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Title:	Imagination to Reality: The Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR @ Fusionopolis
Date:	March 20, 2009 (Friday)
Time:	11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Venue:	Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.
Speaker:	Dr. Lim Joo Hwee Head of the Computer Vision & Image Understanding Department Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR

ABSTRACT:

(Approximate Duration: 20 minutes)

Fusionopolis is a science and technology powerhouse for Singapore. It will bring together 1500 research scientists, engineers and technology experts from the public labs of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) as well as the corporate labs to find innovative solutions for the technological and lifestyle challenges faced by society and industry. The Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R - pronounced as i-squared-r) is a member of the A*STAR family located at Fusionopolis. Established in Nov 2002, I2R's mission is to be the globally preferred source of innovations in 'Interactive Secured Information, Content and Services Anytime Anywhere' through research by passionate people dedicated to Singapore's economic success. I2R performs R&D in information, communications and media (ICM) technologies to develop holistic solutions across the ICM value chain. As one of the 10 research departments in I2R, the Computer Vision & Image Understanding (CVIU) Department develops industry-relevant R&D capabilities and pursues use-inspired research excellence in visual understanding. In this talk, an overview on I2R, A*STAR, and Fusionopolis will be presented followed by a sampling of research projects in the CVIU department.

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Title : New Mobile Search: Browse the World with your Camera
Phones

ABSTRACT:

(Approximate Duration: 25 minutes)

Tourists interact with the environment to accomplish the itinerary and enrich their experiences. While location-based technologies such as GPS on mobile devices allow service providers to deliver information related to where the tourists are, the imaging modality on the mobile devices would enable the tourists to assert their interest about the environment in a natural and intuitive way. By pointing the cameras on the mobile devices at the points of interest, the tourists can access up-to-date information (e.g. current event, promotion) and experience augmented reality (e.g. nostalgic appearance, hypothesized changes). In the presentation, we will sketch technologies and prototype applications developed to support and demonstrate such kind of new during-trip services respectively.

BIOGRAPHY:

LIM Joo Hwee received his B.Sc. (Hons I) and M.Sc. (by research) degrees in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of New South Wales. He has joined Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and its predecessors, Singapore since Oct 1990. He has conducted research in connectionist expert systems, neural-fuzzy systems, handwriting recognition, multi-agent systems, and content-based retrieval. He was a key researcher in two international research collaborations, namely the Real World Computing Partnership funded by METI, Japan and the Digital Image/Video Album project with CNRS, France and School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He also contributed technical solutions to a few industrial projects involving pattern-based diagnostic tools for aircraft and battleship navigation systems and knowledge-based post-processing for automatic fax/form recognition. He has ten patents (awarded and pending) and published more than one hundred and twenty refereed international journal and conference papers in his research areas. He is currently the Department Head of the Computer Vision & Image Understanding Department, with staff strength of fifty research scientists and engineers, at I2R, Singapore. He is also the co-Director of IPAL (Image Perception, Access and Language), a French-Singapore Joint Lab (UMI 2955, Jan 2007 to Dec 2010). He is bestowed the title of 'Chevallet dans l'ordre des Palmes Academiques' by the French Government in 2008.

Enquiries: Miss Temmy So at tel 2609 8444

For more information, please refer to http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/seminar