Flinders University
Dr Martin Luerssen
Dr
Martin
Luerssen
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/martin.luerssen
| Position/s: | Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics |
| Phone: | +61 8 82013650 |
| Email: | martin.luerssen@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Information, Science & Technology (369) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Dr Luerssen's research forte is in the field of nature-inspired computing, specifically the application of biological principles to machine learning. His dissertation, which was nominated for the CORE Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation award, innovated the use of graph grammars in evolutionary design and optimisation. With a comprehensive background in computational intelligence, Dr Luerssen has served as a program committee member for several international conferences and has delivered talks on many diverse domains, including cognitive science, artificial life, and user interfaces. At present, he is a key participant of the Thinking Head project, an ARC/NH&MRC Special Research Initiative that targets the development of intelligent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). Dr Luerssen is responsible for the successful audiovisual embodiment and evolution of the agent, which encompasses the agent's adaptive capacity to comprehend its social context from audiovisual input and synthesise realistic speech and animation patterns in response.
Qualifications
- Ph.D., Flinders University (2006)
- B.Sc.(Hons) in Computer Science, Flinders University (2002)
- B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, Flinders University (2001)
Teaching
Research and supervision
Research expertise
- Artificial intelligence and image processing
- Cognitive science
- Computer software
Research interests
- Evolutionary Algorithms, esp. Genetic Programming and Grammatical Evolution
- Neural Networks and other connectionist models
- Embodied Conversational Agents and other human-compatible user interfaces
- Machine Vision, esp. Object and Feature Detection + Tracking
Supervisory interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Human Machine Interface and Human Factors
- Machine learning
- Neural networks
- Parallel algorithms
RHD research supervision
Current
Principal supervisor:
Genetic Programming + Visual Interest Point Detection (1);
Associate supervisor:
Swarm Intelligence + Brain-Computer Interfaces (1);
Computational Basis of Visual Illusions (1);
Publications
Books
Luerssen, M.H. (2009). Experimental investigations into graph grammar evolution?: a novel approach to evolutionary design. Saaarbruecken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Book chapters
Anderson, T.A.F., Chen, Z.-H., Wen, Y.-F., Milne, M., Atyabi, A., Treharne, K., et al. (2012). Thinking Head MulSeMedia: A Storytelling Environment for Embodied Language Learning. In George Ghinea, Frederic Andres and Stephen Gulliver, ed. Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulSeMedia. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 182-203. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-821-7.ch009.
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Powers, D. (2012). The use of Evolutionary Algorithm-based methods in EEG based BCI systems. In Girolamo Fornarelli and Luciano Mescia, ed. Swarm Intelligence for Electric and Electronic Engineering. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, pp. 326-344.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Leibbrandt, R., Lewis, T. and Powers, D. (2011). Embodied Conversational Agents for Education in Autism. In Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, ed. A Comprehensive Book on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, pp. 387-412. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/18688.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D. (2011). Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Skills Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto, ed. Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, pp. 23-48. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch002.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2009). An empirical study of graph grammar evolution. In Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos, ed. Evolutionary Computation. Vukovar, Croatia: InTech, pp. 445-472. [online]. http://intechweb.org/invitations.php?code=e3dc9105f103ead0da68fbcff464be78.
Luerssen, M.H. (2005). Phenotype diversity objectives for graph grammar evolution. In Hussein A. Abbass, Terry Richard John Bossomaier, Janet Wiles, ed. Recent Advances in Artificial Life. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 159-170.
Refereed journal articles
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M. and Powers, D. (2013). PSO-Based Dimension Reduction of EEG Recordings: Implications for Subject Transfer in BCI. Neurocomputing.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2008). Evolving encapsulated programs as shared grammars. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 9(3), pp.203-228. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-008-9061-2.
Refereed conference papers
Lang, S.R., Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2012). Evolutionary Feature Preselection for Viola-Jones Classifier Training. In Spring World Congress on Engineering and Technology: Proceedings. SCET2012. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SCET.2012.6342142.
Books
Luerssen, M.H. (2009). Experimental investigations into graph grammar evolution?: a novel approach to evolutionary design. Saaarbruecken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Book chapters
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Powers, D. (2012). The use of Evolutionary Algorithm-based methods in EEG based BCI systems. In Girolamo Fornarelli and Luciano Mescia, ed. Swarm Intelligence for Electric and Electronic Engineering. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, pp. 326-344.
Anderson, T.A.F., Chen, Z.-H., Wen, Y.-F., Milne, M., Atyabi, A., Treharne, K., et al. (2012). Thinking Head MulSeMedia: A Storytelling Environment for Embodied Language Learning. In George Ghinea, Frederic Andres and Stephen Gulliver, ed. Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulSeMedia. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 182-203. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-821-7.ch009.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D. (2011). Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Skills Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto, ed. Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, pp. 23-48. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch002.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Leibbrandt, R., Lewis, T. and Powers, D. (2011). Embodied Conversational Agents for Education in Autism. In Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, ed. A Comprehensive Book on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, pp. 387-412. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/18688.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2009). An empirical study of graph grammar evolution. In Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos, ed. Evolutionary Computation. Vukovar, Croatia: InTech, pp. 445-472. [online]. http://intechweb.org/invitations.php?code=e3dc9105f103ead0da68fbcff464be78.
Luerssen, M.H. (2005). Phenotype diversity objectives for graph grammar evolution. In Hussein A. Abbass, Terry Richard John Bossomaier, Janet Wiles, ed. Recent Advances in Artificial Life. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 159-170.
Refereed journal articles
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M. and Powers, D. (2013). PSO-Based Dimension Reduction of EEG Recordings: Implications for Subject Transfer in BCI. Neurocomputing.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2008). Evolving encapsulated programs as shared grammars. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 9(3), pp.203-228. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-008-9061-2.
