One of the Videotrace patent applications has just been accepted by IP Australia.
It’s Patent Number 2007202157
ABSTRACT A method for generating a three dimensional (3D) model of an object is depicted in a two dimensional (2D) image is disclosed, The 2D image includes associated 3D information. The method includes an operator determining a geometric more »
Congratulations to Xi Li, Guosheng Lin, Chunhua Shen, and Anthony Dick on having had ‘Learning Hash Functions Using Column Generation’ accepted as an oral presentation to this year’s ICML. It’s a great result.
Hettich partner with LBT Innovations to commercialise ACVT technology
From the LBT Innovations ASX release:
15 April 2013, Adelaide: Medical technology company LBT Innovations Limited (ASX: LBT) has signed an agreement with the Switzerland-based laboratory instrumentation company, Hettich AG Switzerland, to finalise a partnership to complete the development and commercialisation of LBT’s Automated Plate Assessment System (APAS®).
The APAS system is built more »
An ACVT paper has just been announced as the Spotlight Paper for the September 2012 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
The paper is
Efficient Computation of Robust Weighted Low-Rank Matrix Approximations Using the L₁ Norm
By Anders Eriksson and Anton van den more »
Anton gave a talk at The Intel Labs in Santa Clara on Friday July 20. The talk is another in the ongoing series putting the case for developing tools for 3D User Created Content, and describing the work that the ACVT have been doing in the area.
It has just been announced that Trung Pham, an ACVT PhD student, has been awarded the 2012 Google Australia Fellowship in Computer Vision.
Congratulations Trung.
The Defence Systems Innovation Centre (DSIC) has just awarded Lachlan Fleming, an ACVT PhD student, a scholarship.
Well done Lachlan.
We’ve loaded some Videotrace models on Sketchfab, a new 3D model sharing web site, which means you can embed them in web pages:
Click on the model above to spin it around.
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 more »
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, more »

