Phung, Son Lam.

Overview

Son Lam’s research is in the area of image, video, and signal processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He has published over 90 papers in international journals and conferences, which have received over 1760 Scopus citations (h-index: 19).

Son Lam has received paper awards at 4 international conferences (DICTA-2014, EUVIP-2010, AVSS-2009, ANZIIS-2001), and the Highly Commended Supervisor Award at the 2012 Canon Extreme Imaging Competition. Dr Phung has been a Chief Investigator for three ARC Discovery Projects, two Defence Innovation Network Pilot Projects, one Defence Innovation Network PhD Project, and one Qatar National Research Fund grant.

To date, Son Lam has co-supervised 23 HDR students (15 PhD and 8 MPhil) to successful completion, with 10 students as the principal supervisor. He has been an Organizing Committee member for three international conferences, and a peer reviewer for numerous journals and conferences.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published in Pattern Recognition
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published in Applied Optics

Research Areas

Research Overview

- Image, video, and signal processing,
- Visual perception, artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, machine learning
- Radar imaging, ground-penetrating radar, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy imaging, sonar.

Available as Research Supervisor

Available for Collaborative Projects

Member Of

IEEE Senior Member 2014 -

Has Collaborator

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Volume 29 Pages 1063 - 1076 ISSN 1051-8215 Altmetric
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published In IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Volume 67 Pages 3042 - 3057 ISSN 1053-587X Altmetric
2019	Dynamics of Inter-Molecular Interactions Between Single Aβ42 Oligomeric and Aggregate Species by High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Published In Journal of Molecular Biology Volume 431 Pages 2687 - 2699 ISSN 0022-2836 Altmetric
2019	Performance Evaluation of Non-GPS Based Localization Techniques under Shadowing Effects Published In Sensors Volume 19 Pages 2633-1 - 2633-21 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2019	Pooling-Based Feature Extraction and Coarse-to-fine Patch Matching for Optical Flow Estimation Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11364 LNCS Pages 597 - 612 Altmetric
2018	Efficient cost aggregation for feature-vector-based wide-baseline stereo matching Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume 2018 Pages 1 - 16 ISSN 1687-5176 Altmetric
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 27 Pages 1763 - 1776 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
2018	Stochastic variational hierarchical mixture of sparse Gaussian processes for regression Published In Machine Learning Volume 107 Pages 1947 - 1986 ISSN 0885-6125 Altmetric
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Volume 53 Pages 2485 - 2501 ISSN 0018-9251 Altmetric
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 72 Pages 381 - 390 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
2016	High-speed adaptive wireless body area networks Published In Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Volume 2016 Pages 269-1 - 269-16 ISSN 1687-1472 Altmetric
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published In Computer Vision and Image Understanding Volume 149 Pages 186 - 196 ISSN 1077-3142 Altmetric
2016	Visual descriptors for scene categorization: experimental evaluation Published In Artificial Intelligence Review: an international survey and tutorial journal Volume 45 Pages 333 - 368 ISSN 0269-2821 Altmetric
2015	Classification of micro-Doppler signatures of human motions using log-Gabor filters Published In IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Volume 9 Pages 1188 - 1195 ISSN 1751-8784 Altmetric
2014	Object segmentation and classification using 3-D range camera Published In Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Volume 25 Pages 74 - 85 ISSN 1047-3203 Altmetric
2014	Optimal adaptive wireless body area networks for high speed in Health Services Published In Biomedizinische Technik Volume 59 Pages 750 - 753 ISSN 0013-5585 Altmetric
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 Volume 7 Pages 4670 - 4680 ISSN 1939-1404 Altmetric
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 22 Pages 4938 - 4951 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Volume 51 Pages 3922 - 3930 ISSN 0196-2892 Altmetric
2013	Two-stage fuzzy fusion with applications to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Volume 10 Pages 687 - 691 ISSN 1545-598X Altmetric
2013	Two-stage through-the-wall radar image formation using compressive sensing Published In Journal of Electronic Imaging Volume 22 Pages 021006-1 - 021006-10 ISSN 1017-9909 Altmetric
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Volume 49 Pages 3961 - 3972 ISSN 0196-2892 Altmetric
2011	Integrating the projective transform with particle filtering for visual tracking Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume 2011 Pages 1 - 11 ISSN 1687-5176 Altmetric
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published In Applied Optics Volume 49 Pages B1 - B8 ISSN 1559-128X Altmetric
2007	A new image feature for fast detection of people in images Published In International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences Volume 3 Pages 383 - 391 ISSN 1708-296X
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 18 Pages 329 - 343 ISSN 2162-2388 Altmetric
2007	Automatic image annotation for semantic image retrieval Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Advances in Visual Information Systems Volume 4781 Pages 369 - 378 Altmetric

