DICTA2021 Awards

2021 APRS Early Career Researcher Award

Zongyuang Ge (Monash University)

2021 APRS Early Career Researcher Award - Honourable mention

Naveed Akhtar (The University of Western Australia)
Peng Wang (University of Wollongong)

APRS/IAPR Best Paper Award:

Learning To Segment Dominant Object Motion From Watching Videos
Sahir Shrestha (Australian National University); Mohammad Ali Armin (CSIRO(Data61)); Hongdong Li (Australian National University); Nick Barnes (Australian National University)

DST Best Contribution to Science Award

Quantum Annealing Formulation for Binary Neural Networks
Michele Sasdelli (The University of Adelaide); Tat-Jun Chin (The University of Adelaide)

APRS/DST Best Student Paper Award

Semi-Supervised 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation with Label Propagation
Samira Kaviani (Australian National University); Amir Rahimi (Australian National University); Richard Hartley (Australian National University)

DST Women in STEM Award

Multi-Resolution ResNet for Road and Bridge Crack Detection
Fereshteh Nayyeri (Griffith University); Jun Zhou (Griffith University)

SmartSat CRC/AI4Space Best Paper Award on Deep Learning for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

AF-Net: All-scale Feature Fusion Network for Road Extraction from Remote Sensing Images
Shide Zou ( Nanjing University of Sciene Technology); Fengchao Xiong (Nanjing University of Science and Technology); Haonan Luo (Nanjing University of Science and Technology); Jianfeng Lu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology); Yuntao Qian (Zhejiang University)

SmartSat CRC/AI4Space Best Paper Runner-Up Award on Deep Learning for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

High Definition LiDAR mapping of Perth CBD
Muhammad Ibrahim (The University of Western Australia); Naveed Akhtar (The University of Western Australia); Mohammad Jalwana (The University of Western Australia); Michael Wise (The University of Western Australia); Ajmal Mian (The University of Western Australia)

Best Paper Award on Machine Learning for Medical Image Analysis

OCT Retinal Image-To-Image Translation: Analysing the Use of Cyclegan to Improve Retinal Boundary Semantic Segmentation
Ignacio A Viedma Escalona (Queensland University of Technology); David Alonso-Caneiro (Queensland University of Technology); Scott Read (Queensland University of Technology); Michael Collins (Queensland University of Technology)

Best Paper Runner-Up Award on Machine Learning for Medical Image Analysis

Resetting the Baseline: CT-Based COVID-19 Diagnosis with Deep Transfer Learning is not as Accurate as Widely Thought
Fouzia Altaf (Edith Cowan University); Syed Islam (Edith Cowan University); Naveed Akhtar (The University of Western Australia)