Welcome

The Institute for Multi-sensor processing & content analysis (IMPCA) is part of the Department of Computing at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. The research conducted at IMPCA includes both government funded ARC projects as well as industrial projects. Our main research areas are Large Scale Surveillance Systems, Smart Homes, Computational Media Aesthetics and the Social Media Project.

IMPCA hosted the Western Australian node of the ARC Funded Centre for Perceptive and Intelligent Machines in Complex Environments (PIMCE), a collaboration between staff of Curtin University, University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Australian National University.

What's new?

• The Virtual Observer system, developed by Dr Stewart Greenhill and Professor Svetha Venkatesh, was runner-up in the Early Stage Category of the 2007 WA Inventor of the Year Awards. The system is the result of a collaboration between Curtin University of Technology and Perth-based DTI Group Ltd.
• IMPCA is one of only 6 Tier-1 Research Centres at Curtin University.