School of Computing & Mathematics

Lihong Zheng received her MSc degree on Automation of Industry, Taiyuan University of Technology. She got her PhD degree in Computing of Sciences at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney. She is a lecturer at School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University since June 2008. In recent years, she had one patent and more than twenty referred publications in books, journals and conferences.

Teaching Responsibilities

• ITC233 Network Engineering 1
• ITC306 Project Preparation & Professional Practice
• ITC308 IT Project
• ITC354 Network Engineering 2
• ITC359 Advanced Network Technologies
• ITC511 Network Concepts 1
• ITC512 Network Concepts 2

Research

Research Focus

• Computer Vision,
  
• Image processing,
  
• Pattern Recognition,
  
• Machine Learning and Robotics

Research Projects:

• Project "Efficient character segmentation on ANPR"
• Project "Learning based boundary extraction"
• Project "Learning based character recognition"
• Project "Biometrics feature identification"

Feel free to contact Dr. Zheng if you are interested in any of these projects or any related research area.

Professional Activities

• Member of ACS

Grants and Awards

Patent:

• A pipe walking robot ZL 95 1 00242.2 IPCN. B25J11/00, 1999

Grants:

• Faculty of Business, CSU seed grant for Efficient Character Segmentation on ANPR
  Year: 2009
• ARC Linkage Project for RTA Heavy Vehicle Monitoring Project
  Year: 2006/2008
• ARC discovery project for A Novel System for Surveillance of Moving Objects
  Year: 2004-2006
• China General Administration of Sport Grants for Wrestling Training Robot
  Year: 2003/2004
• National Nature Science Fundation of Shanxi for High Accuracy Measurement Technology of Area CCD
  Year: 2002/ 2003
• TYUT Research Grant for High Accuracy Measure System of Magnetic Rings
  Year: 2002/ 2004
• Development Project of Sanhuan Co. Ltd. China for MB9211Semi-automatic Abravisive Flow machine
  Year: 2000
• Development Project of Sanhuan Co. Ltd. China for No Contact Measurement System of Ceramic Substrate
  Year: 2000
• Development Project of Sanhuan Co. Ltd. for Automatic sorting robot of ceramic substrate
  Year: 2000

Selected Publications

Book Chapter

• Lihong Zheng, X. He, and T. Hintz, 'Comparison of SVMs in Number Plate Recognition', in book progress in Pattern Recognition’, Springer, pp.152-160 , July 2007.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Lihong Zheng and Xiangjian He 'A Comparison of Reduced Support Vector Machines', International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Volume 4 , Issue 3/4 pp. 301-312, February 2008.
• Lihong Zheng, and Xiangjian He, 'Edge Detection Based on Modified BP Algorithms of ANN', Visual Information Processing 2003, Vol.36, pp. 119-122, 2004.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Xiangjian He, Lihong Zheng, Qiang Wu, Wenjing Jia, Bijan Samali and Marimuthu Palaniswami, 'Segmentation of Characters on Car License Plates', 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP2008, Tier A), pp.399-402, 2008.
• Lihong Zheng, Xiangjian He, et.al. 'A Hierarchically Combined Classifier for License Plate Recognition', 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2008 (CIT 2008)., 978-1-4244-2357-6, pp. 372-377, July, 2008.
• P. Hao, X. Zhang, Y. Li and Lihong Zheng, 'High Accuracy Measurement Technology of CCD and its Industrial Application', appeared in proceeding of 2008 IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems (CIS) and Robotics, Automation & Mechatronics (RAM) (CIS-RAM 2008), pp. 423-429, June, 2008.
• Lihong Zheng and Xiangjian He, 'Number Plate Recognition without Segmentation', IVCNZ2007, pp. 164-168, Dec. 2007.
• Lihong Zheng, X. He, Q. Wu and T. Hintz, 'Learning-based Number Recognition on Spiral Architecture', Proceeding of IEEE ICARCV2006. Singapore, pp.897-901, 2006.
• Lihong Zheng and Xiangjian He, 'Number Plate Recognition Based on Support Vector Machines', Proc. of IEEE AVSS 2006 conference. ISBN-13: 978-0-7695-2688-1, 2006.
• Lihong Zheng and Xiangjian He, 'A Study on Classification Techniques for Pattern Recognition', DCABES and ICPACE Joint Conference on Distributed Algorithms for Science and Engineering, London, pp.161-164, August 2005.
• Lihong Zheng, Xiangjian He, and Yuanzong Li, 'A Comparison of Methods for Character Recognition of Car Number Plate', Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision (VISION'05), pp.33-39, June 2005.
• Lihong Zheng, Yuanzong Li and Lifeng Yang, 'Application of Subdivision Technology in Industrial Measurement', Proc. of 5th International Symposium on Test and Measurement (ISTM2003), pp.2281-2284, June, 2003.