| 2026 | AAAI | ACID-Style: An Adaptive Condition Injection Diffusion Model for Arbitrary Style Transfer. | Ting Yang, Siyu Yang, Xiyao Liu, Songtao Wu, Gerald Schaefer, Kuanhong Xu, Hui Fang |
| 2025 | AAAI | Recoverable Facial Identity Protection via Adaptive Makeup Transfer Adversarial Attacks. | Xiyao Liu, Junxing Ma, Xinda Wang, Qianyu Lin, Jian Zhang, Gerald Schaefer, Cagatay Turkay, Hui Fang |
| 2025 | SMC | PruneClust-DE: A Novel Dual-Strategy Clustering-based Differential Evolution Algorithm for Neural Network Training. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Mattias O'Nils, Gerald Schaefer, Diego Oliva |
| 2025 | SMC | C2L-DE-Lite: A Lightweight Solution to Clustering Complexity in Differential Evolution for Neural Network Training | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Diego Oliva, Mattias O'Nils |
| 2024 | CVPR | HPL-ESS: Hybrid Pseudo-Labeling for Unsupervised Event-based Semantic Segmentation. | Linglin Jing, Yiming Ding, Yunpeng Gao, Zhigang Wang, Xu Yan, Dong Wang, Gerald Schaefer, Hui Fang, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li |
| 2024 | ECCV | Towards Compact Reversible Image Representations for Neural Style Transfer. | Xiyao Liu, Siyu Yang, Jian Zhang, Gerald Schaefer, Jiya Li, Xunli Fan, Songtao Wu, Hui Fang |
| 2024 | IJCNN | Memory-facilitated Joint-space Shift Adaptation in Traffic Forecasting. | Ye Wei, He Haitao, Gerald Schaefer, Zhigang Ji, Yifan Wang, Hui Fang |
| 2023 | AAAI | Gradient-Based Graph Attention for Scene Text Image Super-resolution. | Xiangyuan Zhu, Kehua Guo, Hui Fang, Rui Ding, Zheng Wu, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2023 | ICIP | A Novel Class Activation Map for Visual Explanations in Multi-Object Scenes. | Yifan Wang, Siyuan Deng, Kunhao Yuan, Gerald Schaefer, Xiyao Liu, Hui Fang |
| 2023 | IJCAI | Robust Steganography without Embedding Based on Secure Container Synthesis and Iterative Message Recovery. | Ziping Ma, Yuesheng Zhu, Guibo Luo, Xiyao Liu, Gerald Schaefer, Hui Fang |
| 2022 | CEC | An Improved DE Algorithm to Optimise the Learning Process of a BERT-based Plagiarism Detection Model. | Seyed Vahid Moravvej, Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Diego Oliva, Gerald Schaefer, Zahra Sobhaninia |
| 2022 | CVPR | Image Disentanglement Autoencoder for Steganography without Embedding. | Xiyao Liu, Ziping Ma, Junxing Ma, Jian Zhang, Gerald Schaefer, Hui Fang |
| 2022 | ICPR | Automatic Foot Ulcer Segmentation Using an Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks. | Amirreza Mahbod, Gerald Schaefer, Rupert Ecker, Isabella Ellinger |
| 2022 | SMC | An Improved Novel View Synthesis Approach Based on Feature Fusion and Channel Attention. | Lei Jiang, Gerald Schaefer, Qinggang Meng |
| 2021 | CEC | Differential Evolution-based Neural Network Training Incorporating a Centroid-based Strategy and Dynamic Opposition-based Learning. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Diego Oliva, Salvador Hinojosa, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2021 | GECCO | A population-based automatic clustering algorithm for image segmentation. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Mahshid Helali Moghadam, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Mahdi Pedram |
| 2021 | GECCO | HCS-BBD: an effective population-based approach for multi-level thresholding. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Diego Oliva, Salvador Hinojosa |
| 2021 | SMC | An Enhanced Differential Evolution Algorithm Using a Novel Clustering-based Mutation Operator. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin, Mahshid Helali Moghadam, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Mahdi Pedram |
| 2020 | CEC | Many-level Image Thresholding using a Center-Based Differential Evolution Algorithm. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Shahryar Rahnamayan, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2020 | CEC | On Improvements of the Human Mental Search Algorithm for Global Optimisation. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Leila Esmaeili, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | GECCO | A benchmark of recent population-based metaheuristic algorithms for multi-layer neural network training. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | GECCO | Effective image clustering using self-organizing migrating algorithm. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | GECCO | Colour quantisation using self-organizing migrating algorithm. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | GECCO | High-dimensional multi-level image thresholding using self-organizing migrating algorithm. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | GECCO | High-dimensional multi-level maximum variance threshold selection for image segmentation: a benchmark of recent population-based metaheuristic algorithms. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Zahra Movahedi, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | ICONIP | Neural Network Training Using a Biogeography-Based Learning Strategy. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali, Sajad Ahmadian, Abbas Khosravi, Gerald Schaefer, Saeid Nahavandi |
