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Multimedia Computing Research Laboratory

Laboratory Coordinators: Professor David Feng and Professor Peter Eades

The Multimedia Computing Research Laboratory is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary group of excellence. It has a strong research focus in the application of computer science and information technology in biomedicine, multimedia, and information visualisation. Our mission is to be the leading research group, conducting world class research, providing first class undergraduate and postgraduate education, taking intellectual leadership and providing high-level professional consultancy in the selected areas of Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology, Information Visualisation and Visualisation and High-Performance Computing.

Current projects areas

Biomedical & multimedia data acquisition, Compression, Storage, Management, Modelling, Simulation, Analysis, Processing, Registration, Visualisation, Communication and Delivery.
Graph drawing
Software visualization,
Multisensory virtual reality
Animation methods
Visualization methods in optimization

Staff

Professor Peter Eades
Professor (David) Dagan Feng
Dr Tom W. Cai, Senior Lecturer
Dr SeokHee Hong, Senior Lecturer
Dr. Irena Koprinska, Senior Lecturer
Dr Masa Takatsuka, Senior Lecturer
Dr Vera Chung, Lecturer
Dr Xiuying Wang, Associate Lecturer
Dr Zhiyong Wang, Associate Lecturer
Dr Yong Xia, Research Fellow
Dr Jinman Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Lingfeng Wen, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Wu (Kevin) Quan, Research Officer
Ms Cindy Bai, Research Associate

Honorary Associates

Dr Sirong Chen, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
A/Prof. Stefan Eberl, Adjunct Professor, RPAH
Dr Roger Fulton, RPA
Professor Michael Fulham, Adjunct Professor, RPAH
Professor Doan Hoang, UTS
Dr Brian Hutton, Westmead Hospital
Dr Eugene Lim, RPA
Dr Zhonghua Ma,
Dr Steven Meikle, RPA
Dr Ian Parkin,
Dr Jian Zhang, NICTA
Dr Fang Chen, NICTA
Dr. Ho Chuen (Eric) Choi, NICTA
Dr Julian Epps, NICTA
Dr Joachim Gudmundsson, NICTA
Dr William Uther,
Dr Richard Webber, NICTA
Dr Thomas Wolle, NICTA
Professor Ya Qin Zhang, Adjunct Professor, Microsoft Corporation

Doctoral students

Adel Ahmed
Chung Chan
Xiaoming Chen
Kelvin Cheng
Hoi Kok Cheung
Liviu Constantinescu
David Fung
Peng Gong
Nathalie Henry
Weidong Huang
Sijun Lu
Damian Merrick
Kathryn Merrick
Colin Murray
Abhaya Parthy
Wei Qu
Balint Seeber
Xiaobin Shen
Le Song
John Stavrakakis
Yong Sun
Qing Tang
Ying Xin Wu
Ben Yip
Yan Zhang
Lanbo Zheng

Masters (research) students

Michael Bui
Hon Chit (Barry) Choi
Mohd.Afizi Mohd.Shukran

Honours students

Matt Chen
Timothy De Vries
Ren Shao
Cameron Walsh

Collaborators

Professor Jing Bai, Tsinghua University
Professor J. J. DiStefano, UCLA
Dr. Hidehiro Iida, Research Institute for Brain & Blood Vessels-Akita, JAPAN
Professor W. C. Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor YuZhuo Zhong, Tsinghua University
Professor Tiange Zhuang, Shanghai JiaoTong University
Professor Fuchuan Sun, Shanghai Institute of Physiology
Associate Professor Hossam ElGindy, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Vladimir Estivill-Castro, University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr Antonios Symvonis, University of Ioannina, Greece

Current funding

  • “Information Technology Aided Diagnosis of Dementia” ARC Discovery-Project (Feng, Eberl, and Fulham) $635,000, 2006-2010
  • “Multimedia Computing, Production, Management and Distribution for HDTV and its Applications” ARC LIEF (Feng et al) $425,000, 2006
  • “An Innovative Multimedia Framework for Multidimensional PET-CT Image Navigation and Communication” ARC Linkage Project (Feng et al) $480,000, 2005-2008
  • “Intelligent Archiving and Retrieving Clinic Laboratory Records” ARC Linkage Project (Feng, Cai, and Taren) $456,000, 2005-2007
  • "PET-CT Quantitative Molecular Imaging" ARC (Feng et al) $700,000. 2004-2008

Past funding

  • "Maximize Information from Medical Imaging" ARC (Feng et al) $172,836, 2003-2005
  • "Fully automatic extraction of 3D physiological region-of-interests for dynamic functional imaging" Sesqui R&D Scheme (Cai) $16,000, 2004.
  • "Access table: A networked visulaization workbench using 3-D spatial user interface" Sesqui R&D Scheme (Takatsuka) $20,000, 2004.
  • "A Web-based tele-Medicine System" ARC-SPIRT (Feng et al) $725,860
  • "Whole-Body PET Functional Imaging" ARC (Feng), $174,762
  • "Quantitative functional imaging for SPECT" ARC (Feng, Eberl) $195,000, 2000-2002
    "Quantification of functional images" ARC Large (Feng) $174,762, 2001-2003.
  • "A web-based multimedia tele-medicine system" ARC-SPIRT (Feng, Fulham, Eberl) $335,860, 2001-2003. "Functional Imaging for SPECT", ARC, (Feng, Eberl), $200,000, 2000-2002.
  • "Clustering Methods for Graphs", ARC Large Grant, (Eades) $168,000 2000-2002.
  • "Design and analysis of simple greedy dynamic on-line routing algorithms", ARC (Symvonis), $210,000, 1999-2001.
  • "Novel FI Data Storage & Retrieval Techniques", ARC (Feng, Fulton), $154,941, 1999-2001.
  • "Non-invasive Measurement", NH&MRC (Feng, Fulham, Meikle), $138,108, 1998-2000.
  • "Human Vision Systems", Academy of Sciences (Feng, Sun), $4,500, 1998-1999.