Feras Dayoub

Dr Feras Dayoub

Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I am a Senior Lecturer with the School of Computer Science and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML). I am also an Associate Investigator with QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR). I served as a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (concluded in 2020). My research focuses on enabling the reliable deployment of computer vision and machine learning on mobile robots in real-world environments. I have extensive experience in applied robotic vision research resulting from my work on exciting projects such as AGRobotic detection of weed in farms using deep learning, vision-enabled autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to protect the Great Barrier Reef from Crown-of-Thorns Starfish and vision-based infrastructure inspection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). I’ve also lectured in advanced robotics topics for undergraduates, where I taught Bayesian approaches to robot localisation, mapping, and Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM).

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2022 Miller, D., Sunderhauf, N., Milford, M., & Dayoub, F. (2022). Uncertainty for identifying open-set errors in visual object detection. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(1), 215-222.
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    2022 Hall, D., Talbot, B., Bista, S. R., Zhang, H., Smith, R., Dayoub, F., & Sünderhauf, N. (2022). BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research. International Journal of Robotics Research, 41(3), 259-269.
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    2022 Corke, P., Dayoub, F., Hall, D., Skinner, J., & Sünderhauf, N. (2022). What Can Robotics Research Learn from Computer Vision Research?. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, 20 SPAR, 987-1003.
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    2022 Rahman, Q. M., Sunderhauf, N., Corke, P., & Dayoub, F. (2022). FSNet: A Failure Detection Framework for Semantic Segmentation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 3030-3037.
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    2021 Talbot, B., Dayoub, F., Corke, P., & Wyeth, G. (2021). Robot navigation in unseen spaces using an abstract map. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 13(4), 791-805.
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    2021 Rahman, Q. M., Corke, P., & Dayoub, F. (2021). Run-time monitoring of machine learning for robotic perception: a survey of emerging trends. IEEE Access, 9, 20067-20075.
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    2019 Sünderhauf, N., Dayoub, F., Hall, D., Skinner, J., Zhang, H., Carneiro, G., & Corke, P. (2019). A probabilistic challenge for object detection. Nature Machine Intelligence, 1(9), 443.
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    2018 Ahn, H. S., Sa, I., & Dayoub, F. (2018). Introduction to the Special Issue on Precision Agricultural Robotics and Autonomous Farming Technologies. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4), 4435-4438.
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    2018 Hall, D., Dayoub, F., Perez, T., & McCool, C. (2018). A rapidly deployable classification system using visual data for the application of precision weed management. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 148, 107-120.
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    2017 Bawden, O., Kulk, J., Russell, R., McCool, C., English, A., Dayoub, F., . . . Perez, T. (2017). Robot for weed species plant-specific management. Journal of Field Robotics, 34(6), 1179-1199.
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    2017 Sa, I., Lehnert, C., English, A., McCool, C., Dayoub, F., Upcroft, B., & Perez, T. (2017). Peduncle Detection of Sweet Pepper for Autonomous Crop Harvesting-Combined Color and 3-D Information. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(2), 765-772.
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    2016 Sa, I., Ge, Z., Dayoub, F., Upcroft, B., Perez, T., & McCool, C. (2016). Deepfruits: A fruit detection system using deep neural networks. Sensors (Switzerland), 16(8), 1-23.
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    2015 Dayoub, F., Morris, T., & Corke, P. (2015). Rubbing shoulders with mobile service robots. IEEE Access, 3, 333-342.
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    2011 Dayoub, F., Cielniak, G., & Duckett, T. (2011). Long-term experiments with an adaptive spherical view representation for navigation in changing environments. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 59(5), 285-295.
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    Haviland, J., Dayoub, F., & Corke, P. (n.d.). Control of the Final-Phase of Closed-Loop Visual Grasping using
    Image-Based Visual Servoing.
    Skinner, J., Hall, D., Zhang, H., Dayoub, F., & Sünderhauf, N. (n.d.). The Probabilistic Object Detection Challenge.
    Wilson, S., Fischer, T., Sünderhauf, N., & Dayoub, F. (n.d.). Hyperdimensional Feature Fusion for Out-Of-Distribution Detection.
    Wilson, S., Fischer, T., Dayoub, F., & Sünderhauf, N. (n.d.). Noisy Inliers Make Great Outliers: Out-of-Distribution Object Detection
    with Noisy Synthetic Outliers.
    Arain, B., Dayoub, F., Rigby, P., & Dunbabin, M. (n.d.). Close-Proximity Underwater Terrain Mapping Using Learning-based Coarse
    Range Estimation.

  • Books
    Year Citation
    2020 Garg, S., Sünderhauf, N., Dayoub, F., Morrison, D., Cosgun, A., Carneiro, G., . . . Milford, M. (2020). Semantics for Robotic Mapping, Perception and Interaction: A Survey (Vol. 8). United States: Now Publishers.
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  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2017 Perez, T., Bawden, O., Kulk, J., Russell, R., McCool, C., English, A., & Dayoub, F. (2017). Overview of mechatronic design for a weed-management robotic system. In D. Zhang, & B. Wei (Eds.), Robotics and Mechatronics for Agriculture (1st ed., pp. 23-49). Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press.
