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, B18 Teaching Suite 2 at 3.10pm.
Title: Invariant histograms and signatures for object recognition [...]
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 [...]
Hosted at the University of Adelaide, a leading Go8 University, the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies focuses on Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing. As part of the expansion of this, Australia’s leading research group in the area, the centre is seeking applications for two postdoctoral positions.
The Centre is supported by direct [...]
Prof van den Hengel is in Paris in July 2011 speaking at the Vanguard private strategic technology conference. The Vanguard board (who invite speakers) includes Prof Nicholas Negroponte, of the One Laptop per Child Project, and Gordon Bell most recently of Microsoft. Prof van den Hengel will speak on Real-time Imaging.
From the conference web [...]
2011_06_27 Extreme Imaging Media Release
CiSRA, Canon’s Australian research facility, has recently announced the launch of Canon’s new “Extreme Imaging” competition. This prize is open to student projects and their supervisors at Australian Universities.
CiSRA is a highly successful part of Canon Inc’s global research effort and has been so for more than 20 years. [...]
Prof van den Hengel will give a seminar at Microsoft Research in Beijing in July titled /3D User-Created Content’. The talk describes much of the recent ACVT work in trying to make the generation of 3D content more accessible. The abstract is
The technology to capture and visualise 3D content was [...]
