Sam Bond-Taylor

Sam Bond-Taylor

Deep Learning PhD student at Durham University.

Sam Bond-Taylor

Research

I am a finishing PhD student in Computer Science at Durham University supervised by Chris G. Willcocks. My interests revolve around deep learning with a focus on unsupervised learning, generative modelling, and machine reasoning. I believe that effective neural models should be able to learn with minimal supervision, in a similar manner to humans. I am a teaching assistant on the Deep Learning module at Durham.

Publications

image-left $\infty$-Diff: Infinite Resolution Diffusion with Subsampled Mollified States
arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.18242, 2023
S. Bond-Taylor and C. G. Willcocks
[Code] [Paper]

image-left Unaligned 2D to 3D Translation with Conditional Vector-Quantized Code Diffusion using Transformers
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023
A. Corona-Figuera, S. Bond-Taylor, N. Bhowmik, Y. Gaus, T. P. Breckon, H. P. H. Shum and C. G. Willcocks

image-left Unleashing Transformers: Parallel Token Prediction with Discrete Absorbing Diffusion for Fast High-Resolution Image Generation from Vector-Quantized Codes
European Conference on Computer Vision, 2022
S. Bond-Taylor, P. Hessey, H. Sasaki, T. P. Breckon and C. G. Willcocks
[Project page] [Code] [Paper]

image-left MedNeRF: Medical Neural Radiance Fields for Reconstructing 3D-aware CT-Projections from a Single X-ray
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, 2022
A. Corona-Figueroa, J. Frawley, S. Bond-Taylor, S. Bethapudi, H. P.H. Shum and C. G. Willcocks
[Code] [Paper]

image-left Deep Generative Modelling: A Comparative Review of VAEs, GANs, Normalizing Flows, Energy-Based and Autoregressive Models
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021
S. Bond-Taylor, A. Leach, Y. Long and C. G. Willcocks
[Paper]

image-left Gradient Origin Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021
S. Bond-Taylor and C. G. Willcocks
[Project page] [Code] [Paper]

image-left Shape Tracing: An extension of sphere tracing for 3D non-convex collision in protein docking
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering 2020
A. Leach, L. S.P. Rudden, S. Bond-Taylor, J. C. Brigham, M. T. Degiacomi and C. G. Willcocks [Paper]