Stakeholders and Collaborators
Macquarie University
Macquarie University is AVF Research's foundation stakeholder. For several decades the university ran a collaborative research centre called the Centre for Geophysical Exploration Research (CGER) from which initiatives in geoinformatics (software for geophysical exploration) were spun off during the 1970s. This work included software based on sensor design methods incorporating sensitivity analysis and Marquardt-Levenberg regularisation.
Our portfolio originated in further development of this 1970s base. Our 1980s foundation research was supported by a series of grants from the Australian Research Council. The work involved passage into computationally-intensive forms of sensitivity analysis and Marquardt-Levenberg regularisation. The work was done against a background of development of new tomographic imaging techniques to supplement established seismic imaging techniques.
Propagate
During the 1990s we collaborated with the Propagate project at the Access Australia research centre in Redfern, Sydney. We were able to draw on our experience in scientific, engineering and biomedical informatics to complement Propagate's experience in media informatics. Our project work shared common strategic intelligence requirements with Propagate's.
Both sides were able to cooperate to consolidate a stable body of general-purpose strategic intelligence covering common informatics ground between the Two Cultures of "STEM" and "HASS", as well respecting differences. The knowledge acquired has subsequently been applied throughout the 2000s and thereafter.
BHP
After a successful project in the development of waveguide-based seismic imaging techniques for use in geotechnical applications, BHP supported our 1980s work in extending computationally-intensive forms of sensitivity analysis and Marquardt-Levenberg regularisation. The work was partly based on a strong shared interest in then-emerging GPGPU technologies as a potential hardware and software foundation for a new generation of smart applications in computationally-intensive geophysical imaging and modelling.
CSIRO
CSIRO was one of the members of the collaborative grouping CGER based at Macquarie University. The organisation became interested in perspectives and directions in imaging research that exhibited potential for productive synergy between terrestrial (earth science) and astronomical applications. This resulted in a decade of collaborative research during the 1980s that led to new knowledge linking Marquardt-Levenberg methods with the signal and image processing technique known as Projection onto Convex Sets (PoCS).