Researcher

I am a research scientist at National ICT Australia and an adjunct research fellow at the Australian National University, working with Prof. Richard Hartley. Prior joining to NICTA (April 2005) I was a research scientist at Japan Science and Technology, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi.

My research interests are in the areas of computer vision, particularly in the physics-based approaches. Besides, I also have strong interests in computer graphics and machine learning.

Journal Publications: 

• Color constancy through inverse-intensity chromaticity space,
  Robby T. Tan, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi,
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A. (JOSA A),
  21(3), pp.321-334, March, 2004
  
• Separating reflection components based on chromaticity and noise analysis,
  Robby T. Tan, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi,
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI),
  26(10), pp.1373-1379, October, 2004
  
• Separating reflection components of textured surfaces using a single image,
  Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi,
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI),
  27(2), pp.179-193, February, 2005
  
• Illumination color and intrinsic surface properties (IPSJ Best Paper 2006 AWARD)
  IPSJ is the largest and leading information science society in Japan
  Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi,
  IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Image Media,
  (46) SIG9, pp.17-40, 2005.
• "On Automatic Absorption Detection for Imaging Spectroscopy: A Comparative Study", Zhouyu Fu, A. Robles-Kelly, T. Caelli, Robby Tan
  to appear in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 2007

Major International Conferences:

• Consistent Surface Color for Texturing Large Objects in Outdoor Scenes
  Rei Kawakami, Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi,
  in proceeding of IEEE Computer Society on
  International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV 2005),
  October 15-21, 2005, Beijing, China
  
• Reflection Component Decomposition of Textured Surfaces using Linear Basis Functions
  (acceptance ratio 27% from 1200 papers)
  Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi
  in proceeding of IEEE Computer Society Conference on
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2005),
  June 20-26, 2005, San Diego, USA
  
• Separating Reflection Components of Textured Surfaces using a Single Image
  (acceptance ratio: 20% from 966 papers)
  Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi
  in proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2003),
  pp. 870-877, October 13-16 2003, Nice, France
• Polarization-based Inverse Rendering from a single view
  D. Miyazaki, Robby T. Tan, K. Hara, K. Ikeuchi,
  in proceeding of IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV 2003),
  October 13-16 2003, Nice, France
• Illumination Chromaticity Estimation using Inverse-Intensity Chromaticity Space"
  (acceptance ratio: 6% from 900 papers)
  Robby T. Tan, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi
  in proceeding of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2003)
  pp. 673-680, June 18-20, 2003, Wisconsin, USA

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Other Publications:
 

• Visibility Enhancement for Roads with Foggy or Hazy Scenes
  Robby T. Tan, Niklas Pettersson, Lars Petersson
  to appear in Proceeding of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IV 2007.
• Spectral Highlight Removal using Orthogonal Subspace Projection
  Zhouyu Fu, Robby T. Tan, Terry Caelli
  to appear in International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR, 2006
• Estimating Chromaticity of Multicolored Illuminations
  Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi
  in IEEE International Workshop on Color and Photometric Methods in Computer Vision
  (CPMCV, in conjunction with ICCV 2003), October 12, 2003, Nice, France [PDF]
• Reflection Components Separation based-on Chromaticity and Noise Analysis
  Robby T. Tan, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi
  in IEEE International Workshop on Color and Photometric Methods in Computer Vision
  (CPMCV, in conjunction with ICCV 2003), October 12, 2003, Nice, France [PDF]
• A Robust Framework to Estimate Surface Color from Changing Illumination
  Rei Kawakami, Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi
  in proceeding of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2004), Korea
• Separating Illumination and Surface Spectral from Multiple Color Signals
  A. Ikari, Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi
  in proceeding of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2004), Korea
• Separating Diffuse and Specular Reflection Components based on Surface Color Ratio and Chromaticity
  Robby T. Tan, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi.
  in proceeding of IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2002), Nara, Japan