Dr Richard Xu is a lecturer at School of Computing and Mathematics at Charles Sturt University. He is also concurrently awarded with teaching relief six months per year until 2011.

Richard obtained PhD in Computer Sciences from University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He has been working in computer vision, visual information processing and pattern recognition since 2002, and has made a number of significant contributions in this field: Dr. Xu has developed a series of multimedia systems, which incorporates the state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. In particular, he has developed a computer vision e-learning system for automated camera control and multimedia content creation. This system is capable of detect and track the lecturer’s body movements, gaze, gesture and visualization of a rectified and image-enhanced whiteboard.

Dr Xu has published more than thirty international journal and conference papers. He is a principal supervisor for one PhD and three honors students in computer vision projects.  Links to his research page