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 [...]
ACVT researchers have 2 articles in the latest IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence from April 2012 (vol. 34 no. 4). PAMI is the best journal in the field.
The papers are
Accelerated Hypothesis Generation for Multistructure Data via Preference Analysis, Tat-Jun Chin, Jin Yu, David Suter,
The ACVT is pleased to welcome Professor Peter Olver, from the University of Minnesota, who will be visiting on Wednesday 14th March 2012.
Prof Olver will lead the below seminar, to be held in the basement of the Ingkarni Wardli building, B19 Teaching Suite 3 at 11.10am.
Title: Invariant histograms and signatures for object recognition and [...]
The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Ian Reid from September 2012. Ian is currently a Professor of Engineering Science, running the Active Vision Group at the University of Oxford and will bring to the University of Adelaide an internationally recognised research record in the areas of Computer Vision and visual technologies.
Professor [...]
Congratulations to David Sandberg, programmer for SNAP Network Surveillance, who has won the ‘Best Colour Paper’ prize awarded by Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA) at the recent 2011 DICTA conference.
David’s paper, ‘Model-Based Video Coding using Colour and Depth Cameras’ can be viewed here sandberg_dicta11[1]
On Monday 12th December, the ACVT welcomes two visitors:
Professor Kenichi Kanatani, Professor of Computer Science at Okayama University, Japan, and
Dr Andrew Comport, “Chargé de Recherches” (Tenure Researcher) with the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.
Along with Professor Wojciech Chojnacki, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science at The [...]
Prof van den Hengel has been invited to give a keynote speech at this year’s Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) to be held from 20th – 22nd Dec 2011 in Sydney.
Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research [...]
On Monday 5th December, the School of Computer Science and the ACVT welcomes Professor Ba-Ngu Vo, from the University of WA. He will be leading the below seminar:
Title: Error metric for multi-object estimation.
Abstract: The concept of a miss-distance, or error, between a reference quantity and its estimated value, plays a fundamental role in any [...]
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 [...]
Prof van den Hengel has been invited to attend the Australian Summit on 3D Multimedia, held in Wollongong in December 2011.
This two-day event includes invited presentations by international and Australian experts from both academic research institutions and the industry. The Summit is the premier forum presenting the leading edge advances in 3D multimedia acquisition, analysis, [...]

