If you are interested in image processing or image analysis, image texture, GLCM or AMSGLCM, cytology, algae or cyanobacteria, self-adaptive and multi-scale texture analysis, co-occurrence matrices, Lake Biwa in Japan, etc. then this site is for you!

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Research, Interests.

I am a retired research scientist and lecturer of Ritsumeikan University, Japan. My recent research includes Australian finches (Gouldian, Zebra, Society finches, etc), and Japanese art (in particular Shin-Hanga, pre-WW2 publishers of prints, and the artist Tsuchiya Koitsu). My previous research includes the automatic detection and classification of freshwater bacteria and plankton in Lake Biwa, using image processing and pattern recognition techniques. I was a researcher at Lake Biwa Research Institute, and a researcher and part-time lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. I was a member of CSSIP's Medical Diagnostics group at the University of Queensland, undertaking research in the area of Pap Smear analysis and classification. Specifically, my interest was in feature extraction and classification of cell nuclei, using self-adaptive, multi-scale texture analysis. This novel technique, which directly targets discriminatory information in texture images, is introduced in my PhD thesis (see below)

I enjoy nature and am a keen environmentalist. I also have an interest in alternative energies and enjoy putting theory into practice by including solar energy as a source for my home's energy needs. Astrophotography, and electronic design and construction take up some of my leisure time, and I am the holder of Amateur Radio Licence VK4ASO. I have a great interest in Asian (particularly Japanese) culture and society, and I am a speaker of Japanese. Currently, I'm living in the city of Otsu, Japan, beside Lake Biwa.

