The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Associate Professor Stephan Chalup
School: School of Elect Engineering and Computer Science
Personal URL: http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~chalup/

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Professor Pablo Moscato;Laureate Professor Jonathan Borwein;Professor Keith Jones;Conjoint Professor Christopher Levi;Associate Professor Mark Parsons;Professor Michael Ostwald;Professor David Craig;Conjoint Associate Professor Peter Greer;Associate Professor Stephan Chalup;Doctor Regina Berretta 1 University of Newcastle Equipment Grant Project EVA: A GPU-based supercomputing platform for interdisciplinary research   263000  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2010 1 University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment Pilot Grant Neurodynamic programming for sound generation through human-computer interaction   21032  
Professor Michael Ostwald;Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2010 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Modelling and predicting patterns of pedestrian movement: using robotics and machine learning to improve the design of urban space.   486000  
Doctor Suhuai Luo;Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2008 1 University of Newcastle Pilot Grant Novel liver parenchyma segmentation for liver disease diagnosis using texture analysis and deformable surface models   11000  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2007 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Honolulu Hawaii, 31/3/2007 - 6/4/2007   2500  
Professor Michael Ostwald;Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2007 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Shaping social and cultural spaces: the application of computer visualisation and machine learning techniques to the design of architectural and urban spaces   275829  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2006 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Workshop on New Applications of Dimensionality Reduction at Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS 2006, Vancouver/Whistler Canada, 4/12/2006 - 9/12/2006   1500  
Professor Michael Ostwald;Associate Professor Stephan Chalup;Mr Christopher Tucker 2006 2 Newcastle Innovation Administered Research Developing computational and algorithmic analytical techniques for investigating urban space   100000  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup;Dr Michael Quinlan;Doctor Robert King;Professor Richard Middleton 2006 1 University of Newcastle Near Miss Grant Rapid Convergence for Reinforcement Learning with Legged Robots   10000  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup;Professor Richard Middleton;Mr Lukasz Wiklendt 2004 3 University of Newcastle Multi-Year Project Grant Scholarship Application of spiking neural networks to robot locomotion control   39319  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2003 1 University of Newcastle Early Career Researcher Grant Evaluating the generalisation ability of machine learning classifiers on extreme tasks   8000  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2003 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 17th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 8 to 13 December 2003   1730  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2002 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant International Conference on Grammatical Inference, Amsterdam 23-25 September 2002   2260  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant ANNES 2001 New Zealand 22-24 November, 2001   1331  
Associate Professor Stephan Chalup 2001 1 University of Newcastle Early Career Researcher Grant Machines Learn via Biologically Motivated Incremental Algorithms   10000  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy (Computer Eng) Co-Supervisor Improving Robot Vision using Spatial and Temporal Correlations
PhD (Computer Engineering) Principal Supervisor Face perception and face expression dynamics
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Learning and Control in Robotics
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Learning in Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Machine Learning for Signal Processing
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Sound-scape visualisation through dimensionality reduction
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Spatial Behaviour Analysis of Pedestrians Using Human Body Dynamics
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Using Machine Learning in Video Summarisation
PhD (Electrical Engineering) Co-Supervisor Different Gaits Control Experiments for Mechanical Rectifier
PhD (Electrical Engineering) Co-Supervisor Estimation of Sparse Distributions

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.100
PhD 4.350

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Software Engineering) 2006 Machine Learning on AIBO Robots
PhD (Computer Science) 2008 A Learning Classifier System Approach to Relational Reinforcement Learning

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Hong Kenny, Ostwald Michael, ’Simulating pareidolia of faces for architectural image analysis’, International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, 2 262-278 (2010) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Henderson Naomi, Ostwald Michael, Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, ’A computational approach to fractal analysis of a cityscape's skyline’, Architectural Science Review, 52 126-134 (2009) [C1]

Ostwald Michael, Vaughan Josephine Louise, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’A computational investigation into the fractal dimensions of the architecture of Kazuyo Sejima’, Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal, 3 231-244 (2009) [C1]

Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Middleton Richard Hume, ’A small spiking neural network with LQR control applied to the acrobot’, Neural Computing & Applications, 18 369-375 (2009) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Ostwald Michael, ’Anthropocentric biocybernetic computing for analysing the architectural design of house facades and cityscapes’, Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal, 3 65-80 (2009) [C1]

Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Seron Maria Marta, ’Simulated 3D biped walking with an evolution-strategy tuned spiking neural network’, Neural Network World, 19 235-246 (2009) [C1]

