Tuesday, 23 June 2015  

3:45 PM   Bus departs   Adelaide Airport  

4:15 PM   Bus departs   University of Adelaide  

5:00 PM   ARRIVE BAROSSA VALLEY   Novotel  

5:00 PM   CHECK-IN / FREE TIME    

6:15 PM   Pre-Dinner Drinks   Shiraz B  

7:00 PM   Aussie BBQ Buffet   Shiraz B  

       

         PhD Candidates (Parallel Session with Research Fellows)  

Wednesday, 24 June 2015  

6:00 AM   Optional Exercise   Meet at Gym  

From 6:30 AM   Buffet Breakfast   Harry’s Restaurant  

8:00 AM   Welcome and Life as a PhD Candidate  Sue Keay (ACRV Chief Operating Officer)  

Cabernet A  

8:15 AM   Writing Papers and Giving Talks  Peter Corke (ACRV Director, CI, QUT)  

 

9:00 AM   Managing Code  Tom Drummond (ACRV Executive, CI, Monash)  

 

9:45 AM   Work/Life Balance  Michael Milford (CI, QUT)  

 

10:30 AM   TEA BREAK    

11:00 AM   Managing People  Stephen Gould (CI, ANU)  

 

11:45 AM   Developing your Career  Rob Mahony (ACRV Executive, CI, ANU)  

 

12:30 PM   LUNCH   Harry’s Restaurant  

1:30 PM   Writing up a Thesis  Sue Keay (ACRV COO, QUT)  

Cabernet A  

2:15 PM   Managing your PhD supervisor  Anthony Dick (AI, University of Adelaide)  

 

3:00 PM   TEA BREAK    

3:30 PM   Intellectual Property and Commercialisation  Robert Chalmers (Managing Director, Adelaide Research

& Innovation)  

Cabernet A & B  

4:30 PM   Start-ups and Academia  Stephen Gould (CI, ANU)  

 

5:00 PM   FREE TIME    

6:00 PM   Pre-Dinner Drinks   Shiraz A  

6:30 PM   Dinner (Buffet)   Shiraz A  

   

      Research Fellows (Parallel Session with PhD Candidates)  

Wednesday, 24 June 2015  

6:00 AM   Optional exercise   Meet at Gym  

7:00 AM   Buffet Breakfast   Harry’s Restaurant  

8:45 AM   Welcome and Life as a Research Fellow  Sue Keay (ACRV Chief Operating Officer)  

Cabernet B  

9:00 AM   Developing your Career  Rob Mahony (ACRV Executive, CI, ANU)  

 

9:45 AM   Engaging with Industry  Sue Keay (ACRV COO, QUT)  

 

10:30 AM   TEA BREAK    

11:00 AM   Supervising Undergraduate and PhD projects  

Ben Upcroft (CI, QUT)  

 

11:45 AM   Writing Papers and Giving Talks  Peter Corke (ACRV Director, CI, QUT)  

 

12:30 PM   LUNCH   Harry’s Restaurant  

1:30 PM   Managing People  Stephen Gould (CI, ANU)  

Cabernet B  

2:15 PM   Work/Life Balance  Michael Milford (CI, QUT)  

 

3:00 PM   TEA BREAK    

3:30 PM   Intellectual Property and Commercialisation  

(Managing Director, Adelaide Research & Innovation)  

Cabernet A & B  

4:30 PM   Start-ups and Academia  Stephen Gould (ANU)  

 

5:00 PM   FREE TIME    

6:00 PM   Pre-Dinner Drinks   Shiraz A  

6:30 PM   Dinner (Buffet)   Shiraz A  

           

Thursday, 25 June 2015

6:00 AM   Optional Exercise   Meet at Gym   from  

6:30 AM   Buffet Breakfast   Harry’s Restaurant  

7:45 AM   Chief Investigator Meeting (CIs only required)  Peter Corke, ACRV Director   Semillon A & B  

8:45 AM   Welcome  Peter Corke, ACRV Director   Shiraz A  

9:00 AM   Algorithms and Architecture [AA] Overview  Tom Drummond, AA Theme Leader (Monash University)    

9:15 AM  Mobile Visual Sensor Networks for 3D Map Building, Immersive Telepresence and Remote Sensing  Ahmet Sekercioglu (Monash University)  

 

9:35 AM   Solving M-estimators using Weighted Least Squares  Khurrum Aftab (Monash University)    

9:55 AM   Monocular Visual SLAM without Global Consistency  Vincent Lui (Monash University)    

