Dr Peter Tischer - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Peter Tischer is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.

In 1978 Peter Tischer received a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Monash University. In 1983 he completed a PhD in the "The Cyclic Use of Linear Multistep Formulas far the Solution of Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations". In 1982 he became an academic staff member in the Department of Computer Science at Monash University and is currently a senior lecturer in the Clayton School of Information Technology. Since completing his PhD he has developed interests in universal data compression, lossless image compression, image processing and minimal message length inductive inference. He is particularly interested in applying minimal message length principles to image processing. This combination has already led to the development of a method for lossless compression of greyscale images that is currently achieving the best lossless compression of any method reported in the open literature.

Keywords

Data Format, Expert Systems, Image Processing, Minimum Message Length, Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Qualifications

PHD IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1983

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1978

Publications

Books

Soh, C., Tischer, P.E., Shetty, P., 2010, Classifying Music Performance: Using k-Nearest Neighbour Classification, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrucken Germany.

Seemann, T., Tischer, P.E., 1997, Generalized locally adaptive DPCM, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Alaiz-Rodriguez, R., Japkowicz, N., Tischer, P.E., 2009, Visualizing high dimensional classifier performance data, in Advances in Data Management, eds Zbigniew W Ras and Agnieszka Dardzinska, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 105-129.

Journal Articles

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 2003, A similarity measure based on causal neighbours and mutual information, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol 104, IOS Press, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 842-851.

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 2001, TMWLego* - An Object Oriented Image Modelling Framework, Proceedings DCC2001 Data Compression Conference, IEEE, Los Alamitos CA USA, p. 504.

Conference Proceedings

Goodrich, B., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2011, Training weighted SVMs using a generalized Schlesinger-Kozinec algorithm, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 7 November 2011 to 10 November 2011, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 2435-2440.

Goodrich, B.D., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2010, Accelerating radius-margin parameter selection for SVMs using geometric bounds, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 14 December 2010 to 17 December 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 827-832.

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 2010, Focusing the normalised information distance on the relevant information content for image similarity, Proceedings of the 2010 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 01 December 2010 to 03 December 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 1-7.

Goodrich, B.D., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2009, Algorithms for the computation of reduced convex hulls, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference AI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 230-239.

Japkowicz, N., Sanghi, P., Tischer, P.E., 2008, A projection-based framework for classifier performance evaluation, Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2008), 15 September 2008 to 19 September 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 548-563.

Alaiz-Rodriguez, R., Japkowicz, N., Tischer, P.E., 2008, A visualization-based exploratory technique for classifier comparison with respect to multiple metrics and multiple domains, Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2008), 15 September 2008 to 19 September 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 660-665.

Alaiz-Rodriguez, R., Japkowicz, N., Tischer, P.E., 2008, Visualizing classifier performance on different domains, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 3 November 2008 to 5 November 2008, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 3-10.

Japkowicz, N., Sanghi, P., Tischer, P.E., 2007, Classifier utility visualization by distance-preserving projection of high dimensional performance data, Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Workshop Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning II, 22 July 2007, AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA USA, pp. 16-21.

Phu, M.Q., Tischer, P.E., Wu, H.R., 2007, Statistical analysis of impulse noise model for color image restoration, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, 11 July 2007 to 13 July 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 425-431.

Phu, M.Q., Tischer, P.E., Wu, H.R., 2006, Adaptive region growing impulse noise estimator for color images, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 20 August 2006 to 24 August 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 786-789.

Phu, M.Q., Faggian, N., Tischer, P.E., 2006, An automatic color image restoration filter, Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems, 12 December 2006 to 15 December 2006, IEEE, Tottori Japan, pp. 709-712.

Phu, M.Q., Tischer, P.E., Wu, H.R., 2006, An impulse detector for color image restoration, Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 12 December 2006 to 15 December 2006, IEEE, Tottori Japan, pp. 5-8.

Phu, M.Q., Tischer, P.E., Wu, H.R., 2005, Color image restoration using explicit local segmentation, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005), 14 September 2005 to 16 September 2005, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 589-595.

Phu, M.Q., Tischer, P.E., Wu, H.R., 2005, Explicit local segmentation based impulsive noise reduction for color images, Proceedings of 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 13 December 2005 to 16 December 2005, IEEE, Piscataway USA, pp. 657-660.