Goldsmith Benjamin E, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Quinlan Michael Joseph, ’Regime type and international conflict: Towards a general model’, Journal of Peace Research, 45 743-763 (2008) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Murch Craig Lindsay, Quinlan Michael Joseph, ’Machine learning with AIBO robots in the four-legged league of RoboCup’, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, 37 297-310 (2007) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, ’Variations of the two-spiral task’, Connection Science, 19 183-199 (2007) [C1]

Dietrich Tobias, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Classification of EBAY Bidding Characteristics’, IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, 4 111- 125 (2006) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Mellor Drew, Rosamond Frances Ann, ’The Machine Intelligence Hex Project’, Computer Science Education, 15 245-273 (2005) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Middleton Richard Hume, Quinlan Michael Joseph, Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, ’Neurocomputational aspects of legged locomotion motor control’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, 15 105 (2004) [C3]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Murch Craig Lindsay, Middleton Richard Hume, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Traction monitoring for collision detection with legged robots’, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3020 374-384 (2004) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Alan D Blair, ’Incremental training of first order recurrent neural networks to predict a context-sensitive language’, Neural Networks, 16 955-972 (2003) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Incremental Learning in Biological and Machine Learning Systems’, International Journal of Neural Systems, 12 447-465 (2002) [C1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Mellor Drew, ’The Machine Intelligence Hex Project - An Overview’, Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, 8 6-23 (2002) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Ostwald Michael, ’Anthropocentric biocybernetic approaches to architectural analysis: New methods for investigating the built environment’, Built Environment: Design Management and Applications, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, 121-145 (2010) [B1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Mitschele Andreas, ’Kernel methods in finance’, Handbook on Information Technology in Finance, Springer, Berlin, 655-687 (2008) [B1]

Conference Publication

Hong Kenny, Chalup Stephan Konrad, King Robert Arthur, ’A component based approach improves classification of discrete facial expressions over a holistic approach’, 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain (2010) [E1]

Jalalian Arash, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Ostwald Michael, ’Evaluating urban streetscape design by analysing pedestrian body dynamics’, Fourth International Conference On Design Computing And Cognition (DCC'10): Bringing Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computational Theories to Design Research, Stuttgart, Germany (2010) [E3]

Jalalian Arash, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Ostwald Michael, ’Intelligent evaluation of urban streetscape designs by analysing pedestrian body dynamics’, 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence, IWACI 2010, Suzhou, China (2010) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Ostwald Michael, ’Modelling architectural design perception using anthropocentric biocybernetic computing’, Fourth International Conference On Design Computing And Cognition (DCC'10): Bringing Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computational Theories to Design Research, Stuttgart, Germany (2010) [E3]

Jalalian Arash, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Ostwald Michael, ’Simulating pedestrian flow dynamics for evaluating the design of urban and architectural space’, On the Edge. Conference Papers of the 44th Annual Conference of ANZAScA, Auckland, NZ (2010) [E1]

Luo Suhuai, Jin Jesse Sheng, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Qian Guoyu, ’A liver segmentation algorithm based on wavelets and machine learning’, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing, CINC 2009, Wuhan, China (2009) [E1]

Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Balance control of a simulated inverted pendulum on a circular base’, Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation (ACRA), Sydney, NSW (2009) [E1]

Ostwald Michael, Vaughan Josephine Louise, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Data-cluster analysis of correlations between facade complexity and orientation in Modernist architecture’, Conference Proceedings: 43rd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, Launceston, TAS (2009) [E1]

Ostwald Michael, Tucker Christopher Charles, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Line segmentation: A computational technique for architectural image analysis’, ACADIA 09: reForm (): Building a Better Tomorrow: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Chicago, IL (2009) [E1]

Ostwald Michael, Vaughan Josephine Louise, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’A computational analysis of fractal dimensions in the architecture of Eileen Gray’, Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Minneapolis, MINN (2008) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Hong Kenny, Ostwald Michael, ’A face-house paradigm for architectural scene analysis’, The Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing As Transdisciplinary Science and Technology: Proceedings, Paris, France (2008) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Henderson Naomi, Ostwald Michael, Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, ’A method for cityscape analysis by determining the fractal dimension of its skyline’, ANZAScA 2008: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [E1]

Henderson Naomi, King Robert Arthur, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’An automated colour calibration system using multivariate Gaussian mixtures to segment HSI colour space’, Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Canberra, ACT (2008) [E1]

Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Seron Maria Marta, ’Quadratic leaky integrate-and-fire neural network tuned with an evolution-strategy for a simulated 3D biped walking controller’, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2008, Barcelona, Spain (2008) [E1]

Wong Aaron Seng, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Sound-scapes for robot localisation through dimensionality reduction’, Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Canberra, ACT (2008) [E1]

