Professor Hongdong Li

PhD (EE)

Professor (Tenured Level E)

ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics

E: hongdong.li@anu.edu.au

T: +61 2 6125 7708

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Areas of expertise

Computer Vision 080104
Image Processing 080106
Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing 0801
Virtual Reality And Related Simulation 080111
Adaptive Agents And Intelligent Robotics 080101

Research interests

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

VR and AR

Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning

Robotics, Autonomous Driving, Autonomous vehicle

Biography

Chief Investigator Professor Hongdong Li has been with the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University (ANU) since 2004. He was seconded to National ICT Australia (NICTA) as a Senior Research Scientist during 2008-2010 working on the 'Australia Bionic Eyes' Project. From 2010 he assumed a tenured position with ANU, doing teaching and research in 3D computer vision and robotics at ANU. He as one of the founding CIs joined the ACRV from 2014. During 2017—2018 he was a Visiting Professor with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh. During 2019-2020 he served as the Associate School Director for ANU Research School of Engineering.

Hongdong’s primary research interests are 3D Computer Vision, Multi-view geometry, camera calibration and optimal 3D registration, deep learning for autonomous driving. His research addresses both fundamental problems and applied AI systems in dynamic environments. He serves on the Editorial Boards for leading journals in artificial intelligence, such as as the Associate Editor for IEEE T-PAMI (Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence), Guest Editor for IJCV (International journal of computer vision), editor for IVC (Image and Vision Computing), IET-Computer Vision, and IPSJ CVA (Computer Vision and Application). He served regularly as Area Chair and Session Chair for recent years' IEEE CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV etc. premier conferences in computer vision. He was the Co-Program Chair for Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA) in 2015 and DICTA 2017, as well as a co-Program Chair for ACCV-2018 and ACCV 2022 “Asian Conference on Computer Vision”. His recent works focus on learning in 3D perception for plant sciences and vision based spatial-awareness computation, and efficient and robust robot navigation in unfamiliar environments.

Jointly with his students and co-workers he won a number of most prestigious awards in computer vision, including the “David Marr Prize- Honourable mention” in 2017, the IEEE CVPR Best Paper Award in 2012, and IEEE ICIP Best Student Paper Prize in 2014, and IEEE ICPR Best student Paper in 2010. Both the Marr Prize and CVPR Best Paper Award are highly regarded awards in the international computer vision community. He has supervised/co-supervised/graduated 20+ PhD students in the area of computer vision. His research projects have been funded by Australia Research Council, CSIRO, as well as by global technical firms including Microsoft Research, General Motors, Toshiba, Baidu AI etc.

Available student projects

Image based 3D plant modeling - Keywords: Computer vision, 3D reconstruction, Multi-view Geometry, Structure from motion, computer graphics.

Past student projects

Computer vision

Machine Learning and deep learning

hand held 3D vision modelling

autonomous vehicle

Autonomous driving

SLAM

mobile robot navigation

virtual reality and augmented reality

Artificial intelligence

Publications

Y. Dai, Li, H, M. He, 2012, 'A simpel Prior-free approach for nonrigid structure from motion', 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

Kusakunniran, W, Wu, Q, Zhang, J et al 2011, 'Speed-invariant gait recognition based on Procrustes Shape Analysis using higher-order shape configuration', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2011, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Piscataway USA, pp. 545 - 548.

Sun, J, Li, H & He, X 2011, 'Analysis on Tree Structure Selection for MRF Inference in Low-level Vision', 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications(DICTA 2011), ed. A P Bradley, Y Gal, P Jackway and O Salvado, IEEE, United States, p. 6.

Dong, Z, Kong, Y, Liu, C et al 2011, 'Recognizing Human Interaction by Multiple Features', Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2011), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Unknown, pp. 77-81.

Ming, Y, Li, H & Sun, J 2011, 'Line Drawing Interpretation Using Belief Propagation', 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications(DICTA 2011), ed. A P Bradley, Y Gal, P Jackway and O Salvado, IEEE, United States, pp. 113-118.

Dai, Y, He, M, Li, H et al 2011, 'Factorization-based Structure-and-motion Computation for Generalized Camera Model', International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2011), IEEE Communications Society, Piscataway USA, pp. 1-6.

Kusakunniran, W, Wu, Q, Zhang, J et al 2011, 'Pairwise Shape Configuration-based PSA for Gait Recognition under Small Viewing Angle Change', IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS 2011), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Unknown, pp. 17-22.

