Mr Peter Claes
CONTACT
Telephone: + 61 3 9341 1522
Email: pclaes@unimelb.edu.au
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor in engineering (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Master in Electronic Engineering, Multimedia and signal processing (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- PhD in engineering (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Current Position: Research Fellowship (School of dental Science, University of Melbourne)
SHORT HISTORY
Dr. Peter Claes was born on October 30, 1979. He started university in 1997 as an engineering student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, graduating in 2002 with distinction. He majored in electronic engineering, multimedia and signal processing. In June 2007, Peter Claes finished a PhD in engineering at the Medical Image Computing laboratory of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven under supervision of Prof. Dirk Vandermeulen and in collaboration with the Dental Science department of Leuven under supervision of Prof. Guy Willems. The main application of his research was craniofacial modeling and reconstruction, which aims at estimating the face associated to an unknown skull specimen for victim identification. The coming years he will work on a statistical facial morphology approach for proof of identity across an ethnically diverse population at the Dental Science department of the University of Melbourne, Australia.
RESEARCH INTERESTS & CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Forensic Science and Identification
- Craniofacial reconstruction
- Statistical Facial analysis and modelling
- Surface registration and integration
- Implicit functions as surface representation
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Statistical facial morphology approach for proof of identity across an ethnically diverse population
CURRENT PUBLICATIONS (Last 5 years)
- S. De Greef, P. Claes, W. Mollemans, M. Loubele, D. Vandermeulen, P. Suetens, G. Willems, Semi-automated ultrasound facial soft tissue depth registration : method and validation, Journal of forensic sciences, 2005
- S. De Greef, P. Claes, D. Vandermeulen, W. Mollemans, P. Suetens, G. Willems, Large-scale in-vivo caucasian facial soft tissue thickness database for craniofacial reconstruction, Forensic science international, 2006
- P. Claes, D. Vandermeulen, S. De Greef, G. Willems, P. Suetens, Statistically deformable face models for cranio-facial reconstruction, Journal of computing and information technology, 2006
- P. Claes, D. Vandermeulen, S. De Greef, G. Willems, P. Suetens, Craniofacial reconstruction using a combined statistical model of face shape and soft tissue-depths : methodology and validation, Forensic science international, 2006
- D. Vandermeulen, P. Claes, D. Loeckx, S. De Greef, G. Willems, P. Suetens, Computerized craniofacial reconstruction using CT-derived implicit surface representations, Forensic science international, 2006
- P. Claes, D. Vandermeulen, L. Van Gool, P. Suetens, Partial surface integration based on variational implicit functions and surfaces for 3D model building, Proceedings 5th international conference on 3-D digital imaging and modeling - 3DIM 2005, pp. 31-38, June 13-17, 2005, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- P. Claes, D. Vandermeulen, L. Van Gool, P. Suetens, Robust and accurate partial surface registration based on variational implicit surfaces for automatic 3D model building, Proceedings 5th international conference on 3-D digital imaging and modeling - 3DIM 2005, pp. 385-392, June 13-17, 2005, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada