Bouzerdoum, Salim

Overview

Graduated with MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. In 1991, he joined Adelaide University, South Australian, and in 1998 he moved to Edith Cowan University, Perth, as an Associate Professor. He was appointed Professor of Computer Engineering and Head of School of Electrical, Computer & Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Wollongong in 2004, before moving on to become Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Informatics, in 2007. Professor Bouzerdoum held several Visiting Professor Appointments at Institut Galilée, Université Paris-13 (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2014), LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse, France (2001), Villanova University, USA (2010 and 2013), and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2007). From 2009 to 2011, he was a member of the ARC College of Experts and Deputy Chair of the EMI panel (2010–2011). He served as Associate Editor for 4 International journals, including IEEE! Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (1999–2006). He has published over 300 technical articles and graduated 36 Ph.D. and Research Masters students. Professor Bouzerdoum is the recipient of the Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Support of Defence or National Security in 2011, the Chester Sall Award of IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics in 2005, and a Distinguished Researcher Award (Chercheur de Haut Niveau) from the French Ministry in 2001.

Research Areas

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	A part-based spatial and temporal aggregation method for dynamic scene recognition Published In Neural Computing and Applications
2020	Air Void Detection Using Variational Mode Decomposition With Low Rank Published In IEEE Sensors Journal
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	Calculation of the Voltage Sag Recovery Point-on-Wave and Sag Duration Using System Parameters Published In IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
2020	Compressive Radar Imaging of Stationary Indoor Targets with Low-Rank plus Jointly Sparse and Total Variation Regularizations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2020	Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery Published In IEEE Access
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	Unbalanced hybrid aoa/rssi localization for simplified wireless sensor networks Published In Sensors (Switzerland)
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published In IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2019	DeepDSSR: Deep Learning Structure for Human Donor Splice Sites Recognition Published In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
2019	GPR Target Detection by Joint Sparse and Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2019	Pooling-Based Feature Extraction and Coarse-to-fine Patch Matching for Optical Flow Estimation Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2019	Through-the-wall target separation using low-rank and variational mode decomposition Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2018	Characterization of Voltage Dips and Swells in a DG Embedded Distribution Network During and Subsequent to Islanding Process and Grid Reconnection Published In IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
2018	Convolutional neural network acceleration with hardware/software co-design Published In Applied Intelligence
2018	Customer reward-based demand response program to improve demand elasticity and minimise financial risk during price spikes Published In IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution
2018	Efficient cost aggregation for feature-vector-based wide-baseline stereo matching Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2018	Stochastic variational hierarchical mixture of sparse Gaussian processes for regression Published In Machine Learning
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2017	Evaluating the effectiveness of a machine learning approach based on response time and reliability for islanding detection of distributed generation Published In IET Renewable Power Generation
2017	Short-term electricity demand forecasting using autoregressive based time varying model incorporating representative data adjustment Published In Applied Energy
2016	Hardware/software co-design for a gender recognition embedded system Published In Lecture notes in computer science
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published In Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2016	Visual descriptors for scene categorization: experimental evaluation Published In Artificial Intelligence Review: an international survey and tutorial journal
2015	A new approach for classification and characterization of voltage dips and swells using 3-D polarization ellipse parameters Published In IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
2015	A subspace projection approach for wall clutter mitigation in through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2015	Classification of micro-Doppler signatures of human motions using log-Gabor filters Published In IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation
2014	A multifeature-based approach for islanding detection of DG in the subcritical region of vector surge relays Published In IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
2014	An approach for assessing the effectiveness of multiple-feature-based SVM method for islanding detection of distributed generation Published In IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
2014	Object segmentation and classification using 3-D range camera Published In Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
2014	Signal classification for ground penetrating radar using sparse kernel feature selection Published In IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2013	A survey of perceptual image processing methods Published In Signal Processing: Image Communication
2013	Biologically inspired approaches for visual information processing and analysis Published In Signal Processing: Image Communication
2013	Image segmentations for through-the-wall radar target detection Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2013	Two-stage fuzzy fusion with applications to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2013	Two-stage through-the-wall radar image formation using compressive sensing Published In Journal of Electronic Imaging
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Integrating the projective transform with particle filtering for visual tracking Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2010	A human gait classification method based on radar Doppler spectrograms Published In Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published In Applied Optics
2008	A hierarchical learning network for face detection with in-plane rotation Published In Neurocomputing
2007	A new image feature for fast detection of people in images Published In International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Continuous-wave doppler radar for human gait classification Published In Radar for Indoor Monitoring: Detection, Classification, and Assessment Publisher Boca Raton, United States
2015	Lane detection in unstructured environments for autonomous navigation systems Published In Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014 Publisher United States
