Professor Svetha Venkatesh
is Alfred Deakin Professor
and Director of Centre for
Pattern Recognition and
Data Analytics (PRaDA) at
Deakin University. Venkatesh
was elected a Fellow of the
International Association of
Pattern Recognition in 2004
for contributions to formulation
and extraction of semantics in
multimedia data, and a Fellow
of the Australian Academy of
Technological Sciences and
Engineering in 2006.
Dr Venkatesh and her team
PROF SVETHA VENKATESH ,
have tackled a wide range
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA of problems of societal
significance, including the
critical areas of autism, security and aged care. The outcomes have
impacted the community and evolved into publications, patents,
tools and spin-off companies. This includes 529 publications and
three award winning start-up companies: Virtual Observer, iCetana,
and TOBY Playpad.
Dr Venkatesh has tackled complex pattern recognition tasks by
drawing inspiration and models from widely diverse disciplines,
integrating them into rigorous computational models and innovative
algorithms. Her main contributions have been in the development of
theoretical frameworks and novel applications for analyzing large
scale, multimedia data.
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