Dr. Akshay Asthana

Position:

Past Member

Email:

Personal website:

https://sites.google.com/site/akshayasthana/

Biography

Akshay Asthana is a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at iBUG. His current research focuses on the problems that lie at the intersection of computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning with a main focus on statistical methods for non-rigid object registration and its applications.

Chehra Real-Time Face and Eyes Tracking Software.

Research Themes:

Face analysis:
Facial point tracking, Face registration

Publications

Journal articles

A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Deformable Face Tracking "In-the-Wild"

G. Chrysos, E. Antonakos, P. Snape, A. Asthana, S. Zafeiriou. International Journal of Computer Vision. pp. 1 - 35, February 2017.

[pdf] [bibtex] [endnote]

@article{chrysos2016comprehensive,
    author = {G. Chrysos and E. Antonakos and P. Snape and A. Asthana and S. Zafeiriou},
    pages = {1--35},
    journal = {International Journal of Computer Vision},
    month = {February},
    title = {A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Deformable Face Tracking "In-the-Wild"},
    url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-017-0999-5},
    year = {2017},
}

From Pixels to Response Maps: Discriminative Image Filtering for Face Alignment in the Wild

A. Asthana, S. Zafeiriou, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Cheng, M. Pantic. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI). In Press.. 2015.

[GFRM Code] [pdf] [bibtex] [endnote]

@article{pami_2015,
    author = {A. Asthana and S. Zafeiriou and G. Tzimiropoulos and S. Cheng and M. Pantic},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI). In Press.},
    title = {From Pixels to Response Maps: Discriminative Image Filtering for Face Alignment in the Wild},
    year = {2015},
}

%0 Journal Article
%T From Pixels to Response Maps: Discriminative Image Filtering for Face Alignment in the Wild
%A Asthana, A.
%A Zafeiriou, S.
%A Tzimiropoulos, G.
%A Cheng, S.
%A Pantic, M.
%J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI). In Press.
%D 2015
%F pami_2015

Conference articles

3D Facial Geometric Features For Constrained Local Models

S. Cheng, S. Zafeiriou, A. Asthana, M. Pantic. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014). Paris, France, October 2014.

[bibtex] [endnote]

@inproceedings{cheng2014facial,
    author = {S. Cheng and S. Zafeiriou and A. Asthana and M. Pantic},
    address = {Paris, France},
    booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014)},
    month = {October},
    title = {3D Facial Geometric Features For Constrained Local Models},
    year = {2014},
}

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T 3D Facial Geometric Features For Constrained Local Models
%A Cheng, S.
%A Zafeiriou, S.
%A Asthana, A.
%A Pantic, M.
%B IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014)
%D 2014
%8 October
%C Paris, France
%F cheng2014facial

Hybrid Decision Forests for Prostate Segmentation in Multi-channel MR Images

Q. Gao, A. Asthana, T. Tong, Y. Hu, D. Rueckert, P. Edwards. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014). Stockholm, Sweden, August 2014.

[bibtex] [endnote]

@inproceedings{gao2014hybrid,
    author = {Q. Gao and A. Asthana and T. Tong and Y. Hu and D. Rueckert and P. Edwards},
    address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
    booktitle = {International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014)},
    month = {August},
    title = {Hybrid Decision Forests for Prostate Segmentation in Multi-channel MR Images},
    year = {2014},
}

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Hybrid Decision Forests for Prostate Segmentation in Multi-channel MR Images
%A Gao, Q.
%A Asthana, A.
%A Tong, T.
%A Hu, Y.
%A Rueckert, D.
%A Edwards, P.
%B International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014)
%D 2014
%8 August
%C Stockholm, Sweden
%F gao2014hybrid

Real-time generic face tracking in the wild with CUDA

S. Cheng, A. Asthana, S. Zafeiriou, J. Shen, M. Pantic. Proceedings of the 5th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference. ACM, Singapore, Singapore, pp. 148 - 151, 2014.

