My research interests can be largely summarised as being in vision for HCI and related signal processing areas, such as Computer Vision (face tracking, object tracking, Active Appearance Models, 3D lip tracking, gesture recognition, driver assistance technology, background subtraction / novelty detection, thermal imaging), Affective Computing (affective state recognition using video, audio and physiological measures, bloodflow estimation), Multimodal HCI, Audio-Video Speech Processing, Image Processing, and Signal Processing (signal fusion / integration).
Duties:
I am a Senior Research Scientist at Seeing Machines, a spin-off company of the ANU, and in particular RSISE, that does research and development of computer vision algorithms, and an Adjunct Researcher at the Department of Information Engineering at RSISE, in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS).
Bio:
In the past, I worked as a researcher for the NICTA Canberra Research Lab, as well as for the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany. My PhD was awarded by the ANU in 2004 for work on audio-video automatic speech recognition, including a real-time stereo vision lip tracking algorithm. I was awarded the PhD of the Year award in 2004 by the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). Much of my work has been on and continues to be on face and facial feature tracking from a HCI point of view.
I am or have been the (co-)supervisor of 6 PhD students, 4 Masters students, and several summer scholars and other interns. I have (co-)authored about 40 papers and book chapters.
I have been or am on the organisation committee of several workshops and conferences, including VisHCI, NRTL, Interspeech and AVSP. I regularly review papers for top international conferences and journals (e.g. IEEE Trans. PAMI), and have been an examiner for several PhD theses (external to the ANU).
I am an avid bushwalker and enjoy being outdoors whenever I can.
