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Dr Peter Kovesi   BE MEngSc PhD W.Aust  Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Peter Kovesi completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 1981 and his Master of Engineering Science in the area of kinematic control of robot arms in 1984, both at UWA. From 1984 to 1991 he was a research engineer with the Automated Sheep Shearing Project in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UWA. During this time he was responsible for a number of areas in the project including surface modelling techniques, robotcontrol software, and the development of a machine vision system for automated measurement of sheep. During 1986 he was an International Fellow at the Stanford Research Institute and during 1990/91 he was a visiting scholar with the Robotics Group in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University. Peter joined the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering as a lecturer in 1991 and his PhD thesis was passed in 1996. His research interests are in robotics and computer vision.

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	Dr Peter Kovesi School of Computer Science & Software Engineering The University of Western Australia M002, 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, Western Australia, 6009
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	Homepage: http://people.csse.uwa.edu.au/pk