BSc (Hons), PhD (Physics), Dip Ed, Grad Dip Sci (Comp Sci)

Graduate Research Coordinator and Senior Lecturer

Registered to supervise postgraduate research candidates (PhD and Master by research).

Research Interests

My current research interests focus on the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques to support the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within the Marine Science field. This involves work on a number of related research projects including:

1. the automated analysis of underwater video; to detect and identify marine animals, to monitor marine habitats and to extract video segments depicting interesting events.
2. the development of vision sensing capabilities for remotely-operated and fully-automated underwater vehicles.
3. the development of computational techniques to analyse data produced by underwater acoustic systems, such as marine animal trackers and multi-beam sonar.
4. the automated analysis of remotely sensed images for Southern Ocean, sub-Antarctic and Antarctic applications.

Research Areas:

• Computer science  Read More
• Information Research  Read More
• Multi-disciplinary research  Read More

Teaching

I teach the Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Systems units in the undergraduate Bachelor of Computing degree, and an Intelligent Software Agents unit in the Bachelor of Computing (Honours) and Master of Computing degrees.

Units

• KXA463 - Intelligent Software Agents
  

Selected Publications:

• Collings, A, Williams, RN, Young, NW, Hyland, G, 2006, 'A Semi-Automated Line Tracing Technique for Monitoring Ice Margins in Antarctic Images', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27 (1 and 2) , pgs. 433-448
• Crowther, P, Berner, G, Williams, RN, 2003, 'Re-useable Knowledge: Development of an Object Orientated Industrial KBS and a Collaborative Domain Ontology', International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 14 (3), pgs. 149-155
• Williams, RN, Michael, KJ, Pendelbury, S, Crowther, P, 2002, 'An Automated Image Analysis System for Determining Sea-ice Concentration and Cloud Cover from AVHRR images of the Antarctic', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23 (4), pgs. 611-625
• Williams, RN, Rees, WG, Young, NW, 1999, 'A Technique for the Identification and Analysis of Icebergs in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images of Antarctica', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20 (15 and 16), pgs. 3183-3199
• Williams, RN, Lambert, TJ, Kelsall, AF, Pauly, T, 2006, 'Detecting Marine Animals in Underwater Video: Let’s Start with Salmon', Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Environmental Decision Support Systems Mini-Track, Acapulco, Mexico
• Beulens, B, Williams, RN, Sale, AHJ, Pauly, T, 2006, 'Computational Challenges in Processing and Analysis of Full-Watercolumn Multibeam Sonar Data', Eighth European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA’06), Carvoeiro, Portugal
• Inkson, M, Williams, RN, Gardner, C, Semmens, JM, 2004, 'Triton: Spatial Analysis Software for Interpretation of Acoustic Telemetry Data in Marine Fisheries', Seventh International Conference and Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management, Hobart, pgs. 133

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• B. Buelens (PhD) - Scientific Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery in Spatio-temporal Hydro Acoustic Data Sets
• R. Kildare (PhD) - Collaboration and Distributed Adaptive Educational Software
• P. Semmens (PhD) - Systematic Investigation into Learning Objects for eLearning Applications
• R. Fearn (PhD) - Guided Techniques for Image Segmentation
• A. Berry (PhD) - The Application of Artificial Life Techniques to Multi-objective Optimization Tasks
• M. Horton (PhD) - Improved Multiple Prediction Combination In Machine Learning for Image Classification
• T. Pinkiewicz (PhD) - Computational Techniques for Automated Tracking and Analysis of Fish Movement in a Controlled Aquatic Environment
• J. Scanlan (PhD) - Multiple Gateway Correlation and Detection using Intelligent Mobile Agents