Professor Brian Lovell
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Brian Lovell

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Background

Brian C. Lovell, born in Brisbane, Australia in 1960, received his BE in Electrical Engineering (Honours I) in 1982, BSc in Computer Science in 1983, and PhD in Signal Processing in 1991, all from the University of Queensland (UQ). Currently, he is the Project Leader of the Advanced Surveillance Group at UQ. Professor Lovell served as the President of the International Association of Pattern Recognition from 2008 to 2010, is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IEAust, Fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association, and has been a voting member for Australia on the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition since 1998.

He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Guwahati, India; an Associate Editor of the Pattern Recognition Journal; an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Machine Learning Research Journal; a member of the IAPR TC4 on Biometrics; and a member of the Awards Committee and Education Committee of the IEEE Biometrics Council.

In addition, Professor Lovell has chaired and co-chaired numerous international conferences in the field of pattern recognition, including ICPR2008, ACPR2011, ICIP2013, ICPR2016, and ICPR2020. His Advanced Surveillance Group has collaborated with port, rail, and airport organizations, as well as several national and international agencies, to develop technology-based solutions for operational and security concerns.

His current research projects are in the fields of:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • StyleGAN
  • Stable Diffusion
  • Deep Learning
  • Biometrics
  • Robust Face Recognition using Deep Learning
  • Masked Face Recognition for COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Adversarial Attacks on AI Systems
  • Digital Pathology
  • Neurofibroma Detection and Assessment
  • Object Detection with Deep Learning

I am actively recruiting PhD students in Artificial Intelligence to work with my team. If you are interested and have a strong record from a good university, with a publication in a good conference such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, or MICCAI please send your CV to me. Full Scholarships (Tuition and Living) can be awarded within one month for truly exceptional candidates.

Availability

Professor Brian Lovell is:
Available for supervision
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Fields of research

Artificial intelligence Computer vision Computer vision and multimedia computation Engineering Image processing Information and Computing Sciences Pattern recognition

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Engineering, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Face Recognition with Deep Learning

    We develop new technologies to improve face recognition. Our group is first in the world to develop face recognition databases based entirely on synthetic faces. Other aspects of face recognition and affective computing (determining emotions from facial expressions) are current research themes within the group.

  • Object Detection Using Deep Learning

    We are researching improved techniques to identify small objects with high precision

  • Synthetic Face and Image Generation

    We were the first to investigate training face recognition systems on synthetic faces.

Research impacts

I have been pleased that my biometrics and other research has and is being been adopted commercially worldwide. My earlier face recognition systems have been installed by the University of San Francisco and Swinburne University among many other sites. More recently we have developed face recognition systems that are insensitive to the wearing of masks. These systems depend on our EDITH Ethical Face database of synthetic faces. To the best of our knowledge, we are the only group worldwide who can synthesise faces to order to train advanced ethical face recognition systems.

These systems have been adopted in the UK in 2020 by Facewatch Ltd and are currently being considered by the UK National Health Service and also Queensland Health to manage COVID 19 quarantine facilities and border control. In 2020-2021 we developed a touchless face mask fitting system for health workers to reduce the wastage of PPE and improve COVID19 management. This system is deployed on Queensland Health IT infrastructure in February 2021 and is planned to be made available nationally and internationally. The system has the potential to save millions of dollars in wasted PPE.

PRIZES, HONOURS AND AWARDS

Fellow of the IAPR, 2008 Multiple Best Paper prizes. Awarded Certificate of Recognition as most downloaded author at UQ by UQCybrary. Over 26,000 copies of my research papers were downloaded from the UQ EPrints archive in the 12 months ending May, 2005. APICTA Trophy for Best Research and Development, 2011, Face Recognition in a Crowd IFSEC Trophy 2011, Best CCTV Product of the Year (excluding cameras and lens), Face Recognition in a Crowd Technology Winner, ADS Security Innovation Award, 2021, Galahad facial detection and recognition software, awarded by the UK Home Office at the Security and Policing Show on March 9, 2021.