2014	Compressive sensing for multipolarization through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar
2009	A new approach to sparse image representation using MMV and K-SVD Published In Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems : ACIVS 2009 Publisher Berlin, Germany
2009	Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets Published In Pattern recognition
2008	A brain-inspired visual pattern recognition architecture and its applications Published In Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2020	Breast Mass Tumor Classification using Deep Learning Published In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies, ICIoT 2020
2020	Classification of Sleep Arousal using Compact CNN Published In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies, ICIoT 2020
2020	Identification of Potential Risk Factors of Diabetes for the Qatari Population Published In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies, ICIoT 2020
2019	Detection and Characterization of the Instantaneous Point-on-wave of Voltage Sags in terms of Point of Inception and Point of Recovery Published In 2019 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS 2019
2019	Efficient Pre-Designed Convolutional Front-End for Deep Learning Published In IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP
2019	Part-Based Feature Aggregation Method for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In 2019 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2019
2019	Radar Stationary and Moving Indoor Target Localization with Low-rank and Sparse Regularizations Published In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
2018	A Matrix Completion Approach for Wall-Clutter Mitigation in Compressive Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) : Proceedings
2018	Anatomy-Guided Inverse-Gradient Susceptibility Artifact Correction Method for High-Resolution FMRI Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Human Brain Tissue Segmentation in fMRI using Deep Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network Published In 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
2018	Human Gait Recognition with Micro-Doppler Radar and Deep Autoencoder Published In 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018)
2018	Human Motion Classification with Micro-Doppler Radar and Bayesian-Optimized Convolutional Neural Networks Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Scalable Hierarchical Mixture of Gaussian Processes for Pattern Classification Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2017	A low-rank and jointly-sparse approach for multipolarization through-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017
2017	An efficient local method for stereo matching using daisy features Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017
2017	Characterization of voltage dips and swells in a DG embedded distribution network during and subsequent to islanding process and grid re-connection Published In 2017 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS 2017
2017	Enhanced pixel-wise voting for image vanishing point detection in road scenes Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	GPR signal classification with low-rank and convolutional sparse coding representation Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017
2017	Human interaction recognition using low-rank matrix approximation and super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Joint Low-Rank and Sparse based Image Reconstruction for Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging Published In 7th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP)
2017	Through-the-wall radar signal classification using discriminative dictionary learning Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Wall Clutter Mitigation for Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets: A Matrix Completion Approach Published In 21st Asia Pacific Symposium On Intelligent And Evolutionary Systems (IES 2017)
2016	Characterization of voltage sag based on point-on-wave Published In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2016
2016	Efficient vanishing point estimation for unstructured road scenes Published In International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
2016	Indoor scene reconstruction for through-the-wall radar imaging using low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
2016	Intra-hour and hourly demand forecasting using selective order autoregressive model Published In IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON)
2016	Radar imaging of stationary indoor targets using joint low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2016	Variational inference for infinite mixtures of sparse Gaussian processes through KL-correction Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2015	A tensor-based subspace wall clutter mitigation method for through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Depth image super resolution using internal and e ternal information Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Invariant image recognition under projective deformations: an image normalization approach Published In 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2015	Multi-view TWRI scene reconstruction using a joint Bayesian sparse approximation model Published In Conference on Compressive Sensing IV
2015	Multi-view indoor scene reconstruction from compressed through-wall radar measurements using a joint Bayesian sparse representation Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Video classification based on spatial gradient and optical flow descriptors Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2015	Violent scene detection using a super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2015	Wall clutter mitigation using HOSVD in through-the-wall radar imaging with compressed sensing Published In IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
2014	Affine-invariant scene categorization Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
2014	Characterizing voltage sags and swells using three-phase voltage ellipse parameters Published In Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2014 IEEE
2014	Crowd behavior recognition using dense trajectories Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on
2014	Enhanced wall clutter mitigation for compressed through-the-wall radar imaging using joint Bayesian sparse signal recovery Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014)
2014	Multi-polarization through-the-wall radar imaging using joint bayesian compressed sensing Published In IEEE 19th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
2014	Multi-stage compressed sensing and wall clutter mitigation for through-the-wall radar image formation Published In 2014 IEEE 8th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)
2014	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured environments for assistive navigation Published In 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2014
2013	A compressed sensing method for complex-valued signals with application to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2013	An approach for assessing the effectiveness of multiple features based SVM method for islanding detection of distributed generation Published In Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting
2013	An image-based approach for classification of human micro-doppler radar signatures Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Active and Passive Signatures IV
