Staff Profile

Professional Interests:

Stereo Vision, Digital Photogrammetry, Image Matching/Registration, Robust Image Orientations, Image Motion/Optical Flow
Linear Feature Detection, Circular Shortest Path, Multiple Paths
Cell Image Analysis, Symmetry Detection, Document Skew Detection/Correction, Image Super-resolution
Corridor Mapping Using Stereo Vision, 3D Flatbed Scanner
Fast Stereo Matching Demo, Fast Optical Flow Demo
HCA-Vision, 2D Gel Image Analysis for Proteomics

Professional Activities:

• Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, a SpringerOne journal
• Member of the Program Committee for numerous international conferences
• Reviewer for numerous international journals
• Reviewer for several grant programs

Publications

• Book and Proceedings
  1. T. D. Pham, X. Zhou, H. Tanaka, M. Oyama-Higa, X. Jiang, C. Sun, J. Kowalski, and X. Jia (editors), Proceedings of International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences, American Institute of Physics, volume 1371, October 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7354-0931-6.
  2. C. Sun, H. Talbot, S. Ourselin, and T. Adriaansen (editors), Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, CSIRO Publishing, December 2003, ISBN: 9780643090415.
• Book Chapters
  1. L. Domanski, C. Sun, R. Lagerstrom, D. Wang, L. Bischof, M. Payne, and P. Vallotton, High Throughput Detection of Linear Features: Selected Applications in Biological Imaging, In G. Dougherty, editor, Medical Image Processing: Techniques and Applications, Chapter 8, pp.167-191, Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-9769-2.
• Journal Papers
  1. R. Su, C. Sun, and T. D. Pham, Junction Detection for Linear Structures Based on Hessian, Correlation and Shape Information, Pattern Recognition, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2012.04.013.
  2. C. Leung, B. Appleton, M. Buckley, and C. Sun, Embedded Voxel Colouring with Adaptive Threshold Selection using Globally Minimal Surfaces, International Journal of Computer Vision, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11263-012-0525-8.
  3. L. Domanski, T. Bednarz, T. Gureyev, L. Murray, B. E. Huang, Ya. I. Nesterets, D. Thompson, E. Jones, C. Cavanagh, D. Wang, P. Vallotton, C. Sun, N. Margvelashvili, A. Khassapov, A. Stevenson, S. Mayo, M. Morell, A. W. George, and J. A. Taylor, Applications of Heterogeneous Computing in Computational and Simulation Science, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2012. To appear.
  4. P. Vallotton, C. Sun, D. Lovell, M. Savelsbergh, M. Payne, and G. Muench, Identifying weak linear features with the 'Coalescing Shortest Path Image Transform', Microscopy and Microanalysis, 17(6):911-914, December 2011.
  5. P. Vallotton, C. Sun, D. Lovell, V. J. Fazio, and J. Newman, DroplIT, An Improved Image Analysis Method for Droplet Identification in High-Throughput Crystallization Trials, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 43(6):1548-1552, December 2010.
  6. D. Wang, R. Lagerstrom, C. Sun, L. Bischof, P. Vallotton, and M. Götte, HCA-Vision: Automated Neurite Outgrowth Analysis, Journal of Biomolecular Screening, 15(9):1165-1170, October 2010.
  7. X. Bai, C. Sun, and F. Zhou, Splitting touching cells based on concave points and ellipse fitting, Pattern Recognition, 42(11):2434-2446, November 2009.
  8. C. Sun and P. Vallotton, Fast Linear Feature Detection Using Multiple Directional Non-Maximum Suppression. Journal of Microscopy, 234(2):147-157, May 2009.
  9. C. Sun, P. Vallotton, D. Wang, J. Lopez, Y. Ng, and D. James, Membrane Boundary Extraction Using Circular Multiple Paths. Pattern Recognition, 42(4):523-530, April 2009.
  10. C. Sun, R. Beare, K. Cheong, B. J. Jung, and M. Kim, Stereoscopic Flatbed Scanner. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 18(1):013002, January-March 2009.
  11. C. Leung, B. Appleton, and C. Sun, Iterated Dynamic Programming and Quadtree Subregioning for Fast Stereo Matching. Image and Vision Computing, 26(10):1371-1383, October 2008.
  12. R. Lagerstrom, C. Sun, and P. Vallotton, Boundary Extraction of Linear Features Using Dual Paths through Gradient Profiles. Pattern Recognition Letters, 29(12):1753-1757, September 2008.
