School of Computing Science

Dr Sebastian Stein

  • Research Fellow (School of Computing Science)

email: Sebastian.Stein@glasgow.ac.uk

F161, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 18 Lilybank Gardens, G12 8RZ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008

Biography

Personal site drsstein.github.io/

I am Research Associate in the Inference, Dynamics and Interaction Research Group working on the EPSRC funded project Closed-Loop Data Science for Complex, Computationally- and Data-Intensive Analytics led by Prof. Roderick Murray-Smith.

Biography

I received my German Diplom (MSc. equivalent) in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Dortmund in 2010, and for my work on recognitising manipulation actions and methods for fusing data from video and embedded accelerometers, I was awarded my PhD in Computing from the University of Dundee in 2014. I continued my research as postdoctoral research assistant in Dundee before joining the University of Glasgow as Research Associate in 2016. I am currently working on the EPSRC funded project Closed-Loop Data Science for Complex, Computationally- and Data-Intensive Analytics led by Prof. Roderick Murray-Smith.

My interests are in intelligent interactive systems, spanning areas of HCI, ubiquitous computing, action recognition, computer vision and machine learning.

Research interests

  • human-computer interaction
  • ubiquitous computing
  • action recognition
  • computer vision
  • machine learning

Publications

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Number of items: 21.

2025

Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962, Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 and Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 (2025) Active inference and human–computer interaction. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 32(6), 63. (doi: 10.1145/3762812)

Klar, Markus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-152X, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Paterson, Fraser, Williamson, John H. and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2025) An Active Inference Model of Mouse Point-and-Click Behaviour. In: 6th International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2025), Montréal, Canada, 15 - 17 Oct 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Klar, Markus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-152X, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Paterson, Fraser, Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853, Gollee, Henrik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4286-9113 and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2025) Intermittent active inference. Entropy, (Accepted for Publication)

Anderson, Keri, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Suen, Ho, Purcell, Mariel, Belci, Maurizio, McCaughey, Euan, McLean, Ronali, Khine, Aye and Vuckovic, Aleksandra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1585-3247 (2025) Generalisation of EEG-based pain biomarker classification for predicting central neuropathic pain in subacute spinal cord injury. Biomedicines, 13(1), 213. (doi: 10.3390/biomedicines13010213)

2024

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2024) Towards Interaction Design with Active Inference: A Case Study on Noisy Ordinal Selection. In: 5th International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2024), Oxford, UK, 09-11 Sep 2024, pp. 3-15. ISBN 9783031771385 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77138-5_1)

2023

Taka, Evdoxia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7011-3367, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 (2023) Does interactive conditioning help users better understand the structure of probabilistic models? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3231967) (PMID:37018342) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Maadi, Saeed, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Hong, Jinhyun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-2637 and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2022) Real-time adaptive traffic signal control in a connected and automated vehicle environment: optimisation of signal planning with reinforcement learning under vehicle speed guidance. Sensors, 22(19), 7501. (doi: 10.3390/s22197501) (PMID:36236600) (PMCID:PMC9572689)

2021

Anderson, Keri, Chirion, Cristian, Fraser, Matthew, Purcell, Mariel, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Vuckovic, Aleksandra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1585-3247 (2021) Markers of central neuropathic pain in Higuchi Fractal Analysis of EEG signals from people with spinal cord injury. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 705652. (doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.705652) (PMID:34512243) (PMCID:PMC8427815)

Müller-Putz, G. et al. (2021) Non-invasive brain–computer interfaces for control of grasp neuroprosthesis: The European MoreGrasp initiative. In: Müller-Putz, Gernot and Rupp, Rüdiger (eds.) Neuroprosthetics and Brain-Computer Interfaces in Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Clinicians and End Users. Springer: Cham, pp. 307-352. ISBN 9783030685447 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68545-4_13)

Bin, M. et al. (2021) Post-lockdown abatement of COVID-19 by fast periodic switching. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(1), e1008604. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008604) (PMID:33476332) (PMCID:PMC7861565)

Bin, Michelangelo, Crisostomi, Emanuele, Ferraro, Pietro, Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962, Parisini, Thomas, Shorten, Robert and Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 (2021) Hysteresis-based supervisory control with application to non-pharmaceutical containment of COVID-19. Annual Reviews in Control, 52, pp. 508-522. (doi: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2021.07.001) (PMID:34404974) (PMCID:PMC8361045)

2020

Taka, Evdoxia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7011-3367, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 (2020) Increasing interpretability of Bayesian probabilistic programming models through interactive visualizations. Frontiers in Computer Science, 2, 567344. (doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2020.567344)

