Post-Doctoral Research Vacancy-Novel probabilistic graphical model (PGM) techniques

Graphical Models for Sentient Buildings 2 year initial position with opportunities for extension Australian Centre for Visual Technologies University of Adelaide, Australia (with industry partner Snap Network Surveillance) The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT) at the University of Adelaide is one of the largest computer vision and image analysis research groups in Australia. We […]

ACVT PhD student wins Best Paper prize at ACCV 14

Zhenhua Wang, a final year PhD student at ACVT has won the prestigious Best Paper prize at the 12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV14) in Singapore. His paper “A message passing algorithm for MRF inference with unknown graphs and its applications” was co-authored with Zhiyi Zhang and Geng Nan of the Northwest A&F University, […]

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Visual Tracking

Visual Tracking of Football Players Australian Centre for Visual Technologies University of Adelaide, Australia www.acvt.com.au Duration: 2 years The ACVT has recently secured funding to conduct research into the tracking and identification of Australian Rules Football (AFL) players. Existing sports tracking methods struggle with AFL due to the size of the field and the number […]

Accessing Australia’s Photographic History (LP130101064)

ACVT has been awarded a 2 year ARC Linkage Grant valued at $150,000. The partner organisation is the South Australian Maritime Museum. The CIs on the project are Prof. Anton van den Hengel, Dr Anthony Dick and Prof. Ian Reid. Australian museums have vast collections of photographs documenting our national history. This project proposes an […]

Visual tracking with environmental constraints (LP130100154)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Linkage Project valued at $345,000. The industry partner is Champion Data, a Melbourne based sports statistics company. The CIs on the project are Dr Anthony Dick and Prof. Ian Reid. Tracking people in video is a key problem in computer vision, with widespread application in areas such […]

An ICML Oral presentation

Congratulations to Xi Li, Guosheng Lin, Chunhua Shen, and Anthony Dick on having had ‘Learning Hash Functions Using Column Generation’ accepted as an oral presentation to this year’s ICML.  It’s a great result.

10 papers accepted at CVPR 2013, including 2 oral presentations!

Congratulations to the ACVT and research colleagues who have had 10 papers accepted at this year’s CVPR conference, to be held in Portland, USA in June 2013. In addition, well done to Peng Wang, Chunhua Shen and Ian Reid who have had oral presentations accepted at this year’s conference. Below are a list of the accepted papers: Inductive Hashing […]

Recognising and reconstructing objects in real time from a moving camera (DP130104413)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Discovery Grant valued at $358,000. The CIs on the grant are Prof. Ian Reid and Dr Anthony Dick. The aim of this project is to visually understand an environment as seen from a moving camera in real time. This entails the recovery of 3D shape and the […]

ARC LIEF Grant Success

ACVT has been awarded $210,000 through the ARC Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Facilities (LIEF) program to further develop its Machine Learning capacity. Machine learning is responsible for many recent advances in image-based information analysis, from finding minerals in satellite images, to image-based guidance of autonomous vehicles. This progress is due to new methods for learning […]

DICTA Best Recognition Paper Award

The Canon “Best Recognition Paper” Prize was awarded by Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA) to Visual Distance Measures for Object Retrieval. Yanzhi Chen, Anthony Dick, Xi Li. 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications. [PDF] Another great result.

Computational infrastructure for machine learning in computer vision (LE130100156)

ACVT has been awarded an ARC LIEF Grant valued at $210,000. The funding will facilitate the acquisition of equipment and infrastructure to support the ACVTs work in Machine Learning. The CIs on the project are Prof. Anton van den Hengel, Prof. Ian Reid, Prof. David Suter, Dr Anthony Dick and Dr Chunhua Shen. Machine learning […]

ARC Success! Congratulations to Anton van den Hengel, Ian Reid, Anthony Dick, TJ Chin, Chunhua Shen and David Suter!

Congratulations to Anton van den Hengel, Ian Reid, Anthony Dick, TJ Chin, Chunhua Shen and David Suter! Well done on the following ARC 2013 grants that were recently awarded: Prof Ian Reid and Dr Anthony Dick have secured $358,000 of ARC funding over the next three years for the below DP: Title: Recognising and reconstructing […]

4 ACVT CVPR 2012 Papers Accepted

The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is one of the top 2 in the field and had an acceptance rate this year of 24%.  4 papers accepted is a great result for the group. The papers are; Sharing Features in Multi-class Boosting via Group Sparsity, Sakrapee Paisitkriangkrai, Chunhua Shen, Anton van den Hengel Non-sparse […]

Learning to see in 3D (DP120101172)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Discovery Grant valued at $330,000. The CIs on the project are Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Dr Anthony Dick. The aim of this project is to collect and analyse a large collection of digital images and their associated depth maps, in order to formulate a method […]