2013	An improved SVD-based wall clutter mitigation method for through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE 14th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2013)
2013	Depth image super-resolution using multi-dictionary sparse representation Published In 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013)
2013	Enhanced through-the-wall radar imaging using bayesian compressive sensing Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Compressive Sensing II
2012	A Gaussian-Rayleigh mixture modeling approach for through-the-wall radar image segmentation Published In ICASSP 2012: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
2012	A new scheme for no reference image quality assessment Published In 2012 3rd International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2012
2012	A short length window-based method for islanding detection in distributed generation Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2012	Adaptive autoregressive logarithmic search for 3D human tracking Published In AVSS 2012: 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
2012	Automatic classification of human motions using Doppler radar Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2012	Compressed sensing-based frequency selection for classification of ground penetrating radar signals Published In ICASSP 2012: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of blind people Published In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012)
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for the visually impaired Published In 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2012
2012	Scene segmentation and pedestrian classification from 3-D range and intensity images Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
2012	Segmentations of through-the-wall radar images Published In 2012 IEEE Radar Conference: Ubiquitous Radar, RADARCON 2012
2011	A reduced reference image quality metric based on feature fusion and neural networks Published In 19th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2011
2011	A two-stage image fusion method for enhanced through-the-wall radar target detection Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2011	Adaptive regularization for multiple image restoration using an extended total variations approach Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	An SVD-based approach for mitigating wall reflections in through-the-wall radar imaging Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference: In the Eye of the Storm, RadarCon'11
2011	Automatic left ventricle detection in echocardiographic images for deformable contour initialization Published In 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS
2011	Multiple-measurement vector model and its application to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2011	Optical flow estimation using sparse gradient representation Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	Pedestrian sensing using time-of-flight range camera Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2011	Sparse signal decomposition for ground penetrating radar Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2011	Wall clutter mitigation based on eigen-analysis in through-the-wall radar imaging Published In 2011 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
2010	A compressive sensing approach to image restoration Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Adaptive regularization for image restoration using a variational inequality approach Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2010	Automatic classification of GPR signals Published In International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
2010	Automatic human motion classification from Doppler spectrograms Published In International Workshop Cognitive Information Processing
2010	Automatic parameter selection for feature-enhanced radar image restoration Published In IEEE Radar Conference
2010	Automatic recognition of smiling and neutral facial expressions Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Efficient SVM training with reduced weighted samples Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Fast digital optical flow estimation based on EMD Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Feature selection for facial expression recognition Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Fuzzy logic-based image fusion for multi-view through-the-wall radar Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Improved facial expression recognition with trainable 2-D filters and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2010	Improved learning in grid-to-grid neural network via clustering Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Markov random fields for abnormal behavior detection on highways Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Motion estimation with adaptive regularization and neighborhood dependent constraint Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Multi-resolution mean-shift algorithm for vector quantization Published In Data Compression Conference
2010	Multi-view through-the-wall radar imaging using compressed sensing Published In 18th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2010
2010	On the analysis of background subtraction techniques using Gaussian mixture models Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Wavelet based nonlocal-means super-resolution for video sequences Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2009	A car detection system based on hierarchical visual features Published In IEEE Symposium on Computational intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009
2009	Reduced training of convolutional neural networks for pedestrian detection Published In International Conference on Information Technology and Applications
2009	Vehicle tracking using projective particle filter Published In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
2008	A VHDL design for PCA Published In CDES 2008: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
2008	A VHDL design for PCA Published In International Conference on Computer Design
2008	A biologically inspired visual pedestrian detection system Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
2008	A compact CMOS face detection architecture based on shunting inhibitory convolutional neural networks Published In International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
2008	A supervised learning approach for imbalanced data sets Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2008	Efficient supervised learning with reduced training exemplars Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
2008	FPGA implementation of a predictive vector quantization image compression algorithm for image sensor applications Published In International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
2008	Local estimation of displacement density for abnormal behavior detection Published In Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
2008	Vehicle tracking by non-drifting mean-shift using projective Kalman filter Published In International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2007	A nonlinear feature extractor for texture segmentation Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2007	Detecting people in images: An edge density approach Published In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

