Invited Talk: Emerging Computing Trends and Their Impact on System on Chip Design - Dr. Ong Sze Wei

Dear all,

The Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and the
Center for Communication Systems and Networking (CCSN) will be
organizing a seminar by Dr. Ong Sze Wei. The details are given below.
Faculty members are invited to attend the talk.

Title: Emerging Computing Trends and Their Impact on System on Chip Design
Speaker: Dr. Ong Sze Wei
Date: 4th April 2011
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: 6th Floor Meeting Room, FES, UTAR KL Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
Abstract:
The global demand for high-performance computing and mobile Internet
connectivity continues to escalate as the appetite for media contents
grows. This demand, combined with the growing emphasis on small form
factor, is driving the need for System-on-Chip (SoC) design. This talk
will focus on the technology drivers, characteristics and challenges
of SOC design and development. The presentation will also describe
Intel's strategy in delivering a new category of smart SoC designs as
well as the design teams which deliver them.
Biography:
Dr. Ong Sze Wei is senior microprocessor design manager of Intel
Penang Design Center (PDC). He joined Intel in 2002 and has led
multiple design automation domains of Intel Atom(tm), Pentium(r) and
Core(tm) microprocessor projects. He is also the program manager of
Intel Technical Development Work Group where he champions strategic
training and development initiatives for the design teams in Malaysia.
In this capacity, Dr. Ont founded Intel-MDEC Advanced VLSI
Train-The-Trainer Program for 18 universities in Malaysia. He also
co-founded Northern Corridor Analog and Digital Design Program, which
is a catalyst program for developing advanced analog and digital
design engineers for the northern region of Malaysia. Dr. Ong is the
industry advisor for Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Tunku Abdul
Rahman and Universiti Tenaga Nasional. He received his bachelor's,
master's and doctorate degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the University of Tennessee, U.S.A.

With thanks and regards,

Dr. Morris Ezra,
Asst. Professor,
Faculty of Engineering and Science,
University Tunku Abdul Rahman,

Work Completion Seminar: Research and Development of a Learning-Based Vehicle License Plate Detection Algorithm

Dear all,

You are most welcome to attend the Work Completion Seminar for Mr Ho Wing Teng (Master of Computer Science), on his research title of Research and Development of a Learning-Based Vehicle License Plate Detection Algorithm. Details are as follow:

Date: 21/03/2011 (Mon)

Time: 11:00am-12:00pm

Venue: 5A meeting room, 5th floor, SA Block, FES, UTAR KL Campus.
Research title: Research and Development of a Learning-Based Vehicle License Plate Detection Algorithm

Candidate: Ho Wing Teng

Abstract:

The objective of this project is to research and develop a learning-based license plate detection framework with Spatial Horizontal Edge Variation features. As the growing of vehicle usage and the importance of automation in license plate recognition, license plate detection is one of the essential modules in the automation system. There are many existing algorithms available in the market in finding the license plate; in this project we introduce a framework that will learn from the image dataset and generate a set of classifiers to detect the targeted object. We tested our proposed framework on Malaysian vehicle license plate detection, and further experiment on Text detection. Spatial Horizontal Edge Variation feature is a simplified edge feature that can extract the edge information of the object through the horizontal orientation to differentiate between license plate and non license plate. Our framework selects a set of best features from a large set of feature set and generates a linear tree classifier to perform the object detection. From our experiments and analysis, we found that vehicle license plates have similarity with text that consist several characters. The changes of the edge information from the left to right horizontally through the license plate can actually provide useful information to distinguish whether it is a license plate or otherwise. In our project, we did further testing on the framework for detecting text from natural scene and side view car detection. For our license plate detector, we tested with some of the Malaysian vehicle license plate and achieve recall rate of 0.93796 and precision rate of 0.55366.

--
regards,
Yong Haur

TAY Yong Haur,
Associate Professor,
Head of Programme (Master of Computer Science)
Department of Internet Engineering and Computer Science (DIECS),
Faculty of Engineering and Science (FES),
Chairperson, Centre for Computing and Intelligent Systems (CCIS),
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR),
Kuala Lumpur Campus
Jalan Genting Kelang, 53300 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia.
Tel: (603) 4107 9802
Fax: (603) 4107 9803
Email: tayyh@utar.edu.my or YongHaur.Tay@gmail.com
URL: http://staff.utar.edu.my/tayyh/
URL: http://www.utar.edu.my/

Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Professor Douglas Osheroff

Title: How Sciences Changes Our Life
Speaker: Professor Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Prize in Physics 1996
Date: 15 March 2011
Time: 9.30am
Venue: National Science Centre, Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur
Admission: Free
Closing Date of Registration: 10 March 2011
Tel: 03-2694 9898 (Akma/Rafiqah)
Email: akma@akademisains.gov.my / rafiqah@akademisains.gov.my

INVITED TALK (Tuesday): Video Surveillance with Robotics and Automatic Plants Classification by Dr. Paolo Remagnino from the Kingston University, UK

With cooperation from ICT and Computational Science (ICTCS) research
cluster, we would like to invite you to a talk "Video Surveillance
with Robotics and Automatic Plants Classification" by Dr. Paolo
Remagnino from the Kingston University, UK.

