Mark Briers
Introduction
I am a PhD student supervised by Arnaud Doucet (see him here working hard) within the Signal
Processing Group and am a member of the
STELLA research
group. I work alongside Simon Maskell
at QinetiQ. I am extremely
fortunate to hold an Industrial
Fellowship Award from the Royal
Commission for the
Exhibition of 1851. I am a member of Fitzwilliam College.
Contact details
- E-mail: mb511 --at-- eng.cam.ac.uk
- Department Address: University of
Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2
1PZ
- Telephone: +44 1223 3 32767
- Fax: +44 1223 3 32662
Research
Current area of research is in Bayesian inference. Areas of
particular interest to me include:
- Sequential inference (applied to multi-target tracking)
- Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo (particle methods)
Publications
Preprints of my publications can be obtained below. I will
endeavour to update this list as frequently as possible.
- Current work
- Briers, M., and Doucet, A., Efficient Bayesian Inference in
Hidden Semi-Markov Models
- Briers, M., Doucet, A., Maskell, S., Monte Carlo Smoothing for
State-Space Models
- 2006
- Briers, M., Doucet, A., and Gottardo, R., Density and Marginal
Likelihood Estimation for Markov chain Monte Carlo with Applications
in Bioinformatics, to appear at JSM 2006.
- Klass, M. Briers, M., de Freitas, N., Doucet, A., Maskell, S.R.,
Lang, D., Fast Particle Smoother: If I Had a Million Particles, 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning.
pdf
- Doucet, A., Briers, M., and Senecal, S., Efficient Block Sampling
Strategies for Sequential Monte Carlo Methods, to appear in the Journal of
Computational and Graphical Statistics.
pdf
- Briers, M., Doucet, A., Maskell, S., and Horridge, P., Fixed-lag sequential Monte Carlo data association, SPIE 2006.
- Maskell, S., Weekes, K., and Briers, M., Distributed Tracking
of Stealthy Targets Using Particle Filter, IEE Seminar on Target
Tracking: Algorithms and Applications.
- 2005
- M Briers, S R Maskell,
S Reece, S J Roberts, I Rezek,
V D Dang, A Rogers, N R Jennings, Dynamic sensor coalition
formation to assist
the distributed tracking of targets: Application to wide-area
surveillance, IEE Conference on Homeland Security, 2005.
- Briers, Doucet, Singh, Sequential Auxiliary
Particle Belief Propagation, International Conference on
Information Fusion, 2005. pdf
& results
(avi)
& results
produced by Kevin Weekes (avi)
- Vermaak, Maskell, Briers, and Perez, Multi-target
tracking and
existence, International Conference on Information
Fusion, 2005. pdf
- Vermaak, Maskell, Briers, and Perez, Bayesian
visual tracking
with existence process, International Conference
Image
Processing, 2005.
- Vermaak, Maskell, Briers, Online Sensor Registration,
IEEE Aerospace Big Sky conference, 2005. pdf
- 2004
- Briers, Robust Interpretation of Structured
Information, PhD Transfer Report, August 2004. (e-mail me)
- Briers, Doucet, and Maskell, Smoothing Algorithms
for State-Space Models, Cambridge University Engineering Department
Technical Report, CUED/F-INFENG/TR.498, August 2004. Currently under
revision - please e-mail me for a copy of the old version
- Maskell, Briers, and Wright, Efficient Hypothesis
Management, Proceedings of SPIE, 2004. pdf
- Rutten, Maskell, Briers, and Gordon, Multipath
Track Association for over the horizon radar using Lagrangian relaxation,
Proceedings of SPIE, 2004.
- Maskell, Everitt, Wright, and Briers Multi-Target
Out-of-Sequence Data Association, Conference of Information Fusion,
2004. pdf
- Maskell, Briers, and Wright, Tracking using a radar
and a problem specific proposal distribution in a particle filter,
IEE Conference on Multi-Target Tracking, 2004.
- 2003
- Briers, Maskell, and Philpott, Two-Dimensional
Assignment with Merged Measurements using Lagrangian Relaxation,
Proceedings of SPIE, 2003.
- Briers, Maskell, and Wright, A Rao-Blackwellised
Unscented Kalman Filter, Conference of Information Fusion, 2003.
- 2002
- Briers and Copsey, A Mixture Model Approach to
Automatic Radar Target Recognition using WinBUGS. Radar 2002.
- Wright, Maskell, Briers, and Lycett, Robust Tracking
of Stealthy Targets and
Multi-Sensor Fusion, at RAES Classified conference on Data
Fusion, 2002.
Other Interests
I like to play football, squash, and have been known to visit the gym
on occasion. I support St
Helens Rugby League Football Club (the Saints) and Liverpool Football Club - the top
clubs in their respective sports!.
Some conference photographs:
Collaborators
Alphabetical list of links:
I work on the ARGUS II
DARP and D&IF DTC
(amongst other things). I am the administrator for the Sequential Monte Carlo
Methods homepage. |