Search Professor Brian Lovell’s works on UQ eSpace

355 works between 1988 and 2025
All (355) Journal Article (104) Book Chapter (19) Conference Publication (222) Book (1) Other Outputs (3) Edited Outputs (6)

101 - 120 of 355 works

2016

Journal Article

HEp-2 staining pattern recognition at cell and specimen levels: datasets, algorithms and results

Hobson, Peter, Lovell, Brian C., Percannella, Gennaro, Saggese, Alessia, Vento, Mario and Wiliem, Arnold (2016). HEp-2 staining pattern recognition at cell and specimen levels: datasets, algorithms and results. Pattern Recognition Letters, 82 (SI), 12-22. doi: 10.1016/j.patrec.2016.07.013

HEp-2 staining pattern recognition at cell and specimen levels: datasets, algorithms and results

2016

Conference Publication

Is Alice chasing or being chased?: Determining subject and object of activities in videos

Zhang, Teng, Liu, Liangchen, Wiliem, Arnold and Lovell, Brian (2016). Is Alice chasing or being chased?: Determining subject and object of activities in videos. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Placid, NY, United States, 7-10 March 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WACV.2016.7477710

Is Alice chasing or being chased?: Determining subject and object of activities in videos

2015

Journal Article

Benchmarking human epithelial type 2 interphase cells classification methods on a very large dataset

Hobson, Peter, Lovell, Brian C., Percannella, Gennaro, Vento, Mario and Wiliem, Arnold (2015). Benchmarking human epithelial type 2 interphase cells classification methods on a very large dataset. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 65 (3), 239-250. doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2015.08.001

Benchmarking human epithelial type 2 interphase cells classification methods on a very large dataset

2015

Journal Article

Efficient clustering on Riemannian manifolds: A kernelised random projection approach

Zhao, Kun, Alavi, Azadeh, Wiliem, Arnold and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Efficient clustering on Riemannian manifolds: A kernelised random projection approach. Pattern Recognition, 51, 333-345. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2015.09.017

Efficient clustering on Riemannian manifolds: A kernelised random projection approach

2015

Journal Article

Positive and negative ionospheric storms occurring during the 15 May 2005 geomagnetic superstorm

Horvath, Ildiko and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Positive and negative ionospheric storms occurring during the 15 May 2005 geomagnetic superstorm. Journal of Geophysical Research A: Space Physics, 120 (9), 7822-7837. doi: 10.1002/2015JA021206

Positive and negative ionospheric storms occurring during the 15 May 2005 geomagnetic superstorm

2015

Journal Article

Extrinsic methods for coding and dictionary learning on grassmann manifolds

Harandi, Mehrtash, Hartley, Richard, Shen, Chunhua, Lovell, Brian and Sanderson, Conrad (2015). Extrinsic methods for coding and dictionary learning on grassmann manifolds. International Journal of Computer Vision, 114 (2-3), 113-136. doi: 10.1007/s11263-015-0833-x

Extrinsic methods for coding and dictionary learning on grassmann manifolds

2015

Journal Article

A bag of cells approach for antinuclear antibodies HEp-2 image classification

Wiliem, Arnold, Hobson, Peter, Minchin, Rodney F. and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). A bag of cells approach for antinuclear antibodies HEp-2 image classification. Cytometry. Part A, 87 (6), 549-557. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.22597

A bag of cells approach for antinuclear antibodies HEp-2 image classification

2015

Journal Article

Hand pose recognition from monocular images by geometrical and texture analysis

Bhuyan, M. K., MacDorman, Karl F., Kar, Mithun Kumar, Neog, Debanga Raj, Lovell, Brian C. and Gadde, Prathik (2015). Hand pose recognition from monocular images by geometrical and texture analysis. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 28, 39-55. doi: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.12.001

Hand pose recognition from monocular images by geometrical and texture analysis

2015

Journal Article

Storm-enhanced plasma density and polar tongue of ionization development during the 15 May 2005 superstorm

