Anthony Zaknich's Academic Page 

Established in August 1996 and last updated on February 2nd 2008

Adjunct Associate Professor (7-3-2006 to 6-3-2009)
Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems (CIIPS)

M018, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
The University of Western Australia (UWA)
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009, Western Australia

 

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  • Phone: +61 8 6488 1764
  • Secretary: +61 8 6488 3897
  • Fax: +61 8 6488 1168
  • Room: 4.16

Integrated Sensory Intelligent Systems (ISIS) Lab

Guiding Sentiments

My wish is to contribute to the knowledge, understanding and meaning of Intelligent Signal Processing (ISP), by means of pure and applied research, and publication. This is pursued in a spirit of free independent mindful enquiry through; the discipline of rigorous research and scholarship; the commitment to experiment; and the flexibility to modify beliefs and actions in the light of reason, evidence, discussion and mature reflection.

 

Anyone who has materially benefited from or who values the freely available work of the laboratory is most welcome to contribute toward its continuing activities for current and future beneficiaries.

Teaching Areas

  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Adaptive Filters and Adaptive Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Applied Digital Signal Processing
  • Circuits and Systems
  • Electrical and Electronics Engineering Fundamentals
  • Industrial Practice
  • Engineering and Society

Research Student Supervision

Masters at UWA

  • Unsteady airflow classification by artificial neural networks - Stanley McGibney, 1993
  • An application of neural networks to the determination of water level in glasses from resonant sounds - Denis R. Pack, 1994
  • Automatic character recognition system for the classification of car registration plates - Vassili Hatsimihail, 1995
  • Adaptive equaliser for digital communications channels - Hilary Ranwala, 1995
  • The application of neural network technology in the detection of unacceptable share price behaviour - Robyn Wilson, 1996
  • Non-destructive acoustic testing of machined parts - Ross Parker, 1996
  • Autonomous robot office navigation - Miin Tyi Chao, 1998-1999

PhD at UWA

  • A swept-carrier technique for underwater acoustic communications - Gareth Cook, 1996-2000
  • Approximate dynamic programming with Adaptive Critics and The Algebraic Perceptron as a fast neural network related to Support Vector Machines - Thomas Hanselmann, 1998-2003
  • Equalisation of nonlinear communications channels with practical large margin classifiers - James Young, 1999-2004
  • Nonlinear noise modelling for speech enhancement - Dariush Farrokhi, 2003-
  • Population variation in canonical tree-based genetic programming - Peyman Kouchakpour, 2004-2008
  • Perceptual features for speech recognition, Serajul Haque, 2004-2008
  • A framework for adaptive T-S type rough-fuzzy inference systems, Chang Su Lee, 2005-2008

PhD at Curtin University

  • The effect of non-Gaussian noise on underwater acoustic communications, Matthew Legg, 2004-2008, (In conjunction with the Centre for Marine Science and Technology)

Research Areas and Publications

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"- Albert Einstein: 1879-1955

 

Philosophy, theory and application of Intelligent Signal Processing (ISP) including:

 

  • Linear, nonlinear, and hyperspace signal processing, filtering and regression
  • Statistical Learning Theory (SLT) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) 
  • Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and adaptive filters
  • Pattern Recognition (PR) and classification
  • Adaptive space-time-frequency signal processing via sub-space adaptive filters
  • Linear Time-Frequency (LTF) filtering and analysis and Time Delay Spectrometry (TDS)
  • System and signal modelling and identification
  • Digital signal and image processing
  • Underwater acoustic communications and telemetry systems
  • Audio and Hi-Fi systems and innovations
  • PhD Theses
  • My Published Books  -  Errata: Neural Networks for Intelligent Signal Processing

                                              -  Errata: Principles of Adaptive Filters and Self-learning Systems

Industrial Research and Development Projects

Some of the lab’s completed industrial research and development projects include the following:

 

  • Expert system for the characterisation of alumina particles from SEM images, which after extensive use and testing has been officially adopted  by Alcoa Australia Ltd as their standard alumina particle analysis system.  
  • Real-time system for the classification of sheep feeding phases from analysis of jaw sounds, for the CSIRO.

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