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A PhD scholarship available in Charles Sturt University

I am looking for a PhD cadidate to work on an ARC Discovery Project in "3D Video Coding". The candidate might work in the field of video coding&compression, computer vision, or image processing area. The candidate must be an Australian/New Zealand citizen or permanent residency holder. For more details please contact Dr. Manoranjan Paul at mpaul@csu.edu.au. The value of this scholarship is AUD$24,653 (per annum). This scholarship is paid fortnightly for the period of 3 years with an option for a 6 month extension. This scholarship is for study in Australia for those who have achieved Honours 2a or equivalent. Good programming skill in C/C++, Java, or Matlab is desirable.
To apply for this scholarship you must send your latest CV with a cover letter to Dr. Manoranjan Paul at email: mpaul@csu.edu.au.

MANORANJAN PAUL

Associate Director, Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS)

Research Leader, Video, Image, Data Analytics and Simulation Research Group (ViDAS)

Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia, Phone: +61-2-6338 4260 (Office), Fax:+61-2-6338 4260, Email: mpaul@csu.edu.au

Manoranjan Paul (M’03) received B.Sc.Eng. (hons.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh, in 1997 and PhD degree from Monash University, Australia in 2005. He joined to the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh as a Lecturer in 1997 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2000. He has worked as a Research Fellow in the University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia in 2005~2006, Monash University, Australia in 2006~2009, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2009~2011. He is currently working as a Faculty Member in the School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University (2011~), Australia. His major research interests are in the fields of image/video coding/compression, multimedia communication, and computer vision.

He has published more than 55 refereed publications. Dr. Paul regularly published journal articles in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, which are considered as the top ranked journals in the image processing, video technology, and multimedia fields respectively. He organized a special session on “New video coding technologies” in IEEE ISCAS 2010. He is a keynote speaker on “Vision friendly video coding” in IEEE ICCIT 2010. Dr Paul is a full member of the IEEE (’03) and ACS (’05). Dr. Paul is an Associate Editor of rank Q2 journal EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP). Dr. Paul has served as a guest editor of Journal of Multimedia from 2008-2013. Currently Dr. Paul is an Editor of the International Journal of Engineering and Industries (IJEI) and the International Journal of Soft Computing, Mathematics and Control (IJSCMC). He has been on Technical Program Committees of more than 20 international conferences. Dr. Manoranjan Paul obtained Research Excellence Award 2011 from School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University.

Dr. Manoranjan Paul obtained Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grant $315,000.00 on "DP130103670: Multiview Video Coding using Cuboid Data Compression" with Professor Manzur Murshed

News

4 May 2013: A paper on "multi-view video coding" has been accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2013 .

Grants (selected)

Manzur Murshed and Manoranjan Paul(2013-2015), "DP130103670: Multiview Video Coding using Cuboid Data Compression," Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant, 2013-2015, $315,000.

Manoranjan Paul(2013-2016), "Multiview video coding," Faculty of Business Compact funding for PhD project grant, 2013-2016, $104,000.

Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, and Terry Bossomaier (2012), "Abnormal event detection using eye tracker technology," Charles Sturt University Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG), 2012, $43,000.

Junbin Gao, Terry Bossomaier, Manoranjan Paul, Michael Antolovich, and Paul Kwan (2012), "WAREIGS: Wavelet-Network-Based Augmented-Reality-Enhanced Image-Guided Surgery," Australia-China Science Research Fund (ACSRF), 2012, $38,000 .

Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Manoranjan Paul, and Jim Tulip(2012),"Efficient Algorithms for Nuclear Norm Minimization," Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2012, $12,702.

Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael, and Jim Tulip (2012), "Eye controlled video coding," Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2012, $12,829.

Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Manoranjan Paul, Jim Tulip and David Tien (2011),"Visiting Fellow," Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2011, $14,036.

Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael, and Terry Bossomaier(2011), "Human Detection," Faculty of Business Compact grant, 2011, $9,902.

Manoranjan Paul and Weisi Lin, "Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) project(2009-2010)," Nanyang Technological University, 2009-2010, $21,600.

Manoranjan Paul, Manzur Murshed, and Xiaofang Zhou (2007), "Video Signal Processing and Communication Taskforce Grant," ARC (Australian Research Council) Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2007, $25,000.

My Career Best 10 publications

M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2013), "Video coding using dynamic background," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.015), doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2013-11, 2013. JCR Ranked Q2.

M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2011), "Explore and model better I-frame for video coding," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,(JCR 5 years Impact Factor 2.489), vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1242-1254, 2011. JCR Ranked Q1.
A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, and F. Zhang (2011), "Optimal Compression Plane Determination for Video Coding," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 3.770), vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 2788-2799, 2011. JCR Ranked Q1.

M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee (2011), "Direct Inter-Mode Selection for H.264 Video Coding using Phase Correlation," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 3.770), Vol. 20, no. 2, 2011. JCR Ranked Q1.

M. Paul and M. Murshed (2011), "Video Coding Using Arbitrarily Shaped Block Partitions in Globally Optimal Perspective," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.015), doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2011-16, 2011. JCR Ranked Q2.

A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, and F. Zhang (2010), "Just Noticeable Difference for Image Pixels with Decomposition Model," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 2.489), vol 20, no.11, pp. 1648 - 1652, 2010. JCR Ranked Q1.

M. Paul and M. Murshed (2010), "Video Coding focusing on block partitioning and occlusions," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 3.770), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 691-701, March, 2010. JCR Ranked Q1.

M. Paul, M. Frater, and J. Arnold (2009), "An efficient Mode Selection Prior to the Actual Encoding for H.264/AVC Encoder," ,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 581-588, June, 2009 (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 2.164). JCR Ranked Q1.
M. Paul and M. Murshed (2007), "An Optimal Content-based Pattern Generation algorithm," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 904-907, December, 2007 (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 1.430). JCR Ranked Q2.

M. Paul, M. Murshed, and L. Dooley (2005), "A real-time pattern selection algorithm for very low bit-rate video coding using relevance and similarity metrics," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 753–761, June, 2005 (JCR 5 years Impact Factor 2.489). JCR Ranked Q1.