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2011 Pearcey SA Entrepreneur Award – Runner Up
Congratulations to Dr Henry Detmold who was Runner Up in the 2011 Pearcey SA Entrepreneur Award! The Entrepreneur Award is a State award, rolling up into the Benson National ICT Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and is aimed at encouraging and rewarding fresh and innovative talent in the ICT and Digital Media professions Henry was awarded a special […]
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Visit from Prof Mingyi He of Northwestern Polytechnical University
Prof He is the Chairman of the department of electronics and information engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He is the Founder and Director of Shaanxi Provincial key laboratory for information acquisition and processing. He was appointed in Jan 2011 as the Chief Scientist of the Center for Earth Observation Research. The discussion identified a number […]
DECRA Success! Congratulations to Dr Javen Shi
Well done to Javen who has been awarded $375,00o of DECRA funding through the ARC in the 2012 round!! Only 277 proposals were awarded from over 2,100 applications. This is a fabulous result for Javen, congratulations! Title: Compressive sensing based probabilistic graphical models (PGM) Project Summary: The aim of the project is to develop fast, large scale […]
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Postdoctoral Study Opportunities – 2 positions available
Hosted at the University of Adelaide, a leading Go8 University, the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies focuses on Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing. As part of the expansion of this, Australia’s leading research group in the area, the centre is seeking applications for two postdoctoral positions. The Centre is supported by direct research-excellence […]
Improving yield through image-based structural analysis of cereals (LP110200971)
ACVT has been awarded a 3 year ARC Linkage Grant valued at $475,000. Bayer CropScience is the industry partner on the grant. The CIs are Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Prof. Mark Tester of the Plant Accelerator based at the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus. Meeting the food requirements of a growing world population […]
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Another patent granted
Congratulations to Dr Gustavo Carneiro on the awarding of his latest US patent. The patent covers: A method for detecting fetal anatomic features in ultrasound images includes providing an ultrasound image of a fetus, specifying an anatomic feature to be detected in a region S determined by parameter vector .theta., providing a sequence of probabilistic boosting […]
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Vanguard talk
Prof van den Hengel is in Paris in July 2011 speaking at the Vanguard private strategic technology conference. The Vanguard board (who invite speakers) includes Prof Nicholas Negroponte, of the One Laptop per Child Project, and Gordon Bell most recently of Microsoft. Prof van den Hengel will speak on Real-time Imaging. From the conference web site […]
Canon’s "Extreme Imaging" Competition
2011_06_27 Extreme Imaging Media Release CiSRA, Canon’s Australian research facility, has recently announced the launch of Canon’s new “Extreme Imaging” competition. This prize is open to student projects and their supervisors at Australian Universities. CiSRA is a highly successful part of Canon Inc’s global research effort and has been so for more than 20 years. Most of the […]
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 […]
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Large-Scale Intelligent Video Surveillance
A key step towards automating the monitoring of video from many cameras is to generate an understanding of the paths which targets may take between their fields of view. This activity topology information is the foundation for many fundamental tasks in networked surveillance, such as tracking an object across the network. Although it could be […]
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