2009, IEEE, pages 149–153, Vienna, Austria.

[C43] T. Deselaers and A. Hanbury, The Visual Concept Detection Task in ImageCLEF 2008, Proceedings of the CLEF 2008 Workshop, Springer LNCS 5706, pages 531–538, Aarhus, Denmark.

[C44] J. Stöttinger, A. Hanbury, C. Liensberger and R. Khan, Skin Paths for Contextual Flagging Adult Videos, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2009, Springer LNCS 5876, pages 303–314, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

[C45] K. Beuls, B. Pflugfelder and A. Hanbury, Comparative Analysis of Balanced Winnow and SVM in Large Scale Patent Categorization, Proceedings of the 10th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR) 2010, pages 8–15, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

[C46] N. A. Bhatti and A. Hanbury, Co-occurrence Bag of Words for Object Recognition, Proceedings of the 15th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW) 2010, pages 21–28, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic.

[C47] R. Khan, A. Hanbury and J. Stottinger, Weighted Skin Color Segmentation and Detection Using Graph Cuts, Proceedings of the 15th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW) 2010, pages 107–114, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic.

Conference Papers (abstract reviewed)
[A1] L. Kaunda and A. Hanbury, How students synthesise research literature and cite references in a science research paper, in SAARMSE Proceedings. Ed. Jaap Kuiper, Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1999.

[A2] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, Mathematical Morphology in the L*a*b* Space, 8th European Congress for Stereology and Image Analysis, Bordeaux, France, 2001.

[A3] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, Analysis of Oriented Textures using Mathematical Morphology, Proceedings of the Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (ÖAGM 2002), Graz, Austria, pages 201–208.

[A4] A. Hanbury and W. G. Kropatsch, Colour Statistics for Matching in Image Databases, Proceedings of the Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (ÖAGM 2003), Laxenburg, Austria, pages 221–228.

[A5] A. Hanbury, Highlight detection by 2D-histogram Analysis, Proceedings of the European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV 2004), pages 167–172, Aachen, Germany.

[A6] P. Kammerer, A. Hanbury and E. Zolda, A Visualisation Tool for Comparing Paintings and their Underdrawings, Proceedings of the Conference on Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts (EVA 2004), pages 148–153, Florence, Italy.

[A7] A. Hanbury, J. Marchadier and W. G. Kropatsch, The Redundancy Pyramid and its Application to Image Segmentation, Proceedings of the Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (ÖAGM 2004), pages 157–164, Hagenberg, Austria.

[A8] A. Hanbury, Analysis of Keywords used in Image Understanding Tasks, Proceedings of the OntoImage Workshop (2006), pages 24–33, Genoa, Italy.

[A9] S. Kuthan and A. Hanbury, Hierarchical Image Classification, Proceedings of the ImagEVAL 2007 Workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Conference Papers (not reviewed)
[U1] M. Nölle, M. Rubik and A. Hanbury, Results of the MUSCLE CIS Coin Competition 2006, Proceedings of the MUSCLE CIS Coin Competition Workshop, pages 1–6, Berlin, Germany.

[U2] A. Hanbury and A. Targhi, A Dataset of Annotated Animals, Proceedings of the Second MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation (2006), pages 19–28, Alicante, Spain.

[U3] P. Clough, M. Grubinger, T. Deselaers, A. Hanbury and H. Müller. Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 photographic retrieval and object annotation tasks. In CLEF working notes, Alicante, Spain, September 2006.

[U4] A. Hanbury, B. Mičušík and J. Stöttinger, The MUSCLE Live Image Retrieval Evaluation Event, Proceedings of the Third MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation (2007), pages 2–8, Budapest, Hungary.

[U5] H. Müller, T. Deselaers, M. Grubinger, P. Clough, A. Hanbury and W. Hersh, Problems with Running a Successful Multimedia Retrieval Benchmark, Proceedings of the Third MUSCLE/ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation (2007), pages 9–18, Budapest, Hungary.

[U6] M. Grubinger, P. Clough, A. Hanbury and H. Müller, Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 Photographic Retrieval Task, Working Notes of the 2007 CLEF Workshop, Budapest, Hungary.

[U7] T. Deselaers, A. Hanbury, V. Viitaniemi, A. Benczúr, M. Brendel, B. Daróczy, H. J. Escalante Balderas, T. Gevers, C. A. Hernández Gracidas, S. C. H. Hoi, J. Laaksonen, M. Li, H. M. Marin Castro, H. Ney, X. Rui, N. Sebe, J. Stöttinger and L. Wu, Overview of the ImageCLEF 2007 Object Retrieval Task, Working Notes of the 2007 CLEF Workshop, Budapest, Hungary.

[U8] T. Deselaers and A. Hanbury, The Visual Concept Detection Task in ImageCLEF 2008, Working Notes of the 2008 CLEF Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark.

[U9] J. Stöttinger and A. Hanbury, Ordnung in die Bilderflut – Arbeitsweise von Content-Based Image Retrieval Systeme, Prozessgestaltung in der Medienproduktion, Berlin, Germany, 2008.

Technical Reports
[R1] A. Hanbury, Lexicographical Order in the HLS Colour Space, Technical Report N-04/01/MM, Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2001.

[R2] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, Mathematical Morphology in the L*a*b* Colour Space, Technical Report N-36/01/MM, Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2001.

[R3] A. Hanbury and J. Serra, A 3D-polar Coordinate Colour Representation Suitable for Image Analysis, Technical Report PRIP-TR-77, PRIP, T.U. Wien, 2002.

[R4] A. Hanbury, Physics-based segmentation of colour images in spherical coordinates, Technical Report PRIP-TR-84, PRIP, T.U. Wien, July 2003.

[R5] L. Szumilas and A. Hanbury, Segment Feature Co-occurrence based Texture Detection, Technical Report PRIP-TR-99, PRIP, T.U. Wien, December 2005

[R6] A. Hanbury, Review of Image Annotation for the Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms, Technical Report PRIP-TR-102, PRIP, T.U. Wien, February 2006

Theses
[T1] A. Hanbury, Generalised Fourier Analysis of Human Chromosome Images, Masters Thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999.

[T2] A. Hanbury, Mathematical Morphology on the Unit Circle: with applications to hues and to oriented textures, PhD Thesis (in French), Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2002.

[T3] A. Hanbury, Morphological Processing and Segmentation of Colour Images, Habilitation Thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 2008.

Public Dissemination
[D1] A. Hanbury and M. Nölle, The MUSCLE Benchmarking Initiative, ERCIM News No. 62, pages 14–15, July 2005.

[D2] M. Nölle and A. Hanbury, MUSCLE Coin Images Seibersdorf (CIS) Benchmark Competition 2006, IAPR Newsletter Vol. 28 No. 2, pages 18–19, April 2006.

[D3] A. Hanbury and M. Nölle, MUSCLE CIS Coin Competition 2006, ERCIM News No. 68, page 10, January 2007.

[D4] A. Hanbury and M. Nölle, Winning Algorithm for Coin Classification, IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 29, No. 1, January 2007.