Past projects

Development of Australian cyber criteria assessment

Funder: Cyber Security CRC and Quintessence Lab
Investigators: Chang-Tsun Li, Mengmeng Ge, Leo Zhang, Zahid Islam and Md Rafiqul Islam
Period: 2020-2021
Funding Amount: $186,000

Prototype development of an image analysis system for quantitation of offal health for the red meat processing industry

Funder:  Discovery Translational Fund (DTF)
Investigators: Jane Quinn, Lihong Zheng and Scott Edwards
Status: 2020-2021
Funding Amount: $49,500

Investigating the psychological barriers to accepting advice from ‘thinking’ machines in the workplace

Funder: Centre of Work and Safety, NSW Government
Investigators: Ben Morrison, Natalie Morrison, Mike Innes, Manoranjan Paul and Yeslam Al-Saggaf
Status: Ongoing 2020-2021
Funding Amount: $107,998

The Corona Score: Assessment and monitor the progression of COVID-19 using artificial intelligence with multi-modal data

Funder: Charles Sturt COVID-19 Research Grant
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul, Anwaar Ulhaq, Subrata Chakraborty, Manash Saha, DM Motiur Rahaman, and Dr Tanmoy Debnath
Status: 2020
Funding Amount: $30,000

Designing privacy preserving and secure contact tracing mobile apps to combat COVID-19

Funder: Charles Sturt COVID-19 Research Grant
Investigators: Ashad Kabir, Anwaar Ulhaq, Oliver Burmeister, Lihong Zheng, Zahid Islam, Faizur Rahman (Google)
Status: 2020
Funding Amount: A$12,000

Modelling firewall strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales, Australia

Investigators: Azizur Rahman, Dmitry Demskoy, Michael Bewong, Ryan Ip
Status: 2020
Funding Amount: A$7,925

Developing an intervention model to assess effectiveness of policy measures on COVID-19 outbreak in Australia

Investigators: Ryan Ip, Azizur Rahman, Lihong Zheng, Dmitry Demskoy
Status: 2020
Funding Amount: A$2,536

Database Schema Matching

Funder: Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment and Data61, CSIRO
Investigators: Zahid Islam
Status: Ongoing (2020 – 2020)
Funding Amount: A$30,030

Developing a Hyperspectral Imagery based Decision Support System for Soil Assessment using Vegetation Pattern

Funder: Soil CRC PhD Project
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul, Leigh Schmidtke, Shyh Wei Teng, Manzur Murshed Guojun Lu, and Ferdous Sohel
Status: Ongoing 2019-2021
Funding Amount: $90,000

Drone-based multimodal imaging for effective soil health assessment, monitoring, and decision support systems

Funder: Soil CRC PhD Project
Investigators: Shyh Wei Teng, Manzur Murshed, Guojun Lu, Manoranjan Paul,and Ferdous Sohel
Status: Ongoing 2019-2021
Funding Amount: $90,000

Efficient multi-view video coding with cuboids and base anchored models

Funder:
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2019-2021
Funding Amount: $25,000

Vine Nutrition

Funder: SmartWine, Wine Australia
Investigators: Suzy Rogiers, Manoranjan Paul, Lihong Zheng, Leigh Schmidtke
Status: 2019-2020
Funding Amount: $650,515

Crime and Disorder Audit, Wagga Wagga

Funder: NSW Police
Investigators: Philip Birch and Zahid Islam
Status: 2020- 2020
Funding Amount: A$15,000

Investigating IoT botnets for threats and infections using Machine Learning techniques

Funder: FOBJBS, Compact Funding, Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Arash Mahboubi and Sabih Rehman
Status: 2020
Funding Amount: $7,500

Seed grant to organise PSIVT 2019

Funder: PSIVT
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2019
Funding Amount: $10,000

Efficient multi-view video coding with cuboids and base anchored models

Funder:  Australian Research Council Discovery Program
Investigators: David Taubman (UNSW), Manoranjan Paul (Charles Sturt), Mohammad Murshed (Federation University), Gene Cheung (NII, Japan)
Funding Scheme: ARC Discovery Grant
Status: Ongoing 2019 – 2021
Funding Amount: A$380,000

Use of Care Robots in Reducing Social Isolation Among Ex-Service Veterans

Funder: FOBJBS Research Development Grant, Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Sabih Rehman
Status: 2019
Funding Amount: $4,812

Video Analytics: Understanding Video Content Automatically using Artificial Intelligence

Funder: Charles Sturt Research Fellowship, Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2018-2020
Funding Amount: $142,115

Building smart and integrated infrastructure

Funder: Research Infrastructure Support Scheme (RISS)
Investigators: Lihong Zheng,  Sabih Rehman,  Xiaodi Huang
Status: 2018
Funding Amount: $49,000

Expert Visits Program

Funder: the European initiative EPIC
Investigators: Lihong Zheng
Status: 2018
Funding Amount: $2,980

EU COST Action CA16101: Multi-modal Imaging of Forensic Science Evidence - Tools for Forensic Science

Funder: European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Charles Sturt Investigators: Chang-Tsun Li, Xufeng Lin
Status: 2017 - 2021

IoT Spartan Challenge

Funder: Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer, the Department of Industry
Investigators: Lihong Zheng and Sabih Rehman
Status: 2017
Funding Amount: $7,000

Efficient Video Coding and Quality Assessment by Exploiting Human Visual Features

Funder: Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Pallab Kanti Podder and Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2017
Funding Amount: $10,000

