I am a Lecturer (roughly equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Machine Learning at the University of Glasgow. My research focuses on building machines that understand the visual world with minimal human input. I work on generative AI, probabilistic machine learning and 3D computer vision, with various projects applying these methods in the physical sciences and healthcare. I'm also helping to digitally unroll the Herculaneum Papyri. My CV is available here.

News
2026-02 Two papers accepted at CVPR 2026
2026-01 One paper accepted at ICLR 2026 and one at ICRA 2026
2025-11 Two papers accepted at WACV 2026
2025-06 Outstanding Reviewer award for CVPR 2025
2025-03 Two papers accepted at SIGGRAPH 2025
2025-01 $30,000 prize for digital unrolling of the Herculaneum Papyri
2024-11 I was a Programme Chair for BMVC 2024, held in Glasgow
Research
Complete virtual unwrapping and reading of a rolled Herculaneum papyrus
Giorgio Angelotti et al.Giorgio Angelotti, Stephen Parsons, Federica Nicolardi, Youssef Nader, Sean Johnson, David Josey, Paul Henderson, Hendrik Schilling, Johannes Rudolph, Forrest McDonald, Elian Rafael Dal Prá, Paul Tafforeau, Alessandro Mirone, C. Seth Parker, Jan Paul Posma, Benjamin Kyles, Claudio Vergara, Alessia Lavorante, Rossella Villa, Maria Chiara Robustelli, Marzia D’Angelo, Gianluca Del Mastro, Michael McOsker, Kilian Fleischer, Christy Chapman, Nat Friedman and W. Brent Seales
Technical Report, 2026 (new!)
Generative Motion In-betweening by Diffusion over Continuous Implicit Representations
Shiyu Fan, Paul Henderson and Edmond S. L. Ho
IEEE Transactions on Vision and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026 (new!)
Ink Detection from Surface Topography of the Herculaneum Papyri
Giorgio Angelotti, Federica Nicolardi, Paul Henderson and W. Brent Seales
Scientific Reports, 2026 (new!)
Neural 3D Reconstruction of Planetary Surfaces from Descent-Phase Wide-Angle Imagery
Melonie de Almeida, George Brydon, Divya M. Persaud, John H. Williamson and Paul Henderson
AI4Space Workshop at CVPR 2026 (new!)
Differentially Private 2D Human Pose Estimation
Kaushik Bhargav Sivangi, Paul Henderson and Fani Deligianni
CVPR 2026 (new!)
ReMatch: Boosting Representation through Matching for Multimodal Retrieval
Qianying Liu, Xiao Liang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhongfei Qing, Fengfan Zhou, Yibo Chen, Xu Tang, Yao Hu and Paul Henderson
CVPR 2026 (new!)
Is Task-Specific Training Necessary for Anomaly Detection?
Xingwu Zhang, Guanxuan Li, Paul Henderson, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa and Zijun Long
ICML 2026 (new!)
Pixel-to-4D: Camera-Controlled Image-to-Video Generation with Dynamic 3D Gaussians
Melonie de Almeida, Daniela Ivanova, Tong Shi, John Williamson and Paul Henderson
ICPR 2026 (new!)
3D-ADAM: A Dataset for 3D Anomaly Detection in Additive Manufacturing
Paul McHard, Florent P. Audonnet, Oliver Summerell, Sebastian Andraos, Paul Henderson and Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa
ICRA 2026
Masked Generative Policy for Robotic Control
Lipeng Zhuang, Shiyu Fan, Florent P. Audonnet, Yingdong Ru, Edmond S. L. Ho, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa and Paul Henderson
ICLR 2026
Virtually Unrolling the Herculaneum Papyri by Diffeomorphic Spiral Fitting
Paul Henderson
WACV 2026
Unsupervised Segmentation by Diffusing, Walking and Cutting
Daniela Ivanova, Marco Aversa, Paul Henderson and John Williamson
WACV 2026
Sampling 3D Gaussian Scenes in Seconds with Latent Diffusion Models
Paul Henderson, Melonie de Almeida, Daniela Ivanova and Titas Anciukevicius
WCCI/IJCNN 2026
Multi-Person Interaction Generation from Two-Person Motion Priors
Wenning Xu, Shiyu Fan, Paul Henderson and Edmond S. L. Ho
SIGGRAPH 2025
MIND: Microstructure INverse Design with Generative Hybrid Neural Representation
Tianyang Xue, Longdu Liu, Lin Lu, Paul Henderson, Pengbin Tang, Haochen Li, Jikai Liu, Haisen Zhao, Hao Peng and Bernd Bickel
SIGGRAPH 2025
Diffusion Augmented Retrieval: A Training-Free Approach to Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval
Zijun Long, Kangheng Liang, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa, Richard Mccreadie and Paul Henderson
SIGIR 2025
Certainty-Guided Cross Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Qianying Liu, Xiao Gu, Paul Henderson, Hang Dai and Fani Deligianni
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
Flat'n'Fold: A Diverse Multi-Modal Dataset for Garment Perception and Manipulation
