The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence between 2014 and 2021. ARC Centre’s of Excellence are prestigious foci of expertise through which high-quality researchers maintain and develop Australia’s international standing in research areas of national priority.
The Centre was funded for $25.5 million to conduct research in the exciting new field of robotic vision, applying computer vision to robotics. The Centre consisted of four Australian University Partners (Queensland University of Technology, University of Adelaide, Monash University and Australian National University), Data61 and six international institutions (Oxford University, Imperial College London, INRIA, ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech and the University of Toronto); and was led by Director, Distinguished Professor Peter Corke (QUT), Deputy Director, Professor Ian Reid (Adelaide), Node Leader Professor Tom Drummond (Monash) and Node Leader Professor Stephen Gould (ANU).
While robotics is about machines that interact with the physical world, computer vision is about analysing and understanding the world through images. Robotic Vision expands the capabilities of robots, allowing them to see and understand the world in which they are working, key technology for robotics to change the way in which we live and work. Over its life, the Centre for Robotic Vision developed and applied technologies to solve real challenges in the monitoring and protection of the natural and built environments, the provision of healthcare in hospitals and in the home, sustainable food production, efficiently harnessing our natural resources. This website shares the impact the Centre made over its seven years and the legacy it has left on the world.