Current research focuses on pose estimation with applications to spacecraft and robot navigation. Other interest includes image machine learning and deep learning, image classification, object localisation/recognition, image features, image saliency, and image segmentation. Research interest topics are listed as follows,

• Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning Car Detection Comparison
    • [Highway Driving - YOLO-V3, MobileNet SSD, Mask-RCNN, video]
  • AI Edge Computing Devices Demonstration
    • [Intel Neural Compute Stick 2, video]
    • [Intel Neural Compute Stick, video]
    • [Nvidia Jetson Nano, video]
    • [Google Coral, video]
  • PhD Thesis
    • [Thesis]
  • Image saliency combined with regional-based pose estimation
    • [Project page]
    • [STS-135 ISS undocking infrared camera pose estimation, video]
    • [STS-135 ISS undocking LIDAR Ranging, video]
    • [STS-135 ISS docking infrared camera pose estimation, video]
    • [STS-135 ISS pose estimation gradient descent, video]
    • [RSM thermal image pose estimation, video]
    • [Gradient descent initialisation using FC-HSF, video]
    • [Envisat pose estimation 3D view, video]
    • [Enhanced gradient descent, video]
    • [Level-set evolution, video]
    • [STS-135 ISS image saliency foreground prediction, video]
    • [Image saliency and regional-based pose estimation, paper]
  • Image saliency
    • [Real-time Saliency Detection, paper]
  • Pose estimation using Level-set regional statistics approach
    • [Single frame pose convergence, video]
    • [ePnP vs. PWP3D pose estimation, video]
    • [Lores vs hires internal model, video]
    • [ISS lores/hires single frame convergence, video]
    • [ISS pose estimation, video]
    • [Level-set regional based pose estimation, paper]
  • Deep learning
    • Real-time Mobile Object Detection
      • [Tiny-YOLO using Pi-3B and NCS demo 1, video]
      • [Tiny-YOLO using Pi-3B and NCS demo 2, video]
    • ISS Free-flyer Detection
      • [ISS Free-flyer GF Localisation using CNN, video]
    • Spacecraft Testbed Detection
      • [Inception-Resnet Faster-RCNN demo, video]
      • [Resnet-101 Faster-RCNN demo, video]
    • Cubesat Detection and Localisation
      • [CubeSat detection and localisation using Faster-RCNN, video]
      • [CubeSat simulation and detection, paper]
    • Facial Emotion Recognition
      • [Emotion detection demo 1, video]
      • [Emotion detection demo 2, video]
      • [Emotion detection demo 3, video]
    • Spacecraft Image Segmentation
      • [Background subtraction, video]
      • [ISS segmentation, paper]
  • Machine learning for object detection and recognition
    • [Texton based bag-of-visual-words, paper]
  • Image features
    • [Feature Comparison, video]
    • [Feature Comparison, paper]
    • [yBRIEF, paper]
  • Appearance-based pose estimation using Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
    • [PCA and ePCA for pose estimation and denoise, paper]
  • Pose estimation using iterative and non-iterative Perspective-n-Point (PnP)
    • [Envisat pose estimation, video]
    • [ePnP, paper]
    • [SoftPOSIT Initialisation, paper]
    • [SoftPOSIT, paper]
  
  
• Spacecraft GNC
  • Frictionless testbed design for spacecraft GNC, presentation
    • [Thruster Control, video]
    • [Attitude Control, video]
    • [Camera System, video]
  • Dynamic obstacle avoidance using optimal trajectory planning using Admissible Subspace Trajectory Optimizer (ASTRO)
    • [Flight path around stationary FS-1300 satellite, animation]
    • [Flight path around slow tumbling FS-1300 satellite, animation]
    • [Flight path around slow tumbling Envisat satellite, animation]
    • [Flight path around fast spinning FS-1300 satellite, animation]
    • [Flight path around fast spinning Envisat satellite, animation]
    • [ASTRO, paper]
  • Adaptive control of spacecraft attitude using Simple Adaptive Control (SAC)
    • [Canadarm2 Free-flyer Capture of SpaceX Dragon with adaptive attitude control of the ISS, animation]
    • [SAC, paper]
  
  
• Spacecraft and Manipulator Simulation
  • Flexible body dynamics, contact dynamics
    • [Orbital Express rendezvous, animation]
  • Orbital mechanics, spacecraft attitude dynamics, proximity operations, free-flyer capture
    • [CubeSat ProxOps Visualisation and Camera Emulation, animation]
    • [ISS Orbit Simulation and Visualisation, orbit animation]
    • [High Fidelity Orbit Simulation and Visualisation in Matlab, orbit animation]
    • [XIPS Ion Engine Orbit Trajectory Analysis, image]
  • Manipulator kinematics
    • [Manipulator elbow-hold kinematic algorithm, animation]
  
  
• Mechatronics
  • Gyrodampers (Single Axis Control Moment Gyro)
    • [Gyrodamper vibration suppression demonstration, video]
    • [JGCD journal, paper]