Chapter

Year	Title
2015	Lane detection in unstructured environments for autonomous navigation systems Published In Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014 Publisher United States: Springer International Publishing Pages 414 - 429 Altmetric
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: Springer Pages 200 - 209 Altmetric
2009	Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets Published In Pattern recognition Publisher In-Tech Pages 193 - 208

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	A study on moving image noise removal using 3D and time-domain total variation regularization method Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019 Pages 1104913-1 - 1104913-6 Altmetric
2019	Improvement of authenticity inspection accuracy using logo region detection Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019 Pages 110490R-1 - 110490R-6 Altmetric
2019	Improvement of face image super-resolution by high-precision skin color detection Published In International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia 2019 Pages 110500F-1 - 110500F-6 Altmetric
2019	Mine-Like Object Sensing in Sonar Imagery with a Compact Deep Learning Architecture for Scarce Data Published In 2019 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2019 Altmetric
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 Pages 2172 - 2176 Altmetric
2019	Super-resolution image reconstruction utilizing high-precision skin color for face images Published In IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin, ICCE-Berlin Pages 91 - 96 Altmetric
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 Pages 1608 - 1612 Altmetric
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 Pages 786 - 790 Altmetric
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 Pages 630 - 636 Altmetric
2018	Human Gait Recognition with Micro-Doppler Radar and Deep Autoencoder Published In 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018) Pages 3347 - 3352 Altmetric
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 Pages 2961 - 2965 Altmetric
2018	Scalable Hierarchical Mixture of Gaussian Processes for Pattern Classification Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings Pages 2466 - 2470 Altmetric
2017	A low-rank and jointly-sparse approach for multipolarization through-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017 Pages 0263 - 0268 Altmetric
2017	An efficient local method for stereo matching using daisy features Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017 Pages 2503 - 2507 Altmetric
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 Pages 1852 - 1856 Altmetric
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 Pages 1847 - 1851 Altmetric
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) Pages 116 - 121 Altmetric
2016	Efficient vanishing point estimation for unstructured road scenes Published In International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2016	Indoor scene reconstruction for through-the-wall radar imaging using low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf) Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
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) Pages 1412 - 1416 Altmetric
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) Pages 2579 - 2583 Altmetric
2015	Depth image super resolution using internal and e ternal information Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pages 1206 - 1210 Altmetric
2015	Invariant image recognition under projective deformations: an image normalization approach Published In 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2015	Multi-view TWRI scene reconstruction using a joint Bayesian sparse approximation model Published In Conference on Compressive Sensing IV Pages 948405-1 - 948405-10 Altmetric
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 Pages 2419 - 2423 Altmetric
2015	Video classification based on spatial gradient and optical flow descriptors Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
2015	Violent scene detection using a super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
2014	Affine-invariant scene categorization Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Pages 1031 - 1035 Altmetric
2014	Crowd behavior recognition using dense trajectories Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on Pages 1 - 7 Altmetric
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) Pages 7804 - 7808 Altmetric
2014	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured environments for assistive navigation Published In 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2014 Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
2013	An image-based approach for classification of human micro-doppler radar signatures Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Active and Passive Signatures IV Pages 873406-1 - 873406-12 Altmetric
2013	Depth image super-resolution using multi-dictionary sparse representation Published In 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013) Pages 957 - 961 Altmetric
2013	Enhanced through-the-wall radar imaging using bayesian compressive sensing Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Compressive Sensing II Pages 87170I-1 - 87170I-12 Altmetric
2012	Adaptive autoregressive logarithmic search for 3D human tracking Published In AVSS 2012: 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance Pages 343 - 348 Altmetric
2012	Automatic classification of human motions using Doppler radar Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
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 Pages 3377 - 3380 Altmetric
