Pantelis Elinas, PhD

Science, technology, gadgets and academic life

Author Archive

Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot

By Pantelis • Mar 28th, 2009 • Category: Science



Contact

By Pantelis • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Research

Address:
Australian Centre for Field Robotics, USYD
314A
Level 3, The Link Building (J13)
Darlington 2006 NSW
Phone:
+61 2 9351 8145
Email:
p.elinas (at) acfr (dot) usyd (dot) edu (dot) au



Projects

By Pantelis • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Research

2008-Present

Since 2008, I have been working on a number of interesting projects in Computer Vision and decision making under uncertainty. I have recently developed a new method for image matching using local features. I am also working on a new computer vision system for the remote and autonomous monitoring of open pit mining operations. Moreover, [...]



Publications

By Pantelis • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Research

Refereed Journal Articles

Alex Mihailidis, Pantelis Elinas, Jennifer N. Boger and Jesse Hoey An Intelligent Powered Wheelchair to Enable Mobility of Cognitively Impaired Older Adults: an Anticollision System. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 15, 1, 2007
R. Sim, Pantelis Elinas and J. J. Little, A study of the Rao-Blackwellised particle filter for efficient [...]



About

By Pantelis • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

My name is Pantelis Elinas and I am a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation. In Novemeber 2007, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the University of British Columbia, Computer Science Department under the supervision of Professor James J. Little. [...]



Sydney to Hobart yacht race on boxing day

By Pantelis • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Australia

As I learned recently, one of the largest sporting events at the end of the year in Sydney is the Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race which always kicks off on boxing day at the Sydney harbor. So, since I was in town for the holidays, I went down to Watson’s Bay to see the [...]