Research

My main research interest is computer vision and is conducted in the Visual Analysis and Perception Lab.  Other research interests cover image analysis, AI, XAI, machine vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, perception, HCI, and robotics.

Below you can see the research projects I’ve been involved in as well as the research events that I have been involved in organizing.

Research project participation

International

3DcompCompression for sequences of point cloud or voxel representations
Rogaland, Norway, 2021
CA19121Network on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living
EU-COST action CA19121, 2020 – 2023
CA17124Digital forensics: evidence analysis via intelligent systems and practices
EU-COST action CA17124, 2018 – 2021
InDevIn-Depth understanding of accident causation for Vulnerable road users
H2020-MG.3.4-2014, 2015 – 2018
IC1307The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language
EU-TIST-COST action IC1307, 2013 – 2017
IC1106Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age
EU-TIST-COST action IC1106, 2012 – 2015
BIDSBiometrics for Identity Documents and Smartcards
EU-TIST-COST action 2101, 2006 – 2011
HERMESHuman-Expressive Representations of Motion and Their Evaluation in Sequences
FP6 IST-027110 Specific Targeted Research Project, 2006-2009
CONGASGesture Controlled Audio Systems
EU-TIST-COST action 287, 2004 -2007
ARTHURAugmented Round Table for Architecture and Urban Planning
EU-IST-RTD project (IST-2000-28559), 6 partners, 2001-2004
FG-NETFace and Gesture Recognition Working Group
EU-IST Thematic Network (IST-2000-26434), 6 partners, 2001-2004

 

National

MS-programMilestone Research programme @AAU
Funded by Milestone Systems, 2024 – 2027
AI:DK AI Denmark
Funded by The Danish Industry Foundation, 2024 – 2027
SLAMEnhancing Robustness and Adaptability in Visual-Inertial
SLAM for Diverse and Dynamic Environments

Funded by Carnegie Robotics, 2023 – 2026
REPAIResponsible AI for Value Creation
Funded by the Grundfos Foundation, 2023 – 2027
FLOWEnvironmental awareness for agricultural vehicles using Scene Flow
Funded by IFD, 2023 – 2026
AICFAI – Color Fashion
Funded by IFD, 2023 – 2027
READYThe local R&D factory for a global circular textile industry
Funded by IFD, 2023 – 2027
FLIPFlexible Laser Integrated Production
Funded by IFD, 2023 – 2027
JamboUndersøgelser af havbundsforhold og bundslæbende redskabers påvirkning i Jammerbugt
Funded by Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, 2023 – 2023
Contestable AIContestable Artificial Intelligence
Funded by DFF, 2022-2025
AutoFishAutomated monitoring of Cods
Funded by Ministry of Environment and Food, 2022-2023
SEWbotRobotized sewing and handling
Funded by IFD InnoMission, 2022-2024
PBL-AIAutomating the assessment of final exams
Funded by AAU, 2022
P1Pioneer Center for AI
Funded by DNRF, NNF, CF, VF, LF, 2021-2031
XAIfairExplainable Artificial Intelligence and Fairness in Asylum Law
Funded by Villum Synergy program, 2021-2023
ReRobCenter for Rehabilitation Robotics
Funded by Louis-Hansen Foundation, 2021-2026
AI:DKAI Denmark – boosting the use of AI in SMEs
Funded by The Danish Industry Foundation, 2021-2023
ReDoCO2Reducing and Documenting CO2 emissions from
Peatlands
Funded by IFD, 2020 – 2024
CORONAEstimation, Simulation, and Control for Optimal Containment of COVID-19
Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, 2020 – 2020
AIGPAI in General Practice
Funded by the Ministry of Health, 2020 – 2021
MS-programMilestone Research programme @AAU
Funded by Milestone Systems, 2019 – 2023
MarineVisionMarine analytics using computer vision
Funded by DFF, 2020 – 2022
AI-EthicsAI & Ethics
Funded by AAU, 2019-2020
NozzelCheckerDeep Learning for nozzle checking
Funded by private Company, 2019
DeepBobblesDeep Learning in Computer Vision
Funded by private Company, 2019-2020
ASIRAutonomous Sewer Inspection Robot
Funded by IFD, 2018-2022
 MLwaterMachine learning for value creation in the utility sector 
Funded by IFD, 2018-2021
 ThermalArchThermal Adaptive Architecture
Funded by Realdania & the Obel Foundation, 2018-2021
AI@SMEsInnovative use of Big Data: Deep learning-based image processing
Funded by Den Europæiske Fond for Regionaludvikling og Region Midtjylland, 2018-2019
FoodPerceptionComputer vision-based analysis of food perception
Funded by SDC, 2018-2019
DermaCamEn platform for optisk analyse af hudstruktur
Funded by Den Europæiske Fond for Regionaludvikling, LSI and a private company, 2018-2019
LegoQCImage-based quality control
Funded by LEGO, 2018-2019
EXOTICAssistive Personal Robotics Platform with an EXOskeleton using the Tongue for Intelligent Control as a use case
Funded by AAU, 2018-2021
HarvestQCAutomatic Harvest Quality Monitoring
Funded by IFD, 2018-2021
TrygHavnPreventing drowning accidents
Funded by TrygFonden, 2018-2020
ACMPAugmented Cellular Meat production
Funded by IFD, 2017-2021
ArchGameArchitecture is a game – technology, creativity, aesthetic and math
Funded by Nordea, 2017-2020
Sports3Video monitoring of outdoor sports activities
Funded by Municipalities and , 2017-2020
AestheticQCAesthetic quality control of shiny objects
Funded by IFD, 2017-2020
NeuroAnalysisAnalysing severely affected neuro-patients
Funded by Hammel Neurocenter, 2017
LearnMeatAdaptive and learning algorithms for robots in the meat production industry
Funded by IFD, 2017-2020
SportsTrackingTracking of people in sports
Funded by internal PhD funds, 2017-2020
ShipIDVideo-based identification of ships
Funded by Innobooster, 2016-2017
Sports2Video monitoring of sports activities
Funded by a private company, 2016-2017
SmallDroneVideo monitoring from a small drone
Funded by a private company, 2015-2016
Poultry2Computer Vision based quality control in slaughterhouses
Funded by the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food (GUPD), 2015-2018
Poultry1Automated quality control of poultry
Funded by Danish Reseach Council, 2015-2018
NeuroRehabNeuro rehabilitation via gaming
Funded by the Region, 2014-2015
SportsOccupancy analysis of sports facilities
Funded by four Danish municipalities, 2014-2016
Radar-TracksCorrelating tracks from different radars
Funded by a private company, 2014
 CPmusicMusic motivated movement and learning
Ludvig og Sara Elsass Fond, 2013-2016
 Rehab at homeTele-rehabilitation after stroke
Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation (FTP), 2013-2016
E-booksMaking more people read
Danish Ministry for Culture and Palaces, 2013-2015
Patient@homePatient@home
Danish Reseach Council, DSF/RTI (SPIR), 2012-2017
MVaaSManaged Video as a Service
Højteknologi Fonden (HTF), 2012-2015
BBHAutomatic analysis of sport arenas
Funded by the foundations: Nordea-fonden and Lokale- og Anlægsfonden, 2012-2014
Traffic safetyKrydsløsninger for cyklister 
Funded by Transportministeriet, 2012-2013
TrafficVisual Analysis in Traffic & Re-identification
Funded by internal PhD funds, 2012-2015
Facility analysisMonitoring sports arenas in Aalborg, Denmark
Funded by Aalborg municipality, 2011
Reflex receptive fieldsReflex receptive fields: A new diagnostic method for chronic pain syndromes
Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation (FTP), 2009-2012
BigBrotherBig Brother is watching you!
Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation (FTP), 2007-2011
MOPRIMIn search for the motion primitives for a communicative human body language
Danish Research Council project (STVF), 2004-2007
STAGINGThe Staging of Virtual Inhabited 3-D Spaces
Danish Research Council project, 8 partners, 1998-2001

