I am a postdoc researcher living in the beautiful city of Perth, Western Australia. I completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering. My project was in Computer Vision, primarily working with Shape-from-Texture. I was supervised by Dr Peter Kovesi and Prof. Robyn Owens.
Shape from Texture is the problem of estimating the structure of the world using texture.
For example, given a picture of the ocean, how do you estimate the height of the camera above the water using the appearance of the waves? Can a computer guess the shape of a building using information from the brick texture? Can we guess the shape of a pear using the dots on its surface? Textures provide a powerful shape cue to humans. The ability of computers to mimic this behaviour would be useful in a myriad of applications such as autonomous navigation, object recognition and movie-making.
I am now working as a research fellow in the Lab for Genetic Epidemiology at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR).
My new contact details at WAIMR.