Monday, November 30, 2009

2nd MSC Malaysia R&D Exchange Forum 2009


2nd MSC Malaysia R&D Exchange Forum 2009
Knowledge sharing in R&D on TelePresence and Video conferencing
Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Venue: Royale Ballroom, The Royale Bintang Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

8.45 am Registration of Participants

9.10 am Welcoming Remarks
Ir. Prof. Dato' Dr. Chuah Hean Teik
President/CEO
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
9.20 am Opening Remarks
Ms. Ng Wan Peng
Chief Operating Officer
Multimedia Development Corporation
9.30 am Panasonic HD Presence Communication System Development and Test Methodology
Mr. Eiichi Muramoto
Network Technology Leader
Immersive Communication Task Force, Corporate R&D
Panasonic Corporation Osaka
10.10 am ALM Technology for Multi-site HD Presence System and Standardization Activities
Dr.Ettikan Kandasamy
Principal Engineer
Panasonic R&D Centre Malaysia, Cyberjaya
10.50 am Tea Break

11.20 am Seamless AV Communication Utilizing Peer To Peer Technology & Challenges
Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong
Faculty of Information Technology
Multimedia University (MMU)
12.00 noon Panel Session
Moderator: Dr. Victor Tan (UTAR)
Panelist: Mr. Eiichi Muramoto
Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy
Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong
12.45 noon Networking Lunch

2.00 pm A TCP based High Definition Video Conferencing Platform.
Prof Dr.Sureswaran Ramadass
Director of the National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAV6),
IPv6 Domain Head for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
2.40pm Academic-Industrial Collaboration Forum: Industry academic collaboration: Experiences from ipVx-UTAR and NUS
Dr. Tommi Chen
CEO, ipVx Sdn Bhd.
3.20 pm Tea Break & Networking Session

3.50 p.m. Academic-Industrial Collaboration Forum: University – Industry Relationships - Bridging the Gap
Prof. Lee Sze Wei, Vice President (R&D and Commercialization),
Director of Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research,
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
4.30 pm Panel Session
Moderator: Dr. Liew Soung Yue (UTAR)
Panelist: Prof Dr.Sureswaran Ramadass
Dr. Tommi Chen
Prof. Lee Sze Wei
5.00 pm End of 2nd MSC Malaysia R&D Exchange Forum 2009

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Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah
Principal Engineer
Panasonic R&D Centre Malaysia, Cyberjaya
Ettikan KK., with Ph.D (in the area of Distributed Computing), MSc (Master of Computer Science) and Bachelor of Computer Science, all from University Science Malaysia, obtained in the year 1997, 1999 and 2005 respectively. He is currently with Advanced Technology Development Group (ATDG), Panasonic R&D Centre Malaysia located in Cyberjaya, Malaysia as Principal Engineer (cum General Manager of R&D Group) being responsible in IP Multimedia communications protocol research activities. He is responsible for initiating collaborative research activities with Corporate Lab partners and formulating research process/methodology. Beside the team leading/managing effort, he also directly involved in R&D activities with 12 JP/International patents were successfully applied in the Home Networking area & Network Processing. Recently under his leadership ATDG/PRDCM was awarded STAR grant for strategic research activities at ATDG as part of Panasonic corporate research lab. Currently he is actively participating in embedded system communication related areas at ATDG.
Mr. Eiichi Muramoto
Network Technology Leader
Immersive Communication Task Force, Corporate R&D
Panasonic Corporation Osaka
Mr. Eiichi Muramoto received his Engineering Master degree from Information Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). His research interest includes areas in Networking, Group communication, End to End QoS, Internet Testbed Application.
Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong
Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology
Multimedia University
Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, and both his M.IT. and B.Sc. degrees from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia.
His current research interest area spans peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and Distributed Systems. He is also interested in algorithm design and performance modeling of various distributed systems based on a variety of theories, including optimization, graph theory, and network coding. He is also interested in extensive measurement and statistical study of large-scale Internet systems, to explore problems and derive insights towards their improvement.
Dr. Tommi Chen
Chief Executive Officer
ipVx Sdn Bhd
Dr. Tommi Chen has been an early internet pioneer in Asia setting up the first ISP in the region in 1991. In Singapore he is best known as founder of Pacific Internet and is credited as the 'father' of the internet for his work as a pioneer and catalyst for internet developments in Singapore. In 1995, he was invited by Telekom Malaysia to set up its ISP, TMNet. He was also once in research leading the R&D team for networking at the National University of Singapore and later becoming Deputy Director in charge of IT planning at the University.
Today Tommi is Chief Executive of ipVx Sdn Bhd. The company specializes in setting up ICT infrastructure and providing outsource services for data centres, internet service providers and large corporate clients. His forte is the internet, understanding its business implications and the service provider business. His strength is in his ability to create strong technological implementation capability and is known in the industry for his strategic insight in the internet service provider industry.
Prof Dr.Sureswaran Ramadass
Director of the National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAV6),
IPv6 Domain Head for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
Dr. Sureswaran obtained his BsEE/CE (Magna Cum Laude) and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He obtained his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2000.
Dr. Sureswaran's career included being a senior member of the technical staff of the research team of MODCOMP, Florida. MODCOMP was a company focused on the research, development and deployment of real-time operating systems. MODCOMP's customers included Jet Propultion Labs (JPL) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for their remote space vehicles. Dr. Sureswaran later joined ICON Business System, Inc (Florida) as Senior Consultant in 1991. He was subsequently promoted to Vice President Engineering and was responsible for the entire engineering and R&D divisions of ICON.
Dr. Sureswaran's achievements include being awarded the Malaysian Innovation Award by the Prime Minister in 2007. Dr. Sureswaran was also the founder and headed the team that successfully took MLabs Systems Berhad, a high technology video conferencing company to a successful listing on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2005.
Dr. Sureswaran is currently one of the four steering committee members and the IPv6 Domain Head for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network). He is also currently the Chairman of the Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force (APV6TF). Dr. Sureswaran's is also a Primary Member of APAN as well as the Head of APAN Malaysia (Asia Pacific Advanced Networks).
Dr. Sureswaran is currently a Director of the Japanese AI3 project and is also the Head of the AI3 (Asian Internet Interconnections Initiative) for Malaysia. Dr. Sureswaran was also appointed as an advisor to the Japanese government's Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecomm. (MPHPT).
Dr. Sureswaran has published over 70 research papers and 7 patents. He has written chapters and provided materials for 4 books. He has also been a program committee member for numerous international conferences and has reviewed papers for over 30 international and national level conferences.
Dr. Sureswaran has received over USD 8 million in research funding and grants from
numerous organizations in the 16 years that he has been with the university.
Prof. Dr. Lee Sze Wei
Vice President (R&D and Commercialization)
Director of Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
Prof. Dr. Lee Sze Wei obtained his BEng (Hons) in Electronics and Optoelectronics, MPhil., and PhD from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK in 1995, 1996, and 1998 respectively. He specializes in telecommunication engineering and has been involved in various industry-university collaborative research projects and providing training programmes to the industry aimed at updating and upgrading the knowledge and skill of technologists and engineers in the industry.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Fwd: FICT Postgraduate Proposal Defense Seminar

