Personal
- Name
- Associate Professor Clinton Fookes
- Position(s)
- Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,
Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing - Discipline *
- Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 2458
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 1516
- c.fookes@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), B. Engineering (Aero/Av) (1st Hon) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Professional memberships
and associations - Keywords
-
Biometrics, Computer Vision, Face Recognition, Image Processing, Intelligent Surveillance, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Person Tracking, Super-Resolution, Visual Attention
Biography
Clinton Fookes is an Associate Professor with the Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies group within the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering and the Information Security Institute at QUT. He holds a BEng (Aero/Av) and a PhD in the field of computer vision. Clinton actively researches in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition including intelligent surveillance, biometrics, airport security and operations, human-computer interaction, multimedia, command and control, and complex systems. Clinton has attracted over $7.5M of cash funding for fundamental and applied research from external competitive sources and has published over 80 internationally peer-reviewed articles. He is the technical director for the Airports of the Future collaborative research project. He is a member of professional organisations including the IEEE and APRS. He is also an Australian Institute of Policy and Science Young Tall Poppy and an Australian Museum Eureka Prize winner.
Selected Keynote/Invited Talks
- 2011: Keynote – Biometrics Institute Australia 12th Conference and Exhibition, Sydney.
- 2011: Keynote – Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association, Darwin.
- 2010: 5th Annual Aviation and Airport Security Summit, Sydney.
- 2010: Keynote – Science in Parliament, QLD Government.
- 2010: Indo-Australian Conference on Information Technology Security.
- 2010: Keynote – ACM International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi.
- 2009: Innovative Airports Conference at Inter-airport Europe – the world’s premier exhibition on airport equipment, technology, design and services, Munich.
- 2008: International Summer School on Biometrics, Alghero.
- 2007 – 2010: Aviation Security Advisory Forum.
- 2007 – 2010: Aviation Security and Technology Task Force.
- 2007 – 2010: The National Passenger Facilitation Committee.
- 2007: Keynote – Asia-Pacific Smart Card Association Conference.
Teaching
- Software Systems Design
- Advanced Digital Signal Processing
- Image Processing & Computer Vision
- Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Engineering Systems
Experience
Research Areas
- Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition.
- Biometrics, Intelligent Surveillance, Person Tracking, Super-Resolution, Camera Management.
- Airport Security, Airport Operations, Complexity Science.
- Face Recognition, Human Activity Recognition, Gait Recognition.
- Image Registration, Stereo Vision, Medical Imaging.
- Audio-Visual Processing, Visual Attention.
Research applications include
- Security – biometrics, intelligent 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, operational monitoring and agent-based modelling.
- Energy – energy audits, thermal infra-red surveillance.
Community engagement
- QUT’s response to the National Aviation Policy Issues Paper (PDF, 560KB)
- Ethos Research Leaders Forum
- Keynote for the PM’s National Security Executive Development Program
- QLD Government’s Talking Scientists Program
- Australian Insitute of Policy & Science Tall Poppy Engagement Scientific Community Service
Reviewer for
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence
- Journal of Image and Vision Computing
- Journal of Computer Science
- The American Journal of Applied Sciences
- Book chapters of IGI-Global
- ARC Assessor
Technical Program Committees
- 2009 – 2011: International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonic Technology
- 2008 – 2011: European Signal Processing Conference.
- 2006 – 2011: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video & Signal based Surveillance
- 2007 – 2011: IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image & Video Technology
- 2009 – 2010: Workshop on Video-Oriented Object & Event Classification
- 2007: Workshop on Non-Rigid Registration & Tracking through Learning
- 2006 – 2007: Beyond Patches joined with the International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition
- 2003, 2005: Digital Image Computing: Techniques & Applications Conference
- 2003: Editor for the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems
Publications
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- 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.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Omniscient Face Recognition for Uncooperative Subjects
- Primary fund type
- Australian Competitive Grants
- 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
- Australian Competitive Grants
- Project ID
- PR09-0089
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Video Surveillance, Video Event Detection
- Title
- Airports of the Future
- Primary fund type
- Australian Competitive Grants
- 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,
- Title
- Intelligent Surveillance System and Early Warning Support for Monitoring Human Traffic
- Primary fund type
- Australian Competitive Grants
- Project ID
- NSST
- Start year
- 2006
- Keywords
- Video Surveillance, Person Tracking, Face Recognition, Gait Recognition, Human Action Recognition
