Profile Chris G. Willcocks
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Durham University
Office: MCS 2026

Research

Research in unsupervised deep generative models and machine reasoning. Here is a list of publications and a link to Google scholar. For recent news please visit my twitter profile, and for software updates visit github.


Highlights

  • Bond-Taylor, S., & Willcocks, C. G. (2024). ∞-Diff: Infinite Resolution Diffusion with Subsampled Mollified States. The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations. ICLR. URL: https://openreview.net/forum?id=OUeIBFhyem
  • Bond-Taylor, S., Leach, A., Long, Y., & Willcocks, C. G. (2022). Deep Generative Modelling: A Comparative Review of VAEs, GANs, Normalizing Flows, Energy-Based and Autoregressive Models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 44(11), 7327–7347. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3116668
  • Corona-Figueroa, A., Bond-Taylor, S., Bhowmik, N., Gaus, Y. F. A., Breckon, T. P., Shum, H. P., & Willcocks, C. G. (2023). Unaligned 2D to 3D Translation with Conditional Vector-Quantized Code Diffusion using Transformers. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 14585–14594). URL: https://abrilcf.github.io/publications/CodeDiff3D/
  • Bond-Taylor, S., & Willcocks, C. G. (2021). Gradient Origin Networks. International Conference on Learning Representations. ICLR. URL: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=0O_cQfw6uEh
  • Leach, A., Schmon, S. M., Degiacomi, M. T., & Willcocks, C. G. (2022). Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models on SO(3) for Rotational Alignment. ICLR 2022 Workshop on Geometrical and Topological Representation Learning. URL: https://openreview.net/forum?id=BY88eBbkpe5

Teaching

Teaching the year three deep learning and reinforcement learning modules, alongside the year two cyber security submodule. Slides and other material are available in the teaching section. Past teaching:

Biography

Associate professor in computer science, specialising in generative models and machine reasoning. His research group have authored 35+ peer-reviewed publications in world-leading conferences/journals within computer science, applied mathematics, and security, including ICLR, TPAMI, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV and TIFS.

Professional Activities

If you like maths and rain, you may like this relaxing interactive visualisation that I made. You can play rain sound and control it with the: F, P, S, M and X keys.

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