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 | Professor Brian Lovell
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| Professor in the School of ITEE and Research Leader, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | | Affiliations |
| Professor in the School of ITEE, The University of Queensland;
GB Member for Australia on the International Association for Pattern Recognition; SMIEEE, FWIF. | | Biography |
| From 1983 to1986, Professor Brian Lovell worked in Saudi Arabia and Egypt with Schlumberger SA. He then returned to the University of Queensland topursue his PhD. While studying for his PhD, he was offered a lecturing position in 1989. In 2000, Professor Lovell was visiting professor atthe MIT Media Lab, Michigan State University, and the University ofAlberta. In 2004 he was appointed Director of Engineering in the Schoolof ITEE at the University of Queensland. |
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| Dr Abbas Bigdeli
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| Researcher, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| High Performance Embedded Systems, Computer Vision, Signal Processing
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| The University of Queensland, MIEEE, MSPS, MAaeE
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| Abbas Bigdeli received his bachelor of Electronics Engineering in 1995 from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He started his postgraduate study at James Cook University, Australia in 1996 and concluded in 2000 when he joined the faculty of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He moved back to Australia in 2006 to join NICTA as a researcher in the SAFE project.
Abbas has collaborated on industrial projects with various companies in New Zealand, Australia and USA. He has more than 6 years experience in consultancy, scientific research and technology leadership in the areas of digital signal and image processing, computer architecture, and information security. He has designed a number of innovative high performance embedded systems including an AES grade Security System for Wireless LAN and the first portable real-time face recognition system. He has published over 45 papers in journals, book chapters and refereed international conferences. He has invented 3 patents in the areas of information security and computer vision.
He has been technical reviewer for several journals including Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, European Signal Processing Association Journals, Australian Journal of Research and Practice in IT, as well as conferences such as FPL, IEEE VLSI and EUSIPCO.
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|  | Dr Conrad Sanderson
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| Senior Research Scientist, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Machine Learning and Computer Vision | | Affiliations |
| The University of Queensland, Australian National University, MIEEE | | Biography |
| Dr Conrad Sanderson received the Bachelor of Engineering degree with 1st Class Honours in 1996 and the PhD degree in 2003 from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
He has previously worked on robust speech recognition at the Advanced Telecommunication Research Laboratories (Japan), audio-visual biometrics and non-frontal face recognition at the IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland), ship classification in infra-red images at the Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (Australia), as well as natural language processing and bioinformatics at NICTA.
He has served as a reviewer for a number of international conferences and scientific periodicals (such as the Proceedings of the IEEE journal). His current research interests include applied areas of machine learning, pattern recognition and computer vision, with applications such as intelligent surveillance.
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| Sandra Mau
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| Research Engineer, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Machine Learning and Robotics
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| NICTA
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| Prior to her commencement at NICTA, she was working as a Commercialisation Analyst for QUT's technology transfer company, qutbluebox. Her interest in transferring research to society has led her to pursue a MBA part-time. Her research background includes a research Master’s in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she contributed to a NASA project to develop a platform for managing autonomous robot perception, control, and communications. Her Bachelor’s (Hons) was in Engineering Science at University of Toronto with an Honours thesis investigating visual localisation.
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| Dr. Farhad Dadgostar
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| Senior Research Engineer, SAFE AS, NICTA
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| Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
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| The University of Queensland, SMIEEE, IEEE Standards Association
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| Dr. Farhad Dadgostar received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1993 and Masters in Software Engineering in 1997 both with rank first from IUT and UI in Iran. In 2003 Farhad joined to the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand to pursue his PhD degree in Computer Science with focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Vision. He concluded his research in 2006, and he has published over 30 papers in refereed international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Farhad is one of the developers of the Open Computer Vision library, and some of his novel algorithms were implemented as standard components of the OpenCV library. Since 1991, Farhad is working actively in both industry and academia, and has more than 18 years experience in software engineering, and developing software projects. Farhad is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE Standards Association, and Affiliate for IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee. He is currently reviewer of Journal of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, International Journal of Computers and Applications and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation.
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| Dr Mehrtash Harandi
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| UQResearch Scientist, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition, Image and Speech Processing | | Affiliations |
| University of Queensland
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| Dr. Mehrtash Harandi received his bachelor of Electronics Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Master of Science and PhD from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1998, 2000 and 2009 respectively. He joined NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory (QRL) in December 2009. Prior to his commencement, he worked on Active Learning and Object Recognition at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Speech Enhancement and Noise removal at ElaraTek ltd. He is acting as a reviewer for IET Computer Vision, Neurocomputing (Elsevier) and Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier) journals.
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Affiliated Staff
 | Professor Terry Caelli
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| Lab Director, Queensland Research Lab, NICTA
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| Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence and their applications to biosecurity, image understanding and environmental management
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| Director of Queensland Laboratory of NICTA. Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Fellow of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). Convocation Medalist from the University of Newcastle.
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| Since the early 1970s Professor Caelli’s interests have been in both human and machine vision and the application of research in these areas to health and environmental problems.
He has spent 15 years in North American universities and research institutes, has been a DFG Professor, Germany, Killam Professor of Science, the University of Alberta as well as having held senior positions in Australian universities including the University of Melbourne and Curtin University of Technology.
He has served on the editorial boards of journals including IEEE-PAMI, Pattern Recognition and numerous international conference committees in both human and machine vision. He returned from Canada to join NICTA in 2004.
