Philip was educated in Nigeria where he obtained the BSc(Hons)(1st Class) (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) from the University of Ife (now named Obafemi Awolowo University). He studied at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London and obtained the DIC and PhD for research conducted in the field of Image Processing. In 2004, Philip returned to the University of Wollongong, School of Information Technology and Computer Science (later Computer Science and Software Engineering), as Professor and Head of School. In January 2009 he was appointed Dean of Informatics Field of Study: Machine learning, pattern recognition, image and signal processing Professional Activities and Affiliations: • Member, UOW Advisory Committee • Senior member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers • Member, IEEE NSW Committee • Chair, IEEE Joint Chapter of the Communications and Signal Processing • Fellow, Australian Computer Society • Member, Australian Council of Deans of ICT • Lab Director, ICT Research Institute Current Research Students: • Hongda Tian : Vision-based smoke detection • Ce Zhan : Object Detection Based on Limited Training Data • Duc Thanh Nguyen : Human Detection from Images and Videos • Hooman Shidanshidi : Immersive Multimedia
Journal Articles
Local representation of faces through extended NMF (with Ce Zhan and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2012)
"Presented is an extension of the non-negative matrix factorisation (NMF) by imposing an orthogonality constraint...
Private fingerprint matching (with Siamak F. Shahandashti and Reihaneh Safavi-Naini), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2012)
We propose a fully private fingerprint matching protocol that compares two fingerprints based on the...
Age estimation based on extended non-negative matrix factorization (with Ce Zhan and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
Previous studies suggested that local appearance-based methods are more efficient than geometric-based and holistic methods...
Local intensity distribution descriptor for object detection (with D Nguyen and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2011)
A novel local intensity distribution (LID) descriptor for object detection is proposed. By capturing the...
Semi-supervised maximum a posteriori probability segmentation of brain tissues from dual-echo magnetic resonance scans using incomplete training data (with W Li, C deSilva, and Y Attikiouzel), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
This study presents a stochastic framework in which incomplete training data are used to boost...
Conference Papers
Detecting humans under occlusion using variational mean field method (with Duc Thanh Nguyen and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
This paper proposes a human detection method using variational mean field approximation for occlusion reasoning....
Human detection with contour-based local motion binary patterns (with Duc Thanh Nguyen and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
This paper presents a human detection method using contour- based local motion features. The local...
Smoke detection in videos using non-redundant local binary pattern-based features (with Hongda Tian, Wanqing Li, Duc Thanh Nguyen, and Ce Zhan), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
This paper presents a novel and low complexity method for real-time video-based smoke detection. As...
An improved template matching method for object detection (with Duc Thanh Nguyen and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)
This paper presents an improved template matching method that combines both spatial and orientation information...
Human detection using local shape and non-redundant binary patterns (with Duc Thanh Nguyen and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)
Motivated by the advantages of using shape matching technique in detecting objects in various postures...
Book Chapters
Human action recognition with expandable graphical models (with Wanqing Li, Zhengyou Zhang, and Zicheng Liu), in L. Wanq, L. Cheng & G. Zhao (eds.), Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis: Theory and Practice (2010)
This chapter first presents a brief review of the recent development in human action recognition....
Books
Illumination invariant face detection using classifier fusion (with Alister Cordiner and Wanqing Li), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
An approach to the problem of illumination variations in face detection that uses classifier fusion...