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.
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