Henderson Naomi, Nicklin Steven Paul, Wong Aaron Seng, Kulk Jason Andrew, Chalup Stephan Konrad, King Robert, Middleton Richard Hume, Tang Shekman, Buckley Alexander, ’The 2008 NUManoids Team Report’, RoboCup. Participating Teams 2008. Downloads, Suzhou, China (2008) [E2]

Wong Aaron Seng, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Towards visualisation of sound-scapes through dimensionality reduction’, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2008 Proceedings, Hong Kong (2008) [E1]

Lawrence Christopher Charles, Dickinson Michael Rivers, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Designing charm: Harnessing the affective power of form in robotic development’, ConnectED'07, International Conference of Design Education. Proceedings, Sydney (2007) [E1]

Ullrich Christian, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Foreign exchange trading with support vector machines’, Advances in Data Analysis: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation e. V., Berlin (2007) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Clement Riley Martin, Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, ’Modelling Architectural Visual Experience Using Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction’, Progress in Artificial Life: Third Australian Conference; ACAL 2007 Gold Coast, Australia, December 4-6, 2007 Proceedings, Gold Coast, QLD (2007) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Clement Riley Martin, Marshall Joshua Phillip, Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, ’Representations of Streetscape Perceptions Through Manifold Learning in the Space of Hough Arrays’, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (CI-ALife 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii (2007) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Marshall Joshua Phillip, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’The visual qualities of liveable streets’, Towards Solutions for a Liveable Future: Progress, Practice, Performance, People. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne (2007) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Obst Oliver, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Towards autonomous strategy decisions in the RoboCup Four-Legged League’, 7th IJCAI International Workshop on Nonmontonic Reasoning, Action and Change. Proceedings, Hyderabad, India (2007) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Impact of Tactical Variations in the RoboCup Four-Legged League’, Proceedings of International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots, Perth, WA, Australia (2006) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Dickinson Michael Rivers, Fisher Robin David, Middleton Richard Hume, Quinlan Michael Joseph, Turner Peter David, ’Proposal of a Kit-Style Robot as the New Standard Platform for the Four-Legged League’, Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Auckland, New Zealand (2006) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Marshall Joshua Phillip, ’Sustaining Residential Social Space: A Visual and Spatial Analysis of the Nearly Urban’, Challenges for Architectural Science in Changing Climates: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association ANZAScA, Adelaide, Australia (2006) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Marshall Joshua Phillip, ’A Method for the visual analysis of the streetscape’, 5th International Space Syntax Symposium Proceedings Volume II, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2005) [E1]

Dietrich Tobias, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Difference In Bidding Characteristics On eBay.de’, Proceedings of the IADIS e-Commerce 2005, Porto, Portugal (2005) [E1]

Ullrich Christian, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Predicting Foreign Exchange Rate Return Directions with Support Vector Machines’, Proceedings of 4th Australasian Data Mining Conference, Sydney (2005) [E1]

Young Stephen Robert, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Towards Robot Soccer Team Behaviours Through Approximate Simulation’, Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, INTEX Osaka, Japan (2005) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’A Method for the Visual Analysis of Streetscape Character using digital image processing’, Contexts of Architecture, Launceston, Tasmania (2004) [E1]

Murch Craig Lindsay, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Combining edge detection and colour segmentation in the four-legged league’, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2004), Canberra, ACT, Australia (2004) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Murch Craig Lindsay, ’Machine learning in the four-legged league’, 3rd IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, Sydney, Australia (2004) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Middleton Richard Hume, ’Application of SVMs for Colour Classification and Collision Detection with AIBO Robots’, Proceedings for NIPS 2003, Whistler, BC (2003) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Middleton Richard Hume, ’Techniques for Improving Vision and Locomotion on the Sony AIBO Robot’, Proceedings for 2003 ARAA, Brisbane (2003) [E1]

Coleman Oliver Johan, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Towards Matching Perception in Simulated and Real World Robot Navigation’, Proceedings for ACAL 2003, Canberra (2003) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Towards Staged Evolution of an Artificial Player for Hex by Enlarging the Boardsize During Training’, Proceedings for CEC 2003, Canberra (2003) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Algorithmic Models of Developmental Learning’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society 13, Sydney (2002) [E3]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, Blair A D, ’Software for Analysing Recurrent Neural Nets that Learn to Predict Non-Regular Languages’, Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications, Netherlands (2002) [E1]

Yang Jianhua, Estivill-Castro V, Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Support Vector Clustering Through Proximity Graph Modelling’, 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Singapore (2002) [E1]

Chalup Stephan Konrad, ’Issues of Neurodevelopment in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks’, Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (2001) [E1]

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