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Canon Extreme Imaging Competition
CiSRA, Canon’s Australian research facility, has recently announced the launch of Canon’s new “Extreme Imaging” competition. This prize is open to student projects and their supervisors at Australian Universities.
Imaging cereals for increased crop yield
A news release about our recent ARC Linkage grant award:
Great ICCV result
Our researchers have had 5 papers accepted to The International Conference on Computer Vision 2011, which will be held in Barcelona in November.
Venture Capital is keen on Computer Vision
According to MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) board member Gigi Wang, Computer Vision is the focus of VC attention for the next round of investments;
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Great CVPR result
The members of the ACVT have had 7 papers accepted to this year’s CVPR. CVPR is one of the top 2 conferences in Computer Vision, receives over 1,500 submissions per year, and has an acceptance rate of around 25%.
New Academic appointed - Dr Chunhua Shen
Dr Chunhua Shen, previously of the NICTA Bionic Vision Project, has accepted a position in the School of Computer Science and the ACVT (now AIML). Dr Shen is a leading Computer Vision expert and particularly strengthens ACVT expertise in Machine Learning.
ERA results confirm us as a world leader
The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) results have been released, and show the ACVT (now AIML) in a very good light.
Pearcey Award for Prof Anton van den Hengel
Prof Anton van den Hengel won the South Australian Pearcey Foundation Award for 2010. The other state winners announced thus far are Lars and Jens Rasmussen, who have won the 2010 NSW Pearcey Award.
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ARC Discovery success
Profs David Suter and Anton van den Hengel were both awarded ARC Discovery Grants to begin in 2011.
ARC LIEF grant for large-scale video surveillance
Congratulations to Anton van den Hengel, David Suter, Anthony Dick, and Henry Detmold, who were recently awarded a major grant for ‘Accelerating Australia’s large scale video surveillance research programmes’:
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