Lipeng Zhuang, Shiyu Fan, Yingdong Ru, Florent P Audonnet, Paul Henderson and Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa
ICRA 2025
ARTeFACT: Benchmarking Segmentation Models on Diverse Analogue Media Damage
Daniela Ivanova, Marco Aversa, Paul Henderson and John Williamson
WACV 2025
Learning Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation from Spatial Registration
Qianying Liu, Paul Henderson*, Xiao Gu, Hang Dai and Fani Deligianni*
WACV 2025
Detail-Enhanced Intra-and Inter-modal Interaction for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition
Tong Shi, Xuri Ge, Joemon M Jose, Nicolas Pugeault and Paul Henderson
ICPR 2025
Understanding and Mitigating Human-Labelling Errors in Supervised Contrastive Learning
Zijun Long, Lipeng Zhuang, George Killick, Richard McCreadie, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa and Paul Henderson
ECCV 2024
Denoising Diffusion via Image-Based Rendering
Titas Anciukevicius, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari and Paul Henderson
ICLR 2024
Deep learning extraction of band structure parameters from density of states: A case study on trilayer graphene
Paul Henderson, Areg Ghazaryan, Alexander A. Zibrov, Andrea F. Young and Maksym Serbyn
APS Physical Review B, 2023  (Editors' Suggestion)
Foveation in the Era of Deep Learning
George Killick, Paul Henderson, Paul Siebert, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa
BMVC 2023  (Best Poster Award)
Multi-Scale Cross Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Qianying Liu, Xiao Gu, Paul Henderson and Fani Deligianni
BMVC 2023
RenderDiffusion: Image Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction, Inpainting and Generation
Titas Anciukevicius, Zexiang Xu, Matthew Fisher, Paul Henderson, Hakan Bilen, Niloy J. Mitra and Paul Guerrero
CVPR 2023
Simulating analogue film damage to analyse and improve artefact restoration on high-resolution scans
Daniela Ivanova, John Williamson and Paul Henderson
Eurographics 2023 / Computer Graphics Forum
Unsupervised Causal Generative Understanding of Images
Titas Anciukevicius, Patrick Fox-Roberts, Edward Rosten and Paul Henderson
NeurIPS 2022
Learning to Predict Keypoints and Structure of Articulated Objects without Supervision
Titas Anciukevicius, Paul Henderson and Hakan Bilen
ICPR 2022
Unsupervised Video Prediction from a Single Frame by Estimating 3D Dynamic Scene Structure
Paul Henderson, Christoph Lampert and Bernd Bickel
CoRR 2021
Unsupervised object-centric video generation and decomposition in 3D
Paul Henderson and Christoph Lampert
NeurIPS 2020
Computational Design of Cold Bent Glass Façades
Konstantinos Gavriil, Ruslan Guseinov, Jesús Pérez, Davide Pellis, Paul Henderson, Florian Rist, Helmut Pottmann and Bernd Bickel
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
Leveraging 2D Data to Learn Textured 3D Mesh Generation
Paul Henderson, Vagia Tsiminaki and Christoph Lampert
CVPR 2020  (oral; featured in CVN's Best of CVPR)
Object-Centric Image Generation with Factored Depths, Locations, and Appearances
Titas Anciukevicius, Christoph Lampert and Paul Henderson
CoRR 2020
Learning Single-Image 3D Reconstruction by Generative Modelling of Shape, Pose and Shading
Paul Henderson and Vittorio Ferrari
IJCV 2019
Learning to Generate and Reconstruct 3D Meshes with only 2D Supervision
Paul Henderson and Vittorio Ferrari
BMVC 2018  (oral)
Automatic Generation of Constrained Furniture Layouts
Paul Henderson, Kartic Subr and Vittorio Ferrari
CoRR 2017
End-to-end Training of Object Class Detectors for Mean Average Precision
Paul Henderson and Vittorio Ferrari
ACCV 2016
Automatically Selecting Inference Algorithms for Discrete Energy Minimisation
Paul Henderson and Vittorio Ferrari
ECCV 2016
Profile

I completed a BA in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 2009, followed by an MSc in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in 2010. I then worked at Blackford Analysis for four years, on research and development for medical imaging applications. I completed my PhD in 2018 at the University of Edinburgh in the CALVIN group supervised by Vittorio Ferrari (see here for my thesis). I spent three years as a postdoc in the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Group of Christoph Lampert at ISTA, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Since January 2022, I hold the post of Lecturer in Machine Learning, in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. My 'official' (not-so-interesting) homepage is here.

My full academic curriculum vitae is available here.