Phu, M.Q., Tischer, P.E., Wu, H.R., 2004, A median based interpolation algorithm for deinterlacing, Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2004), 18 November 2004 to 19 November 2004, IEEE Operations Center, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 390-397.

Bickerstaffe, A.C., Tischer, P.E., 2004, An MML approach for discovering structure in discrete one-dimensional data, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology, 22 November 2004 to 24 November 2004, ACTA Press, Anaheim CA USA, pp. 128-133.

Clarke, D., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2004, An investigation into applying Support Vector Machines to pixel classification in image processing, Proceedings of the 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2004), 4 December 2004 to 6 December 2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 140-151.

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 2004, Automatic change detection based on codelength differences in multi-temporal and multi-spectral images, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference in Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2004), 7 June 2004 to 11 June 2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 694-699.

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 2004, Determining the trustworthiness of a case-based reasoning solution, Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA '2004, 12 July 2004 to 14 July 2004, University of Canberra, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 952-962.

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 2004, The use of local information gain for automatic detection of changes in a scene, Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA '2004, 12 July 2004 to 14 July 2004, University of Canberra, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 963-975.

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 2003, Hierarchical ordering for approximate similarity ranking, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2003), 28 October 2003 to 31 October 2003, Springer-Verlag, NY USA, pp. 496-500.

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 2003, Strategies for cooperative search in distributed databases, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 13 October 2003 to 17 October 2003, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 325-328.

Jin, R.R., Tischer, P.E., 1999, An MML-Based Criterion for Comparing Image Segmentations, Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'99), Nevada USA, 28 June - 1 July, 1999, CSREA Press, USA, pp. 59-64.

Chua, J.J., Tischer, P.E., 1999, Minimal Cost Spanning Trees for Nearest-Neighbour Matching, Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control & Automation - Intelligent Image Processing, Data Analysis & Information Retrieval, Vienna AUSTRIA, 17-19 February, 1999, IOS Press, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 7-12.

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 1998, Extending TMW for Near Lossless Compression of Greyscale Images, Data Compression Conference Proceedings, Snowbird USA, 30 March - 1 April 1998, IEEE Inc., Piscataway USA, pp. 458-470.

Seemann, T., Tischer, P.E., 1997, Generalised locally adaptive DPCM, Proceedings DCC'97 Data Compression Conference, Snowbird USA, 25-27 March 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos USA, p. 473.

Seemann, T., Tischer, P.E., Meyer, B., 1997, History-based blending of image sub-predictors, PCS97 1997 Picture Coding Symposium, Berlin Germany, 10-12 September 1997, VDE-Verlag GMBH, Berlin Germany, pp. 147-151.

Seemann, T., Tischer, P.E., 1997, MML based noise cleaning of images, PCS97 1997 Picture Coding Symposium, Berlin Germany, 10-12 September 1997, VDE-Verlag GMBH, Berlin Germany, pp. 39-43.

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 1997, TMW - a new method for lossless image compression, PCS97 1997 Picture Coding Symposium, Berlin Germany, 10-12 September 1997, VDE-Verlag GMBH, Berlin Germany, pp. 533-538.

Other

Meyer, B., Tischer, P.E., 2001, Glicbawls - Grey Level Image Compression by Adaptive Weighted Least Squares, IEEE, Los Alamitos CA USA, p. 503.

Teaching Commitment

Dr Peter Tischer is the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT3088 - Computer graphics
• FIT4002 - Software engineering studio project 

Peter teaches the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT1029 - Algorithmic problem solving
• FIT4002 - Software engineering studio project 

 

 

Activities

Faculty academic committee

Convenor
Faculty Admissions Committee
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Collection-specific texture feature extraction techniques and their application in CBIR.

Supervisors:

Squire, D (Main), Tischer, P (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bickerstaffe, A.

Program of Study:

Minimum message length analysis of discrete sequential data. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Tischer, P (Main), Dowe, D (Associate).

Student:

Chua, J.

Program of Study:

Measures of similarity, relevance and expertise in case-based reasoning systems. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Tischer, P (Main).

Student:

Rumantir, G.

Program of Study:

MINIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH CRITERION FOR SECOND-ORDER POLYNOMIAL MODEL SELECTION APPLIED TO TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY FORECASTING. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Wallace, C (Main), Tischer, P (Associate).

Student:

Seemann, T.

Program of Study:

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING LOCAL SEGMENTATION. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Tischer, P (Main), Worley, R (Associate).