 

Research publications

(that I have been involved in organizing)

Type: Special issue
Titel: “Computer Vision for 3D Perception and Applications
Editors: Matteo Poggi and T.B. Moeslund
Year: 2021
Journal: Sensors

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Advanced Machine Vision
Editors: Steven Puttemans, Toon Goedemé, Ajmal Mian, Thomas B. Moeslund, Rikke Gade
Year: 2020
Journal: Machine Vision and Applications

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Statistical Machine Learning for Human Behaviour Analysis
Editors: Thomas Moeslund, Sergio Escalera, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Kamal Nasrollahi, Jun Wan
Year: 2020
Journal: Entropy

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Human abnormal behavioural analysis
Editors: Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Sergio Escalera, Kamal Nasrollahi, Hugo Jair Escalante, Xavier Baro, Jun Wan, Thomas B. Moeslund
Year: 2019
Journal: Machine Vision and applications, 30

Type: Edited book
Title: Video Analytics. Face and Facial Expression Recognition”
Editors: Bai, X., Fang, Y., Jia, Y., Kan, M., Shan, S., Shen, C., Wang, J., Xia, G.-S., Yan, S., Zhang, Z., Nasrollahi, K., Hua, G., Moeslund, Th.B., Ji, Q.
Year: 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-12177-8
Publisher: LNCS Springer

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Computer vision in sports
Editors: Thomas B. Moeslund, Graham Thomas, Adrian Hilton, Peter Carr, Irfan Essa
Year: 2017
Journal: Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 159, 2017

Type: Edited book
Title: Video Analytics. Face and Facial Expression Recognition and Audience Measurement
Editors: Nasrollahi, K., Distante, C., Hua, G., Cavallaro, A., Moeslund, Th.B., Battiato, S., Ji, Q.
Year: 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-56687-0
Publisher: LNCS Springer