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Book
- Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing . Piscataway, NJ. 2008

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2023	ATR and Data Fusion for Improvised Threat Detection Funding Scheme: Defence Innovation Network PhD Project
2019 - 2021	A Novel Non-GPS Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Solution for Reconnaissance Missions Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2019 - 2021	Assistive Micro-Navigation for Vision Impaired People Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2015 - 2020	Enhanced Through-Wall Imaging using Bayesian Compressive Sensing Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2019	Big Crowd Data Analytics using Bayesian Inference and Deep Learning Awarded by: Qatar National Research Fund Funding Scheme: National Priorities Research Program
2018 - 2019	Classification of Sonar Snapshot Images for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle On-board Processing Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2014	Dynamic Visual Scene Gist Recognition using a Probabilistic Inference Framework Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2009	Robust Beamforming for Radar Imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage International
2007	Advanced processing for through-the-wall radar imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Enhanced detection, localisation and identification of sandcovered naval mines using novel hybrid signal processing methods Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects

Impact Story

Underwater Mine Detection with Sonar Imaging
Summary
Underwater mines are a cost-effective tool in asymmetric warfare and are commonly used to block shipping lanes and restrict naval operations. The aim of this research is develop an automatic system based on sonar imaging for locating naval mines and then recognizing their various types. It involves investigating the latest advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence for object detection, image segmentation, and image classification. This on-going research, supported by the NSW Defence Innovation Network (DIN), is conducted in collaboration with Defence and Science Technology Group (DSTG) and a defence software company. The research team includes Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI, Technical Lead, Principal Supervisor), Mr Hoang Thanh Le (PhD Student), Mr Luca Russo (PhD student), Dr. Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Prof. Christian Ritz (CI), and Dr. Le Chung Tran (CI). In this project, we have developed a deep learning-based tool for underwater mine detection. Further discussions are in progress to apply the project outcomes. Publication: H. T. Le, S. L. Phung, P. B. Chapple, A. Bouzerdoum, C. H. Ritz, L. C. Tran, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9095329?source=authoralert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery</a>," IEEE Access, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 94126-94139, 2020.

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Assistive Navigation Tools for Vision Impaired People
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Over 250 million people worldwide and 380,000 people in Australia suffer from visual impairment. The aim of the project is to develop, based on deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies, a portable electronic tool that enables a vision-impaired user to perform micro-navigation tasks. The targeted tasks include locating the pedestrian path in crowded scenes, evading obstacles and hazards, and recognising relevant landmarks. The technologies developed in this project can be adopted for road safety, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous robots. This project is funded by an ARC Discovery Project DP190100607, titled "Assistive Micro-Navigation for Project for Vision Impaired People" (2019-2021). It is one of five national projects highlighted in the Ministerial Media Release on 27 Nov 2018 <a href="https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/media-releases/funding-world-leading-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(link)</a>. The research team includes blind volunteers, Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Dr Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), and a number of PhD/MPhil students.This on-going research has received the Best Recognition Paper Award at the International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) in 2014, and the Highly Commended Award at the Canon Extreme Imaging Competition in 2012. Recently, we have reached a project milestone by successfully developing a deep learning-based tool to locate the pedestrian path for the blind. This tool is published in IEEE TNNLS which has an impact factor of 8.793 (top 10% in 136 computer science and AI journals, and top 5% in 266 electrical/electronic engineering journals).Publication: T. N. A. Nguyen, S. L. Phung, and A. Bouzerdoum, "Hybrid deep learning-Gaussian process network for pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8998354" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(URL)</a>