Horvath, Ildiko and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Storm-enhanced plasma density and polar tongue of ionization development during the 15 May 2005 superstorm. Journal of Geophysical Research A: Space Physics, 120 (6), 5101-5116. doi: 10.1002/2014JA020980

Storm-enhanced plasma density and polar tongue of ionization development during the 15 May 2005 superstorm

2015

Journal Article

Guest editorial special issue on distributed smart sensing for mobile vision

Bhanu, Bir, Lovell, Brian, Prati, Andrea and Qureshi, Faisal (2015). Guest editorial special issue on distributed smart sensing for mobile vision. IEEE Sensors Journal, 15 (5) 7067023, 2631-2631. doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2413151

Guest editorial special issue on distributed smart sensing for mobile vision

2015

Journal Article

Face recognition on consumer devices: reflections on replay attacks

Smith, Daniel F., Wiliem, Arnold and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Face recognition on consumer devices: reflections on replay attacks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 10 (4) 7029643, 736-745. doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2398819

Face recognition on consumer devices: reflections on replay attacks

2015

Journal Article

Novelty detection in human tracking based on spatiotemporal oriented energies

Emami, Ali, Harandi, Mehrtash T., Dadgostar, Farhad and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Novelty detection in human tracking based on spatiotemporal oriented energies. Pattern Recognition, 48 (3), 812-826. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.07.004

Novelty detection in human tracking based on spatiotemporal oriented energies

2015

Journal Article

Investigating storm-enhanced density and polar tongue of ionization development during the 22 October 1999 great storm

Horvath, Ildiko and Lovell, Brian C (2015). Investigating storm-enhanced density and polar tongue of ionization development during the 22 October 1999 great storm. Journal of Geophysical Research A: Space Physics, 120 (2), 1428-1444. doi: 10.1002/2014JA020598

Investigating storm-enhanced density and polar tongue of ionization development during the 22 October 1999 great storm

2015

Conference Publication

Detecting kangaroos in the wild: the first step towards automated animal surveillance

Zhang, Teng, Wiliem, Arnold, Hemson, Graham and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Detecting kangaroos in the wild: the first step towards automated animal surveillance. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19-24 April 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178313

Detecting kangaroos in the wild: the first step towards automated animal surveillance

2015

Conference Publication

Kernelised orthonormal random projection on grassmann manifolds with applications to action and gait-based gender recognition

Zhao, Kun, Wiliem, Arnold and Lovell, Brian (2015). Kernelised orthonormal random projection on grassmann manifolds with applications to action and gait-based gender recognition. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis, ISBA 2015, Hong Kong, March 23-25, 2015. Piscataway, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISBA.2015.7126348

Kernelised orthonormal random projection on grassmann manifolds with applications to action and gait-based gender recognition

2015

Conference Publication

An optimization approach to scanning skin direct immunofluorescence specimens

Samak, Asser, Wiliem, Arnold, Hobson, Peter, Walsh, Michael, Ditchmen, Ted, Troskie, Arne, Barksdale, Sarah, Edwards, Rhonda, Jennings, Anthony and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). An optimization approach to scanning skin direct immunofluorescence specimens. International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 23-25 November 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/DICTA.2015.7371230

An optimization approach to scanning skin direct immunofluorescence specimens

2015

Conference Publication

A multiple covariance approach for cell detection of Gram-stained smears images

Crossman, Matthew, Wiliem, Arnold, Finucane, Paul, Jennings, Anthony and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). A multiple covariance approach for cell detection of Gram-stained smears images. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19-24 April 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178106

A multiple covariance approach for cell detection of Gram-stained smears images

2015

Book Chapter

Coordinate coding on the riemannian manifold of symmetric positive-definite matrices for image classification

Harandi, Mehrtash, Basirat, Mina and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Coordinate coding on the riemannian manifold of symmetric positive-definite matrices for image classification. Riemannian computing in computer vision. (pp. 345-361) edited by Pavan Turaga and Anuj Srivastava. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22957-7_16

Coordinate coding on the riemannian manifold of symmetric positive-definite matrices for image classification

2015

Conference Publication

Binary watermarks: a practical method to address face recognition replay attacks on consumer mobile devices

