PREVIEW SESSION - BDA, IOT, INFOSECURITY (18 Aug 2017, MIMOS KL)

This preview session will provide a summary of key learnings and essence of MIMOS training programmes. The session will highlight programmes offered by MIMOS which focus on emerging technologies, specifically Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data Analytics & Information Security.

Who should attend?
ICT players, start-up companies, developers, students, academia, government agencies

The preview session will cover the following:
Big Data Analytics
Video Surveillance System & Video Analytics
Finance Technology (Fintech) Security
Engaging Industrial 4.0 with IoT
MIMOS Internet Services of Things (Mi-MIST)
Programming in Java 8
Software Quality Management Implementation


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 For any inquiries, kindly contact zalina@mimos.my / anis@mimos.my

Seminar - Recent Development in Neural Network (18th August 2017, FSKTM, UM)

Wish to do a PhD or Masters but unsure if you have what it takes or is it the right choice? JOIN this FREE Seminar next week!

Also, listen to an interesting talk on Neural Network from one of the pioneers in Neural Network!

FSKTM UM, Seminar Series 2017

Prof. N. Sundarajan, Senior Research Fellow NTU Singapore & Former NASA's Senior Research Associate

How to do a good PhD/ Masters? 

15, 16 August 2017, 9 am to 5 pm

Recent Development in Neural Networks

17 Aug, 2017, 3 pm to 4.30 pm

Venue: DK2, FSKTM

Admission is FREE for all UM Staffs and Students! Free food will be provided!

Register now! Seats are limited! 

https://goo.gl/forms/kAw8iarUdkVADk1K2

1-Day Altera Free Training

Title: The Quartus Prime Software: Foundation
Date: 12th October 2016 (Wednesday)
Time: 9am- 5pm
Venue: MM3, Block B, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

Register at https://goo.gl/OsxPZ8

THE QUARTUS PRIME SOFTWARE: FOUNDATION
Course Description

You will learn how to use the Quartus® Prime software to develop an FPGA design from initial design to device programming. You will create a new project, input new or existing design files, and compile your project. You’ll learn how to search for compilation information, use settings and assignments to adjust the results of compilation, and manage I/O-related assignments using the Pin Planner and the BluePrint Platform Designer. You will also learn about device programming files and how to program an FPGA device on your board. You will learn techniques to help you plan your design. You will employ Quartus Prime features that can help you achieve design goals faster. You will also learn how to plan and manage I/O assignments for your target device.

Advances in Image/Video Compression Using Graph Transform Lecture Series

Title : Advances in Image/Video Compression Using Graph Transform
Date : 16 May 2016 (Next Monday)
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: Dewan Taklimat, Level 2, Tower Block, Faculty of Engineering, UPM


Abstract

This talk describes recent developments in several areas of image and video compression employing new signal processing and computer vision techniques. After an initial discussion about the future of video compression, the talk will be centered around graph transforms. I will first address the design of graph transforms achieving very good compression efficiency on both piecewise-smooth and natural images, and their application to image compression and intra-frame video compression. Next, I will introduce a new video compression paradigm that replaces macro blocks with superpixels, and employs a graph transform to encode each super pixel. Finally, I will describe a new and very efficient transform, called ?steerable? DCT, which is able to orient the DCT basis functions spatially and spectrally so as to adapt to directional features of the block being encoded.

Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Enrico Magli

Enrico Magli was born in Torino (Italy) in 1972. He received the degree in Electronics Engineering in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in Communications Engineering in 2001 at Politecnico di Torino. From January 2011 he holds an Associate Professor position in the Dept. of Electronics of the same University. His research activities are in the field of compressed sensing, error resilient image and video coding, compression of remote sensing images, distributed source coding, and image/video security. He has coauthored over 130 scientific papers in international journals and conferences, including more than 50 journal papers, and has organized several journal special issues and conference special sessions.

All are invited to attend the DLP Lecture Series.
Contact: suhaidi@upm.edu.my/ 019-2113989

Thank you.

Best regards,
Noor Ain Kamsani
Secretary, IEEE CASS Malaysia Chapter

Postgrad International Food Day

Another successful event was held on the 21st April 2016. A virtual reality product demonstration by BTR Evolution Sdn Bhd (http://www.virtalis.com/systems/activedesk/) and the Postgraduate International Food day. This is the day where students and supervisor expressing the phrase "Sharing is Caring"*. Thanks for sharing the food and for your continuous support.

Do you that the Salvation Army has had "sharing is caring" trademarked since 1950.

https://trademarks.justia.com/761/80/sharing-is-caring-76180417.html

VR Talk/Demo

VR Talk/Demo

Doa Recitation by Ammar Abu Znaid

Arab Rice (Lamb/Chicken)

Sharing is Caring

Bio-metrics and Face Recognition Distinguish Lecturer Program, Prof Jean Luc Dugelay, 20 Oct 2015, Kuala Lumpur

Title:  Introduction to Biometrics and Face Recognition

Speaker:  Prof. Jean-Luc Dugelay, EURECOM, France. (IEEE Fellow)

Date & time: 20th Oct 2015, 2.30pm 

Venue: Seminar Room 14-1, 14th Floor, Wisma R&D, University of Malaya - can be accessed by LRT Kelana Jaya (Kerinchi Station)

For more information: koksheik@um.edu.my

Abstract

Face is one of the most investigated biometrics. It includes several advantages. This biometric trait is used by humans themselves to recognize each others; there is neither need of contact nor cooperation from the user. FR is a very dynamic domain. Beyond classical face recognition from still images based on well established techniques (e.g. PCA/LDA), numerous on-going R&D works exist around face recognition. In this presentation, after an introduction on biometrics and in particular face recognition, we will present and discuss some of the aforementioned items illustrated by works performed at Eurecom Sophia Antipolis for several years.

Biography:

Jean-Luc Dugelay received his PhD in Information Technology from the University of Rennes in 1992. He then joined EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis, where he is now a Professor in the Department of Multimedia Communications. His current work focuses in the domain of multimedia image processing, in particular activities in security (image forensics, biometrics and video surveillance, mini drones), and facial image processing. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications in journals and conference proceedings, 1 book on “3D Object Processing: Compression, Indexing and Watermarking” by Wiley, 2008, 5 book chapters and 3 international patents. His research group is involved in several national projects and European projects. Prof. Dugelay is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is currently the Regional Director-at-Large of IEEE SP R8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He is an elected member of the EURASIP Board of Governors. He is/was Associate Editor of several international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; Founding Editor-in-Chief, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (SpringerOpen); Member, SPS Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2002-07), SPS Multimedia Technical Committee (1999-2003 and 2005-08), and SPS Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (2010-12). 

Webpage:http://www.eurecom.fr/~dugelay

Why Journal Paper Gets Rejected?

Peter Thrower, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of International journal of the American Carbon Society, reveals the 8 top reasons so many manuscripts don’t make it to the peer review process. His thought can also be applied to other discipline. Here is the 'Eight reasons I rejected your article':

1. It fails the technical screening.
2. It does not fall within the Aims and Scope.
3. It's incomplete.
4. The procedures and/or analysis of the data is seen to be defective.
5. The conclusions cannot be justified on the basis of the rest of the paper.
6. It's is simply a small extension of a different paper, often from the same authors.
7. It's incomprehensible.
8. It's boring.

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