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Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Gabor Networks and Applications to Radar, Sonar, Colour Image Processing	Le Hoang, Thanh
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Perception from a Single Colour Image	Thompson, Joshua
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Estimation with Deep Learning for Assistive Navigation	Phan, Steve
Doctor of Philosophy	Scene Perception and 3D Sound Synthesis for Assistive Navigation of Blind People	Lei, Yunjia
Master of Philosophy - EIS	Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Image Processing	Bui, Ly

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Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	A part-based spatial and temporal aggregation method for dynamic scene recognition Published In Neural Computing and Applications
2020	Air Void Detection Using Variational Mode Decomposition With Low Rank Published In IEEE Sensors Journal
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	Calculation of the Voltage Sag Recovery Point-on-Wave and Sag Duration Using System Parameters Published In IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
2020	Compressive Radar Imaging of Stationary Indoor Targets with Low-Rank plus Jointly Sparse and Total Variation Regularizations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2020	Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery Published In IEEE Access
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	Unbalanced hybrid aoa/rssi localization for simplified wireless sensor networks Published In Sensors (Switzerland)
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published In IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2019	DeepDSSR: Deep Learning Structure for Human Donor Splice Sites Recognition Published In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
2019	GPR Target Detection by Joint Sparse and Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2019	Pooling-Based Feature Extraction and Coarse-to-fine Patch Matching for Optical Flow Estimation Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2019	Through-the-wall target separation using low-rank and variational mode decomposition Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2018	Characterization of Voltage Dips and Swells in a DG Embedded Distribution Network During and Subsequent to Islanding Process and Grid Reconnection Published In IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
2018	Convolutional neural network acceleration with hardware/software co-design Published In Applied Intelligence
2018	Customer reward-based demand response program to improve demand elasticity and minimise financial risk during price spikes Published In IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution
2018	Efficient cost aggregation for feature-vector-based wide-baseline stereo matching Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2018	Stochastic variational hierarchical mixture of sparse Gaussian processes for regression Published In Machine Learning
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2017	Evaluating the effectiveness of a machine learning approach based on response time and reliability for islanding detection of distributed generation Published In IET Renewable Power Generation
2017	Short-term electricity demand forecasting using autoregressive based time varying model incorporating representative data adjustment Published In Applied Energy
2016	Hardware/software co-design for a gender recognition embedded system Published In Lecture notes in computer science
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published In Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2016	Visual descriptors for scene categorization: experimental evaluation Published In Artificial Intelligence Review: an international survey and tutorial journal
2015	A new approach for classification and characterization of voltage dips and swells using 3-D polarization ellipse parameters Published In IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
2015	A subspace projection approach for wall clutter mitigation in through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2015	Classification of micro-Doppler signatures of human motions using log-Gabor filters Published In IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation
2014	A multifeature-based approach for islanding detection of DG in the subcritical region of vector surge relays Published In IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
2014	An approach for assessing the effectiveness of multiple-feature-based SVM method for islanding detection of distributed generation Published In IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
2014	Object segmentation and classification using 3-D range camera Published In Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
2014	Signal classification for ground penetrating radar using sparse kernel feature selection Published In IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2013	A survey of perceptual image processing methods Published In Signal Processing: Image Communication
2013	Biologically inspired approaches for visual information processing and analysis Published In Signal Processing: Image Communication
2013	Image segmentations for through-the-wall radar target detection Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2013	Two-stage fuzzy fusion with applications to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2013	Two-stage through-the-wall radar image formation using compressive sensing Published In Journal of Electronic Imaging
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Integrating the projective transform with particle filtering for visual tracking Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2010	A human gait classification method based on radar Doppler spectrograms Published In Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published In Applied Optics
2008	A hierarchical learning network for face detection with in-plane rotation Published In Neurocomputing
2007	A new image feature for fast detection of people in images Published In International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Continuous-wave doppler radar for human gait classification Published In Radar for Indoor Monitoring: Detection, Classification, and Assessment Publisher Boca Raton, United States
2015	Lane detection in unstructured environments for autonomous navigation systems Published In Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014 Publisher United States
2014	Compressive sensing for multipolarization through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar
2009	A new approach to sparse image representation using MMV and K-SVD Published In Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems : ACIVS 2009 Publisher Berlin, Germany
2009	Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets Published In Pattern recognition
2008	A brain-inspired visual pattern recognition architecture and its applications Published In Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2020	Breast Mass Tumor Classification using Deep Learning Published In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies, ICIoT 2020