Dear all,

Please be informed that you are invited for the FICT Postgraduate Proposal Defense Seminar to be held on this Friday. All are welcome to the event.
The details are as follows:

Date: 20 Nov 2009 (Friday)
Time: PD206, FICT PJ.

No From To Candidate Name Programme Title (Tentative) Supervisor(s)
1 10:00:00 AM 10:30:00 AM Hoh Ming Chee MIS-A The Development and Evaluation of an Independent Learner Courseware for Web Based Learning Environment (ILC-WBLE) Dr Choo Wou Onn,
Dr Siew Pei Hwa (Co-sup)
2 10:30:00 AM 11:30:00 AM Ling Toh Koh MCS-A Pedestrian Detection Implementation Using CUDA Dr Tay Yong Haur
3 11:30:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Simon Lim Hao Wooi MCS-A Viewpoint-invariant Generic Object Recognition on static images via Temporal Semi-Online Semi-Supervised Learning Dr Tay Yong Haur
4 12:00:00 PM 1:00:00 PM Gan Ming Lee PhD(ICT) α+1: A New resource - Efficient path Protection Scheme Dr Liew Soung Yue
5 1:00:00 PM 2:00:00 PM Sor Kean Vee PhD(ICT) Parralel computation in RNA Structures Prediction Dr Goh Yong Kheng
6 2:00:00 PM 2:30:00 PM Lee Kelvin MCS-A Intruder Detection and Recognition through Behavioral Analysis Dr Khor Siak Wang,
Dr Lee Yun Li (Co-sup)
7 2:30:00 PM 3:00:00 PM Ooi Zheng Lin MCS-A Detecting and Recognizing Intruder through Posture and Movement Activities Dr Khor Siak Wang,
Dr Lee Yun Li (Co-sup)






--
regards,
Yong Haur

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

IEEE I&M Workshop on Robotics and Instrumentation

Dear Valued IEEE Members,

IEEE I&M Malaysia Chapter is organizing one-day workshop on Robotics and
Instrumentation - suitable for students, academicians and even hobbyists.
The workshop allows you to have hands-on experience on designing robots and
their instrumentation. Since, we have received many requests to postpone the
date due to examination period in many universities, therefore, the new date
has been selected and the details are as follows.

