Dr Hugh Kennedy

Dr Hugh Kennedy

UniSA STEM

Teaching Enterprise

Available For Media Comment.

Over the last 15 or so years, I have mostly worked in the Defence sector on the design, development, integration and maintenance of a variety of electro-optic (EO), radio-frequency (RF) and acoustic sensor systems and technologies.

Cybernetics,Mechatronics, Robotics,Automation, Control,Computers,Sensors,Filters

Year Citation
2025 Kennedy, H. L. (2025). Recursive Optimal Filters for Smoothing and Prediction with Instantaneous Phase and Frequency Estimation Applications. Circuits Systems And Signal Processing, online(12), 1-36.
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2021 Kennedy, H. L. (2021). On the realization and analysis of circular harmonic transforms for feature detection. Journal of Real Time Image Processing, 18(5), 1621-1633.
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2020 Kennedy, H. L. (2020). Improving the frequency response of Savitzky-Golay filters via colored-noise models. Digital Signal Processing A Review Journal, 102, 102743.
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2018 Kennedy, H. L. (2018). Optimal digital design of steerable differentiators with the flatness of polynomial filters and the isotropy of Gaussian filters. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 27(5), 1.
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2018 Kennedy, H. L. (2018). Isotropic Estimators of Local Background Statistics for Target Detection in Imagery. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 15(7), 1075-1079.
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2016 Kennedy, H. L. (2016). Maximally flat IIR Smoothers with repeated poles and a prescribed delay. IEEE transactions on signal processing, 64(19), 4975-4986.
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2016 Kennedy, H. L. (2016). Digital Filter Designs for Recursive Frequency Analysis. Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 25(2), 1630001.
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2016 Kennedy, H. L. (2016). An adaptive digital filter for noise attenuation in sampled control systems. International journal of adaptive control and signal processing, 30(6), 928-938.
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2015 Kennedy, H. (2015). Recursive digital filters with tunable lag and lead characteristics for proportional-differential control. IEEE transactions on control systems technology, 23(6), 2369-2374.
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2015 Kennedy, H. L. (2015). Multidimensional digital smoothing filters for target detection. Signal Processing, 114, 251-264.
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2014 Kennedy, H. L. (2014). Powerful test statistic for track management in clutter. IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems, 50(1), 207-223.
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2014 Kennedy, H. L. (2014). Multidimensional digital filters for point-target detection in cluttered infrared scenes. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 23(6), 1-11.
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2014 Kennedy, H. L. (2014). Multidimensional digital filters for point-target detection in cluttered infrared scenes. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 23(6), 11 pages.
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2013 Kennedy, H. L. (2013). Mixture reduction techniques and probabilistic intensity models for multiple hypothesis tracking of targets in clutter. Computers & electrical engineering, 40(3), 884-896.
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2012 Kennedy, H. L. (2012). Fusion of possibly biased location estimates using Gaussian mixture models. Information Fusion, 13(3), 214-222.
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2012 Kennedy, H. L., Scott, W., & Cook, S. C. (2012). Data association and geolocation for electronic support systems. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 38(6), 1745-1759.
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2011 Kennedy, H. L. (2011). Efficient velocity filter implementations for dim target detection. IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems, 47(4), 2991-2999.
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2008 Kennedy, H. L. (2008). Clutter-based test statistics for automatic track initiation. Acta automatica sinica, 34(3), 266-273.
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Year Citation
2019 Kennedy, H. L. (2019). Whitening Pre-Filters with Circular Symmetry for Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery. In 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications Dicta 2018 (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
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2018 Kennedy, H. L. (2018). Fixed-Gain Augmented-State Tracking-Filters. In 2018 International Conference on Radar Radar 2018 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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2016 Kennedy, H. L. (2016). Optimal Design of Digital IIR and FIR Filters Using Complex Flatness Constraints: A Unified Approach. In 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications Dicta 2016 (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
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2016 Kennedy, H. L. (2016). Optimal design of digital anticipatory servomechanisms with good noise immunity. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, 21CW 2016 (pp. 28-33). US: IEEE.