2020	Classification of Sleep Arousal using Compact CNN Published In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies, ICIoT 2020
2020	Identification of Potential Risk Factors of Diabetes for the Qatari Population Published In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies, ICIoT 2020
2019	Detection and Characterization of the Instantaneous Point-on-wave of Voltage Sags in terms of Point of Inception and Point of Recovery Published In 2019 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS 2019
2019	Efficient Pre-Designed Convolutional Front-End for Deep Learning Published In IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP
2019	Part-Based Feature Aggregation Method for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In 2019 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2019
2019	Radar Stationary and Moving Indoor Target Localization with Low-rank and Sparse Regularizations Published In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
2018	A Matrix Completion Approach for Wall-Clutter Mitigation in Compressive Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) : Proceedings
2018	Anatomy-Guided Inverse-Gradient Susceptibility Artifact Correction Method for High-Resolution FMRI Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Human Brain Tissue Segmentation in fMRI using Deep Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network Published In 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
2018	Human Gait Recognition with Micro-Doppler Radar and Deep Autoencoder Published In 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018)
2018	Human Motion Classification with Micro-Doppler Radar and Bayesian-Optimized Convolutional Neural Networks Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Scalable Hierarchical Mixture of Gaussian Processes for Pattern Classification Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2017	A low-rank and jointly-sparse approach for multipolarization through-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017
2017	An efficient local method for stereo matching using daisy features Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017
2017	Characterization of voltage dips and swells in a DG embedded distribution network during and subsequent to islanding process and grid re-connection Published In 2017 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, IAS 2017
2017	Enhanced pixel-wise voting for image vanishing point detection in road scenes Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	GPR signal classification with low-rank and convolutional sparse coding representation Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017
2017	Human interaction recognition using low-rank matrix approximation and super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Joint Low-Rank and Sparse based Image Reconstruction for Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging Published In 7th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP)
2017	Through-the-wall radar signal classification using discriminative dictionary learning Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2017	Wall Clutter Mitigation for Radar Imaging of Indoor Targets: A Matrix Completion Approach Published In 21st Asia Pacific Symposium On Intelligent And Evolutionary Systems (IES 2017)
2016	Characterization of voltage sag based on point-on-wave Published In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2016
2016	Efficient vanishing point estimation for unstructured road scenes Published In International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
2016	Indoor scene reconstruction for through-the-wall radar imaging using low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
2016	Intra-hour and hourly demand forecasting using selective order autoregressive model Published In IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON)
2016	Radar imaging of stationary indoor targets using joint low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2016	Variational inference for infinite mixtures of sparse Gaussian processes through KL-correction Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2015	A tensor-based subspace wall clutter mitigation method for through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Depth image super resolution using internal and e ternal information Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Invariant image recognition under projective deformations: an image normalization approach Published In 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2015	Multi-view TWRI scene reconstruction using a joint Bayesian sparse approximation model Published In Conference on Compressive Sensing IV
2015	Multi-view indoor scene reconstruction from compressed through-wall radar measurements using a joint Bayesian sparse representation Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
2015	Video classification based on spatial gradient and optical flow descriptors Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2015	Violent scene detection using a super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on
2015	Wall clutter mitigation using HOSVD in through-the-wall radar imaging with compressed sensing Published In IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
2014	Affine-invariant scene categorization Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
2014	Characterizing voltage sags and swells using three-phase voltage ellipse parameters Published In Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2014 IEEE
2014	Crowd behavior recognition using dense trajectories Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on
2014	Enhanced wall clutter mitigation for compressed through-the-wall radar imaging using joint Bayesian sparse signal recovery Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014)
2014	Multi-polarization through-the-wall radar imaging using joint bayesian compressed sensing Published In IEEE 19th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
2014	Multi-stage compressed sensing and wall clutter mitigation for through-the-wall radar image formation Published In 2014 IEEE 8th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)
2014	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured environments for assistive navigation Published In 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2014
2013	A compressed sensing method for complex-valued signals with application to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2013	An approach for assessing the effectiveness of multiple features based SVM method for islanding detection of distributed generation Published In Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting
2013	An image-based approach for classification of human micro-doppler radar signatures Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Active and Passive Signatures IV
2013	An improved SVD-based wall clutter mitigation method for through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE 14th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2013)
2013	Depth image super-resolution using multi-dictionary sparse representation Published In 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013)
