Prof Clinton Fookes

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Head, Vision and Signal Processing Discipline

Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), B. Engineering (Aero/Av) (1st Hon) (Queensland University of Technology)

Clinton Fookes is a Professor in Vision & Signal Processing and the SAIVT group (Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Vision Technologies) within the School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics of the Faculty of Engineering at QUT. He holds a BEng (Aerospace/Avionics), an MBA with a focus on technology innovation/management, and a PhD in the field of computer vision. Clinton actively researches in the fields of computer vision and machine learning including video analytics, biometrics, human-computer interaction, signal processing, and medical imaging. Clinton has published over 250 internationally peer-reviewed articles and has attracted over $20M of cash funding for fundamental and applied research from external competitive sources. This includes 10 Australian Category 1 grants funded from the Australian Research Council and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. He has been the Director of Research for the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the Head of Discipline for Vision & Signal Processing. He is currently the AI Theme Leader for SmartSat - a $250M Cooperative Research Centre which is building Australia’s space industry. He serves on the editorial boards for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the Pattern Recognition Journal, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a multi-award winning researcher including an Australian Institute of Policy and Science Young Tall Poppy, an Australian Museum Eureka Prize winner, Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Award, QLD’s Top 50 Best and Brightest, and a Senior Fulbright Scholar.

Projects

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Research Areas

  • Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Deep Learning, Image Analysis.
  • Video Surveillance, Biometrics, Person Tracking, Super-Resolution, Camera Management.
  • Face & Expression Recognition, Human Activity Recognition, Gait Recognition.
  • Medical Imaging, Signal Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Attention.
  • Airport Security, Screening, Airport Operations.

Research applications include:

  • Security – biometrics, video surveillance and vehicle monitoring.
  • Aviation – aviation security, screening, performance monitoring and access control.
  • Medical Imaging – image registration, image screening and visual attention.
  • Infrastructure – complex systems and operational monitoring.

Professional Service

  • Editorial Board member for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, no.1 ranked security journal (impact factor 6.211)
  • Conference Organising Committees: Area Chair for the International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2020 (IJCB); Publication Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition 2019 (FG); Local Chair for the IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics 2018 (ICB); Competitions Co-Chair for the IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017 (IJCB); Technical Program Chair for APRS Digital Image Computing Techniques & Applications 2016 (DICTA); Exhibits Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2015 (ICASSP); Area Chair for the IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2014 (ICPR)
  • Technical Committees include: ICPR, ICB, IJCB, AVSS, ACCV, ICASSP, FG, DICTA.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence; Image and Vision Computing; Pattern Recognition; Pattern Recognition Letters; Computer Vision & Image Understanding; ARC Assessor.
Type
Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
Reference year
2021
Details
Editorial Board Member for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (2017-Present).
Type
Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
Reference year
2021
Details
Editorial Board Member for the Pattern Recognition Journal (2020-Present).
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2017
Details
Senior Fulbright Scholar
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2012
Details
Graduate Management Association of Australia Award for Entrepreneurship 2012
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2011
Details
Engineers Australia QLD Division Engineering Excellence Award for Research & Development 2011
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2010
Details
Top 50 Best & Brightest Talents in QLD in 2010
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2010
Details
Eureka Prize Winner - Recipient of the Australian Museum Eureka Prize People's Choice Award in 2010, and title of "Australia's Favourite Scientist", for scientific research and innovation.
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2009
Details
Australian Institute of Policy & Science Young Tall Poppy Science Award 2009
Title
Unlocking Mass Mobile Video Analytics with Advanced Neural Memory Networks
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP200101942
Start year
2021
Keywords
Title
One shot three-dimensional reconstruction of human anatomy and motion
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP170100632
Start year
2017
Keywords
Title
Improving Productivity and Efficiency of Australian Airports - A Real Time Analytics and Statistical Approach
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
LP140100282
Start year
2015
Keywords
Bayesian Networks; Video Analytics; Operations Management
Title
Monitoring intuitive expertise in the context of airport security screening
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
LP140100221
Start year
2015
Keywords
Intuitive Expertise; Airport Security; Automated Monitoring
Title
Solve it or Ignore it? The Challenge of Alignment Distortion and Creating Next Generation Automatic Facial Expression Detection
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP140100793
Start year
2014
Keywords
Face Processing; Face Recognition; Computer Vision
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
Title
Intelligent Surveillance Research for Crowd Monitoring and Event Detection
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
PR09-0089
Start year
2010
Keywords
Video Surveillance; Video Event Detection
Title
Airports of the Future
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
LP0990135
Start year
2009
Keywords
Complex Systems Engineering; Airport Operations Management; Business Process Modelling; Surveillance and Identity Management; Human Systems Interaction; Risk and Emergency Management