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 50 members including academics, research staff, software engineers and research students including:
- Professor Anton van den Hengel – Centre Director
- Professor David Suter
- Professor Ian Reid
- Professor Wojtek Chojnacki
- Dr Anthony Dick – Centre Deputy Director
- Dr Tat-Jun Chin
- Dr Chunhua Shen -Future Fellow
- Dr Henry Detmold
- Dr Anders Eriksson - DECRA Fellow
- Dr John Bastian
- Dr Daniel Pooley
- Dr Xi Li
- Dr Qinfeng (Javen) Shi - DECRA Fellow
- Dr Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkrai
- Dr Gustavo Carneiro
- Dr Facundo Mémoli
- Dr Peng Wang
- Mr Ian Will – Business Manager
- Mr Rhys Hill
- Mr Ben Ward
- Mr Zygmunt Szpak
- Dr Danilo Dell’Agnello
- Dr T Sathyan
- Mr Alex Cichowski – Software Architect
- Mr Phil Roberts- Programmer
Research Students:
- Mr Lachlan Fleming
- Ms Hoi Sim Wong
- Mr Zhenhua Wang
- Ms Yanzhi Chen
- Mr Julio Zaragoza
- Mr. Guosheng Lin
- Mr. Trung Thanh Pham
- Mr Quoc Huy Tran
- Mr Lei Luo
- Ms Chao Zhang
- Ms Fayao Liu
- Mr Alvaro Parra
- Mr Joshua Lai
- Mr Yao Li
- Mr Zhen Zhang
- Mr Lu Zhi
- Mr Josh Boys
- Mr Anh Tuan Ngo
- Mr Roberto Torres
- Mr Neeraj Dhungel
- Mr William Liu
- Mr Yijia Cai
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
- School of Computer and Information Science
- 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
Hi,
I am in Adelaide working 3D construction sequencing animations on big projects to increase understanding of construction process to reduce risk, save money and saftey.We are very interested in the new area of Building Information Modeling (BIM).
We would like to look at doing some collaborative work with you in Adelaide.
At the moment we are working on the $200M SAHMRI medical research building opposite City West campus and would like to discuss possible collaborative approaches.
Hope to here from you soon,
Regards,
Andy
Dear professor Andrew O’Grady,
I hold an M.Sc degree in applied mathematics. I graduated from Isfahan Azad University.
I’ve worked in the area of Image Processing Based on PDEs (Perona-Malik and ROF
models) for more than 2 years. My thesis was about Stopping Criteria for Anisotropic PDEs in Image Processing. I’ve worked on some papers in this area. Some of them are accepted and others are submitted recently. I’ve studied about 60 papers as well as these books:
Digital Image Processing: Gonzalez R.C, Woods R.E. 2008.
Digital Image Processing using MATLAB: Gonzalez R.C, Woods R.E
Image processing based on PDE: Xue-Cheng Tai Knut-Andreas Lie Tony F.Chan Stanley Osher.
A Multigrid Tutorial. 2nd edn: Briggs W.L, Henson V.E, McCormick S.F
And some other books about PDEs and image processing.
Furthermore, I’ve studied about Image Processing Based on Wavelets for about 7 months.
It would be my honor to be your research partner. I like working more in this area, and I want to continue my education in Ph.D. degree.I would be very grateful if you would attend to this matter.Please let me know if I can provide additional information(for example, my CV) to aid you in the evaluation of my application.
Yours faithfully,
M.Khanian
I am a Bachelors of Science with a major in Computer Science, and a Masters of Information Technology from Monash (DE) and Flinders University of South Australia. My area of interest is in the automation of labelling medical images processing. I would like to know how do I become an ‘associate’ member. I am preparing a Masters of Science proposal for admission into Flinders University. I want to participate in Computer Visison discussion. I work part-time as a Programmer Analyst at the Industrial Relations Court, Commission, Workers’ Compensation Tribunal and Health Practitioners’ Tribunal of South Australia and very much into the development of computers. I used to work at the Roseworthy campus of the University of Adelaide in Agricultural as a Research and Science Lab Assistant. I would like to meet people in the computer vision arena.
Cheers Raj
Hi Raj
We are definitely interested in having more associate members, around Adelaide and elsewhere.
Send me an email and we’ll work it out.
Regards
Anton