Computer Vision & Image Processing

Research Staff

Academics: A/Prof Arcot Sowmya (PhD, IIT Bombay 1992) (50%), A/Prof Jesse Jin (adjunct) (PhD, University of Otago 1992), Dr. Adnan Amin (DSc, University of Nancy I, France 1985)

Researchers: Dr. Mark Peters (PhD, UNSW, Sydney 2000)

PhD Students: 4

Masters' Students: 3

Honours Students: 5

Visitors: David McKeown, Jr (Carnegie Mellon University), Dr Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta)

Capability:

The group conducts research on a wide range of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition techniques and applications. Some areas of research are:

• learning in vision
• active vision and visual robotics
• robot navigation and path planning
• medical image analysis and interpretation
• high resolution aerial and space image interpretation
• fundamental auto-calibration of vision data and motor commands
• image integration
• automatic data fusion and space-variant applications to data mining
• document image analysis and recognition
• neural networks and machine learning applications

Trackrecord (1997-2001)

Research Grants:

• ARC Large
  - 2 grants totaling $370,000
• ARC Small
  - 1 grant $12,000
• Others
  - Special Infrastructure Program $150,000
  - UNSW Research Infrastructure Grant $111,587

National Collaborations:

• Medical Imaging Australasia Ltd, on new ARC Linkage application,2001
• Marconi Medical Systems Australasia Pty Ltd, on new ARC Linkage application, 2001. 3.
• Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG), Canberra, on ARC Collaborative grant 1997-99, and on new ARC Linkage application, 2001.
• Leica Geosystems Australia, on ARC Collaborative grant 1997-99.
• School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, UNSW,

International Collaborations:

Dr Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Journal Papers/ Book Chapters: 3

Refereed Conference Papers: 22

Patents: 2

PhD completions: 2

Masters' Project Completions: 3

Artifacts:

• Feature extraction software for AUSLIG
• Map updating software for AUSLIG
• Feature Extraction software for Leica

Miscellaneous:

• 2 provisional patent specifications filed
• 1 startup company (Jigsaw Solutions)
• journal editorial boards (Int. J. Pattern Recognition and Applications, Int. J. Image and Graphics, Int. J. Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Int. J. Document Analysis and Recognition)

Facilities:

• various cameras and frame grabber boards
• pan-tilt controller
• 3 Pioneer II robots (shared)
• 11 Rug Warrior robots (shared)
• 1 Scorbot ER3 robot arm (shared)
• graphic tabletsoftware packages for Bayesian networks, and different classifiers.