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of blind people Published In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012) Pages 2594 - 2597
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for the visually impaired Published In 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2012 Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2012	Scene segmentation and pedestrian classification from 3-D range and intensity images Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Pages 103 - 108 Altmetric
2011	A two-stage image fusion method for enhanced through-the-wall radar target detection Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference Pages 643 - 647 Altmetric
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 Pages 697 - 700 Altmetric
2011	Optical flow estimation using sparse gradient representation Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011 Pages 2681 - 2684 Altmetric
2011	Pedestrian sensing using time-of-flight range camera Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 43 - 48 Altmetric
2011	Sparse signal decomposition for ground penetrating radar Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference Pages 453 - 457 Altmetric
2010	A compressive sensing approach to image restoration Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 111 - 115 Altmetric
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 593 - 599 Altmetric
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 2054 - 2057 Altmetric
2010	Adaptive regularization for image restoration using a variational inequality approach Published In International Conference on Image Processing Pages 2513 - 2516 Altmetric
2010	Automatic classification of GPR signals Published In International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2010	Automatic parameter selection for feature-enhanced radar image restoration Published In IEEE Radar Conference Pages 001123 - 001127 Altmetric
2010	Automatic recognition of smiling and neutral facial expressions Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 581 - 586 Altmetric
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 1607 - 1614 Altmetric
2010	Efficient SVM training with reduced weighted samples Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 1764 - 1768 Altmetric
2010	Fast digital optical flow estimation based on EMD Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Pages 155 - 158
2010	Feature selection for facial expression recognition Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Pages 35 - 39 Altmetric
2010	Improved facial expression recognition with trainable 2-D filters and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition Pages 3732 - 3735 Altmetric
2010	Markov random fields for abnormal behavior detection on highways Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Pages 149 - 154 Altmetric
2010	Motion estimation with adaptive regularization and neighborhood dependent constraint Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 387 - 392 Altmetric
2010	Multi-resolution mean-shift algorithm for vector quantization Published In Data Compression Conference Pages 523 - 523 Altmetric
2010	On the analysis of background subtraction techniques using Gaussian mixture models Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 4042 - 4045 Altmetric
2010	Wavelet based nonlocal-means super-resolution for video sequences Published In International Conference on Image Processing Pages 2817 - 2820 Altmetric
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009 Pages 3428 - 3435 Altmetric
2009	Reduced training of convolutional neural networks for pedestrian detection Published In International Conference on Information Technology and Applications Pages 61 - 66
2009	Vehicle tracking using projective particle filter Published In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance Pages 7 - 12 Altmetric
2008	A supervised learning approach for imbalanced data sets Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2008	Efficient supervised learning with reduced training exemplars Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Pages 2980 - 2986 Altmetric
2008	Local estimation of displacement density for abnormal behavior detection Published In Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing Pages 386 - 391 Altmetric
2008	Vehicle tracking by non-drifting mean-shift using projective Kalman filter Published In International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Pages 61 - 66 Altmetric
2007	A multi-class image classification system using salient features and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Pages 431 - 436 Altmetric
2007	Automatic annotation of digital images using colour structure and edge direction Published In International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems Pages 9 - 12 Altmetric
2007	Detecting people in images: An edge density approach Published In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 1229 - 1232 Altmetric

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Real-time ATR of Naval Mines with AUV Sonar Imaging Awarded by: Defence Science and Technology Group Funding Scheme: Defence Innovation Network PhD Project
2019 - 2020	A Novel Non-GPS Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Solution for Reconnaissance Missions Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot 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
2007	Advanced processing for through-the-wall radar imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Assistive Micro-Navigation for Vision Impaired People Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