Du, X, Li, H & Zhu, Y 2011, 'Camera lens radial distortion correction using two-view projective invariants', Optics Letters, vol. 36, no. 24, pp. 4734-4736.

Sun, J, Li, H & He, X 2011, 'Efficient Image Denoising by MRF Approximation with Uniform-Sampled Multi-Spanning-Tree', International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG 2011), ed. Nenghai Yu and Yujin Zhang, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 88-93.

Li, H 2010, 'Multi-view structure computation without explicitly estimating motion', Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), San Francisco, USA, pp. 2777-2784.

Kim, J, Li, H & Hartley, R 2010, 'Motion Estimation for Nonoverlapping Multicamera Rigs: Linear Algebraic and L infinity Geometric Solutions', IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1044-1059.

Wen, Z, Lambert, A, Fraser, D et al 2010, 'Bispectral analysis and recovery of images distorted by a moving water surface', Applied Optics, vol. 49, no. 33, pp. 6376-6384.

Lim, J, Barnes, N & Li, H 2010, 'Estimating Relative Camera Motion from the Antipodal-Epipolar Constraint', IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1907-U188.

Kusakunniran, W, Wu, Q, Zhang, J et al 2010, 'Support Vector Regression for Multi-View Gait Recognition based on Local Motion Feature Selection', Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), San Francisco, USA, pp. 974-981.

Kusakunniran, W, Wu, Q, Zhang, J et al. 2010, 'Multi-view Gait Recognition Based on Motion Regression using Multilayer Perceptron', International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE, Piscataway USA, pp. 2186-2189.

Dai, Y, Li, H & He, M 2010, 'Element-Wise Factorization for N-View Projective Reconstruction', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010), ed. K. Daniilidis, P. Maragos, N. Paragios, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 396-409.

Lu, Y, Wang, L, Hartley, R et al 2010, 'Gradual Sampling and Mutual Information Maximisation for Markerless Motion Capture', 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010), ed. R Kimmel, R Klette and A Sugimoto, Springer, Berlin, p. 12.

Lu, Y, Wang, L, Li, H et al 2010, 'Compressive Evaluation in Human Motion Tracking', 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010), ed. R Kimmel, R Klette and A Sugimoto, Springer, Berlin, p. 12.

Lu, Y, Xu, D, Wang, L et al 2010, 'Illumination invariant sequential filtering human tracking', International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway USA, pp. 2133 - 2138.

Kusakunniran, W, Li, H & Zhang, J 2009, 'A direct method to self-calibrate a surveillance camera by observing a walking pedestrian', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 250-255.

Kusakunniran, W, Li, H & Zhang, J 2009, 'A direct method to self-calibrate a surveillance camera by observing a walking pedestrian', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 250-255.

Kusakunniran, W, Wu, Q, Li, H et al. 2009, 'Automatic gait recognition using weighted binary pattern on video', 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009, IEEE, Genova, pp. 49-54.

Yang, D & Li, H 2009, 'A probabilistic demons algorithm for texture-rich image registration', 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009, IEEE, Cairo, pp. 161-164.

Dai, Y, He, M & Li, H 2009, 'Two efficient algorithms for outlier removal in multi-view geometry using L8 norm', 5th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2009, IEEE, Xi'an, Shanxi, pp. 325-330.

Li, H 2009, 'Consensus Set Maximization with Guaranteed Global Optimality for Robust Geometry Estimation', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 1074-1080.

Dai, Y, Trumpf, J, Li, H et al. 2009, 'Rotation averaging with application to camera-rig calibration', Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 1-12.

Li, H 2009, 'Efficient Reduction of L-infinity Geometry Problems', Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2009), ed. Pat Flynn, Eric Mortensen, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Miami, USA, pp. 2695-2702.

Kusakunniran, W, Wu, Q, Li, H et al 2009, 'Multiple Views Gait Recognition using View Transformation Model Based on Optimized Gait Energy Image', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 1058-1064.

Yang, D & Li, H 2009, 'Learning Varying Dimension Radial Basis Functions for Deformable Image Alignment', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 344-351.

Samarasinghe, D, Kennedy, R & Li, H 2009, 'On Non-blind Image Restoration', International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 1-7.