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| Dr Shaokang Chen
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| UQ Research Fellow, Researcher, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Image Processing and Pattern Recognition | | Affiliations |
| ITEE, The University of Queensland
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| Dr Shaokang Chen received the BE degree from South China University of Technology in 1999 and PhD from The University of Queensland in 2005. He then worked as a researcher in the University of Queensland for medical image processing projects. He is currently a research fellow with NICTA for security and surveillance projects.
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| Dr Frederic Maire
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| QUT Contributed Researcher, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Robotics | | Affiliations |
| FIT, Queensland University of Technology
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| PhD in Discrete Maths (1993), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France. MSc in Pure Maths (1989), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France. MSc in Computer Science Engineering (1989), Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieurs of Bordeaux, France
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| Ian Cullinan
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| Research Engineer, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Embedded systems, digital design, performance optimisations
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| ITEE, University of Queensland, NICTA
| | Biography | | Ian is working part-time on the SAFE AS project at NICTA while he completes his BE (Computer Systems) at UQ. He also tutors for UQ.
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| Jayden Platell
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| Research Engineer, SAFE AS, NICTA | | Interests |
| Surveillance and Network Hardware
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| NICTA
| | Biography | | Jayden is currently working as a Research Engineer for the Advanced Surveillance Project.
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| Dr Ildiko Horvath
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| Research Assistant, SAFE AS, NICTA
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| Software Development, Ionospheric Space Research and Modelling
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| ITEE, The University of Queensland, NICTA
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| Dr. Ildiko Horvath obtained her PhD in 2002 in Ionospheric Space Physics from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria. In 2005 she won a prestigious and highly competitive UQ postdoctoral fellowship. In 2007, she was nominated as an “expert of international standing” by the College of Experts of The Australian Research Council. She is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the author of almost forty scholarly publications. She reviews manuscripts for Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research and Annales Geophysicae.
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Students  | Amelia Wong Azman
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| Research Student | | Interests |
| Embedded Systems, Computer Vision | | Affiliations |
| ITEE, The University of Queensland; ECE, International Islamic University Malaysia
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| Amelia received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from the University of Southampton in 2004. Her current PhD research work involves smart camera for surveillance purposes.
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|  | Yasir Mustafah
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| Research Student | | Interests |
| Computer Vision, Image Processing, Embedded Systems | | Affiliations |
| ITEE, The University of Queensland; ECE, International Islamic University Malaysia
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| Yasir received the BE degree from University of Southampton in 2004. Currently working on a research involving face detection on embedded smart camera system for crowd surveillance.
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| Ehsan Norouznejad
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| Research Student | | Interests |
| FPGA and VLSI architectures for real-time embedded computer vision, smart cameras and bio-inspired vision systems
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| ITEE, The University of Queensland, NICTA
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| Ehsan Norouznezhad was born in Tehran, Iran, on April 04, 1982. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic Engineering from K.N.Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), Tehran, Iran in 2004 and 2006 respectively. He worked in Industry for about four years. His major field of activity in his professional career was Industrial Automation, PLC Programming, Fieldbus and Robot Programming. He commenced his PhD program at the school of ITEE, The University of Queensland in Jan 2008. He is also a PhD student at NICTA. His current research interests are in FPGA and VLSI architectures for real-time computer vision, smart cameras and bio-inspired vision systems.
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|  | Vikas Reddy
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| Research Student | | Interests |
| Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing and Embedded systems
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| ITEE, The University of Queensland, NICTA
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| Vikas obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University (India) in 2003. He worked in the industry for about 5 years before commencing his PhD program at UQ. He has worked on the implementation of video compression standards such as MPEG4, H263 on Texas Instrument’s OMAP/DSP platforms. The software has been licensed and shipped in numerous high-end multimedia rich mobile handsets around the world. His current research is in the field of intelligent video surveillance in particular to detect salient objects by modelling the background.
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| Yong Kang Wong | Role |
| Research Student | | Interests |
| Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Face Recognition, and Computer Vision
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| ITEE, The University of Queensland, NICTA
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| Yong received the Bachelor of Engineering Degree with 1st Class Honour from The University of Adelaide in 2006. During his undergraduate study, he was a research scholar in NICTA Canberra Research Lab (CRL) during summer 04/05 and 05/06 working on real time DSP receiver design. He worked as a electronics product design engineer in Clipsal Integrated System (CIS). His contribution to the installation fault detection algorithm for CIS’s C-Bus network system is currently under patent application. He also worked in Codan Limited prior to his PhD study. He is currently PhD research work involves robust face recognition on surveillance environment.
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|  | Andres Sanin
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| Research Student | | Interests |
| Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence
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| ITEE, The University of Queensland; NICTA
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| Andres has a Bachelor in Science (2004) and an MSc (2005) in Biology, from the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). He received an MSc in Computer Science (2008) in The University of Queensland (Australia). Currently, Andres is a PhD student in the school of ITEE, The University of Queensland, and NICTA, working on people tracking in public areas with multiple cameras.
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| Yan Yang
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| Research Student | | Interests |
| Computer Vision, video processing, multimedia database indexing, content-based image/video search and retrieval
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| ITEE, The University of Queensland; NICTA
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| Yan Yang is currently PhD research student of the University of Queensland and NICTA Queensland research lab. She received bachelor degree in manufacturing engineering of aircraft from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2002. Yan has about 5 years working experience in computer graphic, multimedia design and database management. In 2008, Yan obtained master degree of Information Technology from the University of Queensland. She started her PhD research in the same year and worked in surveillance video analysis and database design.
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| Sareh Abolahrari
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| Research Student | | Interests |
| Computer Vision, video processing,
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| ITEE, The University of Queensland; NICTA
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| Sareh is currently PhD research student of the University of Queensland and NICTA Queensland research lab.
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