Areas of interest
Service enabling mechanisms for next generation internet service infrastructure
Mobility, quality of service, peer to peer, security, and programmable.
Comprehensively addressing the core problems with the current Internet, namely mobility, security, service on-demand, and quality of service for breakthrough, next generation internet applications.
Assistive healthcare infrastructure and m-health applications
Wireless and body area sensor networks, cloud computing and active databases.
Developing infrastructure consisting of sensor networks, active databases and a collaborative wired and wireless cloud for assistive healthcare. The program also aims to develop mobile health monitoring systems for the elderly, pregnant women and at-risk people.
Advanced video surveillance systems
Developing video surveillance systems of advanced conception for high-end security applications by using innovative algorithms and camera networks.
Information visualisation
Advanced techniques and optimised algorithms for large scale data visualisation. These techniques have been successfully applied into the areas of bioinformatics (protein sequence visualisation), visual analytics of social networks, and citation network visualisation.
Intelligent image processing and computer vision
Intelligent algorithms and tools for visual information analysis, image retrieval, object recognition, pattern recognition and biometrics. The research is carried out in parallel based on the traditional square image structure, and on a novel hexagonal image structure, namely Spiral Architecture, which has proven to be more accurate with higher image resolution in various applications including edge detection, image compression and character recognition.
Cloud computing and distributed systems
Wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things
Wireless sensor networks are computerised data networks formed by small wireless nodes which provide physical access to environmental parameters and vital signs. Embedded sensors and wireless sensor networks form a growing portion of what is known as the Internet of Things and present a massive and ubiquitous infrastructure for collecting and distributing data anywhere anytime.
Mobile computing
Mobile computing includes laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or handheld devices, mobile phones, and smart phones that integrate communication features with computing and web functionality as well as cameras and navigation systems. The Mobile Health Monitor Program is currently being trialled at the Royal North Shore Hospital.
Network management
New techniques for managing next-generation virtual private networks.
Adaptive intelligent systems
Enabling technologies for cooperative autonomous systems.
Visualisation tools
Software and techniques for visualising the interdependence of the components of complex systems.
Advanced web technologies
Interdisciplinary research improving the efficiency and usability of web systems.
Satellite systems
Ka band communication systems including the Federation Satellite One (Fedsat-1): a low cost micro-satellite that conducts telecommunication, space physics, remote sensing and engineering application studies.
Wireless technology
Enabling technologies for next-generation wireless systems, including advanced modulation and coding techniques (turbo codes), multidimensional communication systems, advanced signal processing technology and estimation algorithms.