Dai, Y, Li, H, He, M et al 2009, 'Smooth Approximation of L-infinity-Norm for Multi-view Geometry', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 339-346.

Zhang, Y, Wang, L, Hartley, R et al 2009, 'Handling Significant Scale Difference for Object Retrieval in a Supermarket', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 468-475.

Lu, Y, Wang, L, Hartley, R et al 2008, 'Multi-view Human Motion Capture with An Improved Deformation Skin Model', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2008), ed. A. Robles-Kelly, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway, NJ USA, pp. 420-427.

Shen, C, Li, H & Brooks, M 2008, 'Self-Calibrating Cameras Using Semidefinite Programming', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2008), ed. A. Robles-Kelly, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway, NJ USA, pp. 436-441.

Li, H, Hartley, R & Kim, J 2008, 'A linear approach to motion estimation using generalized camera models', Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2008), ed. Linda Shapiro, Narendra Ahuja, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, p. 8.

Shen, C, Li, H & Brooks, M 2008, 'Supervised dimensionality reduction via sequential semidefinite programming', Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 3644-3652.

Li, H & Shen, C 2008, 'Interactive color image segmentation with linear programming', Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 403-412.

Kim, J, Li, H & Hartley, R 2008, 'Motion Estimation for Multi-Camera Systems using Global Optimization', Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2008), ed. Linda Shapiro, Narendra Ahuja, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, p. 8.

Li, H 2007, 'Two-View Motion Segmentation from Linear Programming Relaxation', Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2007), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 1-8.

Li, H 2007, 'A practical algorithm for L triangulation with outliers', Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2007), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 1 - 8.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2007, 'Conformal spherical representation of 3D genus-zero meshes', Pattern Recognition, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 2742-2753.

Shen, C, Li, H & Brooks, M 2007, 'A Convex Programming Approach to the Trace Quotient Problem', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2007), ed. Murk J Bottema, Anthony Maeder, Nick Redding, Anton van den Hengel, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Australia, pp. 227-235.

Wen, Z, Fraser, D, Lambert, A et al 2007, 'Reconstruction of Underwater Image by Bispectrum', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2007, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, p. 4.

Li, H & Shen, C 2007, 'Object-respecting color image segmentation', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2007, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 257-260.

Shen, C, Li, H & Brooks, M 2007, 'Feature Extraction Using Sequential Semidefinite Programming', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2007), ed. Murk J Bottema, Anthony Maeder, Nick Redding, Anton van den Hengel, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Australia, p. 8.

Zhang, Y, Wang, L, Hartley, R et al 2007, 'Where's the Weet-Bix?', Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2007), ed. Yasushi Yagi, Sing Bing Kang, In-So Kweon, Hongbin Zha, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 800-810.

Li, H, Shen, C & Wen, Z 2007, 'Color Image Labelling Using Linear Programming', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2007), ed. Murk J Bottema, Anthony Maeder, Nick Redding, Anton van den Hengel, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Australia, p. 6.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2007, 'The 3D-3D registration problem revisited', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2007), ed. A. Elgammal et al., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Berlin Germany, p. 8.

Lu, F & Li, H 2007, 'KLDA - An Iterative Approach to Fisher Discriminant Analysis', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2007, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 201-204.

Wang, L, Li, H & Hartley, R 2006, 'Video Local Pattern based Image Matching for Visual Mapping', International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), ed. Bob Werner, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Los Alamitos US, pp. 67 - 70.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2006, 'Five-Point Motion Estimation Made Easy', International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), ed. Bob Werner, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Los Alamitos US, pp. 630-633.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2006, 'New 3D Fourier Descriptors for Genus-Zero Mesh Objects', Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2006), ed. P.J. Narajanan, Shree K. Nayar and Heung-Yeung Shum, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 734-743.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2006, 'Plane-Based Calibration and Auto-calibration of a Fish-Eye Camera', Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2006), ed. P.J. Narajanan, Shree K. Nayar and Heung-Yeung Shum, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 21-30.

Li, H & Shen, C 2006, 'An LMI approach for reliable PTZ self-calibration', IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2006), ed. M. Piccardi, T. Hintz, I. Pavlidis, C. Regazzoni, X. He, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Sydney, p. 6.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2006, 'Inverse tensor transfer with applications to novel view synthesis and multi-baseline stereo', Signal Processing, vol. 21, pp. 724-738.

