Research Projects

Sign Text Detection from Outdoor Scene. Members: Xiangjian (Sean) He, Wenjing Jia

This research aims to design and implement an efficient and robust system for text detection on Hexagonal Image Structure (HIS).

This system will be able to detect and read text on various signs from outdoor scene through analysing images/video using computer vision and pattern recognition techniques. These signs include road signs, traffic signs, street signs, etc., as well as more variable forms such as shop signs, house numbers, bill boards, scoreboards, etc. that mainly contain text.

A major objective is to develop an efficient algorithm to detect and extract text as we move in outdoor scene by recognising the text from the images based on hexagonal image structure. The system to be developed in this research will be fast, robust, accurate, and easy to implement. In the proposed research program, we will make a good use of the special features of hexagonal image structure, and its existing mathematical theory to develop the distributed text detection algorithms.

The project is funded by the University of Technology, Sydney under the program of Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

The key members and the roles of each key member are as follow:

Supervisor: Xiangjian (Sean) He, A/Prof.
Project Leader: Wenjing Jia, Dr.
Research Assistant: Bin Shi, Mr.

Current Research Projects

	Ad-hoc Location-based Services for Mobile Multimedia. (D. Hoang, J. Chan)
	Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems. (A/Prof. Jinjun Chen, Prof. Doan Hoang, Lingfeng Chen (PhD student), Chang Liu (PhD student), Xuyun Zhang (PhD student), Gaofeng Zhang (PhD student))
	Compressive sensing of time series for human action recognition. (Oscar Perez Concha, Richard Yi Da Xu, Massimo Piccardi)
	Delayed-Multicast for video-on-demand. (D. Hoang, X. He, C. Nguyen)
	Distributed Systems and Service Discovery. (D. Hoang, B. Yousef)
	HMM-MIO: an enhanced hidden Markov model for action recognition. (Ehsan Zare Borzeshi, Oscar Perez Concha, Richard Yi Da Xu, Massimo Piccardi)
	Interactive Visualisation & Visual Analytics of Large Social Networks. (Mao Lin Huang)
	Large Scale Data Visualization. (Mao Lin Huang and Quang Vinh Nguyen)
	Network Congestion Control Modelling. (D. Hoang, M. Li)
	Optical Networking and Control Plane Intelligence. (D. Hoang)
	Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks. (D. Hoang, H. Le, A. Simmonds)
	Personal Health Monitor. (Peter Leijdekkers and Valrie Gay)
	Programmable/Active Service Platform. (D. Hoang, B. Yousef)
	QoS Mechanisms over Wireless Internet. (D. Hoang, H. Zhou, P. Nhan)
	Scalable End-to-End Policy Routing and Traffic engineering over the Internet. (P. Nanda and A. Simmonds)
	Sign Text Detection from Outdoor Scene. (Xiangjian (Sean) He, Wenjing Jia)
	Spiral Architecture. (Xiangjian (Sean) He, Qiang Wu, Wenjing Jia)
	Vehicle Occupants Detection. (Xiangjian (Sean) He, Wenjing Jia)
	Visual Affective Computing. (Massimo Piccardi, Hatice Gunes)
	Visual Surveillance. (Massimo Piccardi, Hatice Gunes)

Past Research Projects

	Fair Intelligent Quality of Service Control and Path Discovery Mechanisms for Internet Scalable Architectures. (D. Hoang, U. Szewcow, M. Li)
	Fused Data Visualization. (Mao Lin Huang and Wu Quan)