Below is a list of publications, most of which are available online. They are grouped by research area.

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• Proceedings of the ERLARS2008 Workshop:
  Nils T Siebel and Josef Pauli (eds.): Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (ERLARS 2008). Patras, Greece, July 22 2008, ISBN 978-960-6843-15-0. Please see the ERLARS workshop home page for details.
• Book chapter on Evolutionary Learning of Neural Structures with an application on visuo-motor control:
  Nils T Siebel, Gerald Sommer and Yohannes Kassahun: "Evolutionary Learning of Neural Structures for Visuo-Motor Control". In Arpad Kelemen, Ajith Abraham and Yulan Liang (eds.), Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics, pages 93-115, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2008, ISBN 3-540-75766-5, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75767-2_5.
• Conference article on Defect classification for visual inspection using EANT2:
  Nils T Siebel and Gerald Sommer: "Learning Defect Classifiers for Visual Inspection Images by Neuro-evolution Using Weakly Labelled Training Data". In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, China, pages 3926--3932, ISBN 978-1-4244-1821-3, June 2008. Available for download as PDF.
• Conference article on Learning edge detectors with EANT2:
  Nils T Siebel, Sven Grünewald and Gerald Sommer: "Creating Edge Detectors by Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning". In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, China, pages 3552--3559, ISBN 978-1-4244-1821-3, June 2008. Available for download as PDF.
• Conference article on Learning a robot controller with EANT2 and a comparison with NEAT:
  Nils T Siebel, Jochen Krause and Gerald Sommer: "Efficient learning of neural networks with evolutionary algorithms". In Pattern Recognition. Proceedings of the 29th DAGM Symposium (DAGM 2007), Heidelberg, Germany, pages 466--475, Springer Verlag, September 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-74933-2, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74936-3_47. Available for download as PDF.
• Conference article on "Self-organisation of neural topologies by evolutionary reinforcement learning":
  Nils T Siebel, Jochen Krause and Gerald Sommer: "Self-organisation of neural topologies by evolutionary reinforcement learning". In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Self-Organising Maps (WSOM 2007), Bielefeld, Germany, 7 pages (no page numbers), September 2007, DOI: 10.2390/biecoll-wsom2007-118.
• Journal article on "Evolutionary reinforcement learning of artificial neural networks":
  Nils T Siebel, Gerald Sommer: "Evolutionary reinforcement learning of artificial neural networks". In International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS), IOS Press, 4(3), pages 171--183, October 2007. Available for download as PDF.
• Conference article on "Learning neural networks for visual servoing using evolutionary methods":
  Nils T Siebel, Yohannes Kassahun: "Learning neural networks for visual servoing using evolutionary methods". In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'06), Auckland, New Zealand, page 6 (virtual single page number on CD-ROM), December 2006, ISBN 0-7695-2662-4, DOI: 10.1109/HIS.2006.41. Available for download as PDF (168 KB).
• Conference article on robust positioning of a robot by visual servoing using a trust-region method:
  Nils T Siebel, Oliver Lang, Fabian Wirth, Axel Gräser: "Robuste Positionierung eines Roboters mittels Visual Servoing unter Verwendung einer Trust-Region-Methode". In Forschungsbericht Nr. 99-1 der Deutschen Forschungsvereinigung für Meß-, Regelungs- und Systemtechnik (DFMRS) e.V. anlässlich der DFMRS Jahrestagung 1999 zum Thema Automatische Prozessführung, Prozessüberwachung und Montage, Bremen, pages 23--39, November 1999, ISSN 0944-694X.
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (904 KB, German) or PDF (296 KB, German).
• Conference article on the comparison of a number of image-based controllers for visual servoing:
  Oliver Lang, Ralf Vogel, Nils T Siebel, Axel Gräser: "Vergleich verschiedener bildbasierter Regler zur Realisierung teilautonomer Greifvorgänge". In 15. Fachgespräch Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS'99), Technische Universität München, Springer-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-540-66732-6.