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Analysis and Retrieval of Events/Actions and Workflows in Video Streams
Editors: Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis, Marco Bertini, Jordi Gonzalez and Thomas Moeslund
Year: 2016
Journal: Multimedia Tools and Applications, 75(22), 2016

Type: Edited book
Title: Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos
Editors: Q. Ji, T.B. Moeslund, G. Hua, K. Nasrollahi
Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-13737-7
Publisher: LNCS Springer

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Soft Biometrics
Editors: Paulo L Correia, Thomas B Moeslund, Abdenour Hadid
Year: 2015
Journal: Pattern Recognition Letters, 82(2) 2015

Type: Edited book
Title: “Computer Vision in Sports”
Editors: Thomas B. Moeslund, Graham Thomas and Adrian Hilton
Year: 2014
Publisher: Springer

Type: Edited book
Title: “Activity Monitoring by Multiple Distributed Sensing. Second International Workshop, AMMDS 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, August 24, 2014, Revised Selected Papers”
Editors: Pier Luigi Mazzeo, Paolo Spagnolo and Thomas B. Moeslund
Year: 2014
Publisher: LNCS 8703 Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-13323-2

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Multimedia Event Detection”.
Editors: Thomas B. Moeslund, Omar Javed, Yu-Gang Jiang, R. Manmatha
Year: 2014
Journal: Machine Vision and Applications, 25(1), 2014

Type: Edited book
Title: Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects. 7th International Conference, AMDO 2012, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 11-13, 2012. Proceedings
Editors: Francisco J. Perales , Robert B. Fisher and Thomas B. Moeslund
Year: 2012
Publisher: Springer

Type: Special issue
Titel: ”Semantic Understanding of Human Behaviors in Image Sequences: From video-surveillance to video-hermeneutics”.
Editors: Jordi Gonzalez, Thomas B. Moeslund, and Liang Wang
Year: 2012
Journal: International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 116(3), 2012

Type: Edited book
Title: Visual Analysis of Humans – Looking at people” 
Editors: Moeslund, Th.B.; Hilton, A.; Kruger, V.; Sigal, L. (Eds.)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Springer

Research organization

(conferences, workshops and tutorials that I have been involved in organizing)

YearNameIn conjunction with
202410th International Workshop on Computer Vision in SportsCVPR
2024Real-World Surveillance: Applications and ChallengesWACV
2023International Workshop on Computer Vision in SportsCVPR
2023ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in SportsACM MM
2023Artificial Intelligence in SportsICME
2023Real-World Surveillance: Applications and ChallengesWACV
2022Sign Language Understanding WorkshopECCV
2022Real-World Surveillance: Applications and ChallengesECCV
2022Workshop on Computer Vision for Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringECCV
20225th International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in SportsACM MM
20228th International Workshop on Computer Vision in SportsCVPR
2022Artificial Intelligence in SportsICME
2022Real-World Surveillance: Applications and ChallengesWACV
20217th International Workshop on Computer Vision in SportsCVPR
2021Multimedia Content Analysis in SportsACM MM
2021Artificial Intelligence in Sports (AI-Sports)ICME
20203rd International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in SportsACM MM
20206th International Workshop on Computer Vision in SportsCVPR
2019Special session: Machine Learning in Advanced Machine Vision ICMLA
20192nd International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports ACM MM
2019Special session: Visual Analytics for Sports Sensor DataGCCE
20195th International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports CVPR
20181st International Workshop on Advanced Machine Vision for Real-life and Industrially Relevant ApplicationsACCV
20181st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in SportsACM MM
20182nd International Workshop on Deep Learning for Pattern RecognitionICPR
20184th IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports (CVsports)CVPR
20173rd IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports (CVsports)CVPR
2017Deep-Vision: Deep Learning in Computer Vision (4th Edition) – Temporal Deep LearningCVPR
2017Traffic Surveillance Workshop and ChallengeCVPR
20162nd Workshop on Face and Facial Expression
Recognition (FFER’16) 
ICPR
20162nd International Workshop on Automatic Traffic SurveillanceCVPR
20152nd IEEE Int. Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports (CVsports’15)ICCV
20151st Workshop on Automatic Traffic Surveillance (ATS 2015)AVSS
20141st International Workshop on Soft BiometricsECCV
20141st International Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World VideosICPR
20142nd workshop on Activity monitoring by multiple distributed sensingICPR
20143rd International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) 
2013Multi-Modal Gesture Recognition Challenge (ChaLearn’13)ICMI
20134th ACM/IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (Artemis’13) ACM MM
20131st IEEE Int. Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports (CVsports’13)CVPR
20132nd International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) 
2012VII Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects  (AMDO’12) 
2012Tutorial on Looking at People: The past, the present and the future CVPR
20123rd Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (Artemis’12)ECCV
20121st International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) 
2011Tutorial on Looking at People: The past, the present and the futureICCV
20112nd IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (Artemis’11)ICCV
2010International Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (Artemis’10)ACM MM
2009Second IEEE International Workshop on
Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences  (Themis’09)
ICCV
2008First International Workshop on
Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences (Themis’08)
BMVC

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