Asanka Perera
asanka.perera (at) adfa.edu.au

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UNSW Canberra. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Central Queensland University and University of South Australia. My research is focused on robotics, mechatronics, drones, machine learning, computer vision and signal processing.
*This is my PhD website and not actively maintained.

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Selected Publications

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Detection and Localisation of Life Signs from the Air Using Image Registration and Spatio-Temporal Filtering
Asanka G Perera, Fatema-Tuz-Zohra Khanam, Ali Al-Naji, Javaan Chahl
Remote Sensing, 2020


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Life Signs Detector Using a Drone in Disaster Zones
Ali Al-Naji, Asanka G Perera, Saleem Latteef Mohammed, Javaan Chahl
Remote Sensing, 2019


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Cross-correlation-based Robust Object Tracking in Aerial Videos
Asanka G Perera, Yee Wei Law, Javaan Chahl
AIAC 2018: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress, 2019


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UAV-GESTURE: A Dataset for UAV Control and Gesture Recognition
Asanka G Perera, Yee Wei Law, Javaan Chahl
UAVision workshop, ECCV, 2018

project page / bibtex / pdf
@Article{perera18uavgesture, 
  author="Perera, Asanka G. and
          Law, Yee Wei and 
          Chahl, Javaan", 
  title="UAV-GESTURE: A Dataset for UAV Control and Gesture Recognition",
  booktitle="Computer Vision -- ECCV 2018 Workshops",
  pages = "117--128", year = "2019"}
            

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Human Pose and Path Estimation from Aerial Video Using Dynamic Classifier Selection
Asanka G Perera, Yee Wei Law, Javaan Chahl
Cognitive Computation, 2018

project page / bibtex / pdf
@Article{perera18humanpose, 
  author="Perera, Asanka G. and
          Law, Yee Wei and 
          Chahl, Javaan", 
  title="Human Pose and Path Estimation from Aerial Video Using 
          Dynamic Classifier Selection", 
  journal="Cognitive Computation", 
  year="2018", month="Jun", day="29"}
            

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Human motion analysis from UAV video
Asanka G Perera, Yee Wei Law, Ali Al-Naji, Javaan Chahl
International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, 2018

code / bibtex / pdf
@Article{perera18humanmotion, 
  author="Perera, Asanka G. and
          Law, Yee Wei and 
          Al-Naji, Ali and
          Chahl, Javaan", 
  title="Human motion analysis from UAV video", 
  journal="International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systemsn", 
  volume = "6", number = "2", pages = "69-92", year = "2018"}
            

Datasets

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Aerial Gait Dataset


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UAV-GESTURE Dataset


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Drone-Action Dataset


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MOD20 - A Multi-viewpoint Outdoor Dataset for Human Action Recognition


Teaching & Research Appointments

Course coordinator, Lecturer

Autonomous Mechatronic Systems (EEET 4070) - SP2, 2019
Mechatronic System Design 2 (EEET 4075) - SP2, 2019

Tutorials, Codes and Student Projects

Research assistant

Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) - Alternate Navigation for Trusted Academic Research Assistant (2017-2019)

Student assessor

Advanced Control (EEET 4071) - (2017)
Control Systems (EEET 3046) - (2016-2017)


News

Website inspired from Georgia Gkioxari and Jon Barron