Dr Ju Jia (Jeffrey) Zou

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Grants
• Publications
• Contact 

Biography

Jeffrey received a PhD degree in digital image processing from the University of Sydney in 2001. His PhD research was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and a Norman L. Price Scholarship. He was a Research Associate and then an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Sydney from 2000 to 2003, working on projects funded by the Australian Research Council. He joined the University of Western Sydney as a Lecturer in June 2003, where he is currently Associate Head of School (Engineering) and Head of Program (Undergraduate Engineering).

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

300069.1 Digital Signal Processing
300069.2 Digital Signal Processing
300029.1 Engineering Visualisation
300029.2 Engineering Visualisation
300596 Advanced Signal Processing

Jeffrey’s research interests include digital image processing, pattern recognition, signal processing and their applications to structural health monitoring and geotechnical characterisation. He has been involved in research on strain measurement based on visual information, ambient noise analysis for soil structure determination, video surveillance, computer vision for driver assistance, DNA microarray image processing, ultrasound imaging, computer-aided cartooning, digital image compression and shape representation.

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Grants

Geotechnical characterisation of compacted ground based on passive ambient noise (Leo, Indraratna, Zou, Rujikiatkamjorn, Golaszewski, McWilliam, Wong and Bergado), Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects (Round 1), 2009 – 2011, $211,000.

A Computer-aided Cartooning System (Sole Chief Investigator and ARC Postdoctoral Fellow), ARC Discovery Projects, 2003 – 2006, $218,000 (Relinquished in June 2003).

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Publications

Morrison, P., Zou, J.J. (2007), "Triangle Refinement in a Constrained Delaunay Triangulation Skeleton", Pattern Recognition, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 2754-2765.

Zou, J.J. (2006), "Efficient Skeletonisation Based on Generalised Discrete Local Symmetries", Optical Engineering, vol. 45, no. 7, article number 077205, pp. 077205-1-077205-7.

Morrison, P., Zou, J.J. (2006), "Skeletonization Based on Error Reduction", Pattern Recognition, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1099-1109.

Zou, J.J., Yan, H. (2005), "A Deblocking Method for BDCT Compressed Images Based on Adaptive Projections", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 430-435.

Zou, J.J. (2004), "Reducing Artefacts in BDCT-Coded Images by Adaptive Pixel-Adjustment", Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'04), Cambridge, UK, vol. 1, pp. 508-511.

Zou, J.J., Yan, H., Levy, D.C. (2003), "Reducing Artifacts in Block Coded Images Using Adaptive Constraints", Optical Engineering, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2900-2911.

Zou, J.J., Yan, H. (2001), "Skeletonization of Ribbon-like Shapes Based on Regularity and Singularity Analyses", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, vol. 31, pp. 401-407.

Zou, J.J., Chang, H.-H., Yan, H. (2001), "Shape Skeletonization by Identifying Discrete Local Symmetries", Pattern Recognition, vol. 34, pp. 1895-1905.

Xiao, Y., Zou, J.J., Yan, H. (2001), An Adaptive Split-and-Merge Method for Binary Image Contour Data Compression", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 22, pp. 299-307.

Zou, J.J., Yan, H. (1999), "Extracting Strokes from Static Line Images Based on Selective Searching", Pattern Recognition, vol. 32, pp. 935-946.

For more information, contact Jeffrey.

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