ECU's purpose-built laboratories are fully equipped with state-of the art equipment.
Delegates from the 2024 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques & Applications (DICTA 2024) visited to Edith Cowan University's (ECU's) Joondalup Campus on November 26, to tour the CT Scanner facilities at the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Resources.
The CT scanner is part of ECU's purpose-built laboratories that are fully equipped with state-of the art equipment, and which cater to a range of functions including the characterisation of multi-phase fluid flow in porous media by providing high-resolution, three-dimensional images of the internal structure of rock samples.
The DICTA conference was established in 1991 as a flagship conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS) and has been historically co-sponsored technically by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
The three-day conference, which was held at the Novotel Hotel, was led by ECU senior lecturer Dr Syem Mohammad Shamsul Islam, who also acted as General Chair for the conference. ECU Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Professor Caroline Finch was a speaker in the opening ceremony.
The conference also featured a keynote address by School of Science's Professor David Suter, who spoke on computer vision.
Professor Suter's presentation offered a personal perspective on 40 years of Computer Vision research, covering the period from 1985 to 2024. The presentation focused on how the "mindset" in computer vision has evolved. While the field once concentrated on understanding the physics and geometry of image formation, it now focuses on machine learning models.
ECU School of Engineering Executive Dean, Professor Paulo de Souza featured on an industry panel discussion addressing how digital imaging was likely progress within the next ten years. The Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML) and one of the honorary general chairs of the conference was the featured speaker of the gala dinner and award ceremony which took place at Optus stadium.
ECU was the hosting university and one of the major sponsors of the 2024 DICTA conference, offering assistance with conference registration, logistics and staffing.
Associate Professor Douglas Chai, Dr Jumana Abu-Khalaf, Dr Afaq Shah and Dr Violetta Wilk from ECU held key roles in the organising committee and a number of HDR students from the School of Science and School of Engineering served as volunteers.
