Peter Kovesi

My research interests are primarily in computer vision with an emphasis on low-level vision. Recently these interests have also included forensic image processing and biometric identification.

A brief list of career episodes...

I completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia in 1981. This was followed by a Master of Engineering Science in the area of kinematic control of robot arms in 1984, also at UWA. My PhD, completed in 1996, was in computer vision. This work studied the construction of invariant low-level image measures from local phase information.

From 1984 to 1991 I was a research engineer with the Automated Sheep Shearing Project in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UWA. During this time I was responsible for a number of areas in the project including surface modelling techniques, robot control software, and the development of a machine vision system for automated measurement of sheep.

From 1991 to 2007 I was with the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering at UWA. Courses that I taught included:

I have had visiting positions at:
The Stanford Research Institute Robotics Research Group as an International Fellow in 1986.
The Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University with the Robotics Group as a visiting scholar in 1990/91.
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France with the ROBOTVIS group under a French Government Fellowship in 1995.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, NZ as a visiting academic in 2001.
Department of Systems Engineering, ANU as a visiting academic in 2001 and also 2005.
School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide as a visiting academic in 2005.

In 2007 I left the School of Computer Science though I maintain an adjunct position with the School. I now work independently as a consultant.

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