| 2020 | ICPR | Joint compressive autoencoders for full-image-to-image hiding. | Xiyao Liu, Ziping Ma, Xingbei Guo, Jialu Hou, Lei Wang, Jian Zhang, Gerald Schaefer, Hui Fang |
| 2020 | ICPR | Pollen Grain Microscopic Image Classification Using an Ensemble of Fine-Tuned Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. | Amirreza Mahbod, Gerald Schaefer, Rupert Ecker, Isabella Ellinger |
| 2020 | ICPR | Investigating and Exploiting Image Resolution for Transfer Learning-based Skin Lesion Classification. | Amirreza Mahbod, Gerald Schaefer, Chunliang Wang, Rupert Ecker, Georg Dorffner, Isabella Ellinger |
| 2020 | ICPR | An Effective Approach for Neural Network Training Based on Comprehensive Learning. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | SMC | Colour Image Denoising using Curvelets and Scale Dependent Shrinkage. | Oussama Kadri, Zine-Eddine Baarir, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin |
| 2020 | SMC | Camouflage Generative Adversarial Network: Coverless Full-image-to-image Hiding. | Xiyao Liu, Ziping Ma, Xingbei Guo, Jialu Hou, Gerald Schaefer, Lei Wang, Victoria Wang, Hui Fang |
| 2020 | SMC | Colour Quantisation using Human Mental Search and Local Refinement. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, M. Emre Celebi, Hui Fang, Xiyao Liu |
| 2019 | CEC | A Benchmark of Population-Based Metaheuristic Algorithms for High-Dimensional Multi-Level Image Thresholding. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Hossein Ebrahimpour-Komleh |
| 2019 | ICASSP | Skin Lesion Classification Using Hybrid Deep Neural Networks. | Amirreza Mahbod, Gerald Schaefer, Chunliang Wang, Rupert Ecker, Isabella Ellinger |
| 2019 | ISNN | An Effective Hybrid Approach for Optimising the Learning Process of Multi-layer Neural Networks. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Azam Asilian Bidgoli, Hossein Ebrahimpour-Komleh, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin |
| 2019 | SMC | A Global-Best Guided Human Mental Search Algorithm with Random Clustering Strategy. | Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin |
| 2018 | SMC | Color Quantization Using Coreset Sampling. | German Valenzuela, M. Emre Celebi, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2018 | SAC | Fast consensus for fully distributed multi-agent task allocation. | Joanna Turner, Qinggang Meng, Gerald Schaefer, Andrea Soltoggio |
| 2016 | KES | An Innovative Approach for Attribute Reduction Using Rough Sets and Flower Pollination Optimisation. | Waleed Yamany, Eid Emary, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Gerald Schaefer, Shao Ying Zhu |
| 2016 | SMC | Historic handwritten manuscript binarisation using whale optimisation. | Aboul Ella Hassanien, Mohamed Abd Elfattah, Sherihan Aboulenin, Gerald Schaefer, Shao Ying Zhu, Iakov Korovin |
| 2016 | SMC | Classifying HEp-2 cells in immunofluorescence images using multiple kernel learning. | Gerald Schaefer, Niraj P. Doshi, Iakov Korovin, Shao Ying Zhu |
| 2016 | SMC | Credibility investigation of newsworthy tweets using a visualising Petri net model. | Mohamed Torky, Ramadan Babers, Ragia A. Ibrahim, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Gerald Schaefer, Iakov Korovin, Shao Ying Zhu |
| 2015 | CEC | Strategies for addressing class imbalance in ensemble classification of thermography breast cancer features. | Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima |
| 2015 | ICRA | Increasing allocated tasks with a time minimization algorithm for a search and rescue scenario. | Joanna Turner, Qinggang Meng, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2015 | ISVC | Building of Readable Decision Trees for Automated Melanoma Discrimination. | Keiichi Ohki, M. Emre Celebi, Gerald Schaefer, Hitoshi Iyatomi |
| 2015 | KES | An Evaluation of Image Enhancement Techniques for Nailfold Capillary Skeletonisation. | Niraj P. Doshi, Gerald Schaefer, Shao Ying Zhu |
| 2015 | KES | Human Action Recognition based on Spectral Domain Features. | Hafiz Imtiaz, Upal Mahbub, Gerald Schaefer, Shao Ying Zhu, Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad |
| 2015 | KES | CT Liver Segmentation Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimisation. | Abdalla Mostafa, Ahmed Fouad, Mohamed Abd Elfattah, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Hesham A. Hefny, Shao Ying Zhu, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2015 | SMC | An Evaluation of LBP Texture Descriptors for the Classification of HEp-2 Cells. | Niraj P. Doshi, Gerald Schaefer, Shao Ying Zhu |
| 2014 | CEC | Cost-sensitive texture classification. | Gerald Schaefer, Bartosz Krawczyk, Niraj P. Doshi, Tomoharu Nakashima |
