APrf Anthony Dick
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
College of Engineering and Information Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
I research problems in computer vision, which involves using computers to understand images. The main problems I have worked on are the estimation of 3D shape from images, and tracking moving objects in images.
I am a member of the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, a research centre in the University of Adelaide. The centre conducts publicly funded and contract research into computer vision, image analysis, and machine learning.
I research problems in the area of computer vision, and in particular visual tracking. Some problems I am currently working on include:
- Tracking AFL players during games for coaching purposes
- Automatic production of detailed text descriptions of video
- Tracking moving entities in medical images/video
- Visual question answering that combines imagery with text based knowledge sources
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 - ongoing | Associate Professor | University of Adelaide |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Abbasnejad, M. E., Shi, Q., Abbasnejad, I., Hengel, A. V. D., & Dick, A. R. (2017). Bayesian Conditional Generative Adverserial Networks.. |
Australian Research Council (ARC)
Learning the deep structure of images;
Van Den Hengel, Anton John; Dick, Anthony Robert; Liu, Lingqiao;
ARC Discovery Grant, 2016-18. Amount awarded: $300,000
Visual tracking with environmental constraints
A. Dick, I. Reid, T. Kelsey.
ARC Linkage Grant, 2013-16
Value $525,000 ($345K from ARC)
Partner Organization: Champion Data
Recognising and reconstructing objects in real time from a moving camera
I. Reid, A. Dick
ARC Discovery Grant, 2013-15
Value $330,000
Computational infrastructure for machine learning in computer vision
A. van den Hengel, I.Reid, S. Venkatesh, B. Vo, D.Suter, S. Gould, S. Lucey, A. Dick, C.Shen, D.Q. Phung
ARC LIEF Grant, 2013
Value $210,000
Learning to read 3D
A. van den Hengel, A. Dick
ARC Discovery Grant, 2012-14
Value $330,000
Improving yield through image-based structural analysis of cereals
A. van Den Hengel, M. Tester, A. Dick
ARC Linkage Grant, 2011-13
Value $725,000
Partner Organisation: Bayer
Tracking targets in large scale surveillance camera networks
A. Dick, H. Detmold, P. Torr
ARC Discovery Grant, 2010-12
Value $200,000
Real-time special effects in live video
A. van den Hengel, A. Dick
ARC Linkage Grant, 2010-12
Value $360,000
Partner Organisation: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Image search for simulator content creation
A. van den Hengel, A. Dick
ARC Linkage Grant, 2010-12
Value $397,000
Partner Organisation: Sydac.
Accelerating Australia’s Large Scale Video Surveillance Research Programs
A van den Hengel, S Venkatesh, D. Suter, M. Brooks, J. Zhang, A. Dick, H. Detmold, M. Piccardi, M Lazarescu, C. Shen
ARC Linkage Infrastructure Grant, 2010
Value $280,000
Combined shape and appearance descriptors for visual object recognition
A. van den Hengel, and A., Dick,
ARC Discovery Grant, 2009-2011
Value $220,000.
Automated acquisition of surveillance-camera network topology.
ARC Discovery Grant, 2007-2009, Value $201,000.
What am I looking at? Recognising objects from image sets.
Google Research Grant, 2008 , Value $58,000.
Other
Exploiting contextual cues in large-scale machine learning
A. van den Hengel, C. Shen, A. Dick, Q. Shi.
Data to Decisions CRC, 2014-18
Value: ~$1.2M
Large Scale Image Classification
A. van den Hengel, C. Shen, A. Dick, Q. Shi.
Data to Decisions CRC, 2014-18,
Value: ~$1.0M
Automated Production of GeoSpatial Information
A. van den Hengel, C. Shen, A. Dick
Defence Systems Innovation Centre, 2012
Value: $90,000
Content Based Image Search
A. van den Hengel and A. Dick
DSTO Capability Technology Demonstrator Program, 2011
Value $683,000
Research Leader, Tracking of Humans in Cluttered Crowded Scenes
Research project with DSTO 2008 (value $50,000)
Research Leader, Colour Constancy for Video Surveillance
Research project with DSTO 2007 (value $100,000)
Research Leader, Video Processing for pan-tilt-zoom Cameras
Commercial research project with Canon Information Systems Research Australia 2005-7 (value $480,000)
I have taught courses at all levels of Computer Science, from introductory programming to Honours. I was involved in creating the Computer Graphics and Event Driven Computing courses, and have been involved in the rollout of Small Group Discovery Experience components in multiple courses.
I am the Curriculum Coordinator for the School of Computer Science. I am the Interim Head of Computer Science from Jan-June 2018.
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Principal Supervisor | Symbolic and Subsymbolic Information Processing in Machine Learning | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Boris Repasky |
| 2020 | Principal Supervisor | Symbolic and Subsymbolic Information Processing in Machine Learning | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Boris Repasky |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Developing a System for Free-Form Visual Question Answering | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Violetta Shevchenko |
| 2018 - 2023 | Principal Supervisor | Explainable Reinforcement Learning via Rule Extraction in Complex Visual Environments | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Anthony Manchin |
| 2015 - 2020 | Co-Supervisor | Single View 3D Reconstruction using Deep Learning | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Adrian Robert Johnston |
| 2015 - 2021 | Principal Supervisor | General and Fine-Grained Video Understanding using Machine Learning & Standardised Neural Network Architectures | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Hayden James Faulkner |
| 2014 - 2018 | Co-Supervisor | Forgetting Properties of Finite-State Reciprocal Processes | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Mr Riley Bruce-Doust |
| 2010 - 2014 | Co-Supervisor | Markov Random Fields with Unknown Heterogeneous Graphs | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Zhenhua Wang |
| 2009 - 2013 | Principal Supervisor | Efficient and Robust Image Ranking for Object Retrieval | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Yanzhi Chen |
| 2009 - 2013 | Co-Supervisor | Constrained Parameter Estimation in Multiple View Geometry | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Zygmunt Ladyslaw Szpak |
| 2007 - 2010 | Co-Supervisor | Optical Flow Estimation in the Presence of Fast or Discontinuous Motion | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Yan Niu |
| 2005 - 2013 | Co-Supervisor | Interactive 3D Reconstruction from Video | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Dr Ben Ward |