Research News

• 12/2023:
  Team is awarded an ARC Linkage Project on "Robust Defences against Adversarial Machine Learning for UAV Systems"
  
  Student Joshua Thompson completed his PhD on "Efficient Deep Neural Networks for 3-D Scene Understanding of Unstructured Environments"
• 11/2023: Team receives funding from a UOW Research Partnership Grant and an industry partner:
  "Real-time Road Condition Assessment for Smart Infrastructure Management with AI-powered In-vehicle Cameras"
• 10/2023: A paper is accepted for IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024):
  "UOW-Vessel: A Benchmark Dataset of High-Resolution Optical Satellite Images for Vessel Detection and Segmentation"
  
• 07/2023: A paper is accepted for IEEE/CVF Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IF = 8.4):
  "AdaptorNAS: A New Perturbation-based Neural Architecture Search for Hyperspectral Image Segmentation"
  
  A research project receives funding from the Defence Innovation Network - Pilot Projects:
  " AI-designed Camouflage System with Diffusion-based Generative Adversarial Networks and Human Feedback"
• 06/2023: A paper is accepted for IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP):
  "TP-YOLO: A Lightweight Attention-based Architecture for Tiny Pest Detection"
  
• 05/2023: A paper is accepted for Applied Intelligence journal (IF = 5.3):
  "MSD-NAS: Multi-scale Dense Neural Architecture Search for Real-time Pedestrian Lane Detection"
• 04/2023: Student Luca Russo formally completed his MPhil study on "Naval Mine Detection and Seabed Segmentation in Sonar Images with Deep Learning"
• 03/2023: Student Vu Minh Hieu Phan formally completed his PhD study on "Knowledge Distilation and Continual Learning for Optimized Deep Neural Networks"
• 02/2023: A paper is accepted for publication at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP):
  "Bilateral Coarse-to-Fine Network for Point Cloud Completion"
• 01/2023: Student Sui Paul Ang formally completed his PhD study on "Neural Architecture Search for Image Segmentation and Classification"
• 11/2022: A research project, led by D/Prof. Willy Susilo, receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment, and Facilities (LIEF):
  "Towards a Green and Sustainable Energy-efficient Metaverse"
  
• 10/2022: A research project receives funding from the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation:
  "Enhanced Machine Learning Algorithms for Vessel Identification and Categorisation with Electro-Optical Satellite Imaging"
  
• 09/2022:
  A paper is accepted for IEEE Access (IF: 3.9):
  "Pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation of vision-impaired people: Survey and experimental evaluation"
  
  HDR student Luca Russo submits his thesis:
  "Naval Mine Detection and Seabed Segmentation in Sonar Images with Deep Learning"
  
• 08/2022:
  PhD student Sui Paul Ang submits his thesis:
  "Neural Architecture Search for Image Segmentation and Classification"
  
• 07/2022:
  A paper is published in Neurocomputing (IF: 6.0):
  "Efficient hyperspectral image segmentation for biosecurity scanning using knowledge distillation from multi-head teacher"
  
• 05/2022:
  - A research project receives funding from the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads and FrontierSI TMR Spatial Labs Program:
  "Developing Deep Learning Tools for Road Information Extraction from Georeferenced High-resolution Imagery"
• 04/2022:
  - A research project receives funding from the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) and Defence Science and Technology Group under the AI for Decision Making Initiative 2022:
  "New Deep Networks for Iris-based Post-Mortem Identification"
  
  - PhD student Muhammad Atif Imtiaz starts his study in our research lab. He is sponsored by Higher Education Commission Pakistan. We wish him the best.
• 03/2022:
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022):
  "Class Similarity Weighted Knowledge Distillation for Continual Semantic Segmentation"
  
  - PhD student Yang Di starts his study in our research lab. We wish him the best.
• 02/2022:
  - A research project on pest detection receives funding from an Industry Partner and NSW COVID-19 Tech Voucher.
  