| 2014 | IJCNN | Retinal blood vessel segmentation using bee colony optimisation and pattern search. | Eid Emary, Hossam M. Zawbaa, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Gerald Schaefer, Ahmad Taher Azar |
| 2014 | IJCNN | Retinal vessel segmentation based on possibilistic fuzzy c-means clustering optimised with cuckoo search. | Eid Emary, Hossam M. Zawbaa, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Gerald Schaefer, Ahmad Taher Azar |
| 2013 | ISM | Similarity-Based Browsing of Image Search Results. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer, M. Emre Celebi |
| 2013 | MMSys | Sorting JPEG images at a glance. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2013 | SMC | An Improved Binarisation Algorithm for Nailfold Capillary Skeleton Extraction. | Niraj P. Doshi, Gerald Schaefer, Shao Ying Zhu |
| 2013 | SACI | An improved ensemble approach for imbalanced classification problems. | Bartosz Krawczyk, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2013 | SACI | A cost-sensitive ensemble classifier for breast cancer classification. | Bartosz Krawczyk, Gerald Schaefer, Michal Wozniak |
| 2013 | SACI | Evolutionary optimisation of classifiers and classifier ensembles for cost-sensitive pattern recognition. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2013 | VINCI | Exploring mapping-based visualisations of large remote image databases. | William Plant, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2013 | VINCI | Visualisation of large image collections. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ICASSP | Recompressing images to improve image retrieval performance. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ICCVG | Batch Neural Gas with Deterministic Initialization for Color Quantization. | M. Emre Celebi, Quan Wen, Gerald Schaefer, Huiyu Zhou |
| 2012 | ICCVG | Interactive Browsing of Image Repositories - (Invited Paper). | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ICIP | Robust texture retrieval of compressed images. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer, M. Emre Celebi |
| 2012 | ICPR | A comprehensive benchmark of local binary pattern algorithms for texture retrieval. | Niraj P. Doshi, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ICPR | Fast JPEG image retrieval using optimised Huffman tables. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ICPR | Effective multiple classifier systems for breast thermogram analysis. | Bartosz Krawczyk, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ICPR | Multi-dimensional local binary pattern descriptors for improved texture analysis. | Gerald Schaefer, Niraj P. Doshi |
| 2012 | ICPR | Accurate genomic signal recovery using compressed sensing. | Bakhtiyar Uddin, M. Emre Celebi, Hassan A. Kingravi, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ISM | JIRL - A C++ Library for JPEG Compressed Domain Image Retrieval. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ISM | Efficient Filtering of JPEG Images. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | ISM | Exploiting JPEG Compression for Image Retrieval. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | SMC | An evaluation of image enhancement techniques for capillary imaging. | Niraj P. Doshi, Gerald Schaefer, Arcangelo Merla |
| 2012 | SMC | Efficient and effective online image retrieval. | David Edmundson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | VCIP | A comparative analysis of local binary pattern texture classification. | Niraj P. Doshi, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | VCIP | Proposal for VCIP 2012 tutorial on "image database visualisation and browsing". | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2012 | VCIP | Intuitive mobile image browsing on a hexagonal lattice. | Gerald Schaefer, Matthew Tallyn, Daniel Felton, David Edmundson, William Plant |
| 2011 | SYNASC | Hybrid Fuzzy Rule-Based Classification. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2010 | ICASSP | Robust codebook-based video background subtraction. | Amit Pal, Gerald Schaefer, M. Emre Celebi |
| 2010 | ICIP | Robust border detection in dermoscopy images using threshold fusion. | M. Emre Celebi, Sae Hwang, Hitoshi Iyatomi, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2010 | ICIP | A new family of order-statistics based switching vector filters. | M. Emre Celebi, Gerald Schaefer, Huiyu Zhou |
| 2010 | ICIP | Automated color normalization for dermoscopy images. | Hitoshi Iyatomi, M. Emre Celebi, Gerald Schaefer, Masaru Tanaka |