  13. P. Vallotton, R. Lagerstrom, C. Sun, M. Buckley, D. Wang, M. De Silva, S.-S. Tan, and J. Gunnersen, Automated Analysis of Neurite Branching in Cultured Cortical Neurons Using HCA-Vision. Cytometry, Part A, 71A(10):889-895, October 2007.
  14. C. Sun, M. Berman, D. Coward, and B. Osborne, Thickness Measurement and Crease Detection of Wheat Grains Using Stereo Vision. Pattern Recognition Letters, 28(12):1501-1508, September 2007.
  15. C. Sun, R. Beare, V. Hilsenstein, and P.T. Jackway, Mosaicing of Microscope Images with Global Geometric and Radiometric Corrections. Journal of Microscopy, 224(2):158-165, November 2006.
  16. C. Sun, R. Jones, H. Talbot, X. Wu, K. Cheong, R. Beare, M.J. Buckley, and M. Berman, Measuring the Distance of Vegetation from Powerlines Using Stereo Vision. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 60(4):269-283, June 2006.
  17. C. Sun, Recursive Algorithms for Diamond, Hexagon and General Polygonal Shaped Window Operations. Pattern Recognition Letters, 27(6):556-566, April 2006.
  18. C. Sun and B. Appleton, Multiple Paths Extraction in Images using a Constrained Expanded Trellis. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 27(12):1923-1933, December 2005.
  19. C. Sun and S. Peleg, Fast Panoramic Stereo Matching Using Cylindrical Maximum Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B, 34(1):760-765, February 2004.
  20. B. Appleton and C. Sun, Circular Shortest Paths by Branch and Bound. Pattern Recognition, 23(11):2513-2520, November 2003.
  21. C. Sun, Uncalibrated Three-View Image Rectification. Image and Vision Computing, 21(3):259-269, March 2003.
  22. C. Sun and S. Pallottino, Circular Shortest Path in Images. Pattern Recognition, 36(3):709-719, March 2003.
  23. C. Sun. Fast Optical Flow Using 3D Shortest Path Techniques. Image and Vision Computing, 20(13/14):981-991, December 2002. Fast optical flow demo.
  24. C. Sun. Fast Stereo Matching Using Rectangular Subregioning and 3D Maximum-Surface Techniques. International Journal of Computer Vision. 47(1/2/3):99-117, April-June 2002. Fast stereo matching demo.
  25. C. Sun. Fast Algorithm for Local Statistics Calculation for N-Dimensional Images. Journal of Real-Time Imaging. 7(6):519-527, December 2001.
  26. C. Sun and M. Buckley. Discussion on ``A penalized likelihood approach to image warping''. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B. 63(3):506-507, 2001.
  27. C. Sun. De-Interlacing of Video Images Using a Shortest Path Technique. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 47(2):225-230, May 2001.
  28. C. Sun and X. Wu. Automatic Segmentation of Fiducial Marks Using Attribute-based Mathematical Morphology. Journal of Electronic Imaging. 10(2):560-566, April 2001.
  29. C. Sun. 2-Point Linear Algorithm for Camera Translation Vector Estimation with Known Rotation. Robotica, 18(5):557-561, September 2000.
  30. C. Sun and D. Si, Fast Reflectional Symmetry Detection Using Orientation Histograms. Journal of Real-Time Imaging, 5(1):63-74, February 1999.
  31. M. S. Brown, L. S. Wilson, B. D. Doust, R. W. Gill, and C. Sun. Knowledge-Based Method for Segmentation and Analysis of Lung Boundaries in Chest X-ray Images. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 22(6):463-477, November-December 1998.
  32. C. Sun, Fast Recovery of Rotational Symmetry Parameters Using Gradient Orientation. Journal of Optical Engineering, 36(4):1073-1077, April 1997.
  33. C. Sun and J. Sherrah, 3-D Symmetry Detection Using The Extended Gaussian Image. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 19(2):164-168, February 1997.
  34. C. Sun, Symmetry detection using gradient information. Pattern Recognition Letters, 16(9):987-996, September 1995.
  35. C. Sun, O. S. Sezgin, A. K. Forrest, and B. L. Davies. Use of vision in dispensing control and inspection of adhesives. Robotica, 9(4):371-377, 1991.
• Conference Papers
  1. P. Vallotton, M. Payne, T. Bednarz, L. Domanski, D. James, W. Hughes, and C. Sun, Automating the Quantification of Membrane Proteins under Confocal Microscopy, In International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Barcelona, Spain, 2-5 May 2012, pp.776-779.
