Computer Vision and Image Processing
About Peter
Research Interests
- Local frequency domain image analysis.
- Image enhancement and visualization.
- Analysis of geophysical and geological images.
- Feature detection, description and matching.
- Shape from texture, texture segmentation and recognition.
- Photogrammetry and bundle adjustment.
- Projective geometry.
Qualifications:
- PhD The University of Western Australia
- M.Eng.Sc Mechanical Engineering.
The University of Western Australia - BE Mechanical Engineering.
The University of Western Australia
Current Position:
I am an adjunct senior research fellow with the Geodata Algorithms Group within the Centre for Exploration Targeting in the School of Earth Sciences at The University of Western Australia.
My current work involves applying computer vision techniques to
geological and geophysical images, with particular interests in
feature detection, texture analysis, and visualisation techniques. An
outcome of this work, in conjunction with colleagues in the Centre for
Exploration Targeting, has been the development of
the CET
Grid Analysis
and CET
Porphyry Analysis Extensions for Oasis montaj.
A brief list of career episodes...
I completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia in 1981. This was followed by a Master of Engineering Science in the area of kinematic control of robot arms in 1984, also at UWA. My PhD, completed in 1996, was in computer vision. This work studied the construction of invariant low-level image measures from local phase information.
From 1984 to 1991 I was a research engineer with the Automated Sheep Shearing Project in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UWA. During this time I was responsible for a number of areas in the project including surface modelling techniques, robot control software, and the development of a machine vision system for automated measurement of sheep.
From 1991 to 2007 I was with the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia. Courses that I taught included:
- Computer Vision
- Forensic Image processing
- Algorithms
- Operating Systems
- Object Oriented Programming
- Robotics
- Introductory MATLAB programming
I have had visiting positions at:
- The Stanford Research Institute Robotics Research Group as an International Fellow in 1986.
- The Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University with the Robotics Group as a visiting scholar in 1990/91.
- INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France with the ROBOTVIS group under a French Government Fellowship in 1995.
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, NZ as a visiting academic in 2001.
- Department of Systems Engineering, ANU as a visiting academic in 2001 and also 2005.
- School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide as a visiting academic in 2005.
In 2010 I joined the Centre for Exploration Targeting at The University of Western Australia.