10:15 AM   TEA & DEMOS   Shiraz A  

12:15 PM   LUNCH   Harry’s Restaurant  

1:15 PM   Vision and Action [VA] Overview  Rob Mahony, VA Theme Leader (ANU)   Shiraz A  

1:30 PM   Human Pose Estimation Using Recombination of Parts  Anoop Cherian (ANU)    

1:50 PM   Coupling Visual Servoing and Active Structure from Motion  Riccardo Spica (ANU)    

2:10 PM   Computational Methods to Support Active SLAM and SfM  Viorela Ila (ANU)    

2:30 PM   TEA BREAK    

3:00 PM   3-Minute Spotlights   Shiraz A  

4:00 PM   FREE TIME   volleyball, bike riding, day spa  

6:00 PM  6:30 PM  

10:30 PM  

Buses depart for Dinner at Seppetsfield  DINNER  

Buses return to Novotel  

Seppetsfield Winery  

 

       

Friday, 26 June 2015

6:00 AM   Optional Exercise   Meet at Gym   from  

6:30 AM   Buffet Breakfast   Harry’s Restaurant  

from  7:30 AM   CHECK OUT    

8:45 AM   Keynote Address  Mandyam Srinivasan (The University of Queensland)   Shiraz A  

9:45 AM   Robust Vision [RV] Overview  Peter Corke, RV Theme Leader (QUT)    

10:00 AM   More about deep learning  Sareh Shirazi (QUT)    

10:20 AM   TEA BREAK    

10:50 AM   One-shot solutions in structure from motion  Laurent Kneip (ANU)   Shiraz A  

11:10 AM  Towards 3D reconstruction and hyperspectral imaging using optical rotation  Chuong Nguyen (ANU)  

 

11:30 AM   The real reason that IP is important  Sue Keay, ACRV Chief Operating Officer (QUT)    

12:00 PM   LUNCH   Harry’s Restaurant  

1:00 PM   Semantic Vision [SV] Overview  Ian Reid, SV Theme Leader (QUT)   Shiraz A  

1:15 PM  3D Indoor Scene Labelling with Hierarchical Higher-order Regression Forest Fields  Trung Pham (University of Adelaide)  

 

1:35 PM  Multi-modal Auto-Encoders as Joint Estimators for Robotic Scene Understanding  Cesar Cedena (University of Adelaide)  

 

1:55 PM   Deep Learning at ANU  Stephen Gould (ANU)    

2:15 PM   Conference close  Peter Corke, ACRV Director (QUT)    

2:30 PM   AFTERNOON TEA & DISCUSSION    

3:00 PM   BUSES DEPART    

   

       

3-Minute Spotlight Talks

3:00 PM   Introduction to 3MS   Shiraz A  

  Juan Adarve (ANU)    

  Fahimeh Rezazadegan (QUT)    

  Mehdi Hosseinzadeh (University of Adelaide)    

  Adam Tow (QUT)    

  Josh Boys (Monash)    

  Sean McMahon (QUT)    

  Thanuja Dharmasiri (Monash)    

  Chamara Weerasekera (University of Adelaide)    

  Dinesh Gamage (Monash)    

  Will Chamberlain (QUT)    

  Yan Zuo (Monash)    

  Yuchao Jiang (University of Adelaide)    

  Andrew Spek (Monash)    

  Andres Marmolvelez (QUT)    

  Ben Harwood (Monash)    

  Fangyi Zhang (QUT)    

  Benjamin Meyer (Monash)    

4:00 PM   Free time / Social program (volleyball, soccer, frisbee)    

 

   

       

Demos

10:15 AM     Shiraz A  

 Dense point-to-plane ICP and real-time dense curvature estimation  Andrew Spek (Monash)  

 

  Place Recognition  Michael Milford (QUT)    

  CNN for image patch matching  Vijay Kumar (University of Adelaide)    

  Demo  Juan Adarve (ANU)    

 

Classification of 2D images using boosted random decision ferns  Yan Zuo (Monash)    

 

 Learning to drive with Google DeepMind  Adam Tow (QUT)    

 

  3D scene understanding  Trung Pham (University of Adelaide)    

  Keypoint based semantic tracking system  Thanuja Dharmasiri (Monash)    

  Image Semantic Segmentation  Guosheng Lin (University of Adelaide)    

  Light Field Toolbox  Donald Dansereau (QUT)    

  A monocular visual SLAM system  Vincent Liu (Monash)    

 Multi-modal Auto-Encoders  Cesar Cedena (University of Adelaide)    

 

1:15 PM   TALKS RESUME