Michael Burke

Research output

Research output per year 2009 2017 2020 2023 2025

• 31 Conference Paper
• 16 Article
• 1 Comment / Debate

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  A new framework to predict and visualize technology acceptance: A case study of shared autonomous vehicles

  Guo, L., Burke, M. G. & Griggs, W. M., Mar 2025, In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 212, 32 p., 123960.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2024

  Generating robotic elliptical excisions with human-like tool-tissue interactions

  Straižys, A., Burke, M. & Ramamoorthy, S., 2024, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024. Hasegawa, Y. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 15017-15023 7 p. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

• Intelligent robotic sonographer: Mutual information-based disentangled reward learning from few demonstrations

  Jiang, Z., Bi, Y., Zhou, M., Hu, Y., Burke, M. & Navab, N., Jun 2024, In: International Journal of Robotics Research. 43, 7, p. 981-1002 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  14 Citations (Scopus)

• MotionPerceiver: Real-time occupancy forecasting for embedded systems

  Ferenczi, B., Burke, M. & Drummond, T., Mar 2024, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9, 3, p. 2822-2829 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Social cue detection and analysis using transfer entropy

  Jiang, H., Croft, E. A. & Burke, M. G., 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Ju, W., Soh, H. & Williams, T. (eds.). New York NY USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 323-332 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2023

  Adapting neural models with sequential monte carlo dropout

  Carreno-Medrano, P., Kulić, D. & Burke, M., 2023, Proceedings of The 6th Conference on Robot Learning. Liu, K., Kulic, D. & Ichnowski, J. (eds.). London UK: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Vol. 205. p. 1542-1552 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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  5 Citations (Scopus)

• A generative force model for surgical skill quantification using sensorised instruments

  Straižys, A., Burke, M., Brennan, P. M. & Ramamoorthy, S., 10 Jun 2023, In: Communications Engineering. 2, 11 p., 36.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

• Challenges of driver drowsiness prediction: the remaining steps to implementation

  Perkins, E., Sitaula, C., Burke, M. & Marzbanrad, F., Feb 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 8, 2, p. 1319-1338 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  29 Citations (Scopus)

• Investigating Physiological and Behavioral Sensing Modalities Toward Drowsiness Detection

  Perkins, E., Sitaula, C., Burke, M., Manousakis, J., Anderson, C. & Marzbanrad, F., 1 Dec 2023, In: IEEE Sensors Journal. 23, 23, p. 29513-29524 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning rewards from exploratory demonstrations using probabilistic temporal ranking

  Burke, M., Lu, K., Angelov, D., Straižys, A., Innes, C., Subr, K. & Ramamoorthy, S., Aug 2023, In: Autonomous Robots. 47, 6, p. 733-751 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning robotic cutting from demonstration: Non-holonomic DMPs using the Udwadia-Kalaba method

  Straižys, A., Burke, M. & Ramamoorthy, S., 2023, Conference Proceedings - ICRA 2023. De Momi, E. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 5034-5040 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
• 2022

  Residual learning from demonstration: adapting DMPs for contact-rich manipulation

  Davchev, T. B., Luck, K. S., Burke, M., Meier, F., Schaal, S. & Ramamoorthy, S., Apr 2022, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7, 2, p. 4488-4495 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  34 Citations (Scopus)

• Vision-based System Identification and 3D keypoint discovery using dynamics constraints

  Jaques, M., Asenov, M., Burke, M. & Hospedales, T., 2022, Proceedings of The 4th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference 2022. Firoozi, R., Mehr, N., Yel, E., Antonova, R., Bohg, J., Schwager, M. & Kochenderfer, M. (eds.). London UK: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), p. 316-329 14 p. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; vol. 168).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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• 2021

  Action sequencing using visual permutations

  Burke, M., Ramamoorthy, S. & Subr, K., Apr 2021, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6, 2, p. 1745-1752 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Dichotomous views of automation in feedback practice

  Tsai, Y.-S., Mello, R. F., Falcão, T. P., Burke, M. & Gašević, D., 2021, Companion Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge LAK20. Scheffel, M., Dowell, N., Joksimovic, S. & Siemens, G. (eds.). New York NY USA: Society for Learning Analytics Research, p. 52-54 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

