The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT) is a University of Adelaide Research Centre focusing on Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing.

For a list of our research projects see the Research Page.

We are located on Level 5 of the Ingkarni Wardli building, previously known as Innova21, which can be found on Google Maps here.

The ACVT is made up of over 40 members including academics, research staff, software engineers and research students including:

• Professor Anton van den Hengel – Centre Director
• Professor David Suter
• Professor Wojtek Chojnacki
• Dr Anthony Dick – Centre Deputy Director
• Dr Tat-Jun Chin
• Dr Chunhua Shen
• Dr Henry Detmold
• Dr Anders Eriksson
• Dr John Bastian
• Dr Daniel Pooley
• Dr Xi Li
• Dr Qinfeng (Javen) Shi
• Dr Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkrai
• Dr Gustavo Carneiro
• Dr Facundo Mémoli
• Mr Ian Will – Business Manager
• Mr Rhys Hill
• Mr Ben Ward
• Mr Lachlan Fleming
• Ms Hoi Sim Wong
• Mr Zhenhua Wang
• Mr Zygmunt Szpak
• Mr Wynand Marais – Software Engineer
• Mr Ben Longstaff – Software Engineer
• Ms Yanzhi Chen
• Mr Julio Zaragoza
• Mr Fumin Shen
• Mr. Guosheng Lin
• Mr. Trung Thanh Pham
• Mr Quoc Huy Tran
• Mr Lei Luo
• Ms Chao Zhang
• Dr Xue Xhou
• Mr Rui Yao
• Ms Fayao Liu
• Mr Alvaro Parra
• Mr Wai-Keen Vong – Programmer

Associate members include:

• Professor Philip Torr, Oxford-Brookes University
• Professor Naoya Ohta, Gunma University
• Professor Nicholas Kingsbury, Cambridge University
• Associate Professor Garry Newsam, DSTO

The ACVT values its links with other research institutions and industry partners.  These links include

• The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has been a long term partner of the group.
• University of South Australia
  • School of Computer and Information Science
    • Primary Centre Representative: Professor Bruce Thomas, Director of the Wearable Computer Laboratory
• The Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Primary Centre Representative: Will Bosley, Campus Director
• South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing(SAPAC)
  • Primary Centre Representative: Dr. Paul Coddington, Deputy Director
• The Australian Institute for Commercialisation
  • “With the growing importance of digital media globally, South Australia has a great opportunity to leverage its local capabilities in this field through the initiation of a Centre for Visual Technologies, creating a world class technology centre.” – Simon Edwards, South Australian Manager
• SolveIT Software
  • “South Australia has the capacity to become a leader in the digital media industry.   The Centre for Visual Technologies offers an opportunity to develop both the research and education programs necessary for this industry’s success.” – Matthew Michalewicz, CEO
• The Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA)
  • Video surveillance is a key technology in the protection of Australian infrastructure against a variety of types of threat. The surveillance research carried out within the ACVT is particularly well suited to these applications.
• The Australian Homeland Security Research Centre
  • The members of the ACVT have used video processing technologies in a number of homeland security applications, including protecting Australian waters from illegal fishing by the analysis of video capture from unamanned aerial vehicles (in conjunction with DSTO and Coastwatch).
• Australian School of Petroleum
  • Primary Centre Representative: Prof Ashok Khurana
• ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing
  • Primary Centre Representative: Associate Professor Marimuthu Palaniswam
• Computational Neuroscience Research Cluster (CNRC)
  • Primary Centre Representative: Associate Professor Gerard O’Brien
• Maptek and I-Site 3D
  • Primary Centre Representative: Simon Ratcliffe, Chief Software Engineer