  - PhD student Bui Ly starts her study in our research lab. We wish her the best.
• 01/2022:
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IF: 4.685):
  "Bayesian Gabor Network with Uncertainty Estimation for Pedestrian Lane Detection in Assistive Navigation"
  
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2022):
  "An Improved Deep Learning Framework for MR-to-CT Image Synthesis with a New Hybrid Objective Function"
  
  - Student Phong Nguyen joins our research lab and starts his PhD study at the Wollongong campus. We wish him the best.
• 12/2021: Student Ly Bui's Master of Philosophy thesis receives Special Commendations from both External Examiners.
• 11/2021:
  - Three finall-year engineering honours thesis students receive prizes for Best Thesis Presentations at the 2021 SECTE Innovation Conference.
     First Prize:      Luke Mariani, "Joint depth estimation and lane detection for selfdriving cars"
     Second Prize: Joshua Sutton, "Lane detection and free space estimation for portable assistive navigation"
     Third Prize:     Yang Di, "Real-time age prediction with deep neural networks"
  
  - Student Lord Thabet receives SECTE School First Prize for ECTE355 Dean's Scholar Project Poster.
• 10/2021: A research project is funded by the Australian Geospatial-Intellience Organisation and FrontierSI "Developing a Deep Gabor Network for Vessel Detection and Classification in SAR Imagery".
  
• 09/2021:
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Access journal (IF: 3.367)
  "D-Net: A generalised and optimised deep network for monocular depth estimation"
  
  - A research project "Smart Eye – Airborne and AI-Driven Assessment Solution of Sugarcane" is funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Aus4Innovation Innovation Partnership Program.
  
  - A research project "AI/IoT-powered Dashboard for Environmental Management at Tram Chim National Park" is funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Aus4Innovation Innovation Partnership Program.
• 08/2021:
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Sensors Journal (IF: 3.073)
  "A fast and compact deep Gabor network for micro-Doppler signal processing and human motion classification"
  
  - MPhil student Ly Bui submits thesis.
  
• 07/2021:
  - A paper is accepted for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)
  "BiMaL: Bijective maximum likelihood approach to domain adaptation in semantic scene segmentation"
  
  - PhD Student Hoang Thanh Le submits thesis.
• 06/2021: PhD student Yunjia (Sara) Lei passes the First-Year Research Proposal Review (candidature confirmation).
• 05/2021:
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Sensors Journal (IF: 3.073)
  "CompactNet: A light-weight deep learning framework for smart intrusive load monitoring"
  
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF = 5.379)
  "Performance analysis of uplink NOMA systems with imperfect SIC detection and delay constraints over composite fading channels"
• 03/2021: A paper is accepted for Sensors journal (IF: 3.275)
  "Correcting susceptibility artifacts of MRI sensors in brain scanning: A 3D anatomy-guided deep learning approach"
• 01/2021:
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IF: 5.855)
  "Variational Bayesian compressive multichannel indoor radar imaging"
  
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF = 5.379)
  "Energy-harvesting aided unmanned aerial vehicles for reliable ground user localization under lognormal-Nakagami-m fading channels"
• 12/2020: Three students Ly Bui (MPhil), Luca Russo (PhD), Joshua Thompson (PhD) pass the First-Year Research Proposal Review (candidature confirmation).
  
• 10/2020:
  - A paper is accepted for International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020)
  "Real-time pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation"
  
  - A paper is accepted for Neural Computing and Applications journal (IF: 4.774)
  "A part-based spatial and temporal aggregation method for dynamic scene recognition"
  
  - A research project "Low-bias Age Prediction" is funded by the Office of National Intelligence, Defence and Science Technology Group, and Defence Innovation Network.
• 09/2020:
  - PhD stdudent Soan Duong graduates with Special Commendations from both External Examiners.
  
  - Research project on multispectral image processing is funded by ISD and NSW Tech Voucher.
• 08/2020: Our lab welcomes two new students: Yunjia Lei (PhD candidate) and Ly Bui (MPhil candidate). We wish them the best in their research journeys.
• 07/2020:
  Defence Innovation Network Pilot Project "Enhanced detection, localisation and identification of sand-covered naval mines using novel hybrid signal processing methods" is granted for the 2020-2021 round. Organisations: UTS (Lead), UOW, and UNSW (ADFA).
  
• 06/2020:
  - A paper is accepted for International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020)
  "Ordinal depth classification using region-based self-attention"
  
  - PhD student Xiaoming Peng graduates.
• 05/2020: A paper is accepted for IEEE Access journal (IF: 3.745)
  "Deep Gabor neural network for automatic detection of mine-like objects in sonar imagery"
  
  The paper documents our work on the Defence Innovation Network Pilot Project "Classification of sonar snapshot images for autonomous underwater vehicle on-board processing" (2018-2919).
  
