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Research at the College is spread between eleven research groups that specialise in frontier technologies like sustainable energy systems, computer vision, robotics, systems and control, human-centred computing, software engineering and artificial intelligence.

On 22 June 2009, eighty research students presented their research in an illustrated poster, and talked to visitors about their research.

Congratulations to our Prize winners who each won financial assistance for conference travel.

1st Prize: $1000 Torben Sko, Information & Human-Centred Computing Group

2nd Prize: $500 Peter Carr, Computer Vision & Robotics Group

3rd Prize: $250 Pradeepa Samarasinghe, Applied Signal Processing Group

The judges were impressed with:

• the originality and aesthetics of the poster design, including the effectiveness in attracting attention

• the clear information structure, including the efficient use of imagery

• the suitability of the poster content for the intended audience (technically interested but not specialist)

• the outstanding research results the posters reported on

• the overall presentation of a succinct, well contextualised story

• the provision of clear links to further information

Judges included: Professor Brendan McKay (CECS), Dr Jochen Trumpf (CECS), Mr Simon Yates (Graphic Ark).

Congratulations to all our students for participating. You can browse their work (below). Shortlisted posters are marked

Applied Signal Processing Poster No
	#1	Aastha Gupta	3D Soundfield Analysis Using Spherical Harmonic Decomposition by Circular Arrays
	#4	Akramus Salehin	Acoustic Imaging of the Lung
	#11	Bathiya Senanayake	The Optimal Asynchronous IDMA Receiver
	#30	Yan (Jennifer) Wu	Spatial multizone soundfield reproduction
	#40	Li Ying Wei	Signal concentration on the sphere
	#42	Md Tofazzal Hossain	Symbol Timing Estimation
	#43	Meng Qiu (Karan) Zhang	HRTF Measurement
	#49	Oliver Nagy & Leon Craven	Efficient Data Recovery With Compressed Sensing
3rd	#53	Pradeepa Samarasinghe	Blurred photo restoration Being able to restore blurred, and sometimes unknown, images captured for applications like remote sensing technologies, medical imaging, microscopy, and motion tracking is important for interpreting images that may never be captured again.
	#55	Ramtin Shams	Real-time Registration of 3D Medical Images
	#56	Sandun Viraj Wimalaguna Kodituwakku	Cardiac Arrhythmia Analysis from Electrocardiogram Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the gold standard for diagnosing cardiac arrhythmias which often result in cardiac arrest and sudden death. By developing novel signal processing algorithms for detecting the most common arrhythmia, which results in one third of heart-related hospitalisations in Australia, we may improve diagnoses and save many lives.
	#68	Wen Zhang	Virtual Spatial Sound Systems based on Binaural Signal Processing
	#69	Xiangyun (Sean) Zhou	Connectivity of Wireless Sensor Networks
Manufacturing and Materials Poster No
	#2	Adam NagySochacki	Dimensional Variation in Compliant Assemblies Improving flexible car part manufacturing processes to provide production engineers with a better sheet metal assembly toolkit, and more efficient production lines.
	#13	Charles Featherston	Aligning Supply Chain and Business Level Strategy
	#29	Jelena Muric-Nesic	Vibrations in Composites
	#39	Leilei Cao	RBF-MFS Method for Transient Bioheat Simulation in Biological Tissue
	#78	Yuming Lin	quantifying gas drying via sensor monitoring system
Computer Systems Poster No
	#17	Daniel Robson	Fast, Easy, and Accessible Evaluation of Memory Performance in Multi-node Computers Faster, easier and more accessible evaluation of memory performance in multinode computers will help software developers and systems engineers to rapidly identify performance issues and trace and fix these glitches in source code.
	#21	FangFang Lu	rewards for honesty in prediction
	#26	H'sien Jin Wong	The Best of Both Worlds
	#28	Jaison Paul Mulerikkal	Simplify High Performance Computing for Scientists Using SOA Simplifying high performance computing for scientists using a service oriented approach that is easy to program and fault tolerant.
	#31	Jie Cai	Programmability and Performance: OpenMP Implementation on Cluster Systems
	#34	Joshua Milthorpe	A High-Productivity Language for Computational Science
	#44	Muhammad Atif	Improving Cluster Throughput by Live Migration of Operating Systems
	#51	Peerapong (Pete) Janes	Calculating Equilibrium Geometry of Atoms and Molecules using Deterministic Global Optimization
	#67	Warren Armstrong	Runtime_Format_Adaption_for_Faster_Matrix_Multiplication Building software that can think for itself so that the end user with a non-programming background can quickly make use of it, will free up skilled programmers to turn their attention to more complex problems and questions, and improve the potential for bringing their solutions into reality.
Computer Vision and Robotics Poster No
	#16	Cong Phuoc Huynh	Vision in Multi-spectral Bands: Stairway to Autonomous Sensing Applications
	#25	Grant Baldwin	Dude, Where's My Robot?
	#32	Jin Keat Lim	Robust Visual Homing with Landmark Angles
	#35	Junae Kim	A Scalable Algorithm for Learning a Mahalanobis Distance Metric
	#46	Nathan William Brewer	Informative Image Partitioning Humans will naturally focus on the most interesting thing in an image, automatically stripping out the uninteresting parts. We want computers to be able to do the same thing so that we can spend more time processing interesting things rather than uninteresting objects which can waste time and resources.
