CeRV Projects


1. Robotics Systems

  • Vehicle Carried Road Texture Depth (RTD) Measurement System

The  system is  able to measure the RTD from the back of a moving vehicle with  speeds of up to 80 kp.h., on both wheel-paths and in-between  in a continuous fashion. and   produce  the  measurement results together with other relevant information  such as  the  GPS coordinates of the location of   measurement, vehicle speeds and road conditions in a standard format required by the client. It has been adopted by Fulton Hogan  in their road projects in New Zealand and Australia.

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

The multi-rotor UAV system is designed  for the New Zealand environment with potential payload of 2kg.  The on-board   UAV controller  runs under the  embedded Linux OS with the supports of multiple sensors (IMU, vision sonar, laser scanner, GPS) , communication and  actuator driver modules.  It can be   reconfigured to cater for  the needs of different applications.  An indoor UAV  testing stand  is  designed for the  calibration of  sensors and   the test of  control algorithms.

  •  Monitoring New Zealand Native Bees — A Collaborative Approach using Image Analysis

This research is  focused on developing a simple and reliable method to monitor New Zealand’s native bees through  analysis of the images of the bees and their nests.

Project leader: Loulin Huang

Participating staff and PhD /ME students: Nam Huu Le, Xuejun Li, Barbara Bollard

2. Soft Robotics

Project leader: Martin Stommel 

Participating staff and PhD students: Wei Qi Yan, Minh Nguyen

3. Remote Sensing Imagery

Project leader: Barbara Bollard

Participating staff and PhD students: Ajit Narayanan, Chris Burns

4. Biomedical Imaging

Project leader: Wei Qi Yan

Participating staff and PhD students: Farah Younas, Maryam Doborjeh, Hamid Gholamhosseini , Minh Nguyen, Nikola Kasabov

5. Intelligent Surveillance

Project leader: Wei Qi Yan 

Research staff and PhD students: Xiaoxu Liu, Sabeeha Mehtab, Bingjie Xiao

6. Food Imaging 

Project leader: Wei Qi Yan, Minh Nguyen 

Research staff and PhD students:  Bingjie Xiang, Kun Zhao, Marlon Reis (AgResearch) , Abhimanyu Singh (AgResearch)

7. Computer Vision on Portable Smart Devices

Project leader: Minh Nguyen 

Participating staff and PhD students: Jianchun Qi, Sam Madanian

8. Deep Learning

Project leader: Wei Qi Yan

Participating staff and PhD students: Maryam Doborjeh, Ji Ruan, Renu Choudhary, Ajit Narayanan, Sira Yongchareon

9. Multimedia Computing

Project leader: Wei Qi Yan

Participating staff and PhD students: Sendong Liang, Kandy Corvette

10. Wireless Localisation and VANET

Project leader: Xuejun Li

Participating staff and PhD students: Anuradha Singh, Xuejun Li, Peter Chong

11. Autonomous Vehicles

Project leader: Yanqiang Li (SDAS)

Participating staff and PhD students: Yong Wang (SDAS), Jing Ma

12. Artificial Intelligence

Project leader: Ajit Narayanan 

Participating staff and PhD students: Rujia Chen, Ji Ruan, Wei Qi Yan

13. Cybersecurity Using AI

Project leader: Ajit Narayanan

Participating staff and PhD students: Bo Ma, Kasun Gedara, Bobby Yang

14. Natural Language Processing

Project leader: Parma Nand

Participating staff and PhD students:  Manju Vallayil, Makelesi Gonelevu

15. Brain-Inspired Computing

Project leader: Nikola Kasabov (FIEEE, FRSNZ)

Participating staff and PhD students:  Maryam Doborjeh, Xiaoxu Liu

16. Intelligent Systems 

Project leader: Wei Qi Yan, Minh Nguyen

Participating staff and PhD students:  Parma Nand, Martin Stommel, Loulin Huang, Akbar Hossain, Jing Ma, Mahesh Babu, Ji Ruan,  Jian Yu, Barbara Bollard, Nikola Kasabov, Peter Chong