- image, video, and signal processing
- visual perception
- artificial neural networks
- pattern recognition
- machine learning
- radar imaging
- ground-penetrating radar
- magnetic resonance imaging
- atomic force microscopy imaging

Teaching Activities

- ECTE301 Digital Signal Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2013 -
- ECTE433/ECTE833/ECTE933 Embedded Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE903 Image and Video Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE333 Microcontroller Architecture and Applications Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 -
- ECTE431/ECTE931 Real-Time Computing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2018
- ECTE203 Signals and Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2012

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Artefact Removal for High-Resolution FMRI and Its Application in Brain Imaging	Duong, Soan
Doctor of Philosophy	Dynamic Scene Recognition	Peng, Xiaoming
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image Segmentation and Generation	Ang, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image and Signal Processing Applications	Le Hoang, Thanh
Doctor of Philosophy	Domestic Multi-channel Acoustic Scene Detection and Classification for Monitoring of Dementia Patients using Neural Networks	Copiaco, Abigail
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Perception from a Single Colour Image	Thompson, Joshua
Doctor of Philosophy	Real-time Automatic Target Recognition of Naval Mines with Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Sonar Imaging	Russo, Luca
Master of Philosophy - EIS	Depth Estimation with Deep Learning for Assistive Navigation	Phan, Steve

Reviewer Of

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Date Engineering (Academic Article)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Article)
International Journal of Computer Vision (Article)
Pattern Recognition (Article)

Organizer Of Event

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, Edith Cowan University 2000 - 2003
B.E. in Computer Engineering, First-Class Honours, Edith Cowan University 1996 - 1999

Awards And Honors

- Best Recognition Paper Prize, conferred by International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2014
-Highly Recommended Supervisor in Annual Extreme Imaging Competition, conferred by Canon Information Systems Research Australia, 2012
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, 2010
- Best Student Paper, conferred by IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2009
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by Australian New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, 2001
- National Finalist in Prize for Innovations (one of six), conferred by Siemens, 2000
-Electrical College Prize, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- Faculty Medal, conferred by Communications, Health and Science, Edith Cowan University , 2000
- University Medal, conferred by Edith Cowan University, 2000
- John Renner Medal, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- CRC Broadband Telecommunications and Networking Prize, conferred by CRC, 1999
- Golden Key National Honour Society Scholarship (one of 4 ECU recipients), conferred by Golden Key National Honour Society, 1998
- Institution of Electrical Engineers Prize, conferred by IEE, 1998

Teaching Overview

- UOW Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Informatics Early Career Award 2010.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2011.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2007.

- UOW Educational Strategic Development Fund (ESDF) grant, "Integrating MATLAB-based experimentation into engineering curriculum,” Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Montserrat Ros, 2010, $6,000.

- UOW ESDF grant, "Developing an immersive environment and platform for microcontroller study,” Montserrat Ros, Son Lam Phung, David Stirling, Peter Vial, Christian Ritz, 2008, $14,000.

- UOW Educational Resource Development Agreement, ERDA Project, “Enhancing microcontroller curriculum with video resources,” 2015.

Keywords

image processing, video processing, signal processing, visual perception, artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, machine learning, radar imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy

Mailing Address

University of Wollongong, SECTE (EIS)

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published in Pattern Recognition
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published in Applied Optics

Research Areas

Research Overview

- Image, video, and signal processing,
- Visual perception, artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, machine learning
- Radar imaging, ground-penetrating radar, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy imaging, sonar.