2nd	#52	Peter Carr	Automatic Enhancement of Weather Degraded Images Security, surveillance and transport are three areas that rely on camera images that are not always of the best quality and are often filmed in less than desirable conditions like fog, for example. Improving these images by enhancing them during real time can have a dramatic effect on how they are interpreted.
	#72	Hanxi Li	Boost the margin: LPBoost vs. AdaBoost
	#74	Yifan Lu	Markerless Motion Capture
Engineering Artificial Intelligence Poster No
	#9	Ayman Ahmed Sabry Abdel Raham Ghoneim	Mechanism Design for Controlling Multiagent Planning
	#18	Depdeep Banerjee	Planning and Scheduling in CP
	#33	Joanna Cheng	Dynamic Vehicle Routing Finding efficient routes for vehicles that deliver products and services on a massive scale, think Australia Post moving 5 billion articles every year, is a common but complex problem that could be overcome by developing new algorithms.
	#36	Ko-Hsin (Cindy) Wang	Bridging the Gap Between Centralised and Decentralised Multi-Agent Pathfinding
	#38	Lan Du	patent classification
	#48	Novi Quadrianto	Kernalised Sorting
	#54	Qinfeng Shi	Hash kernels
	#57	Sheng Bo Guo	Human Motor Skill Performance Improvement Based on Machine Learning
Information and Human-Centred Computing Poster No
	#5	Akshay Asthana	Learning Based Automatic Annotation for Arbitrary Poses and Expressions from Frontal Images Only
	#7	Amir Hossein Hadad	One or More Which is Worse
	#6	Alexander Krumpholz	Age-related Medical Literature Retrieval By providing health care professionals with up-to-date medical literature from data gathered from case studies that match their own patients, we may improve decision-making processes for better treatment of patients.
	#12	Benjamin Swift	BYO iPhone Orchestra Modern mobile phones are powerful portable computing devices that are increasingly prevalent in society. Why not use them to conduct an interactive musical performance? We could turn a room full of phone-wielding individuals into an impromptu electronic orchestra!
	#19	Dingyun Zhu	No Joystick, No Keyboard, No Mouse! Improving teleoperations in mining equipment with new computer technologies that integrate natural human interactive information like eye gaze, and head motion, could remove the use of traditional tools, like joysticks and keyboards, to manipulate mining equipment. By using novel technologies we can help to improve productivity and reduce the potential for operational mistakes.
	#20	Duncan Stevenson	Human Factors in Broadband Telehealth
	#24	Gordon James McIntyre	Depression and Facial Expressions Improving the diagnosis of depression using computer vision to accurately interpret facial expressions could lead to better response treatments in drug and cognitive behaviour therapies.
	#27	Jae Yong Chung	Presence Variation During Game Playing
	#60	Sukanya Manna	Intelligent Document Analysis Using computers for intelligent document analysis by analysing the language and syntax used in documentation to remove uncertainty, increase confidence, and improve the reliability of decision-making can have many applications including the media and intelligence gathering.
	#64	Tim Jones	Collecting Web Search Quality Judgements
	#65	Tom Rowlands	Workload Sampling for Enterprise Search Evaluation
1st	#66	Torben Hugh Schou	Get your head in the game... Using markerless face tracking technology to enhance computer game interaction so that players have a more realistic, interactive and immersive experience is within reach using off-the-shelf computer hardware and modified software.
Logic and Computation Poster No
	#23	Florian Rainer Widmann	FixedPointLogics
Solar Poster No
	#3	Aileen Marie (Annie) Egan	The use of building simulation to predict the energy performance of Australian office buildings.
	#15	Chun Zhang	The effect of exposure of Si-SiO2 structure to atomic H by PECVD reactor
	#22	Fiacre Emile Rougieux	Solar cell material: cheaper is better
	#71	Xinyue Han	Liquid Immersed Solar Module Receiver
	#45	Natalita Maulani Nursam	Investigation of Si-SiO2 Interface Properties on Boron Diffused Emitter
	#47	Nicholas Grant	Nitric Acid Oxidation
	#76	Yongling (Lisa) Ren	Structure damage and passivation degradation of thermal SiO2/SiEnergy Systems
Software Intensive Systems Engineering Poster No
	#8	Arrin Leandrous Daley	Enabling Unmodified Applications to Run on a Cluster
	#14	Chin Hao (Alvin) Teh	Empirical Designer Groups
	#41	Luke Nguyen-Hoan	Improving Scientific Software Development
	#50	Zoe Ellen Brain	Genetic Programming
	#58	Srinivas Chemboli	Accelerating Scientific Workflow Management By using a novel approach to managing scientific workflows using what is known as Aspect-Oriented Thinking (AOT) we can capture and reuse intellectual effort without reinventing the wheel.
	#79	Ziyad Abdulaziz Alshaikh	A Context Modelling Approach to Requirements using Context-Maps
	#77	Yuanzhi Wang	An Aggregate Model-Driven Approach to Services Engineering
Systems and Control Poster No
	#10	Baoqi Huang	Error Propagation
	#37	Lachlan Blackhall & Priscilla Kan Jon	Diagnosability of Hybrid Dynamical Networks Detecting and isolating faults in complex networks – the electricity grid, for example - helps to minimise disruption to consumers and business alike, and has major economic benefits for all.
	#59	Srinivas Sridharan	Quantum Control of Spin Systems
	#61	Sung Han Cha	Validating nonlinear stabilizing controllers
	#62	Tao Liu	Sync. of Complex Networks
	#63	Tengfei Liu	Lyapunov Formulation of ISS Small-gain in Dynamical Networks
	#70	Xiaolei Hou	SWARM testbed project
	#73	Yantao Feng	Game Theory and Its Application
	#75	Yiming Ji	Bias-Correction in Localization Algorithms
	#80	Iman Shames	Coordination and Control of Autonomous Agent Formations