Dr Jonathon Hare

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Web and Internet Science Group
Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

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jsh2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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Dr Jonathon Hare

Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group • School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton • Southampton SO17 1BJ • United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7719 192406 • E-Mail: jsh2@ecs.soton.ac.uk • Web: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/jsh2

Research Interests

Novel, intelligent, techniques for fulfilling human information need in large-scale multimedia corpora, including the development of approaches for multimedia information retrieval, intelligent agents for the automatic annotation of multimedia artefacts, integration of semantic web knowledge technologies, theoretical development of new approaches to machine learning and information retrieval, development of novel user interfaces for multimedia search, retrieval and exploration, computer vision and interpretation, and theoretical computer science in general.

Higher Education

1999 – 2006University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
PhD Computer Science, "Saliency for Image Description and Retrieval". Co-funded by EPSRC and Motorola. Supervisor: Paul H. Lewis. Awarded 2006
BEng (First Class Honours) Aerospace Engineering (Systems). Awarded 2002

Education

1997 – 1999Queen Mary’s College, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.
A Levels (Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Art & Design)
1993 – 1997The Hurst Community School, Baughurst, Hampshire, UK.
GCSEs (English, Maths, Double Science, Art, Design, Information Systems, Integrated Humanities, Geography, English Literature)

Other Qualifications

1996 – 1999BTEC award in Aviation Studies

Professional Experience

11/2009 – presentSenior Research Fellow, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
10/2005 – 11/2009Research Fellow, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
Summer 2002Research Engineer, Motorola UK Research Lab Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.
Summer 2001Student Research Engineer, Motorola UK Research Lab Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.
Summer 2000Student Research Engineer, Motorola UK Research Lab Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.
Christmas 1999Research Assistant, Motorola UK Research Lab Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.
Summer 1999Research Assistant, Motorola UK Research Lab Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.

Internships

Summer 1998Motorola European Research Lab Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK (As part of the Nuffield Science Bursary scheme). Worked with Dr Paola Hobson developing an experimental setup for the subjective quality assessment of images.

Consultancy

03/2006 – 07/2006MapSnapper: A system for matching images of maps from mobile phones. With ECS Partners Ltd., on behalf of Ordnance Survey R&D.
10/2008 – 01/2009QTIEngine+MathAssess: Development of an e-assessment tool for mathematics. With the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, on behalf of the JISC funded MathAssess project.
03/2009 – 09/2009MOVE: Automatically detecting road signs and other street furniture from video. With ECS Partners Ltd., on behalf of Ordnance Survey R&D.

Distinguished Lectures

10/2006“The art and science of image retrieval”, for the Royal Institute of Great Britain.

Invited Talks

06/2008“Semantic Spaces for Music Recommendations”, BBC Audio and Music Interactive.
05/2006“Saliency for Image Description and Retrieval”, University of Brighton.

Research Seminars

11/2007“Insights into eAssessment”, LSL Seminar Series, University of Southampton.
05/2007“Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multimedia Information Retrieval: Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches”, IAM Seminar Series, University of Southampton.
11/2005“Saliency for Image Description and Retrieval”, IAM Seminar Series, University of Southampton.
06/2004“Salient Regions for Query by Image Content”, IAM Seminar Series, University of Southampton.

Selected Media Coverage

14/05/2008“Solving the web’s image problem” (commentary). BBC News.
05/10/2007“New search tool gets the picture”. New Scientist.
31/10/2006“Phone creates interactive maps from snapshots”. New Scientist.

Participation in Recent Research Projects

2009 – 2012LivingKnowledge [Research Fellow – Currently employed 2/3 FTE on this project] (€4,900,000 – EU/IST [FP7])
2008 – 2011LiveMemories [Research Fellow - Currently employed 1/3 FTE on this project] (€3,900,000 – The autonomous province of Trentino, Italy)
2008 – 2010LifeGuide [Research Fellow] (£801,000 - ESRC/NCeSS)
2007 – 2008ASDEL [Research Fellow/Project Manager] (£100,000 - JISC)
2005 – 2007Bridging the Semantic Gap [Research Fellow] (£209,000 - AHRC)
2005 – 2007eChase [advisory/consultancy role] (€3,500,000 – EU/IST)

Involvement in Writing Grant Proposals

2009Led the creation of the EPSRC responsive mode proposal “SUMISR: Semantic Understanding of Multimedia for Indexing, Summarisation and Retrieval”. Rated “Very Good” / “Very Good” / “Outstanding” by the three reviewers.
2007Involved in the authoring of the IST FP6 proposal “ID-ARTS: Intelligent Database creation, maintenance and search for Art Trade Security”.
2006Applied for a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC fellowship. The project was entitled “Semantic Understanding and Retrieval of Multimedia”. Rated “Good” and “Outstanding” by two of the reviewers.
2006Involved in the authoring of the IST FP6 proposal “FINDEUR: FINDability of multimedia content across EURope”.