  Open Access

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• Learning Structured Representations of Spatial and Interactive Dynamics for Trajectory Prediction in Crowded Scenes

  Davchev, T. B., Burke, M. & Ramamoorthy, S., Apr 2021, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6, 2, p. 707-714

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• NewtonianVAE: proportional control and goal identification from pixels via physical latent spaces

  Jaques, M., Burke, M. & Hospedales, T., 2021, Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2021. Masson-Forsythe, M. & Mortensen, E. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 4452-4461 10 p. (Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  15 Citations (Scopus)
• 2020

  Bias remediation in driver drowsiness detection systems using Generative Adversarial Networks

  Ngxande, M., Tapamo, J. R. & Burke, M., 19 Mar 2020, In: IEEE Access. 8, p. 55592-55601 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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  37 Citations (Scopus)

• Black-box saliency map generation using Bayesian optimisation

  Mokuwe, M., Burke, M. & Bosman, A. S., 2020, 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2020 - Proceedings. Roy, A. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 2699-2706 8 p. (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Composing diverse policies for temporally extended tasks

  Angelov, D., Hristov, Y., Burke, M. & Ramamoorthy, S., Apr 2020, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5, 2, p. 2658-2665 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  14 Citations (Scopus)

• Correction to "vid2Param: modelling of dynamics parameters from video"

  Asenov, M., Burke, M., Angelov, D., Davchev, T., Subr, K. & Ramamoorthy, S., Apr 2020, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5, 2, p. 2872 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review

• Detecting inter-sectional accuracy differences in driver drowsiness detection algorithms

  Ngxande, M., Tapamo, J. R. & Burke, M., 2020, 2020 Southern African Universities Power Engineering Conference/Robotics and Mechatronics/Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA). Nicolls, F. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 62-67 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Hybrid system identification using switching density networks

  Burke, M., Hristov, Y. & Ramamoorthy, S., 2020, 3rd Annual Conference on Robot Learning, CoRL 2019, . Kaelbling, L. P., Kragic, D. & Sugiura, K. (eds.). London UK: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Vol. 100. p. 172-181 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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• Importance sampling forests for location invariant proprioceptive terrain classification

  Masha, D. & Burke, M., 2020, Artificial Intelligence Research: First Southern African Conference for AI Research, SACAIR 2020, Muldersdrift, South Africa, February 22–26, 2021 Proceedings. Gerber, A. (ed.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 154-168 15 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 1342).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

• Physics-as-Inverse-Graphics: Unsupervised Physical Parameter Estimation from Video

  Jaques, M., Burke, M. & Hospedales, T., 30 Apr 2020, International Conference on Learning Representations. OpenReview, 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

  Open Access

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  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Surfing on an uncertain edge: precision cutting of soft tissue using torque-based medium classification

  Straizys, A., Burke, M. & Ramamoorthy, S., 2020, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020. Burgard, W. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 4623-4629 7 p. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Vid2Param: modeling of dynamics parameters from video

  Asenov, M., Burke, M., Angelov, D., Davchev, T., Subr, K. & Ramamoorthy, S., Apr 2020, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5, 2, p. 414-421 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  DepthwiseGANs: fast training Generative Adversarial Networks for realistic image synthesis

  Ngxande, M., Tapamo, J.-R. & Burke, M., 2019, 2019 Southern African Universities Power Engineering Conference/Robotics and Mechatronics/Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA) - Proceedings. Didam Markus, E. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 111-116 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Disentangled relational representations for explaining and learning from demonstration

  Hristov, Y., Angelov, D., Burke, M., Lascarides, A. & Ramamoorthy, S., 2019, 3rd Annual Conference on Robot Learning, CoRL 2019. Kaelbling, L. P., Kragic, D. & Sugiura, K. (eds.). London UK: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Vol. 100. p. 870-884 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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• From explanation to synthesis: compositional program induction for learning from demonstration

