Clinton is a Professor in Vision & Signal Processing and the Speech, Audio, Image & Video Technologies group within the Science and Engineering Faculty at QUT. He holds a BEng (Aerospace/Avionics), an MBA with a focus on technology innovation/management, and a PhD in the field of computer vision. Clinton actively researches in the fields of computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition including video surveillance, biometrics, human-computer interaction, airport security and operations, and complex systems. Clinton has attracted over $15M of cash funding for fundamental and applied research from external competitive sources. He is a Chief Investigator for eight Australian Category 1 grants including six funded from the Australian Research Council and two from the National Security Science & Technology Unit of the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet for performing counter-terrorism research. He has published over 140 internationally peer-reviewed articles and has supervised more than 20 PhD students through to completion. He has been the Director of Research for the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. He is currently the Head of Discipline for Vision & Signal Processing. He is the Technical Director for the Airports of the Future collaborative research initiatives. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of other professional organisations including the Australian Pattern Recognition Society. He is also an Australian Institute of Policy and Science Young Tall Poppy and an Australian Museum Eureka Prize winner.
For his Fulbright Senior Scholarship, Clinton will work in the Media Lab of the City College of New York. His project will investigate two critical components of large-scale video surveillance systems across technical and policy fronts. First, by working with one of the world leaders in video surveillance the project will advance a key capability missing from current state-of-the-art systems – the ability to search for people of interest. Second, by assessing the impacts, drivers, and impediments of video analytics in one of the busiest and most dynamic cities in the world, this project will explore the practical and policy reasons for the lack of adoption of large-scale video analytic systems for monitoring our cities to inform future research endeavours. During this project, Clinton will also work with some of the leading policing and defence organisations that deploy this technology and have a strong interest in its advancement.