The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Stephan Chalup
School: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Commenced with Institution: 18-SEP-2000
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Dr Stephan Chalup 2007 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Honolulu Hawaii, 31/3/2007 - 6/4/2007   2500  
Professor Michael Ostwald;Dr Stephan Chalup 2007 3 Australian Research Council Project - Discovery Projects Shaping social and cultural spaces: the application of computer visualisation and machine learning techniques to the design of architectural and urban spaces   275829  
Dr Stephan Chalup 2006 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Workshop on New Applications of Dimensionality Reduction at Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS 2006, Vancouver/Whistler Canada, 4/12/2006 - 9/12/2006   1500  
Professor Michael Ostwald;Dr Stephan Chalup;Mr Christopher Tucker 2006 2 TUNRA Administered Research Project - Research Grant/Consultancy Developing computational and algorithmic analytical techniques for investigating urban space   100000  
Dr Stephan Chalup;Dr Michael Quinlan;Dr Robert King;Professor Richard Middleton 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Rapid Convergence for Reinforcement Learning with Legged Robots   10000  
Dr Stephan Chalup;Professor Richard Middleton 2004 3 University of Newcastle Scholarship - Multi-Year Project Grant Application of spiking neural networks to robot locomotion control   39319  
Dr Stephan Chalup 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Early Career Researcher Grant Evaluating the generalisation ability of machine learning classifiers on extreme tasks   8000  
Dr Stephan Chalup 2003 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant 17th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 8 to 13 December 2003   1730  
Dr Stephan Chalup 2002 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant International Conference on Grammatical Inference, Amsterdam 23-25 September 2002   2260  
Dr Stephan Chalup 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - Early Career Researcher Grant Machines Learn via Biologically Motivated Incremental Algorithms   10000  
Dr Stephan Chalup 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant ANNES 2001 New Zealand 22-24 November, 2001   1331  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Co-Supervisor An Intelligent System Based Framework for Clinical Endoscopy Image Analysis
M Philosophy(Computer Science) Principal Supervisor New Applications of Machine Learning in Anthropocentric Computing
M Eng (Computer Eng) [R] Co-Supervisor TBA
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Learning and Control in Robotics
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction with Neural Networks
M Philosophy (Computer Eng) Principal Supervisor Three Dimensional Based Face Recognition
PhD (Computer Engineering) Co-Supervisor Integrated Image Detection Algorithms for Robust Object recognition.

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 2.250
PhD 1.150

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Software Engineering) 2006 Machine Learning on AIBO Robots
PhD (Computer Science) 2008 A Learning Classifier System Approach to Relational Reinforcement Learning

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Chalup Stephan, Murch Craig Lindsay, Quinlan Michael Joseph, ’Machine learning with AIBO robots in the four-legged league of RoboCup’, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, 37 297-310 (2007) [C1]

Chalup Stephan, Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, ’Variations of the two-spiral task’, Connection Science, 19 183-199 (2007) [C1]

Dietrich Tobias, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan, ’Classification of EBAY Bidding Characteristics’, IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, 4 111- 125 (2006) [C1]

Chalup Stephan, Mellor Drew, Rosamond Frances Ann, ’The Machine Intelligence Hex Project’, Computer Science Education, 15 245-273 (2005) [C1]

Chalup Stephan, Middleton Richard Hume, Quinlan Michael Joseph, Wiklendt Lukasz Sebastian, ’Neurocomputational aspects of legged locomotion motor control’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, 15 105 (2004) [C3]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Murch Craig Lindsay, Middleton Richard Hume, Chalup Stephan, ’Traction monitoring for collision detection with legged robots’, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3020 374-384 (2004) [C1]

Chalup Stephan, Alan D Blair, ’Incremental training of first order recurrent neural networks to predict a context-sensitive language’, Neural Networks, 16 955-972 (2003) [C1]

Chalup Stephan, ’Incremental Learning in Biological and Machine Learning Systems’, International Journal of Neural Systems, 12 447-465 (2002) [C1]

Chalup Stephan, Mellor Drew, ’The Machine Intelligence Hex Project - An Overview’, Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, 8 6-23 (2002) [C1]

Conference Publication

Lawrence Christopher Charles, Dickinson Michael Rivers, Chalup Stephan, ’Designing charm: Harnessing the affective power of form in robotic development’, ConnectED'07, International Conference of Design Education. Proceedings, Sydney (2007) [E1]