2017

Loriette, Antoine, Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Williamson, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 (2017) Gesture Typing on Virtual Tabletop: Effect of Input Dimensions on Performance. In: ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS '17), Brighton, UK, 17-20 Oct 2017, pp. 330-335. ISBN 9781450346917 (doi: 10.1145/3132272.3135074)

Müller-Putz, G.R. et al. (2017) Moregrasp: Restoration of Upper Limb Function in Individuals with High Spinal Cord Injury by Multimodal Neuroprostheses for Interaction in Daily Activities. In: 7th Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2017, Graz, Austria, 18-22 Sep 2017, pp. 338-343. ISBN 9783851255331 (doi: 10.3217/978-3-85125-533-1-62)

Luzhnica, Granit, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Veas, Eduardo, Pammer, Viktoria, Williamson, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 and Murray Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2017) Personalising Vibrotactile Displays through Perceptual Sensitivity Adjustment. In: 21st International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2017), Maui, HI, USA, 11-15 Sept 2017, pp. 66-73. ISBN 9781450351881 (doi: 10.1145/3123021.3123029)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2017) Recognising complex activities with histograms of relative tracklets. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 154, pp. 82-93. (doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2016.08.012)

Simpson, Mike, Woodman, Simon, Hiden, Hugo, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Dowsland, Stephen, Turner, Mark, Hanson, Vicki L. and Watson, Paul (2017) A Platform for the Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data about the Built Environment and its Users. In: 2017 IEEE 13th International Conference on eScience, Aukland, New Zealand, 24-27 Oct 2017, pp. 228-237. ISBN 9781538626863 (doi: 10.1109/eScience.2017.36)

2013

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2013) User-Adaptive Models for Recognizing Food Preparation Activities. In: CEA '13 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities, Barcelona, Spain, 21 Oct 2013, pp. 39-44. ISBN 9781450323925 (doi: 10.1145/2506023.2506031)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2013) Combining Embedded Accelerometers with Computer Vision for Recognizing Food Preparation Activities. In: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, 08-12 Sep 2013, pp. 729-738. ISBN 9781450317702 (doi: 10.1145/2493432.2493482)

2012

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2012) Accelerometer Localization in the View of a Stationary Camera. In: 2012 Ninth Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2012, pp. 109-116. ISBN 9781467312714 (doi: 10.1109/CRV.2012.22)

2011

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Fink, Gernot A. (2011) A New Method for Combined Face Detection and Identification Using Interest Point Descriptors. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2011), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 21-25 Mar 2011, pp. 519-524. ISBN 9781424491414 (doi: 10.1109/FG.2011.5771452)

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Number of items: 21.

Articles

Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962, Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 and Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 (2025) Active inference and human–computer interaction. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 32(6), 63. (doi: 10.1145/3762812)

Klar, Markus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-152X, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Paterson, Fraser, Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853, Gollee, Henrik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4286-9113 and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2025) Intermittent active inference. Entropy, (Accepted for Publication)

Anderson, Keri, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Suen, Ho, Purcell, Mariel, Belci, Maurizio, McCaughey, Euan, McLean, Ronali, Khine, Aye and Vuckovic, Aleksandra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1585-3247 (2025) Generalisation of EEG-based pain biomarker classification for predicting central neuropathic pain in subacute spinal cord injury. Biomedicines, 13(1), 213. (doi: 10.3390/biomedicines13010213)

Taka, Evdoxia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7011-3367, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 (2023) Does interactive conditioning help users better understand the structure of probabilistic models? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3231967) (PMID:37018342) (Early Online Publication)

Maadi, Saeed, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Hong, Jinhyun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-2637 and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2022) Real-time adaptive traffic signal control in a connected and automated vehicle environment: optimisation of signal planning with reinforcement learning under vehicle speed guidance. Sensors, 22(19), 7501. (doi: 10.3390/s22197501) (PMID:36236600) (PMCID:PMC9572689)

Anderson, Keri, Chirion, Cristian, Fraser, Matthew, Purcell, Mariel, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Vuckovic, Aleksandra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1585-3247 (2021) Markers of central neuropathic pain in Higuchi Fractal Analysis of EEG signals from people with spinal cord injury. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 705652. (doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.705652) (PMID:34512243) (PMCID:PMC8427815)

Bin, M. et al. (2021) Post-lockdown abatement of COVID-19 by fast periodic switching. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(1), e1008604. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008604) (PMID:33476332) (PMCID:PMC7861565)