ARC Success! Congratulations to Prof Anton van den Hengel and Dr Anthony Dick

Congratulations to Anton and Anthony who have secured $330,000 of Discovery Project funding in the 2012 ARC round! TITLE: Learning to see in 3D PROJECT SUMMARY: The project aims to endow machine vision with an ability we, as humans, use almost constantly: to judge 3D properties from a 2D image. This extremely useful ability will be applied […]

Content Based Image Retrieval

The World Wide Web is a visual place, full of images and video. As of September 2010, Flickr hosts over 5 billion photos, while over 2 billion videos are watched every day on Youtube. This is a vast store of information, but how can we find what we want? Currently, images are almost always identified […]

ACVT members win grant for Large Scale Video Surveillance

Congratulations to Anton van den Hengel, David Suter, Anthony Dick, and Henry Detmold, who were recently awarded a major grant for ‘Accelerating Australia’s large scale video surveillance research programmes’: The research to be conducted using this infrastructure will bring immense benefits to Australia in terms of increased levels of public safety and in the protection […]

Accelerating Australia’s Large Scale Video Surveillance Research Programmes (LE100100235)

ACVT has been awarded an ARC LIEF Grant valued at $280,000 to acquire equipment and infrastructure to support research in large scale video surveillance. The CIs include Prof. Anton van den Hengel, Prof. David Suter, Prof. Mike Brooks, Dr Anthony Dick, Dr Henry Detmold and Dr Chunhua Shen. This project will construct a world-class video […]

ISMAR prize

The paper Real-time Modelling for AR Applications won second prize in the best paper awards at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2010 in Seoul, Korea. The paper describes a method for generating 3D models of objects which requires minimal user interaction.  The motivation was the desire to allow users to create special […]

ACVT wins CTD

The ACVT has been successful in attracting a Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program award from the Federal Government and DSTO. The award supports the development of a technology demonstrator based on ACVT’s existing capabilities in in content-based image retrieval. Content-based image retrieval allows large image databases to be searched on the basis of the images themselves. It means that […]

Real-Time Special Effects in Live Video (LP100100792)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Linkage Grant valued at $282,217. The industry partner on the grant is Canon Information Systems Research Australia. CiSRA is the Australian R&D Centre for Canon Inc., a world leader in professional business and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. The CIs on the project are Prof. Anton van […]

Image search for simulator content creation (LP100100791)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Linkage Project valued at $300,000. Sydac, a leading Australian Simulation company is the industry partner. The CIs on the project are Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Dr Anthony Dick. 3D content creation represents one of the most labour intensive stages of the process of constructing virtual […]

ACVT at ISMAR 2009

Anton van den Hengel recently attended ISMAR 2009 in Orlando, Florida, presenting; In Situ Image-based Modeling by Anton van den Hengel, Rhys Hill, Ben Ward, and Anthony Dick.

WACV 2009

Following DICTA, Rhys Hill attended WACV 2009 in Snowbird, Utah, presenting ‘Automatic Camera Placement for Large Scale Surveillance Networks’ by Anton van den Hengel, Rhys Hill, Ben Ward, Alex Cichowski, Henry Detmold, Chris Madden, Anthony Dick and John Bastian.

Tracking targets in large scale surveillance camera networks (DP1094764)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Discovery Grant valued at $195,000. The CIs are Dr Anthony Dick, Dr Henry Detmold. Dr Philip Torr of Oxford Brookes University in the UK is also a CI. Surveillance camera networks in public places such as airports and shopping malls may contain thousands of cameras. However, state […]

ACVT at DICTA 2009

ACVT members Rhys Hill and Wojciech Chojnacki recently attended DICTA 2009 in Melbourne, presenting the papers: Measuring Latency for Video Surveillance Systems by Rhys Hill, Christopher Madden, Anton van den Hengel, Henry Detmold, and Anthony Dick. Multi-projective Parameter Estimation for Sets of Homogeneous Matrices by Wojciech Chojnacki, Rhys Hill, Anton van den Hengel, and Michael J. Brooks.

ACVT researchers awarded best paper at IVCNZ

ACVT researchers awarded best paper at IVCNZ’09 Congratulations to Yan Niu and Anthony Dick, who were awarded best paper at Image and Vision Computing New Zealand for their paper entitled ‘A New Inconsistency Measure for Linear Systems and Two Applications in Motion Analysis’

Combined shape and appearance descriptors for visual object recognition (DP0988439)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Discovery Grant valued at $200,000. The CIs are Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Dr Anthony Dick. The quantity of video generated each year is expanding rapidly. This increasing volume of visual information means that it is more likely that any particular event will be recorded, but […]

Automated acquisition of surveillance camera network topology (DP0770482)

ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Discovery Grant valued at $201,000. The CIs are Prof. Mike Brooks and Dr Anthony Dick. The development of an automated system for acquisition of camera network topology is a crucial prerequisite to obtaining intelligent surveillance systems operating at the network level. Such systems will contribute improved methods […]