Professor Vinod Chandran
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
Signal Processing, Image Processing, Higher Order Spectral Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Biometrics, Biomedical Applications, Face Recognition, EEG Analysis, Facial Expression Recognition, Classifier Fusion
Research field
Artificial intelligence, Electrical engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Washington State University)
- MS(EE) (Texas Tech University)
- MS(CS) (Washington State University)
- Graduate Certificate in Education (Queensland University of Technology)
- B. Tech iin Electrical Engineering (Electronics) (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras)
Professional memberships and associations
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Professor (2009 – Present) - supervision of research postgraduate students, management of research projects, research higher degree supervision administration tasks as a deputy research coordinator, preparation of research grant applications in collaboration with colleagues, coordination and lecturing to large and small cohorts of students in undergraduate classes, mentoring of junior research staff and postgraduate supervisors, reviewer of research proposals, journal and conference papers, service on technical program committees, presenting conference papers and invited talks, supporting journal publications as a collaborator and co-author
Assoc. Professor (2004-2009) - same roles as a Professor but without the same degree of mentoring, higher degree research administration or international collaboration
Senior Lecturer (1997-2004) - coordination of courses, introduction of a new course in computer engineering (since changed to a major), lecturing to large and small cohorts of students in undergraduate classes, teaching of postgraduate coursework Masters degree students and supervision of their projects, introduction of new units into the curriculum, preparation of research grants, management of research contracts from the USA and Australian Research Council grants, Organization of an international workshop in signal processing (technical chair) in Brisbane
Lecturer (1993-1997) - lecturing undergraduate units, preparation of journal and conference manuscripts for publication, international conference presentation, session chair at conferences, preparation of research grant applications, service roles in professional societies.
Washington State University, USA
Post-doctoral Teaching Associate (1990-1993) Investigated higher order spectral analysis with Prof. S. Elgar; Lectured Electronics, Communications and Digital Signal Processing Classes.
Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant (1985-1990) - Teaching assistant in electronics, communications, conducted research into higher order spectral analysis for PhD, first authored conference and journal publications, Completed the PhD in 1990. enrolled in computer science classes towards a Masters degree in Computer science fulfilling all the requirements including undergraduate units and a Masters project in the area of parallel computing. The Masters degree requirements were completed after the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Texas Tech University, USA
Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant (1984-1985) Experience: worked in the Optical Systems Laboratory led by Prof (retd) John F. Walkup using lasers and a liquid crystal light valve; conducted research in optical computing; teaching assistant in digital electronics; attended and presented at international conferences, first authored a journal publication.
Service Roles in Professional Societies
- Senior Member, Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2001- )
- Chair, IEEE Computer Society Queensland Chapter (2004)
- Vice President, Australian Pattern Recognition Society (2001)
- Technical chair of the Workshop on Signal Processing and Applications (2002).
- Invited Member, Technical Panel of the Biometrics Institute, Sydney, Australia (2004-2011)
- Invited Member, Committee IT-029-01 of Standards Australia (2004-2013)
- Editor, Journal of the Institute of Industrial Applications Engineers (2014- )
- Technical chair of the Workshop on Signal Processing and Applications (WoSPA) 2002.
Teaching
* ENB 350 Real-time Computer Based Systems: This unit covers Embedded Systems with particular focus on multi-threaded applications and real-time systems. It is a laboratory based unit with many practical exercises and a problem based learning project in which students implement a device driver and data logger for a miniaturized production line testing station. Currently the laboratory uses TI Tiva C series hardware with ARM Cortex M4 and Code Composer Studio. The unit has an enrolment of about 60 students.
* ENB 448 Signal Processing and Filtering: This unit covers random processes, correlations and spectra, optimal filters, wavelet transform, feature extraction, model based classification (Gaussian mixtures) and discriminant (Support Vector Machines) classification. Students do a number of exercise using Matlab and a problem based learning project that involves speech processing. The unit has an enrolment of about 20 students. He also lectures (40%)
* ENB 243 Linear Systems : This unit covers Laplace transforms, transfer functions, transient and steady state responses and their application to circuit analysis. It has an enrolment of about 200 students. He has experience teaching in the following areas:
- Signal and Systems
- Digital Signal Processing
- Ditial Image Processing
- Embedded Systems
- Pattern Recognition
- C and Unix
He has adopted a combination of structured (lectures and labs) and problem based (experiential and self learning with prescribed objectives and provided resources) approaches in his teaching.