Member Of

IEEE Senior Member 2014 -

Has Collaborator

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	A Super Descriptor Tensor Decomposition for Dynamic Scene Recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Volume 29 Pages 1063 - 1076 ISSN 1051-8215 Altmetric
2019	A scalable hierarchical gaussian process classifier Published In IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Volume 67 Pages 3042 - 3057 ISSN 1053-587X Altmetric
2019	Dynamics of Inter-Molecular Interactions Between Single Aβ42 Oligomeric and Aggregate Species by High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Published In Journal of Molecular Biology Volume 431 Pages 2687 - 2699 ISSN 0022-2836 Altmetric
2019	Performance Evaluation of Non-GPS Based Localization Techniques under Shadowing Effects Published In Sensors Volume 19 Pages 2633-1 - 2633-21 ISSN 1424-8239 Altmetric
2019	Pooling-Based Feature Extraction and Coarse-to-fine Patch Matching for Optical Flow Estimation Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11364 LNCS Pages 597 - 612 Altmetric
2018	Efficient cost aggregation for feature-vector-based wide-baseline stereo matching Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume 2018 Pages 1 - 16 ISSN 1687-5176 Altmetric
2018	Multipolarization Through-wall Radar Imaging using Low-rank and Jointly-sparse Representations Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 27 Pages 1763 - 1776 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
2018	Stochastic variational hierarchical mixture of sparse Gaussian processes for regression Published In Machine Learning Volume 107 Pages 1947 - 1986 ISSN 0885-6125 Altmetric
2017	A Sparse Bayesian Learning Approach for Through-Wall Radar Imaging of Stationary Targets Published In IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Volume 53 Pages 2485 - 2501 ISSN 0018-9251 Altmetric
2017	Breast cancer diagnosis in DCE-MRI using mixture ensemble of convolutional neural networks Published In Pattern Recognition Volume 72 Pages 381 - 390 ISSN 1873-5142 Altmetric
2016	High-speed adaptive wireless body area networks Published In Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Volume 2016 Pages 269-1 - 269-16 ISSN 1687-1472 Altmetric
2016	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes for assistive navigation Published In Computer Vision and Image Understanding Volume 149 Pages 186 - 196 ISSN 1077-3142 Altmetric
2016	Visual descriptors for scene categorization: experimental evaluation Published In Artificial Intelligence Review: an international survey and tutorial journal Volume 45 Pages 333 - 368 ISSN 0269-2821 Altmetric
2015	Classification of micro-Doppler signatures of human motions using log-Gabor filters Published In IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Volume 9 Pages 1188 - 1195 ISSN 1751-8784 Altmetric
2014	Object segmentation and classification using 3-D range camera Published In Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Volume 25 Pages 74 - 85 ISSN 1047-3203 Altmetric
2014	Optimal adaptive wireless body area networks for high speed in Health Services Published In Biomedizinische Technik Volume 59 Pages 750 - 753 ISSN 0013-5585 Altmetric
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 Volume 7 Pages 4670 - 4680 ISSN 1939-1404 Altmetric
2013	Probabilistic fuzzy image fusion approach for radar through wall sensing Published In IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Volume 22 Pages 4938 - 4951 ISSN 1057-7149 Altmetric
2013	Sparse representation of GPR traces with application to signal classification Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Volume 51 Pages 3922 - 3930 ISSN 0196-2892 Altmetric
2013	Two-stage fuzzy fusion with applications to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Volume 10 Pages 687 - 691 ISSN 1545-598X Altmetric
2013	Two-stage through-the-wall radar image formation using compressive sensing Published In Journal of Electronic Imaging Volume 22 Pages 021006-1 - 021006-10 ISSN 1017-9909 Altmetric
2011	Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment Published In IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Volume 49 Pages 3961 - 3972 ISSN 0196-2892 Altmetric
2011	Integrating the projective transform with particle filtering for visual tracking Published In Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing Volume 2011 Pages 1 - 11 ISSN 1687-5176 Altmetric
2010	Adaptive hierarchical architecture for visual recognition Published In Applied Optics Volume 49 Pages B1 - B8 ISSN 1559-128X Altmetric
2007	A new image feature for fast detection of people in images Published In International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences Volume 3 Pages 383 - 391 ISSN 1708-296X
2007	A pyramidal neural network for visual pattern recognition Published In IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Volume 18 Pages 329 - 343 ISSN 2162-2388 Altmetric
2007	Automatic image annotation for semantic image retrieval Published In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Advances in Visual Information Systems Volume 4781 Pages 369 - 378 Altmetric