| 2010 | ICIP | Image retrieval on the Honeycomb Image Browser. | William Plant, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2010 | ICIP | An uncompressed benchmark image dataset for colour imaging. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2010 | ICIP | Visual appearance based document image classification. | Sergey A. Usilin, Dmitry P. Nikolaev, Vassili V. Postnikov, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2010 | ICIP | Robust estimation of the fundamental matrix. | Huiyu Zhou, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2010 | ISVC | On Contrast-Preserving Visualisation of Multispectral Datasets. | Valeriy Sokolov, Dmitry P. Nikolaev, Simon M. Karpenko, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2009 | ICIP | Contrast enhancement in dermoscopy images by maximizing a histogram bimodality measure. | M. Emre Celebi, Hitoshi Iyatomi, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2009 | ICIP | Skin lesion extraction in dermoscopic images based on colour enhancement and iterative segmentation. | Gerald Schaefer, Maher I. Rajab, M. Emre Celebi, Hitoshi Iyatomi |
| 2009 | ICIP | Bayesian image segmentation with mean shift. | Huiyu Zhou, Gerald Schaefer, M. Emre Celebi, Minrui Fei |
| 2009 | ICIP | 3-D structure recovery from 2-D observations. | Huiyu Zhou, Gerald Schaefer, Tangwei Liu, Faquan Lin |
| 2009 | MMSP | Visualising image databases. | William Plant, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2009 | PSIVT | Localization of Lesions in Dermoscopy Images Using Ensembles of Thresholding Methods. | M. Emre Celebi, Hitoshi Iyatomi, Gerald Schaefer, William V. Stoecker |
| 2008 | CEC | An overview of Genetic Algorithms in simulation soccer. | William Plant, Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima |
| 2008 | CEC | Comparison of simulated annealing and SASS for parameter estimation of biochemical networks. | Josep Sayol, Lars Nolle, Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima |
| 2008 | ISVC | Analysis of Breast Thermograms Based on Statistical Image Features and Hybrid Fuzzy Classification. | Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima, Michal Zavisek |
| 2007 | CIBCB | Cost-Sensitive Fuzzy Classification for Medical Diagnosis. | Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota, Hisao Ishibuchi |
| 2007 | ISVC | Neural Networks for Exudate Detection in Retinal Images. | Gerald Schaefer, Edmond Leung |
| 2007 | SGAI | Intensity-Based Image Registration Using Multiple Distributed Agents. | Roger J. Tait, Gerald Schaefer, Adrian A. Hopgood |
| 2006 | ICIP | Quality Metric Based Colour Palette Optimisation. | Gerald Schaefer, Lars Nolle |
| 2006 | ISVC | Hierarchical Image Database Navigation on a Hue Sphere. | Gerald Schaefer, Simon Ruszala |
| 2006 | SMC | A Self-Adaptive Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Color Clustering. | Tarek A. El-Mihoub, Lars Nolle, Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima, Adrian Hopgood |
| 2006 | SMC | Examining the Effect of Cost Assignment on the Performance of Cost-Based Classification Systems. | Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota, Gerald Schaefer, Hisao Ishibuchi |
| 2005 | CVPR | A Combined Physical and Statistical Approach to Colour Constancy. | Gerald Schaefer, Steven D. Hordley, Graham D. Finlayson |
| 2005 | EUSFLAT | Learning Fuzzy If-Then Rules for Pattern Classi cation with Weighted Training Patterns. | Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota, Hisao Ishibuchi, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2005 | ISVC | Lossless Compression of CCD Sensor Data. | Gerald Schaefer, Joanna Obstoj |
| 2005 | ISVC | Image Database Navigation: A Globe-Al Approach. | Gerald Schaefer, Simon Ruszala |
| 2005 | SGAI | Hybrid search algorithm applied to the colour quantisation problem. | Lars Nolle, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2004 | CVPR | Midstream Content Access of Visual Pattern Coded Imagery. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2004 | CVPR | Midstream Content Access of Visual Pattern Coded Imagery. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2004 | ICCVG | How Useful are Colour Invariants for Image Retrieval? | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2004 | ICCVG | Retrieving thermal Medical Images. | Gerald Schaefer, Shao Ying Zhu, Bryan Jones |
| 2004 | ICIP | JPEG2000 vs. JPEG from an image retrieval point of view. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2004 | ICIP | CVPIC image retrieval based on block colour co-occurance matrix and pattern histogram. | Gerald Schaefer, Simon Lieutaud, Guoping Qiu |
| 2002 | VCIP | Compressed domain image retrieval by comparing vector quantization codebooks. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2001 | BMVC | Hue that is invariant to brightness and gamma. | Graham D. Finlayson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2001 | CVPR | Convex and Non-convex Illuminant Constraints for Dichromatic Colour Constancy. | Graham D. Finlayson, Gerald Schaefer |
| 2001 | DCC | JPEG Compressed Domain Image Retrieval by Colour and Texture. | Gerald Schaefer |
| 2000 | ECCV | Constrained Dichromatic Colour Constancy. | Graham D. Finlayson, Gerald Schaefer |