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2015 Kennedy, H. L. (2015). Parallel software implementation of recursive multidimensional digital filters for point-target detection in cluttered infrared scenes. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing : proceedings Vol. 2015-August (pp. 1086-1090). US: IEEE.
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2015 Kennedy, H. (2015). Numerical derivation of fading-memory polynomial and sinusoidal filters for discrete-time control systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) (pp. 1735-1742). US: IEEE.
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2015 Kennedy, H. (2015). Application of fading-memory polynomial filters to the control of an electric motor. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) (pp. 1327-1333). US: IEEE.
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2015 Kennedy, H. (2015). Improved IIR Low-Pass Smoothers and Differentiators with Tunable Delay. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Image Computing : Techniques and Applications Conference (pp. 1-7). US: IEEE.
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2013 Badriasl, L., Kennedy, H., & Finn, A. (2013). Effects of coordinate system rotation on two novel closed-from localization estimators using azimuth/elevation. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2013) (pp. 1797-1804). US: IEEE Press.
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2011 Kennedy, H. L. (2011). Mixture reduction techniques for multiple hypothesis tracking of targets in clutter. In D. Nandagopal (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011) (pp. 413-418). US: IEEE.
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2010 Kennedy, H. L. (2010). On the benefits of using real data and low-level languages in the design and development of data processing algorithms for military sensor systems. In P. Nikoloff (Ed.), SETE 2010--Meeting the Challenges of Introducing Complex Capability: conference proceedings. Adelaide, South Australia: Systems Engineering Society of Australia.
2010 Kennedy, H. L. (2010). An efficient frequency-domain velocity-filter implementation for dim target detection. In Proceedings 2010 Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications Dicta 2010 (pp. 39-44). IEEE.
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2008 Kennedy, H. L. (2008). Spatio-temporal Whitening of Imaging Sensor Data Streams Using Three-Dimensional Linear Prediction. In 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Proceedings - DICTA 2008 (pp. 265-270). US: IEEE.
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2008 Kennedy, H. L. (2008). Controlling track coalescence with scaled joint probabilistic data association. In B. Bates, & B. Bevan (Eds.), Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Radar (pp. 440-445). US: IEEE.
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2008 Kennedy, H. L. (2008). Comparison of MHT and PDA track initiation performance. In B. Bates, & B. Bevan (Eds.), Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Radar (pp. 508-512). US: IEEE.
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2007 Kennedy, H. L. (2007). Polynomial estimators as target tracking filters. In FUSION 2007: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Information Fusion 2007. China: IEEE.
2007 Kennedy, H. L. (2007). Detecting and Tracking Moving Objects in Sequences of Color Images. In 2007 ICASSP: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Vol. 1 (pp. I1197-I1200). US: IEEE.
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2007 Kennedy, H. L., & Webster, D. (2007). Acoustic gunshot localization using mobile devices. In 2007ASAP. Lexington, Masssachusetts: MIT Lincoln.
2007 Kennedy, H. L. (2007). Gradient Operators for the Determination of Optical Flow. In M. J. Bottema, A. M. A.Maeder, N. Redding, & A. Hengel (Eds.), Proceedings: Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, 9th Biennial Conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2007) (pp. 346-351). USA: IEEE Computer Society.
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2007 Kennedy, H. L. (2007). Two Statistical Measures of Similarity for Object Association and Tracking in Color Image Sequences. In Proceedings of the ICIP 2007: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Vol. 2 (pp. II477-II480). US: IEEE.
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2007 Kennedy, H. L. (2007). Two-statistical filters for detecting changes in color images. In FUSION 2007: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Information Fusion 2007. China: IEEE.
2007 Kennedy, H. L., & Challa, S. (2007). Detecting and Tracking Multiple Targets in Clutter using Electro-optic sensors. In Proceedings of the Australian JSF Advanced Technology and Innovation Conference. Australia: JSF.
2007 Kennedy, H. L. (2007). A New Statistical Measure of Signal Similarity. In 2007 IDC: Information, Decision and Control Conference (pp. 112-117). US: IEEE.
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  • Robust State Estimators (RSE) for Dynamic Line Rating (DLR), Energy Networks Association Limited, 14/02/2017 - 14/02/2018

  • 3D Constrained, Manoeuvring and Multi-target Tracking, Cwth Dept of Defence, 24/02/2016 - 31/08/2017

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