Dr Steve Maddock

About

Dr Steve Maddock is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Graphics and is Head of the Visual Computing research group. He has a Class I Degree in Computer Science, a PGCE (Maths, 11-18) and a PhD in computer graphics modelling and animation, all from the University of Sheffield.He has over 30 years’ experience in developing computer graphics software and spent six months on secondment at Gremlin/Infogrames which gave him valuable insights into the computer games industry

Selected publications

• Alzahrani F, Maddock S & Christensen H (2025) Analysis of facial cues for cognitive decline detection using in-the-wild data. Applied Sciences, 15(11). View this article in WRRO
• He Y, Cooney CR, Maddock S & Thomas GH (2025) PhenoLearn: a user-friendly toolkit for image annotation and deep learning-based phenotyping for biological datasets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. View this article in WRRO
• Ioannou E & Maddock S (2024) Evaluation in neural style transfer: a review. Computer Graphics Forum, 43(6). View this article in WRRO
• Ioannou E & Maddock S (2024) Towards real-time G-buffer-guided style transfer in computer games. IEEE Transactions on Games. View this article in WRRO
• Cogurcu YE, Douthwaite JA & Maddock S (2023) A comparative study of safety zone visualisations for virtual and physical robot arms using augmented reality. Computers, 12(4).
• Ioannou E & Maddock S (2023) Depth-aware neural style transfer for videos. Computers, 12(4). View this article in WRRO
• He Y, Cooney CR, Maddock S & Thomas GH (2023) Using pose estimation to identify regions and points on natural history specimens. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(2). View this article in WRRO
• Millward B, Maddock S & Mangan M (2022) CompoundRay, an open-source tool for high-speed and high-fidelity rendering of compound eyes. eLife, 11. View this article in WRRO
• He Y, Varley Z, Moody C, Nouri L, Jardine M, Maddock S, Thomas G & Cooney C (2022) Deep learning image segmentation reveals patterns of UV reflectance evolution in passerine birds. Nature Communications, 13. View this article in WRRO
• Zhang T, Aftab W, Mihaylova L, Langran-Wheeler C, Rigby S, Fletcher D, Maddock S & Bosworth G (2022) Recent advances in video analytics for rail network surveillance for security, trespass and suicide prevention— a survey. Sensors, 22(12). View this article in WRRO