  Burke, M., Penkov, S. & Ramamoorthy, S., 2019, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems 2019. Bicchi, A., Kress-Gazit , H. & Hutchinson, S. (eds.). Freiburg im Breisgau Germany: Robotics: Science and Systems Foundation, Vol. XV. p. 1-10 10 p. (Robotics: Science and Systems).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

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  13 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  Time-varying causality between equity and currency returns in the United Kingdom: evidence from over two centuries of data

  Kanda, P., Burke, M. & Gupta, R., 15 Sept 2018, In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 506, p. 1060-1080 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  13 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  A generative Bézier curve model for surf-zone tracking in coastal image sequences

  Burke, M., 2017, 2017 IEEE AFRICON: Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa, AFRICON 2017. Cornish, D. R. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1466-1471 6 p. (2017 IEEE AFRICON: Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa, AFRICON 2017).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

• Driver drowsiness detection using behavioral measures and machine learning techniques: a review of state-of-art techniques

  Ngxande, M., Tapamo, J. R. & Burke, M., 2017, 2017 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech). Kotze, B. & Kusakana, K. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 156-161 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  122 Citations (Scopus)

• Image ranking in video sequences using pairwise image comparisons and temporal smoothing

  Burke, M., 2017, 2016 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech 2016). Burke, M. & Sabatta, D. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1-6 6 p. 11

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Leveraging Gaussian process approximations for rapid image overlay production

  Burke, M., 2017, SAWACMMM'17 - Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2017 Workshop on South African Academic Participation. Wolhuter, R. & du Preez, J. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 21-26 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Slip estimation methods for proprioceptive terrain classification using tracked mobile robots

  Masha, D., Burke, M. & Twala, B., 2017, 2017 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech). Kotze, B. & Kusakana, K. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 150-152 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2016

  Estimating missing marker positions using low dimensional Kalman smoothing

  Burke, M. & Lasenby, J., 14 Jun 2016, In: Journal of Biomechanics. 49, 9, p. 1854-1858 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  35 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Pantomimic gestures for human-robot interaction

  Burke, M. & Lasenby, J., Oct 2015, In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 31, 5, p. 1225-1237 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Topic models for conference session assignment: organising PR AS A 2014(5)

  Burke, M. & Sabatta, D., 2015, Proceedings of the 2015 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech). Sabatta, D. & Davel, M. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 94-99 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
• 2014

  Fast upper body joint tracking using Kinect pose priors

  Burke, M. & Lasenby, J., 2014, Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects : 8th International Conference, AMDO 2014 Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 16-18, 2014 Proceedings. José Perales, F. & Santos-Victor, J. (eds.). Cham Switzerland : Springer, p. 94-105 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 8563 ).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Multilinear function factorisation for time series feature extraction

  Burke, M. & Lasenby, J., 2013, 2013 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP 2013. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 6622721

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Local exploration strategies for a mobile robot in a highly dynamic environment

  Tack, S., Burke, M. & Sinha, S., 2012, 2012 5th Robotics and Mechatronics Conference of South Africa, ROBMECH 2012. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 6558470

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Path-following control of a velocity constrained tracked vehicle incorporating adaptive slip estimation

  Burke, M., 2012, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2012. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 97-102 6 p. 6224684. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  41 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Gain-scheduling control of a monocular vision-based human-following robot

  Burke, M. & Brink, W., 2011, Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress. 1 PART 1 ed. Elsevier - International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), p. 8177-8182 6 p. (IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline); vol. 44, no. 1 PART 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Optimal placement of range-only beacons for mobile robot localisation

  Burke, M. & Bos, N., 2011, 4th Robotics and Mechatronics Conference of South Africa (ROBMECH 2011). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
• 2010

  Estimating target orientation with a single camera for use in a human-following robot

  Burke, M. & Brink, W., 2010, 21st Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa. International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

• Laser-based target tracking using principal component descriptors

  Burke, M., 2010, 21st Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa. International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
• 2009

  Position fusion for an outdoor mobile robot

  Burke, M. & Sabatta, D., 2009, 3rd Robotics and Mechatronics Symposium (ROBMECH 2009). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review