  2. C. Zhang, C. Sun, T. D. Pham, Clustered Nuclei Splitting Using Curvature Information, In Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Noosa, Australia, 6-8 December 2011, pp.352-357.
  3. R. Su, C. Sun, T. D. Pham, Junction Detection for Linear Structures, In International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences, Toyama City, Japan, 11-13 October 2011, pp.29-36.
  4. C. Zhang, C. Sun, T. D. Pham, P. Vallotton, and M. Fenech, Detection of Nuclear Buds Based on Ellipse Fitting, In Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Sydney, Australia, 1-3 December 2010, pp.178-183.
  5. L. Domanski, C. Sun, R. Hassan, P. Vallotton, and D. Wang, Linear Feature Detection on GPUs, In Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Sydney, Australia, 1-3 December 2010, pp.649-656.
  6. C. Sun, P. Vallotton, M. Fenech, and P. Thomas, Automated Nucleoplasmic Bridge Detection for DNA Damage Scoring in Binucleated Cells, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-26 August 2010, pp.2480-2483.
  7. T. F. Ng, T. D. Pham, and C. Sun, Automated Feature Weighting in Fuzzy Declustering-based Vector Quantization, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-26 August 2010, pp.686-689.
  8. Y. Arzhaeva, P. Vallotton, and C. Sun, Mosaicing of microscope images in the presence of large areas with insufficient information content, In SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging, volume 7623, San Diego, California, 13-18 February 2010, article 762338.
  9. P. Vallotton, C. Sun, D. Wang, P. Ranganathan, L. Turnbull, and C. Whitchurch, Segmentation and Tracking of Individual Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Bacteria in Dense Populations of Motile Cells, In Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, 23-25 November 2009, pp.221-225.
  10. X. Bai, C. Sun, and F. Zhou, Touching Cells Splitting by Using Concave Points and Ellipse Fitting, In Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December 2008, pp.271-278.
  11. C. Sun and P. Vallotton, Priority-based Path Growing for Linear Feature Detection, In Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Adelaide, Australia, 3-5 December 2007, pp.360-365.
  12. C. Sun, P. Vallotton, D. Wang, J. Lopez, Y. Ng, and D. James, Membrane Boundary Extraction Using a Circular Shortest Path Technique, In T. D. Pham and X. Zhou, editors, In Proceedings of International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 17-19 December 2007, pp.41-47.
  13. C. Sun and P. Vallotton, Fast Linear Feature Detection Using Multiple Directional Non-Maximum Suppression, In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Hong Kong, 20-24 August 2006, vol.2, pp.288-291.
  14. C. Sun, V. Hilsenstein, R. Beare, and P. T. Jackway, Mosaicking of Microscope Images, in Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Cairns Convention Centre, Australia, 6-8 December 2005, pp.343-348.
  15. N. Seow, A. Sowmya, and C. Sun, Multi-image 2D-PAGE Feature Detection, in Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Cairns Convention Centre, Australia, 6-8 December 2005, pp.134-141.
  16. C. Leung, B. Appleton, and C. Sun, Fast Stereo Matching by Iterated Dynamic Programming and Quadtree Subregioning, in Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference, London, UK, 7-9 September 2004, pp.97-106.
  17. C. Leung, B. Appleton, B. C. Lovell, and C. Sun, An Energy Minimisation Approach to Stereo-Temporal Dense Reconstruction, in Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 23-26 August 2004, volume 4, pp.72-75.
  18. C. Sun, Diamond, Hexagon, and General Polygonal Shaped Window Smoothing, in Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Sydney, Australia, 10-12 December 2003, pp.39-48.
  19. C. Sun, Fast Algorithms for Stereo Matching and Motion Estimation, in Proceedings of Australia-Japan Advanced Workshop on Computer Vision, Adelaide, Australia, 9-11 September 2003, pp.38-48.
  20. C. Leung, B. Appleton, and C. Sun, Embedded Voxel Colouring, in Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Sydney, Australia, 10-12 December 2003, pp.623-632.