Publications
- Zhang, L., Tjondronegoro, D. & Chandran, V. (2014). Facial expression recognition experiments with data from television broadcasts and the World Wide Web. Image and Vision Computing, 32(2), 107–119. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67090
- Tomeo Reyes, I. & Chandran, V. (2014). Effect of pupil dilation and constriction on the distribution of bit errors within the iris. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 40–47. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74123
- Tomeo Reyes, I. & Chandran, V. (2013). Iris based identity verification robust to sample presentation security attacks. International Journal of Information Science and Intelligent System, 2(1), 27–41. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60842
- Chua, K., Chandran, V., Acharya, R. & Lim, C. (2011). Application of higher order spectra to identify epileptic EEG. Journal of Medical Systems, 35(6), 1563–1571. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/45507
- Elunai, R., Chandran, V. & Gallagher, E. (2011). Asphalt concrete surfaces macrotexture determination from still images. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 12(3), 857–869. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/45581
- Cook, J., Chandran, V. & Sridharan, S. (2007). Multiscale Representation for 3-D Face Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2(3), 529–536. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/10663
- Lin, F., Fookes, C., Chandran, V. & Sridharan, S. (2007). Super-Resolved Faces for Improved Face Recognition from Surveillance Video. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4642, 1–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/45594
- Strange, A., Ralston, J. & Chandran, V. (2005). Near-Surface Interface Detection for Coal Mining Applications Using Bispectral Features and GPR. Sensing and Imaging: continuing subsurface sensing technologies and applications, 6(2), 125–149. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/3574
- Chandran, V., Elgar, S. & Nguyen, A. (2002). Detection of Mines in Acoustic Images using Higher Order Spectral Features. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 27(3), 610–618. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/9914
- Chandran, V., Carswell, B., Boashash, B. & Elgar, S. (1997). Pattern Recognition Using Invariants Defined from Higher-Order Spectra: 2D Image Inputs. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 703–712.
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Membership of Learned Societies
- Reference year
- 2004
- Details
- Senior Member of the IEEE (Elected in 2001)
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2002
- Details
- Technical Chair, Workshop on Signal Processing and Applications 2002, Brisbane, Australia, 17-18 Dec. 2002 & Editor, Workshop Proc. ISBN 174107 002 3
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2005
- Details
- Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Recent Advances in Biometrics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, April 15-16, 2005.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Community
- Reference year
- 2003
- Details
- Invited by Australian Customs to be a member on the panel evaluating the SmartGate Access Control system (pilot and crew verification at airports).
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Program Committee Member.[Similar role for other international conferences each year - ICIP, EUSIPCO, ICPR etc.]
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Presented a workshop on "Cryptography for Secure Internet Transactions using Biometrics" at the Biometrics Institute Conference in Sydney.
Selected research projects
- Title
- Omniscient Face Recognition for Uncooperative Subjects
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP110100827
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Face Recognition; Computer Vision; Biometrics; Image Processing
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Towards Pose-Robust Face Recognition on Video (2014)
- Robust Image Hash Functions using Higher Order Spectra (2013)
- Sequential Decision Fusion of Multibiometrics Applied to Text-Dependent Speaker Verification for Controlled Errors (2013)
- Towards Spontaneous Facial Expression Recognition in Real-World Video (2012)
- Particulate texture Image Analysis with Applications (2011)
- Analysis of cardiac and epileptic signals using higher order spectra (2010)
- Improved Detection and Tracking of Objects in Surveillance Video (2009)
- Super-Resolution Image Processing with Application to Face Recognition (2008)
- A Decompositional Investigation of 3D Face Recognition (2007)