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]
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, [...]
In addition to the success of securing Discovery Project funding and DECRA funding in the 2012 round, the ACVT has secured over $770,000 in funding for an ARC Future Fellowship, awarded to Associate Prof Andrew Bradley. This is a total of over $1.4m of funding for research for the Centre over the next 3 – 4 years. [...]
Well done to Javen who has been awarded $375,00o of DECRA funding through the ARC in the 2012 round!! Only 277 proposals were awarded from over 2,100 applications. This is a fabulous result for Javen, congratulations!
Title: Compressive sensing based probabilistic graphical models (PGM)
Project Summary: The aim of the project is to develop fast, large [...]
Congratulations to Anton and Anthony who have secured $330,000 of Discovery Project funding in the 2012 ARC round!
TITLE: Learning to see in 3D
PROJECT SUMMARY: The project aims to endow machine vision with an ability we, as humans, use almost constantly: to judge 3D properties from a 2D image. This extremely useful ability will [...]