  21. C. Sun and S. Pallottino, Circular Shortest Path on Regular Grids. In ACCV2002: The 5th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Melbourne, Australia, 23-25 January 2002, pp.852-857.
  22. C. Sun, Rectangular Subregioning and 3-D Maximum-Surface Techniques for Fast Stereo Matching, IEEE Workshop on Stereo and Multi-Baseline Vision (in conjunction with CVPR'01), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, December 9-10, 2001, pp.44-53.
  23. C. Sun, Uncalibrated three-view image rectification. In APRS/IEEE Workshop on Stereo Image and Video Processing, Sydney, 8 December 2000, pp.37-40.
  24. S. Aksoy, M. Ye, M. Schauf, M. Song, Y. Wang, R. Haralick, J. Parker, J. Pivovarov, D. Royko, C. Sun, and G. Farneback. Algorithm performance contest. In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, 3-8 September 2000, vol.IV, pp.870-876. PS.
  25. C. Sun, Multi-Resolution Stereo Matching Using Maximum-Surface Techniques, In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Perth, Australia, 7-8 December 1999, pp.195-200. Fast stereo matching demo.
  26. C. Sun, Fast Optical Flow Using Cross Correlation and Shortest-Path Techniques, In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Perth, Australia, 7-8 December 1999, pp.143-148. (PDF) Fast optical flow demo.
  27. C. Sun, A Fast Stereo Matching Method, In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, 10-12 December 1997, pp.95-100. Fast stereo matching demo.
  28. C. Sun and X. Wu, A method for automatic segmentation of fiducial marks, International Workshop on Image Analysis and Information Fusion, Adelaide, Australia, 6-8 November 1997, pp.43-49.
  29. C. Sun and D. Si. Skew and slant correction for document images using gradient direction. IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Ulm, Germany, August 18-20, 1997, vol. 1, pp.142-146.
  30. C. Sun and J. Sherrah. 3D symmetry detection using extended Gaussian image. In Geometrical Modelling and Invariants for Computer Vision, Xi'an, China, 27-29 April 1995, pp.55-62.
  31. L. S. Wilson, M. S. Brown, H. E. Talhami, R. G. W. Gill, C. Sun, and B. D. Doust. An `expert assistant' for chest X-ray based on anatomical models. In H. Lemke et al, editor, Computer Assisted Radiology, Berlin, June 21-24, 1995, Springer-Verlag. pp.336-341.
  32. L. S. Wilson, M. S. Brown, H. E. Talhami, R. G. W. Gill, C. Sun, and B. D. Doust. Medical image understanding using anatomical models: Applications to chest X-rays. In Y. Bizais et al, editor, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, France, June 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.239-250.
  33. M. S. Brown, R. W. Gill, T. Loupas, H. E. Talhami, L. S. Wilson, B. D. Doust, L. M. Bischof, E. J. Breen, Y. Jiang, and C. Sun. Model-based interpretation of chest X-rays. In A. H. Rowberg J. M. Boehme and N. T. Wolfman, editors, Computer Applications to Asist Radiology, Symposia Foundation, 1994, pp.344-349.
  34. C. Sun and A. K. Forrest. Robust estimation for motion parameters. In E. Hancock, editor, Proc British Machine Vision Conference, volume Two, University of York, UK, 13-16 September 1994. BMVA Press. pp.741-750.
  35. C. Sun and A. K. Forrest. Robust structure from motion using multiple constraints. In Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Macquarie University, Australia, 8-10 December 1993, Australian Pattern Recognition Society, volume II, pp.794-801.
  36. C. Sun and A. K. Forrest. Depth reversal in binocular vision with symmetrical convergence. In SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 15-20, 1992, volume 1825, pp.207-214.
  37. C. Sun and A. K. Forrest. Relationships between hovering depth and viewing positions. In B. E. Rogowitz, editor, SPIE Conference on Human Vision, Visual Processing and Digital Display, San Jose, California, USA, February 11-14, 1992, volume 1666, pp.483-490.
• Thesis
  1. C. Sun. A Robust Estimation Method for Three-Dimensional Structure from Multiple Images, PhD Thesis, Imperial College London, 1992.

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