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Professor Brian C. Lovell
School of ITEE
The University of Queensland (UQ)
St. Lucia, Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
Office: +61 7 3365 4134
Fax: +61 7 3365 4999
Email: lovell at itee.uq.edu.au
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~lovell/

Project Leader (2006-2012)
Advanced Surveillance
Queensland Research Laboratory (QRL)
National ICT Australia (NICTA)
http://www.nicta.com.au/research/projects/safe_as

Research Leader
Security and Surveillance Research Group (SAS)
Intelligent Real-Time Imaging and Sensing Group (IRIS)

Past-President
International Association for Pattern Recognition , 2008-2010.

Chief Technical Officer
Imagus Pty Ltd

Biography:

Brian C. Lovell was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1960. He received the BEng in electrical engineering in 1982, the BSc in computer science in 1983, and the PhD in signal processing in 1991: all from the University of Queensland (UQ). Professor Lovell was Research Leader in National ICT Australia (2006-2012) and Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group in the School of ITEE, UQ. He was President of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society 1995-2005, Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the World Innovation Forum, Fellow of the IEAust, and voting member for Australia on the governing board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition since 1998. Professor Lovell was Technical Co-chair of ICPR2006 in Hong Kong (Computer Vision and Image Analysis), and Program Co-chair of ICPR2008 in Tampa, Florida. He serves on the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition Letters and reviews for many of the major journals in the fields of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. In March 2005, he was awarded Number 1 author at UQ with almost 35,000 copies of his papers downloaded from the UQ library archive. His research interests are currently focused on intelligent surveillance techniques, optimal image segmentation, real-time video analysis, and face recognition.

More Info: UQ Research Profile, Curriculum Vitae

Affiliations and Roles

Past-President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia
Senior Member of the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Computer Societies
Fellow of World Innovation Foundation
Professor in The School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Director of Engineering Programs in The School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (2005)
Chair of the Engineering Curriculum Committee in ITEE from 2001 to 2005
Member of the ITEE Teaching and Learning Committee from 2001 to 2005
Voting Member for Australia on the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition since 1998
Chair of the Conferences and Meetings Committee of the IAPR from 1998 to 2002
Member of the Nominating Committee and Conferences and Meetings Committee of the IAPR from 2002 to 2004
President of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society(APRS) with about 250 members nationally 1995 to 2005.
General Chair of DICTA95(Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications)in Brisbane
Local Organisation Chair of ICPR98 (The 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition) in Brisbane
General Chair of WDIC2003 (Workshop on Digital Image Computing) in Brisbane
Technical Chair of ANZIIS2003 (Australian and New Zealand Intelligent Information Systems) in Sydney
Technical Co-Chair of ICPR2006 (Computer Vision and Image Analysis) in Hong Kong
General Co-Chair of WDIC2005 (Workshop on Digital Image Computing) in Brisbane
General Co-Chair of DICTA2005 (Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications) in Cairns
Chair of the IAPR J.K. Aggarwal Prize Committee (2005-2008)
Program Chair of ICPR2008 in Tampa, Florida
General Co-Chair of IEEE ICIP2013 (International Conference on Image Processing) in Melbourne
Region 10 member of the IEEE Computer Society Nominating Committee (2009-2010)