Mark Nixon, PH.D.

Professor in Computer Vision at the University of Southampton UK

President of the IEEE Biometrics Council and Vice Chair IEEE PSPB

Abstract: Research that isn’t published might not have happened at all; publications and academic careers go hand in hand. With the advent of high profile conferences and ArXiv, many students are less clear about publishing in journals. So this talk aims to clarify the position. Its coverage incudes: journal choice, the review process, the publication system, choices that are faced when publishing in journals and some hints as to how it might be best to approach what can be a pretty tough proposition. I shall also suggest some challenges that are often encountered, and some mistakes that can be best avoided. It’s neither a panacea nor a sermon, more a guided tour and audience suggestions are most welcome.

Bio: Mark Nixon is the Professor in Computer Vision at the University of Southampton UK. His research interests are in image processing and computer vision. His team has developed new techniques for static and moving shape extraction which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis. In terms of this talk, he has supervised around 80 PhD students and written papers with them all. His team were early workers in face recognition, later came to pioneer gait recognition and more recently joined the pioneers of ear and soft biometrics. His vision textbook, with Alberto Aguado, Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision (Academic Press) reached 4th Edition in 2019 and has become a standard text in computer vision. With Tieniu Tan and Rama Chellappa, their book Human ID based on Gait is part of the Springer Series on Biometrics and was published in 2005. He has chaired/ program chaired many conferences and given many invited talks. Mark is a member of IAPR TC4 Biometrics and of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He was president of the IEEE Biometrics Council 2017-2018 and Vice Chair of IEEE PSPB 2018. With Prof. Mayank Vatsa, the Biometric Council’s VP Publications, he established the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science in 2018. He is a Fellow of the IET and the IAPR and his is the Distinguished Fellow of the BMVA 2015.