Research

See also the list of my publications in Google scholar.

2026

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}
    }