Prof. Andrew Turpin BCom BSci(Hons) PhD Honorary Professor School of Computing and Information Systems University of Melbourne Australia.

My Optic Nerve Head (2007)

My head (2013)

My head (2018)

Canberra Marathon (2008)

LCW impersonation (2018)

Contact Details

• Email: andrew DOT turpin AT lei DOT org DottyDotDot au
• Physical: Lions Eye Institute, Perth, Western Australia.

Student project areas

• Using medical images to seed eye tests.
• Probabilistic search algorithms (eg for visual field tests, search with lies)

Here is a brief bio and my publications

And if you are a bean counter: my Google Scholar Profile.

Research interests

• Computational problems in human vision
  • OPI - Open perimetry Interface
  • An open platform for psychophysics experiments on the iPad PsyPad
  • Mapping locations on the optic nerve head to visual field space using a model of retinal axon growth.
  • Connections between structure of the optic nerve and function of vision.
  • I am a member of the Clinical Psychophysics Unit run by Prof. Allison McKendrick.
  • Barramundi visual field simulator
  • Simulation results of the ZEST and MOBS procedures for Frequency Doubling Technology Perimetry
  • Simulation of SITA (under cons) and EMU (under cons)
  • Algorithms for testing visual acuity (eye charts)
  • Classification of glaucoma patients
  • Computer processing of retinal images
• Data compression and string searching
  • Fast suffix array construction
  • Number of runs in a string (stringology)
  • Storage of documents in a web search engine
  • A book on coding coauthoured by me.
  • Here is my minimum-redundancy (Huffman) coder.
• Performance of IR systems with real users
  • How do people use snippets in Web search result lists?
  • What does it mean to judge a document relevant to a query?
• Analysis of Question Time data
• History of Neenish Tarts

Question Time Corpus PsyPad Open Perimetry Interface OPI Structure-function map Depth dependant integrated visual field tool

Example graphs in R.

MEL Weather PubMed Unimelb library

Australian Document Computing Symposium 2007. Australian Document Computing Symposium 2008. ADCS2008. ADCS2010. Australian Document Computing Symposium 2010 SPIRE 2008 20th International Visual Field and Imaging Symposium, 2012. IPS 2012. IPS Melbourne 2012.