Shen, C, Li, H & Brooks, M 2006, 'Classification-based likelihood functions for Bayesian tracking', IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2006), ed. M. Piccardi, T. Hintz, I. Pavlidis, C. Regazzoni, X. He, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Sydney, pp. 1-5.

Li, H 2006, 'A simple solution to the six-point two-view focal-length problem', European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006), ed. Ales Leonardis, Horst Bischof, Axel Pinz, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 200-213.

Li, H, Hartley, R & Wang, L 2005, 'Auto-calibration of a Compound-type Omnidirectional Camera', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2005), ed. Brian Lovell, Anthony Maeder, Terry Caelli, Sebastien Ourselin, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway, USA, pp. 1-8.

Zhu, B & Li, H 2005, 'Image Completion from Low-level Learning', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2005), ed. Brian Lovell, Anthony Maeder, Terry Caelli, Sebastien Ourselin, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway, USA, pp. 1-7.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2005, 'A non-iterative method for lens distortion correction from nine point correspondences', IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), ed. Bob Werner, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, p. 8.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2005, 'Feature Matching and Pose Estimation Using Newton Iteration', International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing 2005, ed. Fabio Roli, Segio Vitulano, Springer, Germany, pp. 196-203.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2005, 'Inverse tensor transfer for novel view synthesis', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2005, ed. Moncef Gabbou, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. II-97-II-100.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2005, 'Rectification-Free Multibaseline Stereo for Non-ideal Configurations', International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing 2005, ed. Fabio Roli, Segio Vitulano, Springer, Germany, pp. 811-817.

Li, H, Hartley, R & Burkhardt, H 2005, 'Discrete Conformal Shape Representation and Reconstruction of 3D Mesh Objects', International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing 2005, ed. Fabio Roli, Segio Vitulano, Springer, Germany, pp. 535-542.

Burkhardt, H, Reisert, M & Li, H 2004, 'Invariants for discrete structures - An extension of Haar Integrals over transformation groups to Dirac delta functions', Pattern Recognition Symposium (DAGM 2004), ed. C.E. Rasmussen, H. H. BÃ¼lthoff, M. A. Giese, B.SchÃ¶lkopf, Springer, Germany, p. 8.

Du, X, Li, H & Gu, W 2004, 'A Simple Rectification Method for Linear Multi-baseline Stereovision System', Zhejiang University. Journal (Science), vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 567-571.

Li, H & Hartley, R 2004, 'A New and Compact Algorithm For Simultaneously Matching and Estimation', IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. III-5-8.

Yao, T, Li, H, Liu, G et al 2002, 'A fast and robust face location and feature extraction system', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2002, ed. IEEE Signal Processing Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), United States, pp. Vol 1, 160.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

Next Generation Graduates Program - AI Enabled Advanced Materials Technology (Secondary Investigator)

Two-way Auslan: Automatic Machine Translation of Australian Sign Language (Primary Investigator)

Data61 Scholarship Agreement Jinguang Tong (Primary Investigator)

CECS ANU Optus Bushfire Project: Tower Camera based Video Analytics for Early Bushfire Detection (Secondary Investigator)

Aerial Imagery based Localization for Autonomous Vehicles (Primary Investigator)

Hierarchical Manifold Discovery for Ensemble One-Class Classifiers (Primary Investigator)

Spatial CCTV (Primary Investigator)

A world-class machine learning facility for Australia (Secondary Investigator)

Leveraging 3D Computer Vision for Camera-based Precise Geo-Localisation (Primary Investigator)

New methods for Computer Vision based Low-Cost Mobile 3D Mapping and Map Update for Autonomous Driving (Primary Investigator)

Stereo-vision based geographical localisation in urban environment: algorithm research and software development (Primary Investigator)

Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes from Multi-Camera Systems (Primary Investigator)

Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision (CRV) (Secondary Investigator)

Hybrid optimization for automatic large-scale video annotation (Secondary Investigator)

Structure-without-motion: large-scale 3D reconstruction from distributed and unorganized images (Primary Investigator)

Optimization methods in Computer Vision Problems/Computer Vision and Optimization on Manifolds(linked to ARIES 25673) (Secondary Investigator)

Generic content-based news picture retrieval with local invariant features (Secondary Investigator)

Advancing Medical Image Analysis through High Performance Heterogeneous Computing, Numerical Simulation, and Novel Human Computer Interfaces (Secondary Investigator)

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