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    2015 Dayoub, F., Cielniak, G., & Duckett, T. (2015). Eight weeks of episodic visual navigation inside a non-stationary environment using adaptive spherical views. In L. Mejias, P. Corke, & J. Roberts (Eds.), Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (Vol. 105, pp. 379-392). SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN.
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    2011 Dayoub, F., Cielniak, G., & Duckett, T. (2011). Long-term experiment using an adaptive appearance-based map for visual navigation by mobile robots. In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (Vol. 6856 LNAI, pp. 400-401). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2021 Miller, D., Sunderhauf, N., Milford, M., & Dayoub, F. (2021). Class anchor clustering: A loss for distance-based open set recognition. In Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2021) (pp. 3569-3577). online: IEEE.
    DOI Scopus11 WoS8
    2021 Moskvyak, O., Maire, F., Dayoub, F., & Baktashmotlagh, M. (2021). Keypoint-aligned embeddings for image retrieval and re-identification. In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2021 (pp. 676-685). online: IEEE.
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    2021 Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Dayoub, F., & Sünderhauf, N. (2021). VarifocalNet: An IoU-aware Dense Object Detector. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 8510-8519). online: IEEE.
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    2021 Rahman, Q. M., Sunderhauf, N., & Dayoub, F. (2021). Per-frame mAP Prediction for Continuous Performance Monitoring of Object Detection during Deployment. In Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW 2021) (pp. 152-160). online: IEEE.
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    2021 Rahman, Q. M., Sünderhauf, N., & Dayoub, F. (2021). Online Monitoring of Object Detection Performance During Deployment. In 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 4839-4845). online: IEEE.
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    2021 Moskvyak, O., Maire, F., Dayoub, F., Armstrong, A. O., & Baktashmotlagh, M. (2021). Robust Re-identification of Manta Rays from Natural Markings by Learning Pose Invariant Embeddings. In DICTA 2021 - 2021 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (pp. 1-8). online: IEEE.
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    2021 Bista, S. R., Hall, D., Talbot, B., Zhang, H., Dayoub, F., & Sünderhauf, N. (2021). Evaluating the Impact of Semantic Segmentation and Pose Estimation on Dense Semantic SLAM. In 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 5328-5335). online: IEEE.
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    2020 Moskvyak, O., Maire, F., Dayoub, F., & Baktashmotlagh, M. (2020). Learning Landmark Guided Embeddings for Animal Re-identification. In 2020 IEEE Winter Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW) (pp. 12-19). online: IEEE.
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    2020 Hall, D., Dayoub, F., Skinner, J., Zhang, H., Miller, D., Corke, P., . . . Sunderhauf, N. (2020). Probabilistic object detection: Definition and evaluation. In Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2020 (pp. 1020-1029). online: IEEE.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS16
    2019 Halodova, L., Dvorrakova, E., Majer, F., Vintr, T., Mozos, O. M., Dayoub, F., & Krajnik, T. (2019). Predictive and adaptive maps for long-term visual navigation in changing environments. In 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 7033-7039). Macau, China: IEEE.
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    2019 Miller, D., Dayoub, F., Milford, M., & Sunderhauf, N. (2019). Evaluating merging strategies for sampling-based uncertainty techniques in object detection. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019) Vol. 2019-May (pp. 2348-2354). online: IEEE.
    DOI Scopus30 WoS18
    2019 Rahman, Q. M., Sunderhauf, N., & Dayoub, F. (2019). Did You Miss the Sign? A False Negative Alarm System for Traffic Sign Detectors. In 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 3748-3753). online: IEEE.
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    2019 Miller, D., Sünderhauf, N., Zhang, H., Hall, D., & Dayoub, F. (2019). Benchmarking sampling-based probabilistic object detectors. In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops Vol. 2019-June (pp. 42-45).
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    2018 Abbas, A., Maire, F., Shirazi, S., Dayoub, F., & Eich, M. (2018). A dynamic planner for object assembly tasks based on learning the spatial relationships of its parts from a single demonstration. In T. Mitrovic, B. Xue, & X. Li (Eds.), Proceedings of AI 2018: Advanced in Artificial Intelligence 31st Australasian Joint Conference Vol. 11320 LNAI (pp. 759-765). Wellington, New Zealand: Springer International Publishing.
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    2018 McFadyen, A., Dayoub, F., Martin, S., Ford, J., & Corke, P. (2018). Assisted Control for Semi-Autonomous Power Infrastructure Inspection Using Aerial Vehicles. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 5719-5726). online: IEEE.
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    2018 Miller, D., Nicholson, L., Dayoub, F., & Sunderhauf, N. (2018). Dropout Sampling for Robust Object Detection in Open-Set Conditions. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018) (pp. 3243-3249). Brisbane, Australia: IEEE.
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    2018 Abbas, A., Maire, F., Dayoub, F., & Shirazi, S. (2018). Combining learning from demonstration and search algorithm for dynamic goal-directed assembly task planning. In ACRA 2018 Proceedings Vol. 2018-December. Online: Australian Robotics and Automation Association.