Chapter

Year	Title
2015	Lane detection in unstructured environments for autonomous navigation systems Published In Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014 Publisher United States: Springer International Publishing Pages 414 - 429 Altmetric
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: Springer Pages 200 - 209 Altmetric
2009	Learning pattern classification tasks with imbalanced data sets Published In Pattern recognition Publisher In-Tech Pages 193 - 208

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	A study on moving image noise removal using 3D and time-domain total variation regularization method Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019 Pages 1104913-1 - 1104913-6 Altmetric
2019	Improvement of authenticity inspection accuracy using logo region detection Published In International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2019, IWAIT 2019 Pages 110490R-1 - 110490R-6 Altmetric
2019	Improvement of face image super-resolution by high-precision skin color detection Published In International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia 2019 Pages 110500F-1 - 110500F-6 Altmetric
2019	Mine-Like Object Sensing in Sonar Imagery with a Compact Deep Learning Architecture for Scarce Data Published In 2019 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2019 Altmetric
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 Pages 2172 - 2176 Altmetric
2019	Super-resolution image reconstruction utilizing high-precision skin color for face images Published In IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin, ICCE-Berlin Pages 91 - 96 Altmetric
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 Pages 1608 - 1612 Altmetric
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 Pages 786 - 790 Altmetric
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 Pages 630 - 636 Altmetric
2018	Human Gait Recognition with Micro-Doppler Radar and Deep Autoencoder Published In 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018) Pages 3347 - 3352 Altmetric
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 Pages 2961 - 2965 Altmetric
2018	Scalable Hierarchical Mixture of Gaussian Processes for Pattern Classification Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings Pages 2466 - 2470 Altmetric
2017	A low-rank and jointly-sparse approach for multipolarization through-wall radar imaging Published In IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2017 Pages 0263 - 0268 Altmetric
2017	An efficient local method for stereo matching using daisy features Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017 Pages 2503 - 2507 Altmetric
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 Pages 1852 - 1856 Altmetric
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 Pages 1847 - 1851 Altmetric
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) Pages 116 - 121 Altmetric
2016	Efficient vanishing point estimation for unstructured road scenes Published In International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2016	Indoor scene reconstruction for through-the-wall radar imaging using low-rank and sparsity constraints Published In 2016 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf) Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
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) Pages 1412 - 1416 Altmetric
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) Pages 2579 - 2583 Altmetric
2015	Depth image super resolution using internal and e ternal information Published In Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pages 1206 - 1210 Altmetric
2015	Invariant image recognition under projective deformations: an image normalization approach Published In 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2015	Multi-view TWRI scene reconstruction using a joint Bayesian sparse approximation model Published In Conference on Compressive Sensing IV Pages 948405-1 - 948405-10 Altmetric
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 Pages 2419 - 2423 Altmetric
2015	Video classification based on spatial gradient and optical flow descriptors Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
2015	Violent scene detection using a super descriptor tensor decomposition Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015 International Conference on Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
2014	Affine-invariant scene categorization Published In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Pages 1031 - 1035 Altmetric
2014	Crowd behavior recognition using dense trajectories Published In Digital lmage Computing: Techniques and Applications (DlCTA), 2014 International Conference on Pages 1 - 7 Altmetric
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) Pages 7804 - 7808 Altmetric
2014	Pedestrian lane detection in unstructured environments for assistive navigation Published In 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2014 Pages 1 - 8 Altmetric
2013	An image-based approach for classification of human micro-doppler radar signatures Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Active and Passive Signatures IV Pages 873406-1 - 873406-12 Altmetric
2013	Depth image super-resolution using multi-dictionary sparse representation Published In 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013) Pages 957 - 961 Altmetric
2013	Enhanced through-the-wall radar imaging using bayesian compressive sensing Published In Proceedings of SPIE - Compressive Sensing II Pages 87170I-1 - 87170I-12 Altmetric