2013	Enhanced through-the-wall radar imaging using bayesian compressive sensing Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Compressive Sensing II
2012	A Gaussian-Rayleigh mixture modeling approach for through-the-wall radar image segmentation Published In ICASSP 2012: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
2012	A new scheme for no reference image quality assessment Published In 2012 3rd International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2012
2012	A short length window-based method for islanding detection in distributed generation Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2012	Adaptive autoregressive logarithmic search for 3D human tracking Published In AVSS 2012: 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
2012	Automatic classification of human motions using Doppler radar Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2012	Compressed sensing-based frequency selection for classification of ground penetrating radar signals Published In ICASSP 2012: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of blind people Published In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012)
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for the visually impaired Published In 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2012
2012	Scene segmentation and pedestrian classification from 3-D range and intensity images Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
2012	Segmentations of through-the-wall radar images Published In 2012 IEEE Radar Conference: Ubiquitous Radar, RADARCON 2012
2011	A reduced reference image quality metric based on feature fusion and neural networks Published In 19th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2011
2011	A two-stage image fusion method for enhanced through-the-wall radar target detection Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2011	Adaptive regularization for multiple image restoration using an extended total variations approach Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	An SVD-based approach for mitigating wall reflections in through-the-wall radar imaging Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference: In the Eye of the Storm, RadarCon'11
2011	Automatic left ventricle detection in echocardiographic images for deformable contour initialization Published In 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS
2011	Multiple-measurement vector model and its application to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2011	Optical flow estimation using sparse gradient representation Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
2011	Pedestrian sensing using time-of-flight range camera Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2011	Sparse signal decomposition for ground penetrating radar Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference
2011	Wall clutter mitigation based on eigen-analysis in through-the-wall radar imaging Published In 2011 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
2010	A compressive sensing approach to image restoration Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Adaptive regularization for image restoration using a variational inequality approach Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2010	Automatic classification of GPR signals Published In International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
2010	Automatic human motion classification from Doppler spectrograms Published In International Workshop Cognitive Information Processing
2010	Automatic parameter selection for feature-enhanced radar image restoration Published In IEEE Radar Conference
2010	Automatic recognition of smiling and neutral facial expressions Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Efficient SVM training with reduced weighted samples Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Fast digital optical flow estimation based on EMD Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Feature selection for facial expression recognition Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Fuzzy logic-based image fusion for multi-view through-the-wall radar Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Improved facial expression recognition with trainable 2-D filters and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2010	Improved learning in grid-to-grid neural network via clustering Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2010	Markov random fields for abnormal behavior detection on highways Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
2010	Motion estimation with adaptive regularization and neighborhood dependent constraint Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications
2010	Multi-resolution mean-shift algorithm for vector quantization Published In Data Compression Conference
2010	Multi-view through-the-wall radar imaging using compressed sensing Published In 18th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2010
2010	On the analysis of background subtraction techniques using Gaussian mixture models Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2010	Wavelet based nonlocal-means super-resolution for video sequences Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2009	A car detection system based on hierarchical visual features Published In IEEE Symposium on Computational intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009
2009	Reduced training of convolutional neural networks for pedestrian detection Published In International Conference on Information Technology and Applications
2009	Vehicle tracking using projective particle filter Published In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
2008	A VHDL design for PCA Published In CDES 2008: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
2008	A VHDL design for PCA Published In International Conference on Computer Design
2008	A biologically inspired visual pedestrian detection system Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
2008	A compact CMOS face detection architecture based on shunting inhibitory convolutional neural networks Published In International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
2008	A supervised learning approach for imbalanced data sets Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2008	Efficient supervised learning with reduced training exemplars Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
2008	FPGA implementation of a predictive vector quantization image compression algorithm for image sensor applications Published In International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
2008	Local estimation of displacement density for abnormal behavior detection Published In Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
2008	Vehicle tracking by non-drifting mean-shift using projective Kalman filter Published In International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2007	A nonlinear feature extractor for texture segmentation Published In International Conference on Image Processing
2007	Detecting people in images: An edge density approach Published In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