  
• 04/2020: A paper is accepted for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Elsevier, IF: 2.112)
  "An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images"
• 03/2020: Our lab welcomes three new PhD students Joshua Thompson, Luca Russo and Hieu Phan. We wish them the best in their research journeys.
• 02/2020:
  - A paper is accepted for Journal of Neuroscience Methods (Elsevier, IF: 2.785):
  "Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization"
  
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IF: 6.790):
  "Compressive radar imaging of stationary indoor targets with low-rank plus jointly sparse and total variation regularizations"
  
  
• 01/2020:
  - A paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF: 11.683):
  "Hybrid deep learning-Gaussian process network for pedestrian lane detection in unstructured scenes"
  
  - A PhD scholarship is available for international or domestic students to work on the project "3D facial modelling and recognition for automatic selection of worker respiratory protective equipment" [Project #3]. Five other PhD scholarships are also available at the UOW Centre for Occupational, Public and Environmental Research in Safety & Health. Application deadline: 21 Feb 2020.
  
  
• 12/2019: Our preliminary work on underwater mine detection (DIN Pilot Project) is presented at Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2019) conference.
  
• 11/2019: A 2020 EIS Summer Research Scholarship is available for a capable and motivated UOW undergraduate student to participate on a project in our school.
  
• 10/2019: Our lab is honoured to co-host a visit to UOW by a delegate led by the Singapore Chief Defence Scientist.
• 09/2019:
  - Our work on underwater mine detection (DIN Pilot Project) is accepted for Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2019) conference.
  
  - A PhD scholarship is available for international or domestic students to work on deep learning based assistive navigation for vision impaired people. Application deadline: 30/10/2019.
• 08/2019: A PhD scholarship is available for Australian citizen to work on underwater mine detection and classification with sonar imaging. Application deadline: 30/09/2019.
• 07/2019: Dr Van Ha Tang (Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam) works in our lab (CSIP) as Visiting Fellow.
• 06/2019: PhD student Xiaolin Tang and Anh Nguyen graduate.
• 05/2019: Preliminary work of the DIN Pilot Project on underwater mine detection is reported in International Conference and Exhibition on Underwater Acoustics 2019.
• 04/2019:
  - A paper is submitted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
  - A paper is submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
  - A paper is accepted for Journal of Molecular Biology.
• 03/2019:
  - Student Sui Paul Ang starts his PhD study in our lab CSIP. We wish him the best in his research journey.
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
  - PhD student Xiaolin Tang submits thesis.
  
• 02/2019: A paper on through-wall radar imaging is accepted for ICASSP-2019 conference.
• 01/2019: Visit and present a research seminar at Le Quy Don Technical University.
• 12/2018: Our Discovery Project "Assistive micro-navigation for vision impaired people" has been funded by the Australian Research Council for 2019-2021. We are grateful for this opportunity, and eagerly look forward to continuing this work.
• 10/2018:
  - 2019 EIS Summer Research Scholarship project.
  - A paper is accepted for ACCV-2018 conference.
  - MPhil student Sui Paul Ang submits thesis.
• 09/2018: A paper is accepted for DICTA-2018 conference.
• 08/2018: A/Prof. Tomio Goto (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) joins our lab (CSIP) as Visiting Fellow.
• 07/2018: Dr Van Ha Tang (Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam) visits and works in CSIP in July-August.
• 05/2018: A paper is accepted for Machine Learning journal.
• 04/2018:
  - Our grant proposal with WSU, MU, DST and SfS is approved by Defence Innonation Network.
  - A paper is accepted for ICPR-2018 conference.
  - A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
  - PhD student Rizwan Khokher submits thesis.
• 03/2018: MPhil student Linh Nguyen submits thesis.
• 02/2018: A paper is accepted for EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
• 01/2018: Four papers are accepted for ICASSP-2018 conference.
• 12/2017: A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
• 2018 EIS Summer Research Scholarship
• 08/2017: A paper is accepted for Patterm Recognition.
• 07/2017: PhD student Hoang Thanh Le and MPhil student Paul Ang start in CSIP.
• 04/2017: A paper is accepted for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
• 2017 EIS Summer Research Scholarship
• 2016 EIS Summer Research Scholarship
• A paper is accepted for Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
• PhD scholarship - Calling for applicants
• 2015 EIS Summer Research Scholarship
• A paper is accepted for Artificial Intelligence Review.