    2017 Dayoub, F., Sunderhauf, N., & Corke, P. I. (2017). Episode-Based Active Learning with Bayesian Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2017) Vol. 2017-July (pp. 498-500). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: IEEE.
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    2017 Hall, D., Dayoub, F., Kulk, J., & McCool, C. (2017). Towards unsupervised weed scouting for agricultural robotics. In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 5223-5230). online: IEEE.
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    2017 Hall, D., Dayoub, F., Perez, T., & McCool, C. (2017). A transplantable system for weed classification by agricultural robotics. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Vol. 2017-September (pp. 5174-5179). Vancouver, BC, Canada: IEEE.
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    2016 Sunderhauf, N., Dayoub, F., McMahon, S., Talbot, B., Schulz, R., Corke, P., . . . Milford, M. (2016). Place categorization and semantic mapping on a mobile robot. In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 2016-June (pp. 5729-5736). online: IEEE.
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    2016 McCool, C., Sa, I., Dayoub, F., Lehnert, C., Perez, T., & Upcroft, B. (2016). Visual detection of occluded crop: For automated harvesting. In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 2016-June (pp. 2506-2512). Stockholm, Sweden: IEEE.
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    2016 Talbot, B., Lam, O., Schulz, R., Dayoub, F., Upcroft, B., & Wyeth, G. (2016). Find my office: Navigating real space from semantic descriptions. In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 2016-June (pp. 5782-5787). online: IEEE.
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    2015 Schulz, R., Talbot, B., Lam, O., Dayoub, F., Corke, P., Upcroft, B., & Wyeth, G. (2015). Robot navigation using human cues: A robot navigation system for symbolic goal-directed exploration. In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Vol. 2015-June (pp. 1100-1105). Seattle, WA: IEEE COMPUTER SOC.
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    2015 Dayoub, F., Dunbabin, M., & Corke, P. (2015). Robotic detection and tracking of Crown-of-Thorns starfish. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Vol. 2015-December (pp. 1921-1928). Hamburg, GERMANY: IEEE.
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    2015 Sünderhauf, N., Shirazi, S., Jacobson, A., Dayoub, F., Pepperell, E., Upcroft, B., & Milford, M. (2015). Place recognition with convnet landmarks: Viewpoint-robust, condition-robust, training-free. In Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XI Conference (RSS 2015) Vol. 11 (pp. 1-10). online: Robotics: Science and Systems Foundation.
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    2015 Hall, D., McCool, C., Dayoub, F., Sünderhauf, N., & Upcroft, B. (2015). Evaluation of features for leaf classification in challenging conditions. In Proceedings - 2015 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2015 (pp. 797-804). Waikoloa, HI: IEEE.
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    2015 Sünderhauf, N., Shirazi, S., Dayoub, F., Upcroft, B., & Milford, M. (2015). On the performance of ConvNet features for place recognition. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Vol. 2015-December (pp. 4297-4304). Hamburg, GERMANY: IEEE.
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    2015 Lam, O., Dayoub, F., Schulz, R., & Corke, P. (2015). Automated topometric graph generation from floor plan analysis. In Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA.
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    2014 Lam, O., Dayoub, F., Schulz, R., & Corke, P. (2014). Text recognition approaches for indoor robotics: A comparison. In Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA Vol. 02-04-December-2014.
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    2014 Morris, T., Dayoub, F., Corke, P., & Upcroft, B. (2014). Simultaneous localization and planning on multiple map hypotheses. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 4531-4536). Chicago, IL: IEEE.
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    2014 Morris, T., Dayoub, F., Corke, P., Wyeth, G., & Upcroft, B. (2014). Multiple map hypotheses for planning and navigating in non-stationary environments. In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 2765-2770). Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA: IEEE.
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    2013 Dayoub, F., Morris, T., Upcroft, B., & Corke, P. (2013). Vision-only autonomous navigation using topometric maps. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 1923-1929). IEEE.
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    2013 Dayoub, F., Morris, T., Upcroft, B., & Corke, P. (2013). One Robot, eight hours, and twenty four thousand people. In Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA.
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    2010 Dayoub, F., Duckett, T., & Cielniak, G. (2010). Short- and long-term adaptation of visual place memories for mobile robots. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remembering Who We Are - Human Memory for Artificial Agents - A Symposium at the AISB 2010 Convention (pp. 21-26).
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    2008 Dayoub, F., & Duckett, T. (2008). An adaptive appearance-based map for long-term topological localization of mobile robots. In R. Chatila, A. Kelly, & J. P. Merlet (Eds.), 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS (pp. 3364-3369). Nice, FRANCE: IEEE.
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  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2022 Co-Supervisor Enhancing Mars rovers using AI-enabled robotic vision Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Lachlan William Holden
    2022 Co-Supervisor AMRS: Attention-aware Mixed Reality System Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Renjie Wu
    2022 Co-Supervisor Efficient Deep Learning on the Edge Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xu Zhan
  • Position: Senior Lecturer
  • Email: feras.dayoub@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Org Unit: Australian Institute for Machine Learning - Projects
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