James Nelson

Contents
Grants
Consultancy
Publications
Talks
Teaching
Admin

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Recent grants

Principal Investigator

• ASTAR/UCL joint PhD studentship "Cognitive, multiresolution hypergraphs for histopathological classification" (2013)
  
  
• Dstl Impact PhD studentship "Inhomogeneous multiresolution random fields" (2013)
  
  
• TSB/EPSRC Technology Inspired Innovation PDRA project on "Smart sensor network for powerline monitoring using machine learning" (2013)
  
  
• Dstl fully funded 4 year PhD studentship "Statistical signal processing and machine learning for network traffic anomaly detection" (2012)
  
  
• Dstl/Atlas Elektronik UK PDRA project on semi-supervised mine countermeasures (2012)
  
  
• EPSRC PDRA project "Multiresolution Markov models for detecting radial patterns of spicules in mammograms" (2012)

Researcher Co-Investigator

• EPSRC PDRA project "Development of locally invariant signal processing to discriminate between key man-made and natural features" (2009)
  
  
• MoD Counter Terrorism Centre project "Anomaly detection in video imagery" (2009)

Recent consultancy

• 2011: Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd


• 2011: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

Publications

• Nelson, J. D. B. "Sparse regularisation for piecewise, minimal codomain cardinality, Riesz basis construction" (in review)
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. "Fused Lasso and rotation invariant autoregressive models for texture classification" (in review)
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Krylov, V. "Textural lacunarity for semi-supervised learning in sonar imagery" (in review)
  
  
• Krylov, V. and Nelson, J. D. B. "Fast road network extraction from remotely sensed images" (in review)
  
  
• Le Roux, J. A. and Nelson, J. D. B. "Integrated variance estimation of high-frequency data in the presence of microstructure noise" (in review)
  
  
• Gibberd, A. J. and Nelson, J. D. B. "Catching cyber-attacks with a LASSO" (in review)
  
  
• Krylov, V., Taylor, S., and Nelson, J. D. B. (2013) "Stochastic extraction of elongated curvilinear structures in mammographic images". To appear in: International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  
  
• Gibberd, A. J. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2013) "Sparsity for change point detection in network traffic". Data Analysis for CyberSecurity
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2012) "Fractal dimension, wavelet shrinkage, and anomaly detection for mine hunting". IET Signal Processing Journal
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2012) "Multiresolution Markov random field wavelet shrinkage for ripple suppression in sonar imagery". 9th IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing
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• Julier, S., De Nardi, R., and Nelson, J. D. B. (2012) "Multi-rate estimation of coloured noise models in graph-based estimation algorithms". International Conference on Information Fusion
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2011) "Enhanced shift and scale tolerance for dual-tree complex wavelet rotation invariant matching". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(3):814-821
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2010) "Fractal dimension based sand ripple suppression for mine hunting with sidescan sonar". International Conference on Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Synthetic Aperture Radar
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2010) "Dual-tree wavelets for locally varying and anisotropic fractal dimension estimation". IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B., Damper, R. I., Gunn, S. R. and Guo, B. (2009) "A signal theory approach to support vector classification: the Sinc kernel". Neural Networks 22 (1): 49-57
  
  
• Pang, S. K., Nelson, J. D. B., Godsill, S. J., and Kingsbury, N. G. (2009) "Video tracking using dual-tree wavelet polar matching and Rao-Blackwellised particle filter". Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B., Damper, R. I., Gunn, S. R. and Guo, B. (2008) "Signal theory for SVM kernel design with applications to parameter estimation and sequence kernels" Neurocomputing 72 (1-3): 15-22
  
  
• Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2008) "A fast separability-based feature selection method for highdimensional remotely-sensed image classification". Pattern Recognition 41 (8): 1670-1679
  
  
• Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2008) "Customizing kernel functions for SVM-based hyperspectral image classification" IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 17 (4): 622-629
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B., Pang, S. K., Godsill, S. J., and Kingsbury, N. G. (2008) "Tracking ground based targets in aerial video with dual-tree complex wavelet polar matching and particle filtering". International Conference on Information Fusion
  