Ross F Walker, "ADAPTIVE MULTI-SCALE TEXTURE ANALYSIS WITH APPLICATION TO AUTOMATED CYTOLOGY ", PhD Thesis, , University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Abstract. Email me regarding availability.
Ross F Walker, "REPORT ON THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A GMS WEATHER SATELLITE RECEIVE SYSTEM ", Undergraduate thesis, , Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Book and Book Chapters
Walker, Ross F. and Doi, Toshikazu "The Catalogue Raisonne of Tsuchiya Koitsu - Meiji to Shin-Hanga, Watercolours to Woodblocks", December 2008, Ohmi Gallery Publishing, ISBN 978-4-9904339-0-1 (hard cover book, 450 pages).
Ross F. Walker, "CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IN LIMNOLOGY (3) - ALGAL SPECIES CLASSIFICATION BY IMAGE PROCESSING", book chapter in "Limnology - The Textbook for the 9th IHP Training Course", International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO p179-192, ISBN 4-9980619-1-7, 1999”N11ŒŽ
Journal and Conference Papers
Chulapong Panichkriangkrai, Liang Li, Ross F. Walker, Kozaburo Hachimura "IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR HISTORICAL JAPANESE BOOK ARCHIVES", in the International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (IJABIM), Vol. 5, No. 2, April-June 2014.
Walker, Ross F. and Doi, Toshikazu "Publishers of Tsuchiya Koitsu works", in Andon, the Society for Japanese Arts, Volume 91, pp25-47, February 2012 (invited paper).
Walker, Ross F. and Doi, Toshikazu "Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949). An Artist's Journey", in Andon, the Society for Japanese Arts, Volume 89, pp27-42, February 2011 (invited paper).
Woong Choi, Naoki Hashimoto, Ross F. Walker, et al., GENERATION OF CHARACTER MOTION BY USING REACTIVE MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM WITH FORCE FEEDBACK, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 12, No. 2, p116-124, 2008
Kanako Ishikawa, Michio Kumagai, Ross F. Walker, et al., OBSERVATION OF DISSOLVED OXYGEN DEPLETION AT THE BOTTOM OF LAKE BIWA USING THE AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE TANTAN, SIL 2007, the 30th Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, 2007
Kanako Ishikawa, Michio Kumagai, Yasuaki Aota, Ross F. Walker, and Tamaki Ura "High resolution monitoring of benthos using the AUV Tantan", 2005 International Ocean Research Conference, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France June 6-10, p103-104.
Michio Kumagai, Kanako Ishikawa, Chunmeng Jiao, Ross F. Walker "自律型潜水ロボット「淡探」を用いた琵琶湖研究の高度化と展望", Journal of the Japan Shipbuilding Society, Technomarine Special Edition, No. 883, p52-56, January 2005 (in Japanese).
Kanako Ishikawa, Michio Kumagai and Ross F. Walker "Application of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and Image Analysis for Detecting the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Freshwater Red Tide Uroglena Americana (Chrysophyceae)", Journal of Plankton Research, Vol. 27, No. 1 (2005), pp 1-6.
Kanako Ishikawa, Michio Kumagai and Ross F. Walker, "Novel Measurement Techniques for Lake Biwa (2) -- Spatial Distribution of Bloom-Forming Cyanobacteria", the 69th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Limnology, 17th-20rd September, 2004, Niigata, Japan, pp 130 (in Japanese).
Kanako Ishikawa, Ross F. Walker, Shigeo Tsujimura, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Michio Kumagai, "ESTIMATION OF MICROCYSTIS COLONY SIZE IN DEVELOPING WATER BLOOMS VIA IMAGE ANALYSIS", Journal of Japan Society on Water Environment, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2004, pp69-72.
Ross F. Walker, Michio Kumagai, Kanako Ishikawa, "EVALUATION OF JESOGAMMARUS SPECIES BIOMASS USING AUV", ASLO/TOS Ocean Research 2004 Conference, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, February 15-20, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, p169.
Kanako Ishikawa, Michio Kumagai, Ross F. Walker, "3D-STRUCTURE OF FRESHWATER RED-TIDE UROGLENA AMERICANA EVALUATED BY AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE", ASLO/TOS Ocean Research 2004 Conference, February 15-20, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, p72.
Ross F. Walker, Paul T. Jackway, I.D. Longstaff, "GENETIC ALGORITHM OPTIMISATION OF ADAPTIVE MULTI-SCALE GLCM FEATURES", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2003, pp 17-39. Abstract
Ross F. Walker, Michio Kumagai, "FLUORESCENCE-ASSISTED IMAGE ANALYSIS OF FRESHWATER MICROALGAE", ", Journal of Microbiological Methods, Vol. 51, October, 2002, p149-162. Abstract
Ross F. Walker, Michio Kumagai, "IMAGE ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR QUANTITATIVE PHYCOLOGY - A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO CYANOBACTERIAL TAXA IDENTIFICATION", Limnology, Vol 1, No. 2, 2000, pp107-115. Abstract
Michio Kumagai, Ross F. Walker, Yoshiaki Fukunaga, Keiichi Morinaga, Shigeo Tsujimura, "PHYTOPLANKTON HIGH-SPEED HIGH ACCURACY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM", Misu (water), The Monthly Journal of Misu, Vol 41, October 1999 (in Japanese)
Ross F. Walker, Shigeo Tsujimura, and Michio Kumagai, "AUTOMATIC HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF CYANOBACTERIA BY IMAGE PROCESSING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION", the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Limnology, 20th-23rd September, 1998, Matsumoto, Japan, pp126.Abstract
Ross F. Walker, Shigeo Tsujimura, and Michio Kumagai, "AUTOMATIC MONITORING OF CYANOBACTERIA IN LATE BIWA BY IMAGE PROCESSING ", SIL '98, the 27th Congress of the International Association of Limnology, 9th-14th August, 1998, Dublin, Ireland. Abstract
Ross F. Walker, Paul Jackway, and I.D. Longstaff, "RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USE OF THE CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX FOR TEXTURE RECOGNITION ", ICDSP '97, the 13th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2nd-4th June, 1997, Santorini, Greece. Abstract

Ross F Walker, "GENETIC ALGORITHM OPTIMISATION OF ADAPTIVE MULTI-SCALE GLCM FEATURES ", CSSIP Technical Report TR2/97, April 1997, CSSIP, Technology Park, Adelaide, South Australia.
Ross F Walker, "ADAPTIVE MULTI-SCALE GLCM ", CSSIP Technical Report TR1/97, February 1997, CSSIP, Technology Park, Adelaide, South Australia.