Staff Profile

CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics

Professional Interests:

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

Professional Memberships:

Australian Pattern Recognition Society

Publications

• Book and Proceedings
  1. Changming Sun, Hugues Talbot, Sebastien Ourselin and Tony Adriaansen (editors), Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, CSIRO Publishing, December 2003, ISBN: 064309041X.
• Journal Papers
  1. X. Bai, Changming Sun and F. Zhou, Splitting touching cells based on concave points and ellipse fitting, Pattern Recognition, 42(11):2434-2446, November 2009.
  2. Changming Sun and P. Vallotton, Fast Linear Feature Detection Using Multiple Directional Non-Maximum Suppression. Journal of Microscopy, 234(2):147-157, May 2009.
  3. Changming 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.
  4. Changming Sun, R. Beare, K. Cheong, B. J. Jung, and M. Kim, Stereoscopic Flatbed Scanner. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 18(1):013002, January-March 2009.
  5. C. Leung, B. Appleton, and Changming Sun, Iterated Dynamic Programming and Quadtree Subregioning for Fast Stereo Matching. Image and Vision Computing, 26(10):1371-1383, October 2008.
  6. R. Lagerstrom, Changming Sun, and P. Vallotton, Boundary Extraction of Linear Features Using Dual Paths through Gradient Profiles. Pattern Recognition Letters, 29(12):1753-1757, September 2008.
  7. P. Vallotton, R. Lagerstrom, Changming 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.
  8. Changming 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.
  9. Changming 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.
  10. Changming 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.
  11. Changming Sun, Recursive Algorithms for Diamond, Hexagon and General Polygonal Shaped Window Operations. Pattern Recognition Letters, 27(6):556-566, April 2006.
  12. Changming Sun and Ben 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.
  13. Changming Sun and Shmuel Peleg, Fast Panoramic Stereo Matching Using Cylindrical Maximum Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B, 34(1):760-765, February 2004.
  14. B. Appleton and Changming Sun, Circular Shortest Paths by Branch and Bound. Pattern Recognition, 23(11):2513-2520, November 2003.
  15. Changming Sun, Uncalibrated Three-View Image Rectification. Image and Vision Computing, 21(3):259-269, March 2003.
  16. Changming Sun and S. Pallottino, Circular Shortest Path in Images. Pattern Recognition, 36(3):709-719, March 2003.
  17. Changming Sun. Fast Optical Flow Using 3D Shortest Path Techniques. Image and Vision Computing, 20(13/14):981-991, December 2002. Fast optical flow demo.
  18. Changming 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.
  19. Changming Sun. Fast Algorithm for Local Statistics Calculation for N-Dimensional Images. Journal of Real-Time Imaging. 7(6):519-527, December 2001.
  20. Changming Sun and Michael Buckley. Discussion on ``A penalized likelihood approach to image warping''. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B. 63(3):506-507, 2001.
  21. Changming Sun. De-Interlacing of Video Images Using a Shortest Path Technique. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 47(2):225-230, May 2001.
  22. Changming Sun and Xiaoliang Wu. Automatic Segmentation of Fiducial Marks Using Attribute-based Mathematical Morphology. Journal of Electronic Imaging. 10(2):560-566, April 2001.
  23. Changming Sun. 2-Point Linear Algorithm for Camera Translation Vector Estimation with Known Rotation. Robotica, 18(5):557-561, September 2000.
  24. Changming Sun and Deyi Si, Fast Reflectional Symmetry Detection Using Orientation Histograms. Journal of Real-Time Imaging, 5(1):63-74, February 1999.
  25. 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.
  26. Changming Sun, Fast Recovery of Rotational Symmetry Parameters Using Gradient Orientation. Journal of Optical Engineering, 36(4):1073-1077, April 1997.
  27. Changming Sun and Jamie Sherrah, 3-D Symmetry Detection Using The Extended Gaussian Image. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 19(2):164-168, February 1997.
  28. Changming Sun, Symmetry detection using gradient information. Pattern Recognition Letters, 16(9):987-996, September 1995.
  29. Changming 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, Changming 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.
  2. X. Bai, Changming 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.
  3. Changming 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.
  4. Changming Sun, P. Vallotton, D. Wang, Jamie Lopez, Yvonne Ng, and David James, Membrane Boundary Extraction Using a Circular Shortest Path Technique, In Tuan D. Pham and Xiaobo Zhou, editors, In Proceedings of International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 17-19 December 2007, pp.41-47.
  5. Changming 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.
  6. Changming 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.
  7. N. Seow, A. Sowmya and Changming 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.
  8. Carlos Leung, Ben Appleton and Changming 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.
  9. Carlos Leung, Ben Appleton, Brian C Lovell and Changming 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.
  10. Changming 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.
  11. Changming 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.
  12. Carlos Leung, Ben Appleton and Changming Sun, Embedded Voxel Colouring, in Proceedings of Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Sydney, Australia, 10-12 December 2003, pp.623-632.
  13. Changming 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.
  14. Changming 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.
  15. Changming Sun, Uncalibrated three-view image rectification. In APRS/IEEE Workshop on Stereo Image and Video Processing, Sydney, 8 December 2000, pp.37-40.
  16. 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.
  17. Changming 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.
  18. Changming 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.
  19. Changming 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.
  20. Changming 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.
  21. Changming 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.
  22. Changming Sun and Jamie 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.
  23. 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 Heinz Lemke et al, editor, Computer Assisted Radiology, Berlin, June 21-24, 1995, Springer-Verlag. pp.336-341.
  24. 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 Yves Bizais et al, editor, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, France, June 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.239-250.
  25. 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.
  26. Changming Sun and A. K. Forrest. Robust estimation for motion parameters. In Edwin Hancock, editor, Proc British Machine Vision Conference, volume Two, University of York, UK, 13-16 September 1994. BMVA Press. pp.741-750.
  27. Changming 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.
  28. Changming 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.
  29. Changming 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. Changming Sun. A Robust Estimation Method for Three-Dimensional Structure from Multiple Images, PhD Thesis, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, 1992.

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