Dr Zygmunt Szpak

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Australian Institute for Machine Learning - Projects

Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences

I'm a computer scientist and senior research associate in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. I work in the Australian Institute for Machine Learning on numerous industry-inspired computer vision and machine learning problems.

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When I am not engaged in a concrete industry project, my primary research endeavours are devoted to problems in projective parameter estimation, in the context of multiple-view geometry. The statistical estimation problems that I am interested in fall under the banner of non-linear errors-in-variables models.

You can find out more about my research themes here: https://zygmuntszpak.github.io/

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Appointments

Date Position Institution name
2013 Senior Research Associate The University of Adelaide
Language Competencies

Language Competency
Afrikaans Can speak
English Can read, write, speak and peer review
German Can read, write, speak and peer review
Polish Can read and speak

Date	Position	Institution name
2013	Senior Research Associate	The University of Adelaide

Language	Competency
Afrikaans	Can speak
English	Can read, write, speak and peer review
German	Can read, write, speak and peer review
Polish	Can read and speak

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
—	The University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD Computer Science
—	The University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	MSc Computer Science (Cum Laude)
—	The University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	Bachelor of Science Honours Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude)

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing Computer Vision Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

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Journals

Year	Citation
2019	Chojnacki, W., & Szpak, Z. (2019). Determining ellipses from low-resolution images with a comprehensive image formation model. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 36(2), 212-233. DOI
2015	Chojnacki, W., Szpak, Z., Brooks, M., & van Den Hengel, A. (2015). Enforcing consistency constraints in uncalibrated multiple homography estimation using latent variables. Machine Vision and Applications, 26(2-3), 401-422. DOI Scopus2 WoS3
2015	Szpak, Z., Chojnacki, W., & van den Hengel, A. (2015). Guaranteed ellipse fitting with a confidence region and an uncertainty measure for centre, axes, and orientation. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 52(2), 173-199. DOI Scopus17 WoS15
2014	Szpak, Z., Chojnacki, W., Eriksson, A., & van den Hengel, A. (2014). Sampson distance based joint estimation of multiple homographies with uncalibrated cameras. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 125, 200-213. DOI Scopus13 WoS9
2011	Szpak, Z., & Tapamo, J. (2011). Maritime surveillance: Tracking ships inside a dynamic background using a fast level-set. Expert Systems with Applications, 38(6), 6669-6680. DOI Scopus45 WoS34
2008	Szpak, Z. L., & Tapamo, J. -R. (2008). Automatic and interactive retinal vessel segmentation.. South African Computer Journal, 40, 23-30.

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2019	Chojnacki, W., & Szpak, Z. (2019). Full explicit consistency constraints in uncalibrated multiple homography estimation. In Proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2018), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 11361 (pp. 659-675). Switzerland: Springer. DOI
2017	Neumann, A., Szpak, Z. L., Chojnacki, W., & Neumann, F. (2017). Evolutionary image composition using feature covariance matrices. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2017 Vol. abs/1703.03773 (pp. 817-824). online: ACM. DOI Scopus8
2015	Szpak, Z., Chojnacki, W., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2015). Robust multiple homography estimation: an ill-solved problem. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vol. 07-12-June-2015 (pp. 2132-2141). Boston, MA: IEEE. DOI Scopus10 WoS5
2015	Faulkner, H., Shehu, E., Szpak, Z., Chojnacki, W., Tapamo, J., Dick, A., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2015). A study of the region covariance descriptor: impact of feature selection and image transformations. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (pp. 1-8). Adelaide, SA.: IEEE. DOI Scopus5
2014	Ponte, G., Szpak, Z., Woolley, J., & Searson, D. (2014). Using specialised cyclist detection software to count cyclists and determine cyclist travel speed from video. In Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing & Education Conference (pp. 1-13). Melbourne, Vic: ACRS.
2012	Szpak, Z., Chojnacki, W., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2012). A comparison of ellipse fitting methods and implications for multiple-view geometry estimation. In Proceedings of Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2012 (pp. 1-8). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus6
2012	Szpak, Z., Chojnacki, W., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2012). Guaranteed ellipse fitting with the Sampson distance. In Proceedings of the12th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2012 Vol. 7576 LNCS (pp. 87-100). Germany: Springer-Verlag. DOI Scopus29 WoS21
2010	Chojnacki, W., Szpak, Z., Brooks, M., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2010). Multiple homography estimation with full consistency constraints. In Proceedings of DICTA 2010 (pp. 480-485). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus8
2009	Szpak, Z., Tapamo, J., & Roy-Aikins, J. (2009). Design and implementation of an interactive interface for power plant simulation. In J. Otamendi, A. Bargiela, J. Montes, & L. Pedrera (Eds.), Proceedings - 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2009 (pp. 768-775). Rey Juan Carlos Univ, Madrid, SPAIN: EUROPEAN COUNCIL MODELLING & SIMULATION.

Z. Szpak, W. Chojnacki “Target Recognition and Measurement at the Limits of Resolution”, AUD 100k Defence Science Technology Organisation, 2017

Z. Szpak, W. Chojnacki “Parameter Estimation at the Limits of Resolution”, AUD 78k Defence Science Technology Organisation, 2016

Z. Szpak, J. Mackenzie “Sharing the knowledge required to successfully utilise object detection software for use in future research opportunities”, AUD 20k ECMS Faculty, Adelaide University, 2016

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2015	Co-Supervisor	The Development of New Mechanisms for Representing Contextual Information, and Implications it has Upon Image Comprehension	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Ergnoor Shehu

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Phone: 83134479
Email: zygmunt.szpak@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 8313 4366
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor 4
Room: 4 22
Org Unit: School of Computer Science

Dr Zygmunt Szpak

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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