Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Godfried T. Toussaint
New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Godfried Toussaint is a Professor and the Head of the Computer Science Program at New York University Abu Dhabi, in Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates. He is also an affiliate researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, USA. For many years he taught and did research in the School of Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal, in the areas of information theory, pattern recognition, textile-pattern analysis and design, computational geometry, machine learning, music information retrieval, and computational music theory. In 2005 he became a researcher in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. He is a founder and co-founder of several annual international conferences and workshops, including the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, and the Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. He is an editor of several journals, including Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, ISRN Geometry, and the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. He received several distinguished awards including a Killam Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts, and in 2009 a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, where he spent one year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and one year in the Music Department. His research on the phylogenetic analysis of musical rhythms has been reported in several media, and was the focus of two Canadian television programs.
Speech Title: Is Complex the Opposite of Simple?
Abstract: The notions of simple and complex as they are defined and utilized in the sciences, arts, and philosophy are briefly reviewed. The relation between complexity and complete randomness is examined. It is argued that simplicity is not the opposite of complexity. To support this conclusion this talk presents the results of recent experiments concerned with modeling human perception of the complexity of visual two-dimensional binary images or patterns, using objective mathematical measures of the stimuli. Two types of mathematical measures are compared: measures of structural complexity based on the presence of mirror (reflection) symmetries, and measures that approximate the Kolmogorov complexity via upper bounds of varying degrees of tightness. The Kolmogorov complexity of an image is the length of the shortest possible description of the image. The upper bounds on the Kolmogorov complexity that are compared consist of the lengths of the shortest descriptions of the images in a specific hierarchy of description languages defined by Papentin.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Vit Vozenilek
Palacky University, Czech Republic
Prof. Vit Vozenilek is a full professor and Ph.D. supervisor in Faculty
of Science, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic.
He got his master degree in geography and mathematics in 1988 in Masaryk
University, Brno, Czech Republic. He got a Ph.D. degree in physical
geography in 1992 in the same university. Then he worked at Dept. of
Geography at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, as an assistant
for cartography and spatial modeling for more than seven years. He has
involved many key projects as a supervisor for geocomputation and
scientific visualization. In 1993, he received research scholarship at
Birbeck College, University of London, UK. In 2001 he established Dept.
of Geoinformatics at Faculty of Science, Palacky University Olomouc,
Czech Republic. He is still its head. In 20010-2014, he held the
position of vice-president of Palacky University Olomouc.
His research interests include geovisualisation (map making, atlas
compilation, cognition aspects of map use) and spatial modeling. In
recently 10 years, Prof. Vozenilek has published 7 books, 5 atlases, 35
conference papers and 28 journal papers.
Prof. Vozenilek serves as vice-president of International Cartographic
Association, vice-president of Czech Cartographic Society, a member of
many scientific journals, boards, councils, and committees. He serves as
a reviewer for many research funds and journals, including once with a
high impact factor. Prof. Vozenilek gave many invited lectures at
universities abroad – UK, USA, Israel, Germany, China, Poland etc. He
was the keynote speakers in many international conferences.
Keynote Speaker III
Prof. Patrick Wang, Northeastern University, USA
Prof. Patrick S.P. Wang, PhD. Fellow, IAPR, ISIBM, WASE and IEEE and ISIBM Outstanding Achievement Awardee, and is Tenured Full Professor, Northeastern University, USA, iCORE (Informatics Circle of Research Excellence) Visiting Professor, University of Calgary, Canada, Otto-Von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor, Magdeburg University, Germany, Zijiang Visiting Chair, ECNU, Shanghai, China, as well as honorary advisory professor of several key universities in China, including Sichuan University, Xiamen University, East China Normal University, Shanghai, and Guangxi Normal University, Guilin.
Prof. Wang received his BSEE from National Chiao Tung University (Jiaotong University), MSEE from National Taiwan University, MSICS from Georgia Institute of Technology, and PhD, Computer Science from Oregon State University.
Dr. Wang has published over 26 books, 200 technical papers, 3 USA/European Patents, in PR/AI/TV/Cybernetics/Imaging, and is currently founding Editor-in-Chief of IJPRAI (International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence) , and Book Series of MPAI, WSP. In addition to his technical interests, Dr. Wang also published a prose book, “Harvard Meditation Melody” 《哈佛冥想曲》and many articles and poems regarding Du Fu and Li Bai’s poems, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, and Bizet, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini’s operas.
Speech Title: IPR, Big Data and Applications
--- Security, Safer Transportation and Greener World in Interacrtive Learning Environment
Abstract: This talk is concerned with fundamental aspects of Intelligent Pattern Recognition (IPR) and applications. It basically includes the following: Basic Concept of Automata, Grammars, Trees, Graphs and Languages. Ambiguity and its Importance, Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Brief Overview of Pattern Recognition (PR), What is Intelligent Pattern Recognition (IPR)? Interactive Pattern Recognition Concept, Importance of Measurement and Ambiguity, How it works, Modeling and Simulation, Basic Principles and Applications to Computer Vision, Security, Road Sign Design, Safer Traffic and Robot Driving with Vision, Ambiguous (Dangerous and Bad) design of Road Signs vs Unambiguous (Good) Road Signs, How to Disambiguate an Ambiguous Road Sign? What is Big Data? and more Examples and Applications of Learning and Greener World using Computer Vision. Finally, some future research directions are discussed.