Professional Activities

Co-organised the “Semantic Image Retrieval – The User Perspective” conference in Brighton, UK (2007).
Co-organised the “Reality of the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval” tutorial at SAMT 2006 in Athens, Greece.
Reviewing for a number of conferences and journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Computer Vision & Image Understanding, Machine Vision and Applications, and Image & Vision Computing.

Professional Memberships

2003 – presentMember of the IET (formerly IEE).
2002 – presentMember of the IEEE.
2002 – presentMember of the BMVA (British Machine Vision Association).

Teaching Experience

Given guest lectures to 3rd year undergraduate students on the “Multimedia systems” course in 2007 and 2008. Also lectured Maths MSc students on the “Current trends in information technology” course.
Increasingly involved (since 2004) in supervision of MSc student projects, 3rd year undergraduate individual research projects (IRP), and 4th year undergraduate group design projects. For the 2009/2010 academic year, provisionally supervising 1 IRP, and co-supervising 4 IRPs and 3 MSc projects.

Publications in progress

Hare, J. S., Lewis, P. H., Sandom, C. J. and Enser, P. G. B. Approaching the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval. Multimedia Systems Journal. (submitted)

Hare, J. S., Lewis, P. H., Martinez, K., Sinclair, P. A. S., Addis, M. J. and Pitzalis, D. Multimedia retrieval and browsing in cultural heritage. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. (in progress)

Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. Semantic Retrieval and Automatic Annotation: Linear Transformations, Correlation and Semantic Spaces. SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010. (submitted)

Publications

2009

Joseph, J. A., Yardley, L., Hare, J., Osmond, A., Yang , Y., Weal, M. and Wills, G. (2009) Application of the LifeGuide: The development and quantitative analysis of the 'Internet Doctor'. In: Proceedings 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany.

Wills, G., Davis, H., Gilbert, L., Hare, J., Howard, Y., Jeyes, S., Millard, D. and Sherratt, R. (2009) DELIVERY OF QTIv2 QUESTION TYPES. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 34 (3). pp. 353-366. ISSN 1469-297X

Osmond, A., Hare, J., Price, J., Smith, A., Weal, M., Wills, G., Yang , Y., Yardley, L. and De Roure, D. (2009) Designing authoring tools for the creation of on-line behavioural interventions. In: Proceedings 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany.

Hare, J., Osmond, A., Yang , Y., Wills, G., Weal, M., De Roure, D., Joseph, J. and Yardley, L. (2009) LifeGuide: A 
platform for performing web-based behavioural interventions. In: WebSci'09: Society On-Line, 18-20 March 2009, Athens, Greece.

2008

Wills, G., Hare, J., Kajaba, J., Argles, D., Gilbert, L. and Millard, D. (2008) Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 Tests. In: International CAA Conference, 8-9th July 2008, Loughborough UK.

Wills, G., Gilbert, L., Hare, J., Kajaba, J., Argles, D. and Millard, D. (2008) Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 Tests. In: 4th Ten Competence Open Workshop, 10-11 April 2008, Madrid.

Wills, G., Hare, J., Kajaba, J., Argles, D., Gilbert, L. and Millard, D. (2008) A Delivery Engine for QTI Assessments. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 3 . ISSN 1863-0383

Hare, J., Sinclair, P., Lewis, P. and Martinez, K. (2008) Giving order to image queries. In: Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II, 30-31 January 2008, San Jose, California, USA. pp. 682005-1.

Hare, J., Lewis, P., Gordon, L. and Hart, G. (2008) MapSnapper: Engineering an Efficient Algorithm for Matching Images of Maps from Mobile Phones. In: Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II, 30-31 January 2008, San Jose, California, USA. 68200L-1.

Hare, J., Samangooei, S., Lewis, P. and Nixon, M. (2008) Semantic spaces revisited: investigating the performance of auto-annotation and semantic retrieval using semantic spaces. In: CIVR '08: The 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval, July 7-9 2008, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. pp. 359-368.

2007

Sandom, C., Hare, J., Enser, P. and Lewis, P. (2007) Bridging the Semantic Gap in Visual Information Retrieval: End of Project Report. Technical Report UNSPECIFIED, ECS & CMIS, University of Southampton & University of Brighton. (Unpublished)

Wills, G., Davis, H., Gilbert, L., Hare, J., Howard, Y., Jeyes, S., Millard, D. and Sherratt, R. (2007) Delivery of QTIv2 Question Types. In: International CAA Conference, 10th - 11th July 2007., Loughborough uk.

Enser, P. G. B., Sandom, C. J., Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. (2007) Facing the reality of semantic image retrieval. Journal of Documentation, 63 (4). pp. 465-481. ISSN 0022-0418

Hare, J. S., Lewis, P. H., Enser, P. G. B. and Sandom, C. J. (2007) How to spot a Dalmatian in a pack of Dogs; A data-driven approach to searching unannotated images using natural language. In: Multimedia Knowledge Management: Industry meets academia, 8/1/2007, KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes.

