Professor
in the School of ITEE and Research
Leader, SAFE Sensors, NICTA
Interests
Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition
Affiliations
Professor
in the School of ITEE, The University of Queensland;
GB Member for Australia on the International Association for Pattern
Recognition
SMIEEE, FWIF
From 1983 to
1986, Professor Brian Lovell worked in Saudi Arabia and Egypt with
Schlumberger SA. He then returned to the University of Queensland to
pursue his PhD. While studying for his PhD, he was offered a lecturing
position in 1989. In 2000, Professor Lovell was visiting professor at
the MIT Media Lab, Michigan State University, and the University of
Alberta. In 2004 he was appointed Director of Engineering in the School
of ITEE at the University of Queensland.
Dr
Abbas Bigdeli
Role
Researcher,
SAFE Sensors,
NICTA
Interests
High
Performance Embedded
Systems, Computer Vision, Signal Processing
Abbas Bigdeli
received his bachelor of Electronics Engineering in 1995
from Department of Electrical Engineering, Amir Kabir University of
Technology, Tehran, Iran. He started his postgraduate study at
James
Cook University, Australia in 1996. He concluded his PhD research
in
2000 when he moved to Auckland, New Zealand to join the faculty of
Engineering at the University of Auckland. During his tenure at
Auckland
University, Abbas was an active member of High Performance Embedded
Systems and signal processing research groups at the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. In February 2006 he moved back to
Australia to join National ICT Australia, Queensland Lab as a
researcher
in the Safeguarding Australia Program- SAFE Sensors Project.
Abbas has been actively involved in many industrial projects in
collaboration with various companies in New Zealand, Australia and USA.
He has more than 6 years experience in consultancy, scientific research
and technology leadership in the areas of digital signal and image
processing, computer architecture, and information security. He has
designed a number of innovative high performance embedded systems
including an AES grade Security System for Wireless LAN and the first
portable real-time face recognition system. Abbas is a member of IEEE.
He has published over 45 papers in journals, book chapters and refereed
international conferences. He has invented 3 patents in the areas of
information security and computer vision.
He has been acting as a technical reviewer for several journals and
conferences. These include Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems,
European Signal Processing Association Journals, Australian Journal of
research and practice in IT, as well as Conferences such as FPL, IEEE
VLSI and EUSIPCO.
Dr Conrad Sanderson received the Bachelor of Engineering degree with 1st Class
Honours in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in 2003 from Griffith
University, Queensland, Australia. He has previously worked
on robust speech recognition at the Advanced Telecommunication
Research Laboratories (Japan), audio-visual biometrics and
non-frontal face recognition at the IDIAP Research Institute
(Switzerland), ship classification in infra-red images at the
Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (Australia),
as well as natural language processing and bioinformatics at
NICTA. He has served as a reviewer for a number of international
conferences and scientific periodicals (such as the Proceedings
of the IEEE journal). His current research interests include
applied areas of machine learning, pattern recognition and
computer vision, with applications such as intelligent
surveillance.
Dr Shaokang Chen received the BE degree from South China University of Technology in 1999 and PhD from The University of Queensland in 2005. He then worked as a researcher in the University of Queensland for medical image processing projects.
He is currently a research fellow with NICTA for security and surveillance projects.
Dr. Erik Berglund received the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in
Computer Engineering from Ostfold University College in 2000 and
a Ph.D from the University of Queensland in 2006. He is currently a
senior research fellow at UQ.
Dr
Ting Shan
Role
UQ Research Fellow, Researcher,
SAFE Sensors, NICTA
Interests
Computer
Vision, Pattern Recognition and Content-Based Image Retrieval
Ting Shan is a Researcher with the NSST project, of SAFE Sensors work
package in the Smart Applications For Emergencies (SAFE) program at
NICTA's Queensland Research Laboratory. He developed two face
recognition approaches, particularly for face images under different
pose angles, and a real-time face recognition system during his Ph.D.
Dr Frederic Maire
Role
QUT Contributed Researcher,
SAFE Sensors, NICTA
Interests
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Robotics
PhD in Discrete Maths (1993), Universite
Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France. MSc in Pure Maths (1989),
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France. MSc in Computer
Science Engineering (1989), Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieurs
of Bordeaux, France
Hans Burkhardt obtained
his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering in 1969, Dr.-Ing.
degree in 1974, and the Venia Legendi in 1979 from the University of
Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1969 he was Research Assistant and in 1975
he became Lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe. During 1980-81 he
had a scientific fellowship at the IBM Research Laboratory, San
Jose, CA. In 1981 he became Professor for Control and Signal Theory
at the University of Karlsruhe. During 1985-1996 he was full
Professor at the Technical University of Hamburg and director of an
Institute in the Computer Science Department and additionally
scientific advisor between 1990 and 1996 for the Microelectronic
Application Center (MAZ) in Hamburg. Since 1997 he is full Professor
at the Computer Science Department of the University of Freiburg;
director of an Institute for Pattern Recognition and Image
Processing and currently Deputy Dean of the Faculty for Applied
Sciences. Since 2000 he is president of the German Association for
Pattern Recognition (DAGM). He is a member of the "Academy of
Sciences and Humanities, Heidelberg", of “acatech” (Council of
Technical Sciences of the German Academies of Sciences) and a Fellow
of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
2003/2004 he was on a sabbatical leave for half a year as a Visiting
Researcher at the National ICT (NICTA) at the Australian National
University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.
He has published over 200 papers and given more
than 250 lectures. He is a consultant for several national and
international institutions e.g. the German Science Foundation (DFG),
the European Commission and different international organizations
and journals. In 1998 he was chair of the European Conference on
Computer Vision (ECCV).
Experience: Invariants in pattern recognition,
optimal image restoration methods, motion estimation algorithms,
parallel algorithms in image processing and pattern recognition,
image analysis and vision guided control of combustion processes.
Contact Information:
Prof. Dr. Hans Burkhardt
Computer Science Department, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
Germany
Georges-Koehler-Allee 052, 79110 Freiburg i.Br., Germany
phone: +49-761-203-8260, fax: +49-761-203-8262
email: Hans.Burkhardt@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
URL: http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/
Dr Manas Bhuyan
Role
International
Visitor
Interests
Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision and Human Computer
Interactions (HCI)
Dr. Manas Kamal Bhuyan received B.E (Hons) in Electrical Engineering
from Dibrugarh University, Assam. He received M.E. (Hons) degree in
Instrumentation Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and
Ph.D degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian
institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He is now working as a
visiting fellow/researcher in the school of ITEE of University of
Queensland, Australia and National ICT, Brisbane, Australia under
BOYSCAST fellowship offered by the Department of Science and
Technology, Government of India. His broad research interests
include Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision and Human Computer
Interactions (HCI).
Amelia Wong Azman
Role
Research Student
Interests
Embedded Systems,
Computer Vision
Affiliations
ITEE, The University of Queensland; ECE, International Islamic
University Malaysia
Amelia received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from
the University of Southampton in 2004. Her current PhD research work
involves smart camera for surveillance purposes.
Yasir Mustafah
Role
Research Student
Interests
Computer Vision,
Image Processing, Embedded Systems
Affiliations
ITEE, The University of Queensland; ECE, International Islamic
University Malaysia
Yasir received the BE degree from University
of Southampton in 2004. Currently working on a research involving
face detection on embedded smart camera system for crowd
surveillance.
Suyu Kong is a MPhil student in the school
of ITEE, The University of Queensland and National ICT, Australia.
His research interests include multiple person tracking and
classification, and traffic surveillance.