Smith, Danny F., Wiliem, Arnold and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). Binary watermarks: a practical method to address face recognition replay attacks on consumer mobile devices. IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, 23-25 March 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ISBA.2015.7126344

Binary watermarks: a practical method to address face recognition replay attacks on consumer mobile devices

2015

Conference Publication

A benchmarking platform for mitotic cell classification of ANA IIF HEp-2 images

Miros, Anastasia, Wiliem, Arnold, Holohan, Kim, Ball, Lauren, Hobson, Peter and Lovell, Brian C. (2015). A benchmarking platform for mitotic cell classification of ANA IIF HEp-2 images. International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 23-25 November 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/DICTA.2015.7371213

A benchmarking platform for mitotic cell classification of ANA IIF HEp-2 images

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2029
    Application of AI/Machine Learning, computer vision and automated systems
    UniQuest Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2026
    The Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) Cutaneous Neurofibroma Consortium: Identifying Genetic modifiers of disease burden to inform treatment pathways (MRFF Neurofibromatosis led by Uni Newcastle)
    University of Newcastle
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2021 - 2025
    UQAI Scholarship
    AR Live Systems Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    N95 Mask Fitment
    Queensland Health
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    AR Live Face Recognition and AI Project
    AR Live Systems Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    Justified Autonomous Unmanned Aerial System Effect (Defence CRC for Trusted Autonomous Systems project led by Skyborne Technologies Pty Ltd)
    Skyborne Technologies Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Development of a standalone program for the automation of quantitative fractography - 2
    Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Expanding Wiener, a high performance GPU cluster
    UQ Research Facilities Infrastructure Grants
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2020
    Digitisation and image recognition in environmental chemistry
    UniQuest Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2022
    Fusion of Digital Microscopy and Plain Text Reports for Automated Analysis
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Further development of a demonstrator for the automation of quantitative fractography
    Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2019
    Vision based automated corrosion analysis for galvanised steel lattice towers
    UniQuest Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Development of a demonstrator for the automation of quantitative fractography
    Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group
    Open grant
  • 2015
    ILC Coal Carry Back Project
    Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Industry Internship Program
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    AMSI computer vision project
    Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Industry Internship Program
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2017
    Application of manifold-based image analysis to identify subtle changes in digitally-captured pathology samples
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2013
    AMSI Internship Program - Vehicle number plate identification
    Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Industry Internship Program
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Investigating repeatable ionospheric features during large space storms and superstorms
    United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2016
    Forensic reasoning and uncertainty: Identifying pattern and impression expertise
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Baseline Rail Level Crossing Video (R2.119)
    CRC for Rail Innovation
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Assessing error in forensic identification: The development of scientific and legal standards of evidence
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2009
    Markov field theory applied to sensor networks analysis and design (ARC DP0772218 administered by University of South Australia)
    University of South Australia
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2008
    Intelligent Closed Circuit TV (ICCTV) project
    National ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA)
    Open grant
  • 2004
    ARC Network in Imaging Science and Technology
    ARC Seed Funding for Research Networks
    Open grant
  • 1996
    Development of metrics for texture classification algorithms
    University of Queensland New Staff Research Grant
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Brian Lovell is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Advanced Strategies to Alleviate Challenges of Data Scarcity in Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Marcus Gallagher

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Out-of-Distribution Generalisation and Detection in Feature Embedding Space

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Pose Estimation for Human with Disabilities

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Xin Yu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Generating data-driven continuous optimization problems for benchmarking

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Marcus Gallagher

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Modelling cloud movement to generate short term solar irradiance predictions and subsequent expected PV power production

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Eve McDonald-Madden, Dr Hui Ma

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Professor Brian Lovell directly for media enquiries about:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biometrics
  • Border control
  • Computer modelling
  • Computer vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Face Recognition
  • Face-recognition technology
  • Identification technology
  • Image processing
  • Information technology
  • National security surveillance
  • Networks - neural
  • Neural networks - artificial
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Pattern recognition - digital imaging
  • Signal Processing
  • Wearable Technologies

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