Fox, C.W., Evans, M.E., Pearson, M.J. and Prescott, T. Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2012, forthcoming. (Journal impact factor 1.8)
Fox, C.W., Mitchinson, B., Pearson, M.J., Pipe, A.G. and
Prescott, T.J. Contact type Dependency of texture classification in a
whiskered mobile robot. Autonomous Robots 26:223-239, 2009. pdf. Journal impact factor: 2.1. 26+ scholar cites
R.A.Grant, B. Mitchinson, C.W.Fox and T.J.Prescott. Active
Touch Sensing in the Rat: Anticipatory and Regulatory Control of
Whisker Movements During Surface Exploration. Journal of
Neurophysiology, 101:862-874, 2009.pdf. Journal impact factor: 3.1. 34+ scholar cites
Lepora, N., Fox, C., Evans, M. Diamond, M., Gurney, K. and Prescott, T. A robot study of rodent texture discrimination. 2012. Royal Society Interface, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0750. pdf Journal impact factor: 4.2
All Publications
Fox, C. and Stafford, T. Maximum utility unitary coherent perception vs. the Bayesian brain. Proc. Cognitive Science 2012, forthcoming.
Fox, C.W., Evans, M.E., Pearson, M.J. and Prescott, T. Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2012, ScienceDirect. (Journal impact factor 1.8)
Fox, C., Christensen, H. and Hain, T. Studio report: Linux audio for multi-speaker natural speech technology. Linux Audio Conference, 2012. pdf.
Lepora, N., Fox, C., Evans, M. Diamond, M., Gurney, K. and Prescott, T. A robot study of rodent texture discrimination. 2012. Royal Society Interface, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0750. pdf Journal impact factor: 4.2
Fox, C., Evans, M., Pearson, M. and Prescott, T. Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012, pdfvideo.
Saul, A., Prescott, T. and Fox, C. Scaling up a Boltzmann machine model of Hippocampus
with visual features for mobile robots. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robots and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2011. pdf
Fox, C. and Roberts, S. A tutorial on variational Bayes. Artificial Intelligence Review, DOI:10.1007/s10462-011-9236-8. Springerpreprint.
Fox, C., and Prescott, T. Mapping with sparse local sensors and strong hierarchical priors. Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robots, Springer, 2011. preprint, Springer
Fox, C., Evans, M., Lepora, N., Pearson, M., Ham, A. and Prescott, T. CrunchBot: a mobile whiskered robot platform. Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robots, Springer, 2011. preprintSpringervideo
Motiwala, A., Fox, C., Lepora, N. and Prescott, P. Sensing with arti ficial tactile sensors: An investigation of spatio-temporal inference. Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robots, Springer, 2011. Springer
Lepora, N., Fox, C., Evans, M., Mitchinson, B., Motiwala, A., Sullivan, C., Pearson, M.; Welsby, J., Pipe, T., Gurney, K. and Prescott, T. A General Classifier of Whisker Data using Stationary Naive Bayes: Application to BIOTACT Robots. Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robots, Springer, 2011. Springer
Sullivan, Mitchinson, Pearson, Evans, Lepora, Fox, Melhuish and Prescott, 2011. Tactile Discrimination using Active Whisker Sensors, IEEE Sensors journal, 12(2):350-362, IEEEExplore.
Taylor, M. and Fox, C. 2011. Inventory management with dynamic Bayesian network software systems. In 14th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Springer LNBIP. Springerpdf
Evans, M., Fox, C.W., Pearson, M.J., Lepora, N.F. and Prescott, T.J. 2010. Whisker-object contact speed affects radial distance estimation. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pdf.
Lepora, N.F., Evans, M., Fox, C.W., Pearson, M.J., and Prescott, T.J. 2010. Naive Bayes texture estimation. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pdf
Fox, C. and Prescott, T.P. 2010. Learning CA3 weights Unitary Coherent Particle Filter model of Hippocampus. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), pdfwww
Fox, C. and Prescott, T.P. 2010. Hippocampus as Unitary Coherent Particle Filter. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). pdf
Fox, C.W., Billington, P., Paulo, D., and Cooper, C., 2010. Origin-Destination Analysis on the London Orbital Motorway Automated Number Plate Recognition Network. European Transport Conference, pdfwww.
Evans, M., Fox, C.W. and Prescott, T.P. 2010. Tactile discrimination using template classifiers: Towards a model of feature extraction in mammalian vibrissal systems. From Animals to Animats SAB2010. pdf
Lepora, N., Evans, M., Fox, C.W., Diamond, M., Prescott, T. and Gurney, K. 2010. Naive Bayes texture classification applied to whisker data from a moving robot. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2010, pdf.
Mitchinson B., Chan, T.S., Chambers,J., Pearson, M., Humphries,H., Fox,C.W., Gurney,K., Prescott,T.J. (2010), BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 24(1):49-61 pdf
Prescott, T., Pearson, M., Fox, C., Evans, M., Mitchinson, B., Anderson, S. and Pipe, T. Towards biomimetic vibrissal tactile sensing for robot exploration, navigation and object recognition in hazardous environments. Proc. Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance (RISE), 2010. pdf
Evans M., Fox, C.W., Pearson, M.J. and Prescott, T.P. Template
based classification of floor texture by a mobile robot. 2009. Proc. Towards Autonomous Robots, 26(4):223-239. pdf
Fox, C.W., Humphries, M., Mitchinson, B., Kiss, T.,
Somogyvari, Z. and Prescott, T.J. Technical Integration of Hippocampus,
Basal Ganglia and Physical Models for Spatial Navigation. Frontiers in
Neuroinformatics, (2009) 3:6. doi:10.3389/neuro.11.006.2009, pdf
Fox, C.W., Mitchinson, B., Pearson, M.J., Pipe, A.G. and
Prescott, T.J. Contact type Dependency of texture classification in a
whiskered mobile robot. Autonomous Robots 26:223-239, 2009. pdf.