The Provision of a Predictive Risk Stratification Tool for the Chronic/Complex Healthcare: Engaging Stakeholders and Services (CHESS) Initiative

Funder: Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), NSW Health, Australia.
Investigators: Zahid Islam and Mark Morrison
Status: 2016
Amount: $55,803
Award: This project received an Innovation Award in 2017 from the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI)

Apply Wireless sensor network of IoT for field sensing

Funder: FOBJBS, Compact Funding, Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Lihong Zheng and Sabih Rehman
Status: 2016
Funding Amount: $12,544

ARC Discovery near miss grant

Funder: Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2016
Funding Amount: $11,000

Spherical Digital Video Camera for High Precision and Rapid Imaging

Funder: Charles Sturt RIGB grant
Investigators: L. Ang, K.P. Seng, Manoranjan Paul, and Lihong Zheng
Status: 2015
Funding Amount: $31,078

Hyperspectral imaging

Funder: Charles Sturt University RIGB grant
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Terry Bossomaier, and Michael Antolovich
Status: 2015
Funding Amount: $63,110

Epileptic seizure prediction

Funder: FoB Compact Funding, Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul and M Z. Parvez
Status: 2015
Funding Amount: $7,000

Social and community links - a driver of healthy and active ageing

Funder: Subcontracted by LiveBetter. Original funding source is the Department of Social Services, Australia.
Investigators: Oliver Burmeister, Mark Morrison, Zahid Islam, Maree Bernoth, Rylee Dionigi, and Rahena Akhter
Partner Organisation: LiveBetter Pty Ltd, Orange, NSW
Status: 2015 – 2017
Funding Amount: $655,000 ($60,000 to Charles Sturt)

Video Workshop

Funder: FoB Compact Funding, Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2015
Funding Amount: $10,000

Depth and Texture Coding

Funder: Faculty of Business Compact Funding
Investigators: Subrata Chakraborty and Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2014
Funding Amount: $6,000

Identifying the medico-legal and ethical challenges in Synergy ecosystem data storage

Funder: Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre.
Investigators: Oliver Burmeister, Zahid Islam, Maree Bernoth and Carli Kulmar
Status: 2014
Funding Amount: $16,500

High performance computing

Funder: Execute Deans' Educational Equipment grant
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2014
Funding Amount: $20,000

Multiview Video Coding using Cuboid Data Compression

Funder: Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project
Investigators: Manzur Murshed and Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2013~2017
Funding Amount: $315,000

Imaging Under Dangerous Conditions, specifically within the Mining Industry

Funder: Faculty Compact Funding
Investigators: Michael Antolovich, Junbin Gao, Jim Tulip, Manoranjan Paul, David Tien, Wayne Moore, Kevin Wilkins, and David Tilbrook
Status: 2013
Funding Amount: $85,000

Review of Support Worker Integration with Functional Decline

Funder: Hobart Nursing District, Australia.
Investigators: Mark Morrison, Maree Bernoth, Oliver Burmeister, and Zahid Islam
Status: 2013
Funding Amount: $39,400

Age Care Workforce Reform - Building Communities of Practice Around the Prevention of Functional Decline in the Community

Funder: Carewest, Australia.
Investigators: Mark Morrison, Oliver Burmeister, Zahid Islam, Ramudu Bhanugopan and Maree Bernoth
Status: 2013
Funding Amount: $25,000

Abnormal event detection

Funder: Charles Sturt University Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG),
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Terry Bossomaier, and Zahid Islam
Status: 2012
Funding Amount: $43,000

WAREIGS: Wavelet-Network-Based Augmented-Reality-Enhanced Image-Guided Surgery

Funder: Australia-China Science Research Fund (ACSRF)
Investigators: Junbin Gao, Terry Bossomaier, Manoranjan Paul, Michael Antolovich, and Paul Kwan
Status: complete 2012
Funding Amount: $38,000

Efficient Algorithms for Nuclear Norm Minimization

Funder: Faculty of Business Compact grant
Investigators: Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Manoranjan Paul, and Jim Tulip
Status:  2012-2013
Funding Amount: $12,702

Eye controlled video coding

Funder: Faculty of Business Compact grant
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, and Jim Tulip
Status: 2012-2013
Funding Amount: $12,929

Mentoring support for obtaining grant

Funder: Faculty of Business Compact grant
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael, and Terry Bossomaier
Status: 2011
Funding Amount: $9,902

Project Funding

Funder: Faculty of Business Compact grant
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul, Junbin Gao, Michael, and Terry Bossomaier
Status: 2011
Funding Amount: $4,600

Visiting Fellow

Funder: Faculty of Business Compact grant
Investigators: Junbin Gao, Michael Antolovich, Manoranjan Paul, Jim Tulip and David Tien
Status: 2011
Funding Amount: $14,036

Charles Sturt University Seed Grant 2011

Funder: Charles Sturt University
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2011
Funding Amount: $4,620

Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) project

Funder: Nanyang Technological University,
Investigators: Weisi Lin and Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2010
Funding Amount: $7,200

Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) project

Funder: Nanyang Technological University
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul and Weisi Lin
Status: 2009
Funding Amount: $14,400

Gippsland Linkage and Discovery Initiative Scheme

Funder: Monash University
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2008
Funding Amount: $5,000

Publication Time Release Scheme (PTRS)

Funder: Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2008
Funding Amount: $2,500

National & International Conference Travel Grant Scheme (NICTGS)

Funder: Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Investigators: Manoranjan Paul
Status: 2008
Funding Amount: $2,000