Bin, Michelangelo, Crisostomi, Emanuele, Ferraro, Pietro, Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962, Parisini, Thomas, Shorten, Robert and Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 (2021) Hysteresis-based supervisory control with application to non-pharmaceutical containment of COVID-19. Annual Reviews in Control, 52, pp. 508-522. (doi: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2021.07.001) (PMID:34404974) (PMCID:PMC8361045)

Taka, Evdoxia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7011-3367, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 (2020) Increasing interpretability of Bayesian probabilistic programming models through interactive visualizations. Frontiers in Computer Science, 2, 567344. (doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2020.567344)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2017) Recognising complex activities with histograms of relative tracklets. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 154, pp. 82-93. (doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2016.08.012)

Book Sections

Müller-Putz, G. et al. (2021) Non-invasive brain–computer interfaces for control of grasp neuroprosthesis: The European MoreGrasp initiative. In: Müller-Putz, Gernot and Rupp, Rüdiger (eds.) Neuroprosthetics and Brain-Computer Interfaces in Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Clinicians and End Users. Springer: Cham, pp. 307-352. ISBN 9783030685447 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68545-4_13)

Conference Proceedings

Klar, Markus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-152X, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Paterson, Fraser, Williamson, John H. and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2025) An Active Inference Model of Mouse Point-and-Click Behaviour. In: 6th International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2025), Montréal, Canada, 15 - 17 Oct 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Williamson, John H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 and Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2024) Towards Interaction Design with Active Inference: A Case Study on Noisy Ordinal Selection. In: 5th International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2024), Oxford, UK, 09-11 Sep 2024, pp. 3-15. ISBN 9783031771385 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77138-5_1)

Loriette, Antoine, Murray-Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Williamson, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 (2017) Gesture Typing on Virtual Tabletop: Effect of Input Dimensions on Performance. In: ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS '17), Brighton, UK, 17-20 Oct 2017, pp. 330-335. ISBN 9781450346917 (doi: 10.1145/3132272.3135074)

Müller-Putz, G.R. et al. (2017) Moregrasp: Restoration of Upper Limb Function in Individuals with High Spinal Cord Injury by Multimodal Neuroprostheses for Interaction in Daily Activities. In: 7th Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2017, Graz, Austria, 18-22 Sep 2017, pp. 338-343. ISBN 9783851255331 (doi: 10.3217/978-3-85125-533-1-62)

Luzhnica, Granit, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Veas, Eduardo, Pammer, Viktoria, Williamson, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 and Murray Smith, Roderick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-7962 (2017) Personalising Vibrotactile Displays through Perceptual Sensitivity Adjustment. In: 21st International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2017), Maui, HI, USA, 11-15 Sept 2017, pp. 66-73. ISBN 9781450351881 (doi: 10.1145/3123021.3123029)

Simpson, Mike, Woodman, Simon, Hiden, Hugo, Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008, Dowsland, Stephen, Turner, Mark, Hanson, Vicki L. and Watson, Paul (2017) A Platform for the Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data about the Built Environment and its Users. In: 2017 IEEE 13th International Conference on eScience, Aukland, New Zealand, 24-27 Oct 2017, pp. 228-237. ISBN 9781538626863 (doi: 10.1109/eScience.2017.36)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2013) User-Adaptive Models for Recognizing Food Preparation Activities. In: CEA '13 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities, Barcelona, Spain, 21 Oct 2013, pp. 39-44. ISBN 9781450323925 (doi: 10.1145/2506023.2506031)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2013) Combining Embedded Accelerometers with Computer Vision for Recognizing Food Preparation Activities. In: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, 08-12 Sep 2013, pp. 729-738. ISBN 9781450317702 (doi: 10.1145/2493432.2493482)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and McKenna, Stephen J. (2012) Accelerometer Localization in the View of a Stationary Camera. In: 2012 Ninth Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), Toronto, ON, Canada, 28-30 May 2012, pp. 109-116. ISBN 9781467312714 (doi: 10.1109/CRV.2012.22)

Stein, Sebastian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-4008 and Fink, Gernot A. (2011) A New Method for Combined Face Detection and Identification Using Interest Point Descriptors. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2011), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 21-25 Mar 2011, pp. 519-524. ISBN 9781424491414 (doi: 10.1109/FG.2011.5771452)

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Research datasets

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2022

Taka, E. , Stein, S. and Williamson, J. (2022) Does Interacting Help Users Better Understand the Structure of Probabilistic Models? [Data Collection]

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