The details of the public talks are as follows :

Title : Video Surveillance with Robotics and Automatic Plants Classification
Date : 15th March 2011 (Tuesday)
Venue : Lecture Hall 2, Annexe Building, Faculty of Computer Science &
Information Technology, Universiti Malaya
Time : 10.00am - 12.00pm

Admission is free. Walk-ins are also allowed.

ALL ARE INVITED, but please kindly register your attendance in advance
with cs.chan@um.edu.my.

Abstract of the talk
The Digital Imaging Research Centre will be introduced. Two projects
led by the speaker at Kingston University will be introduced. The
first one a three partner consortium funded by the US Department on
homeland security on augmented video surveillance with the use of
robotic platforms and the second a UK wide project with a consortium
of three sites aimed at the development of pattern recognition methods
for the automatic classification of plants through the analysis of
leaf characters. The latter is a an effort with the collaboration of
the Royal Botanic gardens at Kew.

Biography
Dr Paolo Remagnino (1993, PhD, IEEE and AAAI member) is a Reader in
the Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics at
Kingston University and research associate with Royal Botanic gardens
at Kew. Dr Remagnino is a researcher in image and video understanding
and one of the main promoters of intelligent and autonomous
environments. Dr Remagnino is an editor member of the Expert Systems,
the Image and Vision Computing, the International Journal of Robotics
and Automation, Pattern Analysis and Application and the IEEE
Transactions of Automation, Science and Engineering. His research
interests include image processing, computer vision, machine learning,
artificial intelligence and robotics. Dr Remagnino has published a
numerous number of  papers in scientific journals and conferences and
is the editor of 4 book collections, published with Springer, in the
field of video surveillance and ambient intelligence.

Thank you..

--
Chee Seng Chan PhD
Senior Lecturer

Department of Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Comp. Sci. & Info. Tech.
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

cs.chan@um.edu.my
cs.chan@ieee.org

Innovation Day; Startup launchpad

Innovation Day –The Cloud

The cloud represent one of the biggest business opportunities and
decisions for startups and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).
Join this session to learn about how cloud power means opportunities
today and tomorrow. Leverage on Windows Azure to have elastic
scalability for your applications, simplify the deployment of your
software to penetrate a wider market while lowering your upfront
investments in infrastructure.

Date: 8th March, 2011 (Tuesday)
Time: 09.00am – 5:00pm
Venue: Microsoft Auditorium, Level 29, Tower 2, KLCC, Kuala Lumpur

RSVP here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032476448&Culture=en-MY
More info: http://technopreneur.my/?p=849

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Echelon  2011 - Asia's best startup launchpad is now open for applications

Echelon 2011 will discover Asia's best startup on an all new scale.
Echelon 2011 Startup Launchpad is a platform for companies to get
their products in front of more than 1,000 over investors,
entrepreneurs, developers, regulators and tech industry executives.

Echelon Alumni:
- 2359 media raises 1 million from SingTel Innov8
- Insync launches with a big bang
- Foound raises $500K in seed round
- Japan's FlutterScape closes $177K seed round with Digital Garage
- Klout raises $8.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

Application dateline: 15th March, 2011 (Tuesday)

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Promotional Roadshow by MTSF

Dear All,

Below are the Promotional Roadshow by MTSF. You are welcomed to come and see what MTSF has to offer.

Please inform your post-graduate students and colleagues as well.

Promotional Roadshow by MTSF

-MTSF Science and Technology Award
-MTSF Science and Technology Research Grant

Please be informed that MTSF is organizing a visitation and promotional roadshow that is aimed at promoting the above two programs to interested scientists and young researchers at UTAR. Details of the roadshow are as follows:

Date : 11 March 2011 (Friday)
Time : 9.00 am to 11.30 am
Venue : H219, Block H, Second Floor, UTAR Kampar Campus, Perak
Admission: Free

Refreshment will be served as well.

Transportation will be provided from PJ, Sg Long and Setapak

For those who are interested, please register before 8 March 2010. Online registration is now available at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dF9Mbk8xMWJxX1c2RzJud08zOWFXSGc6MQ

 
Post graduate students are welcomed!

For enquiries and registration, please contact:

Ms Banu at 03-7958 2628 ext 8202
Email: banu@utar.edu.my

 

Thanks!

Ms Zahrah M.Razak
Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research
Universti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Level 3, PD Block,
No.9, Jalan Bersatu 13/4,
46200 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor D.E
Tel : 03-7958 2628 ext 7132
Fax: 03-7955 8209
email: zahrah@utar.edu.my