2012	Adaptive autoregressive logarithmic search for 3D human tracking Published In AVSS 2012: 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance Pages 343 - 348 Altmetric
2012	Automatic classification of human motions using Doppler radar Published In 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
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 Pages 3377 - 3380 Altmetric
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of blind people Published In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012) Pages 2594 - 2597
2012	Pedestrian lane detection for the visually impaired Published In 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2012 Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2012	Scene segmentation and pedestrian classification from 3-D range and intensity images Published In ICME 2012: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Pages 103 - 108 Altmetric
2011	A two-stage image fusion method for enhanced through-the-wall radar target detection Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference Pages 643 - 647 Altmetric
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 Pages 697 - 700 Altmetric
2011	Optical flow estimation using sparse gradient representation Published In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011 Pages 2681 - 2684 Altmetric
2011	Pedestrian sensing using time-of-flight range camera Published In IEEE CVPR 2011: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Pages 43 - 48 Altmetric
2011	Sparse signal decomposition for ground penetrating radar Published In 2011 IEEE Radar Conference Pages 453 - 457 Altmetric
2010	A compressive sensing approach to image restoration Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 111 - 115 Altmetric
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 593 - 599 Altmetric
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 2054 - 2057 Altmetric
2010	Adaptive regularization for image restoration using a variational inequality approach Published In International Conference on Image Processing Pages 2513 - 2516 Altmetric
2010	Automatic classification of GPR signals Published In International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2010	Automatic parameter selection for feature-enhanced radar image restoration Published In IEEE Radar Conference Pages 001123 - 001127 Altmetric
2010	Automatic recognition of smiling and neutral facial expressions Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 581 - 586 Altmetric
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 1607 - 1614 Altmetric
2010	Efficient SVM training with reduced weighted samples Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 1764 - 1768 Altmetric
2010	Fast digital optical flow estimation based on EMD Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Pages 155 - 158
2010	Feature selection for facial expression recognition Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Pages 35 - 39 Altmetric
2010	Improved facial expression recognition with trainable 2-D filters and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition Pages 3732 - 3735 Altmetric
2010	Markov random fields for abnormal behavior detection on highways Published In European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Pages 149 - 154 Altmetric
2010	Motion estimation with adaptive regularization and neighborhood dependent constraint Published In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Pages 387 - 392 Altmetric
2010	Multi-resolution mean-shift algorithm for vector quantization Published In Data Compression Conference Pages 523 - 523 Altmetric
2010	On the analysis of background subtraction techniques using Gaussian mixture models Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 4042 - 4045 Altmetric
2010	Wavelet based nonlocal-means super-resolution for video sequences Published In International Conference on Image Processing Pages 2817 - 2820 Altmetric
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009 Pages 3428 - 3435 Altmetric
2009	Reduced training of convolutional neural networks for pedestrian detection Published In International Conference on Information Technology and Applications Pages 61 - 66
2009	Vehicle tracking using projective particle filter Published In IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance Pages 7 - 12 Altmetric
2008	A supervised learning approach for imbalanced data sets Published In International Conference on Pattern Recognition Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2008	Efficient supervised learning with reduced training exemplars Published In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Pages 2980 - 2986 Altmetric
2008	Local estimation of displacement density for abnormal behavior detection Published In Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing Pages 386 - 391 Altmetric
2008	Vehicle tracking by non-drifting mean-shift using projective Kalman filter Published In International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Pages 61 - 66 Altmetric
2007	A multi-class image classification system using salient features and support vector machines Published In International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Pages 431 - 436 Altmetric
2007	Automatic annotation of digital images using colour structure and edge direction Published In International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems Pages 9 - 12 Altmetric
2007	Detecting people in images: An edge density approach Published In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 1229 - 1232 Altmetric