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- Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing . Piscataway, NJ. 2008

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Year	Title
2019 - 2023	ATR and Data Fusion for Improvised Threat Detection Funding Scheme: Defence Innovation Network PhD Project
2019 - 2021	A Novel Non-GPS Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Solution for Reconnaissance Missions Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2019 - 2021	Assistive Micro-Navigation for Vision Impaired People Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2015 - 2020	Enhanced Through-Wall Imaging using Bayesian Compressive Sensing Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2019	Big Crowd Data Analytics using Bayesian Inference and Deep Learning Awarded by: Qatar National Research Fund Funding Scheme: National Priorities Research Program
2018 - 2019	Classification of Sonar Snapshot Images for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle On-board Processing Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects
2014	Dynamic Visual Scene Gist Recognition using a Probabilistic Inference Framework Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2009	Robust Beamforming for Radar Imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage International
2007	Advanced processing for through-the-wall radar imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Enhanced detection, localisation and identification of sandcovered naval mines using novel hybrid signal processing methods Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot Projects

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Underwater Mine Detection with Sonar Imaging
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Underwater mines are a cost-effective tool in asymmetric warfare and are commonly used to block shipping lanes and restrict naval operations. The aim of this research is develop an automatic system based on sonar imaging for locating naval mines and then recognizing their various types. It involves investigating the latest advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence for object detection, image segmentation, and image classification. This on-going research, supported by the NSW Defence Innovation Network (DIN), is conducted in collaboration with Defence and Science Technology Group (DSTG) and a defence software company. The research team includes Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI, Technical Lead, Principal Supervisor), Mr Hoang Thanh Le (PhD Student), Mr Luca Russo (PhD student), Dr. Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Prof. Christian Ritz (CI), and Dr. Le Chung Tran (CI). In this project, we have developed a deep learning-based tool for underwater mine detection. Further discussions are in progress to apply the project outcomes. Publication: H. T. Le, S. L. Phung, P. B. Chapple, A. Bouzerdoum, C. H. Ritz, L. C. Tran, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9095329?source=authoralert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deep Gabor Neural Network for Automatic Detection of Mine-like Objects in Sonar Imagery</a>," IEEE Access, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 94126-94139, 2020.

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Assistive Navigation Tools for Vision Impaired People
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Over 250 million people worldwide and 380,000 people in Australia suffer from visual impairment. The aim of the project is to develop, based on deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies, a portable electronic tool that enables a vision-impaired user to perform micro-navigation tasks. The targeted tasks include locating the pedestrian path in crowded scenes, evading obstacles and hazards, and recognising relevant landmarks. The technologies developed in this project can be adopted for road safety, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous robots. This project is funded by an ARC Discovery Project DP190100607, titled "Assistive Micro-Navigation for Project for Vision Impaired People" (2019-2021). It is one of five national projects highlighted in the Ministerial Media Release on 27 Nov 2018 <a href="https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/media-releases/funding-world-leading-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(link)</a>. The research team includes blind volunteers, Assoc. Prof. Son Lam Phung (CI), Senior Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum (CI), Dr Thi N. A. Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow), and a number of PhD/MPhil students.This on-going research has received the Best Recognition Paper Award at the International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) in 2014, and the Highly Commended Award at the Canon Extreme Imaging Competition in 2012. Recently, we have reached a project milestone by successfully developing a deep learning-based tool to locate the pedestrian path for the blind. This tool is published in IEEE TNNLS which has an impact factor of 8.793 (top 10% in 136 computer science and AI journals, and top 5% in 266 electrical/electronic engineering journals).Publication: T. N. A. Nguyen, S. L. Phung, and A. Bouzerdoum, "Hybrid deep learning-Gaussian process network for pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8998354" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(URL)</a>

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Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Gabor Networks and Applications to Radar, Sonar, Colour Image Processing	Le Hoang, Thanh
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Perception from a Single Colour Image	Thompson, Joshua
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Estimation with Deep Learning for Assistive Navigation	Phan, Steve
Doctor of Philosophy	Scene Perception and 3D Sound Synthesis for Assistive Navigation of Blind People	Lei, Yunjia
Master of Philosophy - EIS	Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Image Processing	Bui, Ly

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