David Squire
These are my old web pages from when I worked at Monash. They have not been
properly updated in a long while. I'm just parking them here until I get around to
creating new ones.
Research Interests
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Image Processing and Computer Vision
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use of Bayesian models, combining Gaussian mixtures and
Markov random fields, for image segmentation, applied
to dermatoscopic images and aerial photographs
Code to generate samples from
a multidimensional Gaussian mixture
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application of independent component analysis to the
learning of texture features, with a focus on
dermatoscopic images
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invariant pattern recognition
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Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval
In collaboration with the Vision Group at the
University of Geneva, I work on the Viper project,
in which we investigate algorithms, data structures and
image representations for content-based retrieval of images
and video sequences from large databases. There is a
particular emphasis in this project on the interaction of
the user with the database, and the use of user-provided
information (i.e. relevance feedback) for the design and
incremental improvement of the database system, on a
variety of time-scales. We are also interested in the
application of techniques inspired by text retrieval to
content-based image retrieval. Areas of particular interest
include:
The Viper project has now given rise to The
GIFT, the GNU Image-Finding Tool. The GIFT is an
open framework for content-based image retrieval. If you
are interested in using this tool or contributing to its
development, please visit The GIFT
homepage.
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Plagiarism Detection
I am interested in the application of web searching and
text indexing techniques to the detection of plagiarism in
documents. This work has led to the development of the Damocles
system.
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Formal Context Analysis
This project aims to develop a model for context, termed
Formal Context Analysis. This model will be based on the
notion of context as formalised in Formal Concept Analysis
(FCA)—a branch of applied lattice theory. In FCA,
contexts are collections of objects, given a
priori, with a fixed static characterisation of
attributes. Our extension will make contexts first-class
objects, will allow objects to be characterised in multiple
incomplete contexts simultaneously, and in rapidly changing
contexts. Statistical similarity of contexts will be
modelled to cater for handling of very large numbers of
objects in large numbers of overlapping contexts and for
dealing with context independently of meta data.
Recent:
Richard Ahn, Damjan Vukcevic, Allan Motyer, Joanne Nititham, David McG. Squire, Jill A. Hollenbach, Paul J. Norman, Eva Ellinghaus, Rajan P. Nair, Lam C. Tsoi, Jorge Oksenberg, John Foerster, Wolfgang Lieb, Stephan Weidinger, Andre Franke, James T. Elder, Eric Jorgenson, Stephen Leslie and Wilson Liao,
Large-Scale Imputation of KIR Copy Number and HLA Alleles in North American and European Psoriasis Case-Control Cohorts Reveals Association of Inhibitory KIR2DL2 with Psoriasis,
Frontiers in Immunology,
12, 684326, p. 1798, 2021.
A full
list of publications is also available.
Graduate students
Teaching
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Past
2008-2018, 1st and/or 2nd semester: FIT3077 Software Engineering: Architecture and Design
2018, All year: FIT3170 Software Engineering Practice
2018, 1st and 2nd semester: FIT2099 Object-Oriented Software Engineering
2007-2016, 1st and/or 2nd semester: FIT2024 Software Engineering Practice
2014-2018, All year: FIT4002 Software Engineering Studio Project Coordinator
2011-2013, 2nd semester: FIT2043 Technical Documentation
2007-2008 & 2012-2018, All year: FIT4002 Software Engineering Studio Project Supervisor
2000-2005 & 2007, 1st semester: CSE3308
Software Engineering: Analysis and Design
2000-2005, All year: CSE3200 Industrial
Experience Project Supervisor
2000-2005: Introduction to LaTeX and
citation practices for honours students, as part of CSE417
2000-2004, 2nd semester: CSE5230
Data Mining
I have taught and tutored physics, mathematics, artificial
intelligence, software engineering, and computer science subjects
at other institutions.
Past affiliations
I am an alumnus of the following research groups:
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