KINGSLEY SAGE Room 5C16 Dept of Informatics University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1273 872588 E-mail: khs20@sussex.ac.uk

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Personal

I am a DPhil student and tutor in the Department of Informatics at the University

of Sussex in Brighton, UK. Prior to coming to Sussex, I read a BEng(Hons) in

Electronic Engineering and a MSc in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems. I

also worked for around 10 years as a Project and Programme Manager.

Research and publications

My DPhil is entitled “Task Based Visual Control” and my supervisors are

Professor Hilary Buxton and Dr David Young. The aim of this research

is to develop techniques that facilitate “perception guided by expectation”.

Currently I am investigating the use of Variable Length Markov Models (VLMMs)

for a range of tasks. VLMMs have strong structural generative properties that make

them suitable for tracking tasks and dealing with problems such as mid-order

temporal occlusion. I have implemented a set of MATLAB and C functions

to learn VLMM Prediction Suffix Trees and their corresponding Probabilistic

Finite Automata for continuous valued inputs (extending the original formulation

By Ron et al).

This package of source code is available here (ZIP file).

I have also experimented with using VLMMs as a means to inform a prior in

Bayesian leaning techniques. I integrated such a prior integrated with Frey

and Jojic’s work on transformation invariant Mixture of Gaussian models

to provide a method for the joint learning of spatial and temporal structures

in image sequences.

Learning Temporal Structure for Task Based Control

Sage, K. H., Howell, A. J., Buxton, H and Argyros, A.A (FORTH, Greece)

In preparation (Current version as Postscript, Current version as PDF)

Joint spatial and temporal structure learning for task based control

Sage, K. H and Buxton, H

In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2004, Cambridge UK

Download Postscript, PDF

Developing Content Sensitive HMM Gesture Recognition

Sage, K. H., Howell, A. J. and Buxton, H

In International Workshop on Gesture Recognition (GW) 2003, Genoa, Italy

Download Postscript, PDF

The Role of Task Control and Context in Learning to Recognise Gesture

Buxton, H., Howell, A. J. and Sage, K. H

In International Workshop on Cognitive Vision (WCV) 2002, Zurich, Switzerland

Download PDF

Teaching

I taught/am teaching the following courses:

804G5 course Autumn 2004 Programming Techniques

in conjunction with Matt Bardeen (CCNR).

Maths Skills for Cognitive Scientists Maths Skills for Cognitive Scientists

in conjunction with Benoit Gaillard.

I am also writing courseware for a new course on

Cognitive Computer Vision in conjunction with Hilary Buxton.

Social

When I’m not at the University, I play keyboards and produce a Brighton based

rock band called ANEMO (www.anemo.co.uk). ANEMO are signed to the

New York independent label City Canyons Records (www.citycanyons.com)

and our first album on that label should be released in the US in Spring 2005.

I also run a recording studio and I am currently involved in a number

of songwriting projects.

Last updated: 24 May 2005 (Kingsley Sage)