Mihai M. Lazarescu



 

Introduction


Dr. Mihai Lazarescu is currently working as a senior lecturer at the School of Computing  at  Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. He is also the Computer Science course controller.

Started university studies in 1992. Degree of  Bachelor of Science (major in Artificial Intelligence) awarded in 1995 which was then followed by First Class Honours in 1996. Started PhD work in 1996 and finished in 1999 - PhD awarded in April 2000.

The main interests are machine learning (particularly incremental learning), image processing and natural language processing.
 



 

 Teaching


    Programming Languages and Design Concepts 352

    Artificial and Machine Intelligence 251

    Machine Perception 362
 


Research

Previous Work


    Papers

Sebastian Luhr, Mihai Lazarescu (2008) Incremental Clustering of Dynamic Streams Using Connectivity Based Representative Points. To appear in the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering (accepted August 2008).

Gladis Suba John, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu (2008) Multi Cue Performance Evaluation Metrics in Video Sequences. To appear in the Proceedings of DICTA2008 (accepted August 2008).

Ruen-Che Loh, Sieteng Soh, Mihai Lazarescu (2008) A Greedy Technique for Finding the Most Reliable Edge-disjoint-path-set in a Network. To appear in the Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing 2008 (accepted August 2008).

Santu Rana, Wanquan Liu, Mihai Lazarescu and Svetha Venkatesh (2008) Efficient Tensor Based Face Recognition. To appear in the Proceedings of ICPR2008 (accepted June 2008).

Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu, Chris Clay (2008) Evaluation of Telediagnosis for ological Services in Rural and Remote Areas. To appear in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (accepted April 2008).

Tele Tan, Min Chew Lim, Mihai Lazarescu, Lin Li (2008) Interactive Digital Art through Chameleon Art. To appear in the Proceeedings of CGAT 2008 (accepted March 2008).

Santu Rana, Wanquan Liu, Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh (2008) Recognising faces in unseen modes: a tensor based approach. To appear in the Proceedings of CVPR2008, Anchorage, USA (accepted March 2008).

Mihai Lazarescu, Geoff West, Monica Ou (2008) Bookchapter - TELEDERM : A Web-Decision Support System for Medical Practitioners.  To appear in Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems.

Sebastian Luhr, Mihai Lazarescu (2008) Connectivity Based Stream Clustering Using Localised Density Exemplars. To appear in the Proceedings of PAKDD2008, Osaka, Japan.

Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu, Chris Clay (2007) Dynamic Knowledge Validation and Verification for a CBR Teledermatology System. In the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 39, 1 (Jan. 2007), 79-96.

Budhaditya Saha, Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh (2007) Infrequent Pattern Mining in Multiple Streams. In the Proceedings of Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDM Workshops 2007) – 2nd International Workshop on Data Stream Mining and Management, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

Sebastian Luhr, Mihai Lazarescu (2007) A Visual data Analysis Tool for Sport Player Performance Benchmarking, Comparison and Change Detection. In the Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Patras, Greece.

Chee Boon Chong, Mihai Lazarescu, Tele Tan (2007) Detection and Monitoring of Passengers on a Bus by Video Surveillance. In the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Modena, Italy, pp 143-148.

R-C. Loh, S. Soh, and M. Lazarescu. Finding the most reliable edge-disjoint-path-set in a communication network. In Proc. of the Postgraduate in Electrical Engineering and Computing Symposium 2007, November 2007.

Shuanghui Meng, Andrew Turpin, Mihai Lazarescu, Jim Ivins (2006) A Comparison of Algorithms for Calculating Glaucoma Change Probability Confidence Intervals. In the Journal of Glaucoma. 15(5):405-413, October 2006.

Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu, Chris Clay (2006) Telederm:  Enhancing Dermatological Diagnosis for Rural and Remote Communities. In the Proceedings of IEEE CBMS 2006.

Shuanghui Meng,  Mihai Lazarescu, Andrew Turpin, Jim Ivins (2006) Monitoring Glaucomatous Progression: Classification of Visual Field Measurements Using Stable Reference Data. Appeared Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.

Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu (2005) Interactive Knowledge Validation and Query Refinement for CBR. To appear in the Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2005 (AAAI 2005), Pittsburg, USA.

William Sia, Mihai Lazarescu (2005) Clustering Large Dynamic Datasets using Exemplar Points. To appear in the Proceedings of the IAPR Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining 2005 (MLDM 2005), Leipzig, Germany.

Mihai Lazarescu (2005) A Multiple Window Approach with Relevance Based Forgetting and Prediction Analysis. To appear in the Proceedings of 5th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS 2005), Miami, USA.

Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu (2005) Interactive Knowledge Validation in CBR for Teledermatology. To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2005) Aberdeen, Scotland.

Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Hai Hung Bui (2004) Using Multiple Windows to Track Concept Drift. In the Intelligent Data Analysis Journal, Vol 8 (1), 2004.

Mihai Lazarescu (2004) Using Prediction Trends to Track Concept Drift Robustly. In the Proceedings of IASTED International Symposia on Applied Informatics 2004 (AIA2004), Innsbruck, pp 246-252 Austria.

Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu, (2004) User Friendly Decision Support Techniques in a Case Base Reasoning System. In the Proceedings of the 17th Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  December 2004, pp 718 – 729.

Damien Pumphrey, Mihai Lazarescu (2004) An Incremental Learning Clustering Approach Using Exemplars. In the Proceedings of IASTED International Symposia on Applied Informatics 2004 (AIA2004), Innsbruck, pp 240-246,, Austria.

Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu, (2003) Dealing with Decision Costs in CBR in Medical Applications. In the Proceedings of the 16th Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  December 2003, pp 666 – 677.

Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh (2003) Using Camera Motion To Identify Different Types of American Football Plays. International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2003. ICME '03. Proceedings. 2003,Volume: 2 , 6-9 July 2003, pp181 – 184.

Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh (2003) Using Selective Memory To Track Concept Effectively. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, 2003.  25-27 June 2003, pp 14 – 20.  

Mihai Lazarescu, Andrew Turpin (2003) Classifying Glaucomatous Progression using Decision Trees. In the Proceedings of IASTED International Symposia on Applied Informatics 2003 (AI2003), pp 205-210, Innsbruck, Austria.

Mihai Lazarescu (2002) On the applications of Decision Trees. In the Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA2002), pp 72-77, Malaga, Spain.

Mihai Lazarescu, Andrew Turpin, Svetha Venkatesh (2002) An Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Glaucomatous Progression. In the Proceedings of the Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition Workshop, pp 73-78, Windsor, Canada, 2002.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff West (2002) On the automatic indexing of cricket using camera motion parameters. In the Proceedings of  the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp 809-813, Laussane, Switzerland, 2002.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Hung H. Bui (2001). An application of concept drift tracking to average frame interpretation. To appear in the Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA2001), Marbella.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Hung H. Bui (2001). Tracking Concept Drift Robustly. In the Proceedings of IASTED International Symposia on Applied Informatics 2001 (AI2001). Innsbruck, pp 38-43.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Geoff West (2000). On the Incremental Learning and Recognition of the pattern of Movement of Multiple Labelled Objects in Dynamic Scenes. In the Proceedings of ICPR'2000, pp 652-656.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Geoff West (2000). Learning about Dynamic Scenes. In Spatial Vision Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp 315-321.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Horst Bunke and Svetha Venkatesh (2000). Graph matching: fast candidate elimination using machine learning techniques. Appeared in the Proceedings of SSPR2000, Alicante.

        Mihai Lazarescu and Svetha Venkatesh (2000). On the recognition of American Football formations from images. Appeared in the Proceedings of IEEE-PCM2000, Sydney.

       Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff West and Terry Caelli (1999). On the Automated Interpretation and Indexing of American Football. In the Proceedings of ICMCS'99, pages 824-829.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Geoff West (1999). Learning about Dynamic Scenes. In the Proceedings of Bad Homeburg Workshop on Computer Vision.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Geoff West (1999). Incremental Learning with Forgetting (ILF). In Proceedings of ICML-99 Workshop on Machine Learning in Computer Vision.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Geoff West (1999). Classifying and Learning Cricket Shots using Camera Motion. In the Proceedings of AI'99.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh and Geoff West and Terry Caelli (1999). Applications of Machine Learning to Dynamic Scene Analysis. In the Proceedings of Dicta'99.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff West (1998). Combining Natural Language Processing and Video Data to Query American Football. In the Proceedings of ICPR'98, pages 1274-1277.

        Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff West and Terry Caelli (1998). Using Natural Language and Video Data to Query and Learn American Football Plays. In the Proceedings of ICAPR'98, pages 63-73.

       Mihai Lazarescu, Terry Caelli and Svetha Venkatesh (1998). Extracting Common Subtrees from Decision Trees. In the Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 12, No. 6, 867-879.

    Theses

  • Mihai Lazarescu Mugurel (2000). Incremental Learning for Querying Multimodal Symbolic Data. PhD Thesis, Curtin University of Technology.
  • Mihai Lazarescu Mugurel (1996) An Application of String Matching to Decision Trees, Honours Thesis, Curtin University of Technology.

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Email Address: lazaresc@cs.curtin.edu.au
Telephone/Fax: +(61 8) 9266 2110 / +(61 8) 9266 2819

Department of Computer Science,
Curtin University of Technology,
Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia, 6102.