  
• Pang, S. K., Nelson, J. D. B., Godsill, S. J., and Kingsbury, N. G. (2008) "Video tracking using dual-tree wavelet polar matching and particle filtering". The Institution of Engineering and Technology Seminar on Target Tracking and Data Fusion
  
  
• Mahmood A., Tudor, P. M., Oxford, W., Hansford, R., Nelson J. D. B., Kingsbury, N. G., Katartzis, A., Petrou, M., Mitianoudis, N., Stathaki, T., Achim, A., Bull, D., Canagarajah, N., Nikolov, S., Loza, A., and Cvejic, N. (2007) "Applied multi-dimensional fusion". The Computer Journal 50 (6)
  
  
• Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2006) "Band selection for hyperspectral image classification using mutual information". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B., Damper, R. I., Gunn, S. R. and Guo, B. (2006) "Signal theory for SVM kernel parameter estimation". Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. (2005) “A wavelet filter enhancement scheme with a fast integral B-wavelet transform and pyramidal multi-B wavelet algorithm”. Applied & Computational Harmonic Analysis 18(3): 234-251
  
  
• Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2005) "Adaptive band selection for hyperspectral image fusion using mutual information". International Conference on Information Fusion
  
  
• Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2005) "Hyperspectral image fusion using spectrally weighted kernels". International Conference on Information Fusion
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Fu, S. (2004) "A yaw and tilt invariant vehicluar ego-position model". Technical Report, Cranfield University
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. (2003) "On the coefficient quantization of the Fourier basis". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 51(7): 1838–1846
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. (2003) "A multi-channel, multi-sampling rate theorem". Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing: An International Journal 2(1): 83–96
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. (2003) "Applications of enhanced vision to the automotive industry". SMi Conference on Enhanced Vision
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. (2001) "The construction of some Riesz basis families and their application to coefficient quantization, sampling theory, and wavelet analysis" PhD thesis, Anglia Polytechnic University
  
  

Selected Invited Talks

• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2011) "Fractal dimension, wavelet shrinkage, and anomaly detection for mine hunting in sonar imagery". University Defence Research Centre Industry day, Imperial College London
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2010) "Estimation of fractal dimension and shift-scale tolerant, rotation invariant, matching". University of Surrey
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2010) "Dual-tree wavelets for locally varying and anisotropic fractal dimension estimation". Edinburgh Research Partnership in Engineering and Mathematics: Signal and Image Processing Joint Seminar Programme, Edinburgh University and Heriot-Watt University
  
  
• Kingsbury, N. G. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2009) "Dual-tree wavelets for fractal dimension estimation". University Defence Research Centre Launch, Imperial College London
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2009) "Detection and displacement estimation with the DTCWT". Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Maths Interest Group Forum
  
  
• Nelson, J. D. B. and Kingsbury, N. G. (2009) "Detection and displacement estimation with the DTCWT". Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Research Exploitation Day
  
  
• Nelson, J.D.B., Chen, H., Kingsbury, N. G. (2009) "3D MRI registration with dual-tree wavelets". Annual General Meeting, The Magnetic Resonance Group of the Institute of Physics
  
  

Recent events

• 2012 U.S. Office of Naval Research Intersections in Signal Processing, Acoustics, and Automatic Target Recognition for Maritime Applications, Washington
  
  
• 2012 EPSRC/DST Interaction Meeting in Applied Mathematical Sciences Research Challenges, Edinburgh
  
  

Teaching

• 2011 - present: MSc "Statistical Computing"
  
  
• 2010 - present: Tutor for MSc "Skills Development course in graphics"
  
  
• 2011: Lecturer for the MSc Foundation course on "Poisson Processes & Further Applied Probability"
  
  
• 2011: Tutor for "Introduction to Applied Probability"
  
  
• 2010 - 2011: Lecturer of "Forecasting"
  
  
• 2010 - 2011: Lecturer of "LTCC course on Stochastic Processes" (London Taught Course Centre: an EPSRC supported graduate training programme for PhD students in the mathematical sciences)
  
  
• 2010 - 2011: Tutor for "Probability and Inference"
  
  
• 2010: Tutor for "Introduction to probability and statistics"
  
  

Admin

• Natural Sciences Mathematics and Statistics stream representative
  
  
• Centre for Security Technology steering committee member
  
  
• Statistical Science Departmental Teaching Committee member