[pdf] [bibtex] [endnote]

@inproceedings{Cheng2014,
    author = {S. Cheng and A. Asthana and S. Zafeiriou and J. Shen and M. Pantic},
    pages = {148--151},
    address = {Singapore, Singapore},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference},
    publisher = {ACM},
    title = {Real-time generic face tracking in the wild with CUDA},
    year = {2014},
}

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Real-time generic face tracking in the wild with CUDA
%A Cheng, S.
%A Asthana, A.
%A Zafeiriou, S.
%A Shen, J.
%A Pantic, M.
%B Proceedings of the 5th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
%D 2014
%I ACM
%C Singapore, Singapore
%F Cheng2014
%P 148-151

Incremental Face Alignment in the Wild

A. Asthana, S. Zafeiriou, S. Cheng, M. Pantic. In Proceedings of IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014). 2014.

[YTCeleb Database Video Annotations] [pdf] [bibtex] [endnote]

@inproceedings{akshay_wild,
    author = {A. Asthana and S. Zafeiriou and S. Cheng and M. Pantic},
    booktitle = {In Proceedings of IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014)},
    title = {Incremental Face Alignment in the Wild},
    year = {2014},
}

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Incremental Face Alignment in the Wild
%A Asthana, A.
%A Zafeiriou, S.
%A Cheng, S.
%A Pantic, M.
%B In Proceedings of IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014)
%D 2014
%F akshay_wild

Multi-scale Feature Learning on Pixel and Superpixel for Seminal Vesical MRI Segmentation

Q. Gao, A. Asthana, T. Tong, D. Rueckert, P. Edwards. 2014 SPIE Medical Imaging (MI 2014). San Diego, California, USA, February 2014.

[bibtex] [endnote]

@inproceedings{guo2014multiscale,
    address = {San Diego, California, USA},
    booktitle = {2014 SPIE Medical Imaging (MI 2014)},
    month = {February},
    title = {Multi-scale Feature Learning on Pixel and Superpixel for Seminal Vesical MRI Segmentation},
    year = {2014},
}

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Multi-scale Feature Learning on Pixel and Superpixel for Seminal Vesical MRI Segmentation
%B 2014 SPIE Medical Imaging (MI 2014)
%D 2014
%8 February
%C San Diego, California, USA
%F guo2014multiscale

CLM-WILD: Real-Time Generic Face Tracker

A. Asthana, S. Cheng, J. Shen, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic. Demo at IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2013), Sydney, Australia. December 2013.

[bibtex] [endnote]

@inproceedings{iccv13_demo,
    author = {A. Asthana and S. Cheng and J. Shen and S. Zafeiriou and M. Pantic},
    booktitle = {Demo at IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2013), Sydney, Australia},
    month = {December},
    title = {CLM-WILD: Real-Time Generic Face Tracker},
    year = {2013},
}

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T CLM-WILD: Real-Time Generic Face Tracker
%A Asthana, A.
%A Cheng, S.
%A Shen, J.
%A Zafeiriou, S.
%A Pantic, M.
%B Demo at IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2013), Sydney, Australia
%D 2013
%8 December
%F iccv13_demo

Robust Discriminative Response Map Fitting with Constrained Local Models

A. Asthana, S. Zafeiriou, S. Cheng, M. Pantic. 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013). Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2013.

[pdf] [bibtex] [endnote]

@inproceedings{akshay_CVPR_2013,
    author = {A. Asthana and S. Zafeiriou and S. Cheng and M. Pantic},
    address = {Portland, Oregon, USA},
    booktitle = {2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013)},
    month = {June},
    title = {Robust Discriminative Response Map Fitting with Constrained Local Models },
    year = {2013},
}

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Robust Discriminative Response Map Fitting with Constrained Local Models
%A Asthana, A.
%A Zafeiriou, S.
%A Cheng, S.
%A Pantic, M.
%B 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013)
%D 2013
%8 June
%C Portland, Oregon, USA
%F akshay_CVPR_2013