Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training)

Professor Robyn Owens

Personal assistant
Ms Nellie Auyong
Phone: 08 6488 7134
Email: nauyong@admin.uwa.edu.au

Areas of responsibility
Academic and strategic leadership in all matters relating to Higher Degree by Research Training and other research matters as directed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation).

Biography
Professor Robyn Owens obtained a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA in 1974 before going to Oxford to complete an MSc (1976) and a DPhil (1980), also in Mathematics. She then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis before returning to UWA in 1982 to work as a research mathematician.

Since then, she has lectured in Mathematics and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. Her research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.

Professor Owens was the Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering from 1998-2002.

Select Publications

• Robyn Owens. Writing as a research tool. Chapter 22 in Doctorates Downunder: Keys to Successful Doctoral Study in Australia and New Zealand. Edited by Carey Denholm and Terry Evans, ACER Press, 2006.
• Robyn Owens. Valuing international research candidates. Chapter 21 in Denholm C. & Evans T. Supervising Doctorates Downunder: Keys to Effective Supervision in Australia and New Zealand ACER Press, Melbourne, 2007.
• Ajmal S. Mian, M. Bennamoun and R. Owens, "An Efficient Multimodal 2D-3D Hybrid Approach to Automatic Face Recognition", IEEE Transactions in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2007.
• Ajmal S. Mian, M. Bennamoun and R. Owens, "3D Model-based Object Recognition and Segmentation in Cluttered Scenes", IEEE Transactions in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2006.
• Ajmal S. Mian, M. Bennamoun and R. Owens, "A Novel Representation and Feature Matching Algorithm for Automatic Pairwise Registration of Range Images", International Journal of Computer Vision vol. 66(1), pp. 19-40, 2006.