Environmental informatics studies how information can be acquired, processed, modelled, and communicated for environmental sciences and management. It concerns new knowledge, technologies and devices for early detection of pest and plant disease, better water resource management, plant phenomics, land environment monitoring, costal environment monitoring and management, marine life surveillance, automatic species identification and biosecurity, etc. In this talk, we will briefly introduce some work in species identification at Environmental Informatics@Griffith, including recognition without detection (background), large image database retrieval (speed vs accuracy), and pose difference (viewing angle)

Speaker Bioï¼
Professor Yongsheng Gao is the founding director of Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab and the research leader of the Environmental Informatics flagship program at Griffith University. He served as the project leader of Biosecurity Group, National ICT Australia (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence) from 2009 to 2011. As a Chief Investigator, he has been working on projects in Australia, Germany, Singapore, and China in the area of computer vision, pattern recognition, biomedical engineering and system integration. He was also employed as a consultant by Panasonic Singapore Laboratories Pte Ltd working on the face recognition standard in MPEG-7. His research has appeared in major newspapers in Australia and Singapore, including The Australian; The Courier Mail; The Sydney Morning Herald and The Straits Times (Singapore).