Refereed conference papers
Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Powers, D. (2012). Audio Visual Speaker Association for Embodied Conversational Agents. In F Cox, K Demuth, S Lin, K Miles, S Palethrope, J Shaw & I Yuen, ed. Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp. 121-124. [online]. http://assta.org/sst/SST-12/WELCOME.PDF.
Lang, S.R., Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2012). Evolutionary Feature Preselection for Viola-Jones Classifier Training. In Spring World Congress on Engineering and Technology: Proceedings. SCET2012. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SCET.2012.6342142.
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Powers, D. (2012). The Impact of PSO based Dimension Reduction on EEG classification. In FM Zanzotto, S Tsumoto, N Taatgen & Y Yao, ed. Brain Informatics International Conference Proceedings. Brain Informatics 2012. pp. 220-231. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35139-6_21.
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Powers, D. (2012). Evolutionary feature selection and electrode reduction for EEG classification. In A Abbass, D Essam & R Sarker, ed. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE CEC 2012. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2012.6256130.
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Powers, D. (2012). Dimension Reduction in EEG Data using Particle Swarm Optimization. In A Abbass, D Essam & R Sarker, ed. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE CEC 2012. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2012.6256487.
Atyabi, A., Luerssen, M., Fitzgibbon, S. and Powers, D. (2012). Adapting Subject-Independent Task-Specific EEG Feature Masks using PSO. In A Abbass, D Essam & R Sarker, ed. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE CEC 2012. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2012.6256488.
Yazdani, N., Khazab, F., Fitzgibbon, S.P., Luerssen, M.H., Powers, D.M. and Clark, C.R. (2010). Towards a Brain-Controlled Wheelchair Prototype. In Proceedings of the 24th BCS International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. HCI 2010: British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Powers, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E., Milne, M.K., Pashalis, J., et al. (2010). MANA for the Ageing. In Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, ACL 2010. Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems. pp. 7-12. [online]. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W10-2702.
Newman, W., Franzel, D., Matsumoto, T., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., et al. (2010). Hybrid World Object Tracking For A Virtual Teaching Agent. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 2244-2252.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Fast Grammar-Based Evolution Using Memoization. In R. Schaefer et al., ed. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature. pp. 502-511.
Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Head X: Customizable Audiovisual Synthesis for a Multi-purpose Virtual Head. In R. Goebel, J. Siekmann, W. Wahlstar, ed. AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 486-495.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Development of a Virtual Agent Based Social Tutor for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 1555-1563. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596584.
Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Pfitzner, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Stevens, K., et al. (2008). Language Teaching in a Mixed Reality Games Environment. In Fillia Makedon, Lynne Baillie, Grammati Pantziou, Ilias Maglogiannis, ed. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1389586.1389668.
Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W. and Lawson, M.J. (2008). PETA: a pedagogical embodied teaching agent. In Fillia Makedon, Lynne Baillie, Ilias Maglogiannis, Grammati Pantziou, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Richard Billo, ed. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1389586.1389658.
Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Matsumoto, T., Treharne, K., Lewis, T.W., Santi, M.L., et al. (2008). An immersive game-like teaching environment with simulated teacher and hybrid world. In Edmond Prakash, ed. Animation, multimedia, IPTV and edutainment: proceedings of CGAT '08. Animation, multimedia, IPTV and edutainment: Computer Games and Allied Technology (CGAT) Conference. pp. 215-222.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2007). Evolvability and redundancy in shared grammar evolution. In Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.; IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, ed. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007. pp. 370-377. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2007.4424495.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2007). Graph design by graph grammar evolution. In IEEE Standards Staff, ed. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. pp. 386-393. [online]. http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=4424446&arnumber=4424497&count=653&index=50.
Luerssen, M.H. (2005). Graph grammar encoding and evolution of automata networks. In Vladimir Estivill-Castro, ed. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference: Computer Science. 28th Australasian Computer Science Conference. pp. 229-238.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2005). Graph composition in a graph grammar-based method for automata network evolution. In David Corne, ed. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. pp. 1653-1660.
Conference publications
Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W. and Powers, D.M. (2009). Working with the Prosthetic Head. In Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. pp. 123-124.
Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W. and Powers, D.M. (2009). Head X and the Thinking Media Framework. In Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. pp. 122-122.
Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W. and Powers, D.M. (2009). Enabling the Evolution of the Thinking Head. In Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. pp. 126-126.
Luerssen, M.H., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Pashalis, J., Treharne, K., Pfitzner, D.M., et al. (2009). MANA - An Embodied Calendar for the Aged. In Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. pp. 127-127.
Luerssen, M.H. and Lewis, T.W. (2009). Head X: Tailorable Audiovisual Synthesis for ECAs. In Proc. HCSNet SummerFest 2009. HCSNet Workshop on Interacting with Intelligent Virtual Characters. [online]. http://sf09.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09/iivc09.
Abrahamyan, A., Davis, C., Fordyce, A., Gibert, G., Howell, C., Kim, J., et al. (2009). Evaluation methods. In Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. pp. 81-83.
Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2009). Which one of you said that? In Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. pp. 121-121.
Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2008). Adaptive multimodal perception for a virtual museum guide. In 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence. 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence. [online]. http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~jcaug/program.pdf.
Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Santi, M.L. and Luerssen, M.H. (2007). A multimodal environment for immersive language learning - space, time, viewpoint and physics. In Proceedings of Joint HCSNet/HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. [online]. http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/wiki/index.php?title=Powers.
Luerssen, M.H. and Powers, D.M. (2003). On the artificial evolution of neural graph grammars. In Slezak, P., ed. Proceedings of the joint international conference on cognitive science, ICCS. Joint international conference on cognitive science, ICCS. pp. 369-374.
