Staff profile

Assistant Professor in Visual Computing at Durham University. Stuart's research focus is on Visual Reasoning to understand the layout of visual content from Iconography (e.g. Sketches) to 3D Scene understanding and their implications on methods of interaction. He is currently a co-I on the RePAIR EU FET, DCitizens EU Twinning, and BoSS EU Lighthouse. He was a co-I on the MEMEX RIA EU H2020 project coordinated at IIT for increasing social inclusion with Cultural Heritage. Stuart has previously held Researcher & PostDoc positions at IIT as well as PostDocs at University College London (UCL), and the University of Surrey. Also, at the University of Surrey, Stuart was awarded his PhD in visual information retrieval for sketches. Stuart holds an External Scientist at IIT, Honorary roles at UCL and UCL Digital Humanities, and is an international collaborator of ITI/LARSyS. He also regularly organises Vision for Art (VISART) workshops and Humanities-orientated tutorials and was Program Chair at the British Machine Conference (BMVC) 2021.

For full details see my website: https://stuart-james.com

Conference Paper

• Nisi, V., James, S., Bala, P., Del Bue, A., & Jardim Nunes, N. (2023). Inclusive Digital Storytelling: Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality to re-centre Stories from the Margins. In L. Holloway-Attaway, & J. T. Murray (Eds.), Interactive Storytelling: 16th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2023, Kobe, Japan, November 11–15, 2023, Proceedings, Part I. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47655-6_8
• Nisi, V., Bala, P., Cesário, V., James, S., Del Bue, A., & Jardim Nunes, N. (2023). Connected to the people: Social Inclusion & Cohesion in Action through a Cultural Heritage Digital Tool. In J. Nichols (Ed.), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW2). https://doi.org/10.1145/3610168
• Giunchi, D., James, S., & Steed, A. (2018). 3D Sketching in Virtual Reality for immersive model search. In Expressive '18: Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Computational Aesthetics and Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3229147.3229166
• Gay, P., James, S., & Del Bue, A. (2018). Visual Graphs from Motion (VGfM): Scene understanding with object geometry reasoning. In Computer Vision – ACCV 2018 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Perth, Australia, December 2–6, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Part III. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20893-6_21
• Dahy Elkhouly, M., James, S., & Del Bue, A. (2018). Multi-view Aggregation for Color Naming with Shadow Detection and Removal. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPAS.2018.8708885
• James, S., & Collomosse, J. (2016). Evolutionary Data Purification for Social Media Classification. In Proceedings of the 2016 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2016.7900039
• James, S., Fonseca, M. J., & Collomosse, J. (2014). ReEnact: Sketch Based Choreographic Design from Archival Dance Footage. In ICMR '14: Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (313-320). https://doi.org/10.1145/2578726.2578766
• Gray, C., James, S., Collomosse, J., & Asente, P. (2014). A Particle Filtering approach to salient video object localization. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025038
• Trujillo-Pisanty, D., Durrant, A., Martindale, S., James, S., & Collomosse, J. (2014). Admixed Portrait: Design Intervention to Prompt Reflection on Being Online as a New Parent. In DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (503-512). https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2602962
• Hu, R., James, S., Wang, T., & Collomosse, J. (2013). Markov random fields for sketch based video retrieval. In ICMR '13: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on International conference on multimedia retrieval. https://doi.org/10.1145/2461466.2461510
• Fonseca, M. J., James, S., & Collomosse, J. (2012). Skeletons from sketches of dancing poses. In 2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC). https://doi.org/10.1109/vlhcc.2012.6344537
• Hu, R., James, S., & Collomosse, J. (2012). Annotated Free-Hand Sketches for Video Retrieval Using Object Semantics and Motion. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27355-1_44

Journal Article

• Mohamed, H. A., Pilutti, D., James, S., Del Bue, A., Pelillo, M., & Vascon, S. (2023). Locality-aware subgraphs for inductive link prediction in knowledge graphs. Pattern Recognition Letters, 167, 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2023.02.004
• Moritz, J., James, S., Haines, T. S., Ritschel, T., & Weyrich, T. (2017). Texture Stationarization: Turning Photos into Tilable Textures. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(2), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13117
• Orzech, K. M., Moncur, W., Durrant, A., James, S., & Collomosse, J. (2017). Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: variations across school leavers and recent retirees. Visual Studies, 32(4), 313-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2017.1362959

Other (Print)

• James, S. Visual narratives : free-hand sketch for visual search and navigation of video. (PhD). Retrieved from https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2024611
• Dionísio, M., Nisi, V., Xin, J., Bala, P., James, S., & Jardim Nunes, N. (2021). Amnesia in the Atlantic: an AI Driven Serious Game on Marine Biodiversity. In J. Baalsrud Hauge, J. C. Cardoso, L. Roque, & P. A. Gonzalez-Calero (Eds.), International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC) - Work In Progress (WIP) Track. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_35
• James, S., & Collomosse, J. (2014). Interactive Video Asset Retrieval Using Sketched Queries. In Proceedings of Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/2668904.2668940
• Collomosse, J., James, S., Durrant, A., Trujillo-Pisanty, D., Moncur, W., Orzech, K. M., …Chantler, M. (2014). Enhanced Digital Literacy by Multi-modal Data Mining of the Digital Lifespan. In Proceedings of Digital Economy (DE2014)