Ullrich Christian, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan, ’Foreign exchange trading with support vector machines’, Advances in Data Analysis: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation e. V., Berlin (2007) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, Clement Riley Martin, Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, ’Modelling Architectural Visual Experience Using Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction’, Progress in Artificial Life: Third Australian Conference; ACAL 2007 Gold Coast, Australia, December 4-6, 2007 Proceedings, Gold Coast, QLD (2007) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, Clement Riley Martin, Marshall Joshua Phillip, Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, ’Representations of Streetscape Perceptions Through Manifold Learning in the Space of Hough Arrays’, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (CI-ALife 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii (2007) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Marshall Joshua Phillip, Chalup Stephan, ’The visual qualities of liveable streets’, Towards Solutions for a Liveable Future: Progress, Practice, Performance, People. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne (2007) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Obst Oliver, Chalup Stephan, ’Towards autonomous strategy decisions in the RoboCup Four-Legged League’, 7th IJCAI International Workshop on Nonmontonic Reasoning, Action and Change. Proceedings, Hyderabad, India (2007) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Chalup Stephan, ’Impact of Tactical Variations in the RoboCup Four-Legged League’, Proceedings of International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots, Perth, WA, Australia (2006) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, Dickinson Michael Rivers, Fisher Robin David, Middleton Richard Hume, Quinlan Michael Joseph, Turner Peter David, ’Proposal of a Kit-Style Robot as the New Standard Platform for the Four-Legged League’, Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Auckland, New Zealand (2006) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Chalup Stephan, Marshall Joshua Phillip, ’Sustaining Residential Social Space: A Visual and Spatial Analysis of the Nearly Urban’, Challenges for Architectural Science in Changing Climates: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association ANZAScA, Adelaide, Australia (2006) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Chalup Stephan, Marshall Joshua Phillip, ’A Method for the visual analysis of the streetscape’, 5th International Space Syntax Symposium Proceedings Volume II, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2005) [E1]

Dietrich Tobias, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan, ’Difference In Bidding Characteristics On eBay.de’, Proceedings of the IADIS e-Commerce 2005, Porto, Portugal (2005) [E1]

Ullrich Christian, Seese Detlef, Chalup Stephan, ’Predicting Foreign Exchange Rate Return Directions with Support Vector Machines’, Proceedings of 4th Australasian Data Mining Conference, Sydney (2005) [E1]

Young Stephen Robert, Chalup Stephan, ’Towards Robot Soccer Team Behaviours Through Approximate Simulation’, Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, INTEX Osaka, Japan (2005) [E1]

Tucker Christopher Charles, Ostwald Michael, Chalup Stephan, ’A Method for the Visual Analysis of Streetscape Character using digital image processing’, Contexts of Architecture, Launceston, Tasmania (2004) [E1]

Murch Craig Lindsay, Chalup Stephan, ’Combining edge detection and colour segmentation in the four-legged league’, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2004), Canberra, ACT, Australia (2004) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, Murch Craig Lindsay, ’Machine learning in the four-legged league’, 3rd IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, Sydney, Australia (2004) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Chalup Stephan, Middleton Richard Hume, ’Application of SVMs for Colour Classification and Collision Detection with AIBO Robots’, Proceedings for NIPS 2003, Whistler, BC (2003) [E1]

Quinlan Michael Joseph, Chalup Stephan, Middleton Richard Hume, ’Techniques for Improving Vision and Locomotion on the Sony AIBO Robot’, Proceedings for 2003 ARAA, Brisbane (2003) [E1]

Coleman Oliver Johan, Chalup Stephan, ’Towards Matching Perception in Simulated and Real World Robot Navigation’, Proceedings for ACAL 2003, Canberra (2003) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, ’Towards Staged Evolution of an Artificial Player for Hex by Enlarging the Boardsize During Training’, Proceedings for CEC 2003, Canberra (2003) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, ’Algorithmic Models of Developmental Learning’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society 13, Sydney (2002) [E3]

Chalup Stephan, Blair A D, ’Software for Analysing Recurrent Neural Nets that Learn to Predict Non-Regular Languages’, Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications, Netherlands (2002) [E1]

Yang Jianhua, Estivill-Castro V, Chalup Stephan, ’Support Vector Clustering Through Proximity Graph Modelling’, 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Singapore (2002) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, ’Issues of Neurodevelopment in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks’, Proceedings of the Fifth Biannual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (2001) [E1]

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