Presented by:

Speaker name: Fookes Clinton
Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Title:
Semi-Supervised Intelligent Surveillance System for Improved Security and Operational Monitoring
Abstract:
This talk presents a semi-supervised intelligent visual surveillance system to exploit the information from multi-camera networks for the monitoring of people and vehicles. Modules are outlined to perform critical surveillance tasks including: the management and calibration of cameras within a multi-camera network; tracking of objects across multiple views; recognition of people utilising biometrics and in particular soft-biometrics; and the monitoring of crowds. These modules can be utilised to not only improve the security and situational awareness within an environment, but can also be utilised to improve operational monitoring of systems such as airports. Recent advances in these computer vision modules and capability gaps in surveillance technology are also highlighted.

Speaker name: Hideto Ikeda
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Abstract:
The trend in academic world is to shift the organizational paradigm in management of academic organizations.  The strategic keywords are privatization, restructuring, globalization and academic capitalism [1,2,3,4,5].  In almost advanced countries, national universities have already transferred of management to the private sector.  The common idea of this trend is to install the market mechanism into research and education and organize various survival competitions.  At present, many advancing countries are following this international trend.  There occur various problems because of confliction the new academic systems with the other social systems, e.g., decision making mechanism of governments, people’s and industry’s expectations to the academic organizations, financial establishment of academic organizations, and management strategies of academic organizations.  Especially, in higher educational organizations, there are serious management issues for encourage researches and education.
Generally, management can be breakdown into planning, organizing, leading and control[1].  The speaker joined the initialization of NII[8] (National Institute of Information  Science ) in Japan and has been watching the change of the organization for about 40 years.  This organization has taken the very important roles to support the privatization of higher education organizations in Japan by using information technologies, e.g., database services of academic information, management of nation-wide network system, management of researcher information, library center of university libraries and initiatives in research projects for solving social urgent issues.
The speaker also joined the project HEDSPI[9] (Higher Education Development Support Project on ICT) for 4 years from 2007.  This project is done by Hanoi University of Technology (HUT) in Vietnam, Ritsumeikan University and Keio University in Japan supported by JICA(Japan International Cooperation Agency).  The project mission is to transfer educational know-how of Japan’s universities to Vietnam.   He is in charge of establishment of graduation research system, supports of design for SoICT( School of ICT at HUT), and evaluation system of educational activities.  From the experiences in NII initiation, this talk will review what were important, discuss various strategies including organizing competitions, collaborations and visualization using IT.  Finally, the speaker will propose some ( currently personal ) ideas for design of management for SoICT and encourage general discussions for use of information technologies in management issues in research and education of advancing countries represented by Vietnam.

Speaker: Nguyen Xuan Hoai
Affiliation: Hanoi University, Vietnam
Title:
Genetic Programming: Some Recent Trends
Abstract:
In this talk, I will give a brief overview of an emerging subfield of Evolutionary Computation (EC): Genetic Programming (GP). Some achievements of GP are summarized, their challenges are outlined together with some recent personal research attempts to solve them.