Keynote Speaker IV
Prof. Junyu Dong
Ocean University of China, China
Prof. Junyu Dong received his BSc and MSc from the Department of Applied Mathematics at Ocean University of China in 1993 and 1999 respectively. From 2000 to 2003, he studied in the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in the UK, and received his PhD in Image Processing in November 2003. Prof. Dong joined Ocean University of China in 2004. He is currently a professor and the head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology. His research interests include computer vision, underwater image processing and machine learning, with more than 10 research projects supported by NSFC, MOST and other funding agencies. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers.
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Invited Speaker I
Prof. Jianhao Tan
Hunan University, China
I am Jianhao Tan, aged 53, born in Liuyang, Hunan, China. I received the B.S. degree in the Forging Equipment and Engineering from
Huazhong Technology College, Wuhan, China, in 1983, and the M.S. degree in the Pressure Process from Huazhong University of
Engineering and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1989, and the Ph.D . degree in Control Science and Engineering from Hunan University,
Changsha, China, in 2010.
From 1989 to 1997,I worked with Hunan Province Computing Technology Research Institute as an assistant-researcher. I has worked with
Hunan University since 1998.I has been a professor at Hunan University since 2008. My research interests include data mining, pattern
recognition, system identification, and image processing.
I published more than 30 pieces of articles, has undertaken more than 10 items of projects.
Invited Speaker II
Prof. M. A .JABBAR,
Vardhaman College of Engineering,
Telangana, INDIA
He did his Ph.D in computer science (data mining) from JNTU Hyderabad. He is having 16 years of teaching experience. He is a senior member, IEEE, and secretary, IEEE Computer society Hyderabad section and Life member Indian science congress association, Life member computer society of INDIA, Member ACM. He published more than 30 papers in international journals and conferences. He is a reviewer for Springer, Elsevier, and IEEE Transactions on systems man and cybernetics. He served as a technical committee member for more than 20 international conferences . He is a member in Doctoral committee, Indian Institute of Information Technology(IIIT) Srirangam BIT - Anna University Campus, Trichy Tamilnadu, India - 620 024. His Research interest includes data mining, bio informatics, cyber security, IOT,attack graphs, and intrusion detection system.
Invited Speaker III
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Matsumoto Mitsuharu,
University of electro-communications, Japan
Mitsuharu Matsumoto is currently an associate professor in the University of Electro-Communications. He received a B.E. in Applied Physics, and M.E. and Dr. Eng. in Pure and Applied Physics from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2001, 2003, and 2006, respectively. His research interests include acoustical signal processing, image processing, pattern recognition, self-assembly, human-robot interaction and robotics. He received Ericsson Young Scientist Award from Nippon Ericsson K.K, Japan and FOST Kumada Award, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He published around a hundred of journal and international conference papers. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Speech topic: Nonlinear filters and its application to image processing
Abstract: In this speech, I pick up a nonlinear filter called epsilon-filter, and introduce its application to image processing. Epsilon-filter is a simple nonlinear filter developed about 30 years ago. Original filter is developed for noise reduction from the image, but several improved versions are developed for many applications. They are also applicable not only to image signal but also to audio signal as some features used in epsilon-filter are common in image and audio signals. Therefore, in this speech, I also introduce some examples of the application of epsilon-filter to audio signal and discuss their common points.
Invited Speaker IV
Assoc. Prof. Linhua Deng,
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Linhua Deng is currently an associate professor in Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received a Ph. D degree of astrophysics in 2014 in University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include solar image processing, time series analysis, and pattern recognition, with more than ten research projects supported by NSFC, CAS, and other funding agencies. He has published more than 50 international journal and conference articles.
Speech topic: Hilbert-Huang Transform Analysis of Long-term Solar Magnetic Activity
Abstract: The quasi-periodic analysis of solar magnetic activity has been carried out by various authors during the past fifty years. In this talk, the novel Hilbert-Huang transform approach is applied to investigate the yearly numbers of polar faculae in the time interval from 1705 to 1999. The detected periodicities can be allocated to three components: the first one is the short-term variations with periods smaller than 11 years, the second one is the mid- term variations with classical periods from 11 years to 50 years, and the last one is the long-term variations with periods larger than 50 years. The analysis results improve our knowledge on the quasi-periodic variations of solar magnetic activity and could be provided valuable constraints for solar dynamo theory..
Invited Speaker V
Assoc.Prof. Edoardo Provenzi,
Université Descartes, France
Edoardo Provenzi received the Master degree in Physics from the University of Milan in 2000 and the PhD in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of Genoa in 2004. He worked as a post-doc researcher in the University Pompeu Fabra in Spain and in Télécom ParisTech in France. Since 2014 he's Associate Professor at the University Paris Descartes, France. His main research interest is color image science, in particular, variational and wavelet-based models for color enhancement and differential geometry models of color spaces.
Speech topic: From variational to EDP-based color image enhancement
Abstract: Color image enhancement is much more difficult than grayscale image enhancement, due to the presence of three inter-dependent color channels. In this speech I will give an overview on color enhancement models based on partial differential equations (EDPs) and variational techniques. In particular, I will underline the differences and similarities among so-called Retinex-like algorithm.