Professor Dong Xu, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney,
Title: Visual Domain Adaptation
Abstract: In some applications, the domain of interest (i.e., the target domain) contains very few or even no labeled samples, while an existing domain (i.e., the auxiliary domain) is often available with a large number of labeled examples. For example, millions of loosely labeled Flickr photos or YouTube videos can be readily obtained by using keywords-based search. On the other hand, while users may be interested in retrieving and organizing their own multimedia collections of images and videos at the semantic level, they may be reluctant to put forth the effort to annotate their photos and videos by themselves. This problem becomes furthermore challenging because the feature distributions of training samples from the web domain and consumer domain may differ tremendously in statistical properties. To explicitly cope with the feature distribution mismatch for the samples from different domains, in this talk I will introduce our visual domain adaptation approaches under different settings and also describe their interesting applications in image and video recognition.
Bio: Professor Dong Xu is Chair in Computer Engineering and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia. He received the B.Eng. and PhD degrees from University of Science and Technology of China, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Before joining The University of Sydney, he worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University (2006-2007) and a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University (2007-2015).
Prof. Xu is an active researcher in the areas of image and video processing, computer vision and multimedia. He was selected as the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Engineering in 2018 and awarded the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Early Career Award in 2017. He was also selected to serve as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2021-2022). Prof. Xu has published more than 150 papers in leading journals and conferences, among which two of his co-authored works (with his former PhD students) won the IEEE T-MM Prize Paper Award in 2014 and the CVPR Best Student Paper Award in 2010. According to Google Scholar, his publications have received over 19,000 citations.
Prof. Xu is/was on the editorial boards of ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE T-IP, T-PAMI, T-NNLS, T-MM and T-CSVT as well as other five journals, and he is serving/served as a guest editor of more than ten special issues in IJCV, T-NNLS, T-CSVT, T-CYB, IEEE Multimedia, ACM TOMM, CVIU and other journals. He is serving/served as a Program Chair of three international conferences including MLSP 2021, ICME 2014 and PCM 2012. He is also involved in the organization committees of many international conferences such as ACM MM 2021, GlobalSIP 2019, MMSP 2019, ICIP 2017, MMSP 2016 and VCIP 2015. He served as a steering committee member of ICME (2016-2017) and a track chair of ICPR 2016 as well as an area chair of AAAI 2020, ICCV 2017, ACM MM 2017, ECCV 2016 and CVPR 2012. He received the Best Associate Editor Award of T-CSVT in 2017. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IAPR.
Professor. Jing-Ming Guo, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Speech Topic: Overview on Semantic Segmentation and Its Extension to Document Segmentation
Abstract: Nowadays, libraries worldwide are initiating large-scale digitization projects to preserve unique materials in their collections, and thus the analysis and recognition of these documents is a demanding challenge. Although the deep learning architectures have shown significant improvements in document segmentation, the convolutional neural network usually suffers from resource constraints. In this talk, an overview is provided on the semantic segmentation to identify pros and cons on the state-of-the-art methods. Extensions to document segmentation is elaborated by including the multi-scale pyramid module. For a better fine-grained outcome, the edge detection network is utilized to enhance the contours of the document features. Future possibilities is discussed at the end to highlight research branches. In addition, a large-scale document segmentation dataset, namely LDSD 2020, is created to share for fine-grained document segmentation, containing more than 5000 images with pixel-level labels.
Biography: Prof. Guo is currently full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Director of Advanced Intelligent Image and Vision Technology Research Center. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, biometrics, computer vision, and digital halftoning. Prof. Guo is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Fellow of the IET. He received the Outstanding Research Award from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2020; the Best Paper Award from IEEE ICCE-TW 2020, IS3C 2020, NSSSE 2020, ICSSE 2011 and 2020, ICS 2014, and CVGIP 2005, 2006, 2013, 2016, and 2019; the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan in 2016, Outstanding Research Contribution Award from Institute of System Engineering in 2017, Outstanding Industry-Academia Collaboration Awards from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2013. Outstanding youth Electrical Engineer Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2011, Outstanding young Investigator Award from Taiwan Institute of System Engineering in 2011.
Dr. Guo is Chapter Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Taipei Section, and Member of Board of Governors of APSIPA. He was General Chair of many international conferences, e.g., APSIPAS 2023, ISPACS 2019, ICCE-Berlin 2019, IWAIT 2018, and ICCE-TW 2015. He will be/was Technical Program Chair of many international conferences as well, e.g., ICIP 2023, IWAIT 2022, ICCE-TW 2014, ISCE 2013, and ISPACS 2012. He is/was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, the Information Sciences, the Signal Processing, and Journal of Information Science and Engineering.
Mr. Tan Pei-Seng, ViTrox Corporation Berhad, Malaysia
Title:
Current Industrial Challenges of Deep Learning Implementation on Automated Machine Vision Inspection Solution for Quality Control
Abstract:
In the year 2019, only 17.4% out of 53.6 million tonnes of electronic waste, generated by the world, was officially recycled. To address this global environmental issue, the adoption of automated machine vision (MV) inspection solutions in manufacturing industries is essential while satisfying customers’ demands. They not only minimize manufacturing errors but also reduce operational costs, to improve productivity and quality respectively. The fusion of deep learning (DL) and MV has been made possible due to the development of artificial intelligence algorithms, advancement of computing capabilities and availability of image datasets. DL approaches win classical MV algorithms as the tasks are successfully simplified by merging the stages of feature extraction and classification. However, DL approaches require a large number of training samples and the causality between inputs and outputs of models is hard to be fully determined. In this session, DL models that are deployed on automated MV Inspection solutions for various use cases, such as head-in-pillow defect classification, lead segmentation and electronic components detection, to offset the limitation of classification MV algorithms will be discussed deeply. In addition, current industrial challenges to deploy deep learning models on customer sides, in terms of customer readiness, accuracy expectation and speed concern, will be revealed.
Biography:
Mr Tan is a Research and Development (R&D) Engineer in ViTrox Corporation Berhad. Currently, he is playing the roles of Data Scientist and Software Developer in the Center of Excellence (CoE) department. He has experience in both descriptive and predictive analytics focusing on smart manufacturing systems. He holds a Master of Data Science and Analytics from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and a Bachelor of Mechatronic Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). At present, he is pursuing a PhD degree with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP). He is a Human Resources Development (HRD) Corporation certified trainer, a Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) registered graduate engineer and a Malaysia Board Of Technologists (MBOT) registered graduate technologist. He was a Gold Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) in 2019 and 2020 representing Malaysia MSPs to attend Microsoft Asia MSP Submits launched at Taipei, Taiwan and Sydney, Australia. In addition, he was the silver medalist of the International Invention and Innovative Competition (InIIC) 2017 and the winner of three awards in Innovate Malaysia 2018, namely Best IEM Paper Award, Champion of Cyberview Design Challenge and 2nd Runner Up of Google Technology Track.