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Mathematical and Computer SciencesFaculty of Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences website Executive Dean: Professor Peter Dowd Manager: Ms Clara Barbieri Postgraduate Research: Enrolment enquiries: Adelaide Graduate Centre
* Research Training Scheme (RTS) - Currently all commencing "local" higher degree by research students at the University of Adelaide are awarded a Research Training Scheme (RTS) place. The RTS place
entitles the student to a maximum period of four years
of tuition fee exempt candidature to undertake
a PhD program or two years of tuition fee
exempt candidature to undertake a Masters
program. This means there is no HECS debt
at the end of the program. International School of Computer SciencePhone: 61 8 8303 5586 Computer Science is the study of how software and hardware can be combined to overcome a remarkable range of challenges. Our highly qualified and experienced staff members teach at all levels and supervise a large number of Master and PhD students. Many of the School's former higher degree students now hold prestigious positions in the academic, commercial and government sectors. The school is particularly proud to host students from all over the world, lending a rich cultural mix to our school. Masters students may specialise in IT, Computer Science, or Software Engineering. Key players from various IT companies participate in some of the teaching. Extensive computer facilities are available for students, as well as learning and consulting centres. The School undertakes internationally recognised research and development in areas that include computer vision, artificial intelligence, distributed high-performance computing, software architectures and formal methods. Commercialisation of the School's research has lead to the award of national and international prizes. The School is a key contributor to the South Australian partnership for Advanced Computing, which manages several supercomputers, parallel clusters and high-end visualisation facilities. The School is very active in research and receives funding from a variety of sources, including the ARC, DSTO, industry and the University itself. Research Interests
The Computer Vision group is one of five major research groups at the School of Computer Science. It undertakes a wide range of research activities, and is actively involved with students, supervising numerous honours, masters and PhD projects every year. Computer vision is concerned with interpreting visual data such as images or video, much like our eyes do for us every day. The types of problems computer vision researchers aim to solve include: computing the 3D shape of an environment given only some images of it; recognising people or cars in video; interpreting behaviour observed in video; and merging rendered graphics with real video, a common task for movie post-processing. These are all problems that pose a surprising range of challenges for computers. Computer vision is an interesting research area in itself, but it also has many commercial and practical applications. For example, every year pilots patrol Australia's marine wildlife reserves, looking for illegal fishing boats. As you might imagine, given the huge area of protected waters around Australia, this is a difficult task. A better strategy would be to fly unmanned aircraft over the marine reserves, with video cameras attached. The problem is then to detect boats in the video footage, preferably automatically, so that people do not need to spend hours sitting in planes or monitoring video footage to find illegal boats. The problem is complicated because boats come in all shapes and sizes - so how do we know what to look for? The ocean can also change appearance dramatically, depending on the weather conditions, water depth and so on. It turns out that there is no single test we can apply to video to decide whether we can see a boat. However, by carefully combining several tests, we are able to create a system that detects boats with a high degree of reliability. Some of the tests that were devised included colour (the water is usually a shade of blue), shape (a ship is usually elongated in one direction) and motion. Of course if a ship is moving, it leaves a wake, which is also useful for detection. Our detector was deployed in live tests off the coast of Western Australia, and successfully detected a number of boats despite many distractions such as wave fronts and shallow water. It is hoped that in future such techniques will enable far more efficient patrolling of our marine resources. The computer vision group is also involved in many other visual surveillance projects, as well as projects on 3D scene reconstruction and the fusion of computer graphics with vision. School of Mathematical SciencesWebsite: www.maths.adelaide.edu.au The School of Mathematical Sciences encompasses the Disciplines of Applied and Pure Mathematics and Statistics which are described below. Staff in the School facilitate teaching and research in the disciplines of mathematics and statistics and are Australian leaders in postgraduate research training in these areas. The School is highly respected internationally as a centre for research in bioinformatics, differential and finite geometry, fluid mechanics, mathematical modelling, medical statistics, selected areas of telecommunications and areas of formal modelling and verification. Many other areas of the mathematical sciences are actively researched within the School and the exceptional quality of the staff has been recognised by awards and medals from the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Mathematical Society. Research groups in the School are supported by a variety of sources including external competitive grants from major funding bodies and commercial and industrial consultancies. Facilities of special note affiliated with the Schools include:
DisciplinesApplied MathematicsPhone: 61 8 8303 5407 Applied Mathematics has an active research program with substantial funding from external organisations including the Australia Research Council, DSTO and Telstra. Active research groups in the areas:
Pure MathematicsPhone: 61 8 8303 5407 Pure Mathematics has an active research program in the areas of mathematics listed below, and members of the School are in receipt of numerous grants from external bodies such as the Australian Research Council. The School houses the Institute for Geometry and its Applications, which coordinates and promotes research in this sub-discipline, forming an internationally recognised Centre.
StatisticsPhone: 61 8 8303 5407 Statistics research activities are at the cutting edge of theoretical and applied statistics, biostatistics, bioinformatics and statistical computing:
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