• My PhD thesis on people tracking in camera images for visual surveillance systems":
  Nils T Siebel: "Design and Implementation of People Tracking Algorithms for Visual Surveillance Applications". PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, Reading, UK, March 2003.
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (14 MB) and PDF (5 MB) for one-sided (simplex) printing as well as compressed PostScript (14 MB) and PDF (5 MB) for two-sided (duplex) printing.
• Conference article on the "Fusion of Multiple Tracking Algorithms for Robust People Tracking":
  Nils T Siebel, Steve Maybank: "Fusion of Multiple Tracking Algorithms for Robust People Tracking". In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2002), København, Denmark, May 2002, volume IV, pages 373--387, Springer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-540-43748-7.
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (6 MB) or PDF (4 MB). Also available: poster, scaled to A4 (landscape), as compressed PostScript (2 MB) and PNG image format (1 MB).
• Conference article on "Real-Time Tracking of Pedestrians and Vehicles":
  Nils T Siebel, Steve Maybank: "Real-Time Tracking of Pedestrians and Vehicles". In 2nd IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS'2001), Hawaii, December 2001. CD-ROM proceedings, 8 pages (pages unnumbered).
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (10 MB) or PDF (6 MB).
• Conference article on "The ADVISOR Visual Surveillance System":
  Nils T Siebel, Steve Maybank: "The ADVISOR Visual Surveillance System". In Proceedings of the ECCV 2004 workshop "Applications of Computer Vision" (ACV'04), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004, pages 103--111, ISBN 80-01-02977-8.
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (704 KB) or PDF (248 KB).
• Book chapter "On the Use of Colour Filtering in an Integrated Real-Time People Tracking System":
  Nils T Siebel, Steve Maybank: "On the Use of Colour Filtering in an Integrated Real-Time People Tracking System". In Paolo Remagnino, Graeme A Jones, Nikos Paragios and Carlo S Regazzoni: Video Based Surveillance Systems: Computer Vision and Distributed Processing, chapter 13, pages 159--166, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0-7923-7632-3.
• Conference article on "The Application of Colour Filtering to Real-Time Person Tracking":
  Nils T Siebel, Steve Maybank: "The Application of Colour Filtering to Real-Time Person Tracking". In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems (AVBS'2001), Kingston upon Thames, UK, pages 227--234, September 2001.
  An updated version of this article is available for download as compressed PostScript (2 MB) or PDF (504 KB).

In the week of December 5 2005 I have taught at the 1st International Winter School on Visual Surveillance at the Università del Sannio in Benevento, Italy.

• Conference article on the use of Assertions in Object Oriented Software Maintenance:
  Manoranjan Satpathy, Nils T Siebel, Daniel Rodríguez: "Assertions in Object Oriented Software Maintenance: Analysis and Case Study". In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2004), Chicago, USA, pages 124--133, September 2004, IEEE Computer Society, 2004, ISBN 0-7695-2213-0.
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (144 KB) or PDF (184 KB).
• Journal article on Latitudinal and Longitudinal Process Diversity:
  Nils T Siebel, Stephen Cook, Manoranjan Satpathy, Daniel Rodríguez: "Latitudinal and Longitudinal Process Diversity". In Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution (JSME aka SMR), Volume 15, Issue 1, pages 9--25, January/February 2003, Online ISSN: 1532-0618, Print ISSN: 1532-060X, DOI: 10.1002/smr.264).
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (1.7 MB) or PDF (344 KB).
  External Reference: Zentralblatt review.
• Conference article on the Maintenance of Object Oriented Systems through Re-engineering:
  Manoranjan Satpathy, Nils T Siebel, Daniel Rodríguez: "Maintenance of Object Oriented Systems through Re-engineering: A Case Study". In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2002), Montréal, Canada, pages 540--549, October 2002, IEEE Computer Society, 2002, ISBN 0-7695-1819-2, ISSN 1063-6773.
  Available for download as compressed PostScript (1 MB) or PDF (1.1 MB).
• Reference Manual of the Reading People Tracker:
  Tugdual Le Bouffant, Nils T Siebel, Stephen Cook, Steve Maybank: The Reading People Tracker version 1.12: Reference Manual. Technical Report RUCS/2002/TR/11/001/A, Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, Reading, UK, November 2002.
  Available for download as as compressed PostScript (688 KB) or PDF (2 MB).

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