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Real-time ATR of Naval Mines with AUV Sonar Imaging Awarded by: Defence Science and Technology Group Funding Scheme: Defence Innovation Network PhD Project
2019 - 2020	A Novel Non-GPS Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Solution for Reconnaissance Missions Awarded by: Defence Innovation Network (DIN) Funding Scheme: Pilot 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
2007	Advanced processing for through-the-wall radar imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Assistive Micro-Navigation for Vision Impaired People Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

Potential Supervision Topics

- image, video, and signal processing
- visual perception
- artificial neural networks
- pattern recognition
- machine learning
- radar imaging
- ground-penetrating radar
- magnetic resonance imaging
- atomic force microscopy imaging

Teaching Activities

- ECTE301 Digital Signal Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2013 -
- ECTE433/ECTE833/ECTE933 Embedded Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE903 Image and Video Processing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2007 -
- ECTE333 Microcontroller Architecture and Applications Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 -
- ECTE431/ECTE931 Real-Time Computing Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2018
- ECTE203 Signals and Systems Subject Coordinator, Instructor 2006 - 2012

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Artefact Removal for High-Resolution FMRI and Its Application in Brain Imaging	Duong, Soan
Doctor of Philosophy	Dynamic Scene Recognition	Peng, Xiaoming
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image Segmentation and Generation	Ang, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image and Signal Processing Applications	Le Hoang, Thanh
Doctor of Philosophy	Domestic Multi-channel Acoustic Scene Detection and Classification for Monitoring of Dementia Patients using Neural Networks	Copiaco, Abigail
Doctor of Philosophy	Depth Perception from a Single Colour Image	Thompson, Joshua
Doctor of Philosophy	Real-time Automatic Target Recognition of Naval Mines with Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Sonar Imaging	Russo, Luca
Master of Philosophy - EIS	Depth Estimation with Deep Learning for Assistive Navigation	Phan, Steve

Reviewer Of

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Date Engineering (Academic Article)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Article)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Article)
International Journal of Computer Vision (Article)
Pattern Recognition (Article)

Organizer Of Event

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, Edith Cowan University 2000 - 2003
B.E. in Computer Engineering, First-Class Honours, Edith Cowan University 1996 - 1999

Awards And Honors

- Best Recognition Paper Prize, conferred by International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2014
-Highly Recommended Supervisor in Annual Extreme Imaging Competition, conferred by Canon Information Systems Research Australia, 2012
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, 2010
- Best Student Paper, conferred by IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2009
- Third Prize Student Paper, conferred by Australian New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, 2001
- National Finalist in Prize for Innovations (one of six), conferred by Siemens, 2000
-Electrical College Prize, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- Faculty Medal, conferred by Communications, Health and Science, Edith Cowan University , 2000
- University Medal, conferred by Edith Cowan University, 2000
- John Renner Medal, conferred by Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia), 2000
- CRC Broadband Telecommunications and Networking Prize, conferred by CRC, 1999
- Golden Key National Honour Society Scholarship (one of 4 ECU recipients), conferred by Golden Key National Honour Society, 1998
- Institution of Electrical Engineers Prize, conferred by IEE, 1998

Teaching Overview

- UOW Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Informatics Early Career Award 2010.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2011.

- Peer Recognition Teaching Award by the Australian College of Educators in 2007.

- UOW Educational Strategic Development Fund (ESDF) grant, "Integrating MATLAB-based experimentation into engineering curriculum,” Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Montserrat Ros, 2010, $6,000.

- UOW ESDF grant, "Developing an immersive environment and platform for microcontroller study,” Montserrat Ros, Son Lam Phung, David Stirling, Peter Vial, Christian Ritz, 2008, $14,000.

- UOW Educational Resource Development Agreement, ERDA Project, “Enhancing microcontroller curriculum with video resources,” 2015.

Keywords

image processing, video processing, signal processing, visual perception, artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, machine learning, radar imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic force microscopy

Mailing Address

University of Wollongong, SECTE (EIS)

Northfields Avenue

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

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Building 35, Room G38

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-0540 (confirmed)

Scopus Id

7801638780

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