Research

See also the list of my publications in Google scholar.

2026

CFC26: Building Evaluations for Deployment in Sonar-Based Fish Counting
Madison Van Horn, Suzanne Stathatos, Sevan Brodjian, Justin Kay, Kai Van Brunt, Erik Young, Sara Beery, Pietro Perona, Michael Hobley
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Evaluations & Datasets Track

@inproceedings{cfc2026neurips,
          title     = {{CFC26}: Building Evaluations for Deployment in Sonar-Based Fish Counting},
          author    = {Van Horn, Madison and Stathatos, Suzanne and Brodjian, Sevan and Kay, Justin and Van Brunt, Kai and Young, Erik and Beery, Sara and Perona, Pietro and Hobley, Michael},
          booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Evaluations \& Datasets Track},
          year      = {2026}
        }

A Paired RGB–Sonar Dataset for Fish Monitoring with Consumer Sonar
Mourad Derbedrosian^*, Michael A. Hobley^*, Pietro Perona
arXiv preprint (* Equal contribution)

@misc{derbedrosian2026rgbsonar,
          title        = {A Paired {RGB}--Sonar Dataset for Fish Monitoring with Consumer Sonar},
          author       = {Derbedrosian, Mourad and Hobley, Michael A. and Perona, Pietro},
          year         = {2026},
          note         = {arXiv preprint. Mourad Derbedrosian and Michael A. Hobley contributed equally}
        }

FishEye: Automated Fish Counting from Imaging Sonar
FishEye Team, California Institute of Technology
Open-source software

@misc{fisheye2026,
          title        = {{FishEye}: Automated Fish Counting from Imaging Sonar},
          author       = {{FishEye Team}},
          year         = {2026},
          organization = {California Institute of Technology},
          howpublished = {Open-source software},
          url          = {https://github.com/fisheye-sonar/fisheye}
        }

OpenScope: Open-Source Software for Garmin Livescope Imaging Sonar
Michael A. Hobley^*, Mourad Derbedrosian^*
Open-source software (* Equal contribution)

@misc{hobley2026openscope,
          title        = {{OpenScope}: Open-Source Software for Garmin Livescope Imaging Sonar},
          author       = {Hobley, Michael A. and Derbedrosian, Mourad},
          year         = {2026},
          howpublished = {Open-source software},
          url          = {https://github.com/mahobley/OpenScope},
          note         = {Michael A. Hobley and Mourad Derbedrosian contributed equally}
        }

When Generative Models Act as Simulators
Sevan Brodjian, Michael Hobley, Pietro Perona
arXiv preprint

@misc{brodjian2026generativemodelsactsimulators,
          title={When Generative Models Act as Simulators},
          author={Sevan Brodjian and Michael Hobley and Pietro Perona},
          year={2026},
          eprint={2610.12847},
          archivePrefix={arXiv},
          primaryClass={cs.LG},
          url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12847}
        }

SAVeD: Learning to Denoise Low-SNR Video for Improved Downstream Performance
Suzanne Stathatos, Michael Hobley, Pietro Perona, Markus Marks
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

@inproceedings{stathatos2026saved,
          title={SAVeD: Learning to Denoise Low-SNR Video for Improved Downstream Performance},
          author={Stathatos, Suzanne and Hobley, Michael and Perona, Pietro and Marks, Markus},
          booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision},
          pages={6851--6861},
          year={2026}
        }

Single View Seafloor Recovery from Imaging Sonar via Differentiable Rendering
Sevan Brodjian, Michael Hobley, Pietro Perona
Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum workshop, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

@inproceedings{brodjian2026singleviewseafloorrecovery,
        title={Single View Seafloor Recovery from Imaging Sonar via Differentiable Rendering}, 
        author={Sevan Brodjian and Michael Hobley and Pietro Perona},
        booktitle={Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum workshop, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ({CVPR})},
        year={2026},     
        }

2025

Machine learning benchmark for flow reconstruction in the TCC-III optical engine
Samuel J. Baker, Michael A. Hobley, Isabel Scherl, Xiaohang Fang, Felix C. P. Leach, Martin H. Davy
International Journal of Engine Research 26 (10)
Previously called EngineBench: Flow Reconstruction in the Transparent Combustion Chamber III Optical Engine

@article{baker2025machine,
        title={Machine learning benchmark for flow reconstruction in the TCC--III optical engine},
        author={Baker, Samuel and Hobley, Michael and Scherl, Isabel and Fang, Xiaohang and Leach, Felix and Davy, Martin},
        journal={International Journal of Engine Research},
        volume={26},
        number={10},
        pages={1654--1672},
        year={2025},
        publisher={SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England}
        }

2024

Counting with Limited Supervision
Michael A. Hobley
PhD Thesis, University of Oxford

@phdthesis{HobleyCountingPhD2024,
        title={Counting with Limited Supervision},
        author={Michael Hobley},
        year={2024},
        note={Available at \url{https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4f9dbf48-4ae1-472a-be5f-a1ac5ed1fecc}},
        school={University of Oxford},
        type={PhD thesis}}

MCAC: Multi-Class Class-Agnostic Counting Dataset
Michael A. Hobley and Victor A. Prisacariu
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

@article{hobley2023abc,
        title={ABC Easy as 123: A Blind Counter for Exemplar-Free Multi-Class Class-agnostic Counting}, 
        author={Michael A. Hobley and Victor A. Prisacariu},
        journal={Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision},
        year={2024}}

2023

ABC Easy as 123: A Blind Counter for Exemplar-Free Multi-Class Class-agnostic Counting
Michael A. Hobley and Victor A. Prisacariu
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

@article{hobley2023abc,
      title={ABC Easy as 123: A Blind Counter for Exemplar-Free Multi-Class Class-agnostic Counting}, 
      author={Michael A. Hobley and Victor A. Prisacariu},
      journal={Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision},
      year={2024}}

Learning To Count Anything: Reference-less Class-agnostic Counting with Weak Supervision
Michael A. Hobley and Victor A. Prisacariu
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

@inproceedings{hobley2023LTCA,
        title={Learning to Count Anything: Reference-less Class-agnostic Counting with Weak Supervision},
        author={Hobley, Michael and Prisacariu, Victor},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ({CVPR})},
        year={2023}
      }

DMS: Differentiable Mean Shift for Dataset Agnostic Task Specific Clustering Using Side Information
Michael A. Hobley and Victor A. Prisacariu
arXiv preprint

@article{hobley2023dms,
        title={Dms: Differentiable mean shift for dataset agnostic task specific clustering using side information},
        author={Hobley, Michael A and Prisacariu, Victor A},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18492},
        year={2023}
      }

2019

Say Yes to the Dress: Shape and Style Transfer Using Conditional GANs
Michael A. Hobley and Victor A. Prisacariu
Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)

@inproceedings{hobley2019say,
      title={Say yes to the dress: shape and style transfer using conditional GANs},
      author={Hobley, Michael A and Prisacariu, Victor A},
      booktitle={Computer Vision--ACCV 2018: 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Perth, Australia, December 2--6, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Part III 14},
      pages={135--149},
      year={2019},
      organization={Springer}
    }