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Areas of expertise include:
transport and transport infrastructure
structures
construction and materials
environmental
hydraulics and fluids.
Recent research projects include:
a USA National Research Council project to
update the Highway Capacity Manual
an OECD backed investigation into increasing
transport efficiency through bridge/vehicle
interactions
the development of a portal frame building system
with Palmer Tube Mills
numerous projects funded by the Australian
Research Council including response of buildings
subjected to earthquakes, and the dynamics of
highway bridges.
One of the Centre’s major projects is the
development of a full-scale research facility at the
University’s Carseldine campus. The Carseldine
Field Station will allow opportunities for the Centre
to engage in large scale collaborative projects with
industry. An earthquake testing facility is one
component which has been developed on the site.
Director: Associate Professor G.H. Brameld,
BE(Hons) MEngSc BCom PhD Qld, MIEAust,
MIABSE
For further information about the Physical
Infrastructure Centre, please contact Associate
Professor Gerald Brameld on telephone (07)
3864 2509, fax (07) 3864 1515, or email
g.brameld@qut.edu.au.
SIGNAL PROCESSING RESEARCH
CENTRE
The Signal Processing Research Centre grew from
a small research concentration in the rapidly
expanding area of signal processing. Established in
1986, the concentration received Faculty Centre
status in 1990 and University Centre status in 1991,
after the appointment of Professor Boashash as the
Professor of Signal Processing and Centre Director.
The Centre supports the majority of research students
in the School of Electrical and Electronic Systems
Engineering. Signal processing has a wide range of
application areas and has undergone explosive
growth within the last ten years. The Centre provides
an important resource for industry, government, the
engineering profession and the community in
general. The Centre’s research activities encompass
both theoretical and applied aspects of signal
processing.
The Centre offers high level technological expertise
combined with an ability to apply research for the
benefit of the community.
The Centre has three main objectives:
to remain at the forefront of technological research
advances
to provide stimulating postgraduate education
to provide clients with state-of-the-art results.
There are 26 PhD candidates and five Masters
students currently enrolled with the Centre. The
director of the Centre is the general Chairman of the
International Symposium on Signal Processing and
its Applications (ISSPA) which is held bienially on
Queensland’s Gold Coast, and was appointed the
Technical Chairman of the International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP 94) which hosted 1328 delegates in April
1994.
The Centre’s researchers are active in the areas of
image processing, signal theory and speech
processing.
The CRISSP signal theory group has specialised in
the areas of algorithm development for efficient
signal processing implementation, detection of
signals in noise, estimation of signal parameters in
a noise-effected environment, sonar, radar and
biomedical applications and higher-order spectral
analysis.
Speech processing is involved in artificial neural
network speech recognition, digital filtering, speaker
verification for law enforcement agencies, voice
encryption and scrambling and tape recording
enhancement.
Image processing and computer vision areas have
concentrated on analysis of data in digital images,
development of efficient algorithms, enhancement
of images for information recovery, robot vision, and
computer recognition of three-dimensional objects
and interpretation of images.
Director: Professor B. Boashash, BE Lyon, MSc PhD
Inst. Nat. Poly. Grenoble, SMIEEE, FIREE
The Signal Processing Research Centre maintains
its own SPRC WWW pages (http://www.qut.edu.au/
~sprc/).
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