Professor Joe Chicharo is Dean of Informatics at the University of Wollongong. Prior to this position, Joe was Head of the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (2002). Joe joined the university in 1985 as a Lecturer, completing his PhD thesis in 1989, before being appointed Professor of Telecommunications Engineering in 1997. Prior to this time, Joe gained considerable industrial experience with BHP in automation and systems engineering as well as large capital project design and management. Joe's research interests include internet-enabling technologies, services and networks, and digital signal processing dealing with adaptive systems and speech processing issues.
Articles
Study on Generalized Analysis Model for Fringe Pattern Profilometry (with Y. Hu, J. Xi, Z. Yang, and E. Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
This paper presents a generalized analysis model for fringe pattern profilometry. We mathematically derived a...
An Investigation into Temporal Gamma Luminance for Digital Fringe Fourier Transform Profilometers (with J. M. Baker and J. Xi), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2007)
Analysis of the impact of temporal gamma luminance on Fourier Transform Profilometry (FTP) Digital Video...
Improving the Performance in an Optical feedback Self-mixing Interferometry System using Digital Signal Pre-processing (with Y. Yu and J. Xi), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
This paper considers the issue of noise reduction associated with Optical Feedback Self-mixing Interferometries (OFSMI)....
Multi-channel Digital Fringe Calibration for Structured Light Profilometers using Neural Networks (with M. Baker and J. Xi), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
The performance of structured light profilometers is significantly hindered by the generation of distorted sinusoid...
Estimating the parameters of semiconductor lasers based on weak optical feedback self-mixing interferometry (with J. Xi, Y. Yu, and T. Bosch), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2005)
The paper presents a practical approach for measuring the linewidth enhancement factor /spl alpha/ of...
Presentations
Transition Analysis for Moderate Feedback Self-Mixing Interferometry (with L. Wei, J. Xi, and Y. Yu), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
We present a theoretical analysis on the locations of transition points in moderate feedback self-mixing...
Displacement Estimation Based on Model Calibration in Weak Feedback Optical Self-Mixing System (with L. Wei and J. Xi), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
This paper presents a novel method to estimate displacement of a moving object based on...
Pre-Processing of Signals Observed from Laser Diode Self-mixing Intereferometries using Neural Networks (with L. Wei, Y. Yu, and J. Xi), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
This paper presents a novel neural network signal interpolation technique in order to eliminate the...
Fringe Calibration using Neural Network Signal Mapping for Structured Light Profilometers (with M. J. Baker and J. Xi), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2006)
We present a novel neural network signal calibration technique to improve the performance of triangulation...
Improving the Measurement Accuracy of FBG Sensor Using Adaptive filters (with X. Xu and J. Xi), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2006)
Adaptive filters are presented for improving the wavelength detection accuracy of FBG sensors within a...