Third  ISE Seminar for 2012 to be held  on 10 February from 11:00am to 12:00pm in room 11B24

ALL WELCOME

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“Imaging Spectroscopy for Scene Analysis”

By

Antonio Robles-Kelly

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Abstract:

In this seminar, I will introduce imaging spectroscopy, its capabilities and complexities. We will depart from the differences and similarities between imaging spectroscopy and trichromatic technologies. I will present how the generally ill-posed problem of recovering the illuminant power spectrum can be rendered tractable using ultispectral imaging. I will then go on to show how specularities, shading and relfectance can also be recovered once the illuminant power spectrum is at hand. Along these lines, I will present a method for specularity removal based upon an entropy minimisation scheme. I will finalise the talk by show how multispectral imagery can be used for object material recognition, re-illumination,  re-colouring and plant pest detection.

Speaker:

Antonio Robles-Kelly  

·         Antonio Robles-Kelly received his B.Eng. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications with honours in 1998. In 1999, after a year in industry, he enrolled in a PhD programme at the University of York. During his doctorate, in 2001, he visited the University of South Florida as part of the William Gibbs/Plessey Award to the best research proposal to visit an overseas research lab. After receiving his doctorate, Dr. Robles-Kelly remained in York until Dec. 2004 as a Research Associate under the MathFit-EPSRC framework. In 2005, he took a research scientist appointment with National ICT Australia (NICTA) at the Canberra Lab.

·         After working on surveillance systems with query capabilities, in 2006 he was appointed project leader of the Spectral Imaging project and promoted to Senior Researcher. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council. In 2009, he became a conjoint senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA) and, in 2010, he was elevated to the Senior Member Grade of the IEEE. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the ANU and a Principal Researcher at NICTA.

·         He has been a technical committee member of mainstream computer vision and pattern recognition conferences and an Associate Editor of the IET Computer Vision Journal. His research interests are in the areas of Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Spectral Imaging and Computer Graphics.