Murray Browne, T. and Fox, C. Global Expectation Violation as
Fitness Function in Evolutionary Composition. Proc. EvoStar09, Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009. pdf mp3 examples: example1, example2
R.A.Grant, B. Mitchinson, C.W.Fox and T.J.Prescott. Active
Touch Sensing in the Rat: Anticipatory and Regulatory Control of
Whisker Movements During Surface Exploration. Journal of
Neurophysiology, 101:862-874, 2009.pdf
Fox, C., Evans, M., Stone, J. and Prescott, T. Towards Temporal Inference for Shape Recognition from Whiskers. TAROS-2008 pdf.
Mitchinson, B., Chan, T., Humphries, M., Chambers, J., Fox, C. and
Prescott, T. BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems
computation. Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and
Systems, 2008. pdf
Fox, C., Girdhar, N. and Gurney, K. A Causal Bayesian Network View of Reinforcement Learning. Proc. AAAI Int. FLAIRS, 2008 pdf.
Fox C., Rezek I. and Roberts S. Local Quantum Computing for
Fast Probably MAP Inference in Graphical Models. Proc. Second AAAI
Symposium on Quantum Interaction, 2008, College Publications. pdf
Fox, C. ThomCat: A Bayesian Blackboard model of Hierarchical Temporal Perception. Proc. AAAI Int. FLAIRS, 2008 pdf
Fox, C. Review of 'Bayesian Brain'. Connection Science 20(1):67-68. 2008. pdf
Fox, C., Rezek I. and Roberts S. Drum'n'Bayes: Online variational
inference for beat tracking and rhythm recognition. Proc.
Int. Computer Music Conf 2007. pdf
Fox C., Quinn, J. How to be Lost: Principled Pruning and
Priming with Particles for Score Following. Proc. Int. Computer Music
Conf 2007. pdf
Fox, C. Consciousness and the Pseudonoumenal. Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, 2006. pdf
Fox, C. Genetic Hierarchical Music Structures. Proc. AAAI Int. FLAIRS, 2006. pdf (Winner, Best Student Paper award)
Drafts in progress (comments welcome)
Fox, C. and Roberts, S. A Bayesian blackboard model of hierarchical temporal perception, applied to musical auditory scene analysis.
draft
Theses and reports
Fox, C. An Entangled Bayesian Gestalt: Mean-field, Monte-Carlo and
Quantum Inference in Hierarchical Perception. DPhil thesis, Oxford,
2008. Nominated for the 2009 BCS Distinguished Dissertations award. pdf.
Fox C. Elements of a Science of Consciousness. MSc Cognitive
Science thesis, 2001. Awarded distinction and published online by the
University of Edinburgh as EDI-INF-IM040124. pdf
Fox, C. The Tree Beneath the Bach. Undergraduate dissertation, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, 2000. pdf
Fox, C. Screenshot from Originetix A-life world.
This was developed at Steve Grand's Cyberlife
Technology (aka. Creature Labs) as a student project.
Fox, C. Screenshots from a NESTA collaborative project between an artist and scientists to produce
'virtual sculptures' on neural themes.
Selected posters
Fox, C. and Prescott, T.P. Hippocampal formation as unitary coherent particle filter. CNS*09. Abtract in BMC Neuroscience 10(Suppl 1):P275 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-10-S1-P275. pdf
Fox, C.W., Evans, M. and Prescott, T. Template-based classification
of whisker contact edge orientation and radial distance in a simulated
mobile robot. Barrels 2008. pdf
Pearson, M.J., Mitchinson, B., Fox, C.W., Pipe, A.G. Melhuish, C.
and Prescott, T.J. - Whisking with robots: Using embodied modeling to
understand active vibrissal touch. SFN2008. abstract
S.P.Wilson; C.W.Fox; T.J.Prescott; J.A.Bednar. A Self-Organizing Model of Whisker Deflection Maps in the Barrel Cortex. Barrels XX, San Diego 2007.
Fox C.W., Pearson M., Mitchinson B.. Pipe T., and Prescott
T.J. Simple features for texture classification from robot whisker
strains. Barrels XIX, Atlanta, 2006. abstract in Somatosensory and Motor Research 24(3):139-162, 2007.
Software
Quantum Computing Functions -- QCF is a library of matlab functions for simulating quantum computing
algorithms. It includes simulations of the Deustch and Grover algorithms. documentation
MusicGenie -- algorithmic compution and genetic music program. It
uses L-systems to represent musical structures by fractal-like rules. It
allows rapid development of structural compositions - especially
minimalist-style pieces - and allows rules from multiple compositions to
be combined and evolved. mp3 demos: crossbreed mp3 , human mp3 , evolution1 mp3 , evolution2 mp3
A simple Python Gaussian Process implementation and demos, zip
Happy Birthday Jaynes, a stochastic composition over 88 notes using Matlab particle filtering to mark the 88th anniversary of Edwin Jaynes' (1922-1998) birth.
Please do contact me if you are interested in using or extending any of the above, e.g. for student projects!
Course ratings (2010): 18% of students ranked PNC in the top 5% of most interesting MSc lectures. 78% of students ranked it in the top 50% of most interesting lectures. 44% ranked it in the top 5% of most difficult lectures. 78% of students ranked it in the top 50% most difficult lectures.