Date                :           Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Venue             :           Kulliyyah of Engineering, International
Islamic University

Time                :           9.00am - 4.30pm

Price                :           RM50 (includes robotic kits, handouts,
certificates and refreshment)

Contact/         :           A/Prof . Dr. Rini Akmeliawati

Registration               by 09 December to  <mailto:rakmelia@iiu.edu.my>
rakmelia@iiu.edu.my

Instructor       :           Dr. Riza Muhida

Itinerary         :

09.00   Opening

09.15   Introduction to Robot: History, Structure and Components

10.30   Introduction to Microcontroller

11.30   Microcontroller Programming and data acquisition using Microcontroller

13.00   Lunch/Zhuhur Prayer

14.00   Programming For Robot

15.30   Design a Line Following Robot

16.00   Simulation of Line following Robot Competition

16.30   Closing

Short biography of instructor:

Dr Riza obtained his PhD in the field of Optical Electronics from Osaka
University, Japan. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Physics from
Institute Technology Bandung, Indonesia; and his MSc in the field of Power
Electronics from Osaka University, Japan. He is currently an Assistant
Professor at the dept. Mechatronics Engineering, International Islamic
University Malaysia. His fields of interests: Instrumentation and
Measurement, Robotics, Sensors and Actuations. He has given many workshops
and trainings on Robotics and Instrumentation. He was one of the organizing
committee of the International Robot Olympiad 2008. He is an active member
of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Malaysia Chapter.

PS: We would appreciate if you can disseminate the information or the
attached poster to your colleagues/students/universities.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Dr. Rini Akmeliawati

Chair of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement

Malaysia Chapter.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Mimos Seminar invitation - Prof Dr Sergio Velastin

To whom it may concern,

On behalf of Mimos Berhad, I have the honour to invite you and your colleagues to the presentation of Prof. Dr. Sergio Velastin, Kingston University, U.K., one of the leading expert in the field of digital imaging, smart notion and the analysis of human behavioural images in crowded situations, to take place on

Monday, 16th November 2009, 10:30a.m.
Mimos Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil ( Seminar Room to be announced)

Prof. Dr. Sergio presentation will focus on "CCTV Video Analytics: Recent Advances and Limitations". Abstract of the presentation and a short biography of Prof. Dr. Sergio can be found below.

Abstract
The installation of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in urban environments is now commonplace and well-known. The UK leads the world with an estimated 4 million public cameras installed (20% of the world's deployment). Public attitudes to these systems reflect the balance needed between two conflicting requirements:
a) Concerns over invasion of privacy and fears of authoritarian control of the population. b) Welcoming the increased safety in public spaces and reductions in crime and antisocial behavior.
Recent events and what appears to be the effectiveness of the CCTV infrastructure in assisting law enforcers to understand how the events took place and the people involved, seem to have tipped the balance towards (b), at least momentarily. What we should not forget however, is that such events are thankfully very rare but that there is a cumulative significant effect of mundane daily events that we need to deal with. For example, it has been estimated that what in the UK is called "antisocial behavior" costs the country around € 5000 million a year. A single London Borough (municipality) spends annually around € 1 million to remove graffiti, 44% of women feel unsafe at bus stops at night, a single bus company in a major city is known to have replaced 8,000 windows in one year and a study showed that in a single day in the UK there were around 66,000 reports of nuisance or loutish behavior. At the same time, there are reports that when CCTV has been installed there has been a 35% reduction in crime over 5 years. Indeed, crime in general is decreasing while uncivil behavior is on the increase.
It turns out that one of the major limitations of conventional CCTV systems is the impracticality of deploying sufficient number of people to be in front of television screens observing largely uneventful video. As long as this is the case, CCTV will tend to remain a reactive tool. The inability of being truly pro-active, producing timely alarms and eventually being able to prevent incidents, is what ultimately limits these systems. There is a need to automate at least simple observation tasks through computer vision, a functionality that has become known popularly as "video analytics". The large size of CCTV systems and the requirement of high detection rates and low false alarms are major challenges., this talk will
illustrate some of the efforts that the research and industrial communities are making towards realizing automated means of detecting video events involving human activity. It will show the kind of progress made but also the current limitations of this technology.
Biography
Prof. Dr Sergio A. Velastin received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics, M.Sc. (Research) degree in Digital Image Processing and the Ph.D. from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the UK, in 1978, 1979 and 1982, respectively.
Prof. Dr Sergio Velastin founded Ipsotek in 2001 and is widely considered a leading expert in the field of digital imaging, smart motion detection and the analysis of human behavioural images in crowded situations. Prof. Dr Velastin has now returned to academia where he is the Director of the Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC) at Kingston University. However, Prof. Dr. Velastin remains involved with Ipsotek in an advisory capacity. Prof. Dr. Velastin has published 2 books and over 150 papers refereed journal and conference. His research interests include computer vision for pedestrian monitoring and personal security as well as distributed visual surveillance systems.
Prof. Dr Sergio Velastin is a member of the IET, IEEE and the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA). He also served as a EPSRC grant reviewer and member of the International Union Public Transport (UIPT). Recently, Prof. Dr. Sergio has been awarded £11 million funding from the EU FP7 for a research project named "PROTECTRAIL".
 

The presentation will end approx. at 11.30a.m.

We would appreciate receiving confirmation of participation before 13.11.2009 (email: cs.chan@mimos.my or tel. 02 8995 5000 ext. 6270). Please be informed that light refreshment will be provided after the presentation. See you there ! 

Regards,

CS, CHAN

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Dr Chee Seng Chan

Senior Reseacher
Mimos Berhad
Technology Park Malaysia
57000 Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Email: cs.chan@mimos.my
Contact: +(60)3 8995 5000 ext. 6270

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