Hare, J. S., Lewis, P. H., Enser, P. G. B. and Sandom, C. J. (2007) Semantic Facets: An in-depth Analysis of a Semantic Image Retrieval System. In: ACM CIVR 2007: The 6th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 9-11 July, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2006

Karam, M., Hare, J., Lewis, P. and schraefel, m. c. (2006) Ambient Gestures. Technical Report ECSTR-IAM06-001, Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, University of Southampton. (Unpublished)

Hare, J. S., Sinclair, P. A. S., Lewis, P. H., Martinez, K., Enser, P. G. B. and Sandom, C. J. (2006) Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multimedia Information Retrieval: Top-down and Bottom-up approaches. In: Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation / 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, 12 June 2006, Budva, Montenegro.

Tang, J., Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. (2006) Image Auto-annotation using a Statistical Model with Salient Regions. In: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 9-12 July, Hilton Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Hare, J. S., Lewis, P. H., Enser, P. G. B. and Sandom, C. J. (2006) A Linear-Algebraic Technique with an Application in Semantic Image Retrieval. Image and Video Retrieval: 5th International Conference, CIVR 2006, Tempe, AZ, USA, July 2006, LNCS 4071 . pp. 31-40. ISSN 0302-9743

Hare, J. S., Lewis, P. H., Enser, P. G. B. and Sandom, C. J. (2006) Mind the Gap: Another look at the problem of the semantic gap in image retrieval. In: Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval 2006, 17-19 January, San Jose, California, USA. pp. 607309-1.

Enser, P. G. B., Sandom, C. J., Lewis, P. H. and Hare, J. S. (2006) The Reality of the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval. In: The Reality of the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval, tutorial held in conjunction with the 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, 6/12/2006, Athens, Greece.

Hare, J. S. (2006) Saliency for Image Description and Retrieval. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

2005

Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. (2005) Content-based image retrieval using a mobile device as a novel interface. In: Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia 2005, 18-19 January 2005, San Jose, California, USA. pp. 64-75.

Hare, J., Karam, M., Lewis, P. and schraefel, m. c. (2005) iGesture: A Platform for Investigating Multimodal, Multimedia Gesture-based Interactions. Technical Report ECSTR-IAM05-013, ECS, University of Southampton. (Unpublished)

Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. (2005) On Image Retrieval using Salient Regions with Vector-Spaces and Latent Semantics. Image and Video Retrieval: 4th International Conference, CIVR 2005, Singapore, July 2005, LNCS 3568 . pp. 540-549. ISSN 0302-9743

Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. (2005) Saliency-based Models of Image Content and their Application to Auto-Annotation by Semantic Propagation. In: Multimedia and the Semantic Web / European Semantic Web Conference 2005, 29/5/2005, Heraklion, Crete.

2004

Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. (2004) Salient Regions for Query by Image Content. Image and Video Retrieval: Third International Conference, CIVR 2004, Dublin, Ireland, July 21-23, 2004, 3115 / 2004 . pp. 317-325. ISSN 0302-9743

2003

Hare, J. S. and Lewis, P. H. (2003) Scale Saliency: Applications in Visual Matching, Tracking and View-Based Object Recognition. In: Distributed Multimedia Systems 2003 / Visual Information Systems 2003, 24-26/09/2003, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. pp. 436-440.

Patents

Hare, J. S., Dolbear, C. M. (2003) Error concealment in scalable video transmissions. UK Patent GB2381980.

Shanableh, T. J., Hare, J. S., Dolbear, C. M. (2003) Error resiliency within the enhancement layers of scalable video transmissions. UK Patent GB2381981.

Hare, J. S., Hobson, P. M., Dolbear, C. M. (2002) Method for watermarking a digital image. UK Patent GB2370437.

Hobson, P. M., Hare, J. S. (2002) Tamper detection method using selected pairs of pixels. UK Patent GB2377107.

Hobson, P. M., Hare, J. S. (2002) Combining two bit-planes to produce a bit-plane for use as a watermark. UK Patent GB2377109.

Hare, J. S., Hobson, P. M. (2002) Watermarking by replicating a bit plane in two or more frames. UK Patent GB2377108.

Hare, J. S., Hobson, P. M., Dolbear, C. M. (2003) Tamper detection for video images. UK Patent GB2377575.

Hobson, P. M., Hare, J. S. (2002) Image quality enhancement. UK Patent GB2366465.

Referees

Professor Paul Lewis
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ
Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 3715 • E-Mail: phl@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr Gary Wills
Learning Societies Laboratory, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ
Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 2831 • E-Mail: gbw@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Stefan Rüger
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Phone: +44 (0)1908 655 945 • E-Mail: s.rueger@open.ac.uk

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