Seminars and Tutorials

Every Tuesday
12:00 - 2:00pm

Room C01, Computer Science Building, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham
Maps and directions: Follow this link

Organised by Peer-Olaf Siebers (Room: B36, Phone: 011584 ext 66526, Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

 

Next Event @ 07/02/2012: 1st and 2nd Year PhD Presentation Day

 

Bozhi Liu: Color Constancy

Color constancy is an example of subjective constancy and a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions.Color Constancy is the ability to perceive colors of objects, invariant to the color of the light source. My research is about Computational Color Constancy to maintain stable color appearance across light sources.



Francis Moorehead: tba

Abstract: tba



Salvador Bernal: HDR Video

High Dynamic Range (HDR) is a versatile area in computer graphics and photography. It is a complex problem, because involve different parts as a whole. This presentation gives a general view about what are the differences among high dynamic range images and high dynamic range video. Also, the main goals of the project are reviewed, a preliminary pipeline is presented and related projects as well.



Orod Razeghi: Understanding Visual Content with Human in the Loop

For many years researchers around the world have tried exceptionally hard to propose practical solutions to the problem of understanding visual content of an image. One might think of the problem as an effort to emulate human visual system. Despite all the efforts, the simplest of visual tasks to us humans like optical segmentation of objects in an image remain a significant challenge for computers. In a few cases, where the computer processing power is reliable enough to accomplish the task, the issue of the public distrust in capability of machines to solve their critical problems remains untackled. The purpose of this project is to combine the latest visual pattern recognition and machine learning techniques with high level knowledge of human beings in a probabilistic model. The abstract knowledge of humans will improve accuracy of computer algorithms. At the same time, computer algorithms will reduce human labour by altering results and doing mundane tasks. The proposed model is planned to be tested with medical applications in mind. The examples of such applications would be dermatology datasets with skin disease recognition tools or pathology datasets with cancerous and benign cells recognition capabilities. Once the proposed model reaches its maturity, it may be developed into a practical application and may be installed on smart mobile phones or smart tablets.



Jie Shu: tba

Abstract: tba



Organisational Notes

 

The main purpose of the seminars is to disseminate the research carried out by the members of the IMA Research Group. Furthermore, we organise introductory tutorials on subjects relevant to the research group. We also very much welcome external speakers that would like to present their work in areas related to those of the research group.

Seminars and tutorials are open to anyone who is interested in the topics presented. Free sandwiches and tea/coffee will be provided during the event, but please bring your own mugs!

 

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Useful Links

 

Learning Lab - Writing Skills by RMIT University - Study & Learning Centre
Research Methods for Computer Science by Alexander Ferworn
Basics of research writing and publishing (for Computer Scientists) by Michael Derntl
Excellent guide on giving an academic talk by Jonathan Shewchuk



Past Presentation Slides

 

2011/2012

  • 06/12/2011 - Slides - Julie Greensmith: From Inspiration to Application: A Tutorial On Artificial Immune Systems
  • 29/11/2011 - Slides - Yihui Liu: Dimensionality Reduction and Main Component Extraction of Mass Spectrometry Cancer Data
  • 22/11/2011 - Slides - Nick McCullen: Investigating Energy Efficiency Interventions Using a Network-Diffusion Model
  • 22/11/2011 - Slides - Tao Zhang: Modelling the Effects of User Learning on Smart Metering Technology Adoption
  • 22/11/2011 - Slides - Joel Fischer: Living with Energy Monitoring
  • 15/11/2011 - Slides - Chris Roadknight: Classifying Tumours from Biological, Chemical and Immunological Attributes
  • 15/11/2011 - Slides - Lauri Lättilä: Multi-Method Simulations in Logistics
  • 08/11/2011 - Uwe Aickelin: Potential Future IMA Research Projects (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 08/11/2011 - Slides - Ian Dent: Background on the UK electricity market, some issues, and a clustering approach to demand side management interventions
  • 01/11/2011 - Jamie Twycross: Modelling ABA perception: From water to networks (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 01/11/2011 - Slides - Linda Fiaschi: Establishing a routinely updated maternal-child linkage system in The Health Improvement Network database
  • 25/10/2011 - Slides [pdf] [pptx] - Grazziela Figueredo: A Beginner’s Guide to Systems Simulation in Immunology
  • 18/10/2011 - Slides - Jenna Reps: Comparison of the Disproportionality methods for Pharmacovigilance in the THIN Database
  • 18/10/2011 - Slides - Tao Zhang: A Three-Dimensional Model of Residential Energy Consumer Archetypes for Local Energy Policy Design in the UK
  • 18/10/2011 - Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Seminar Series 2011/2012Welcome
  • 22/08/2011 - Slides - Hongwei Qin (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): Hardware-In-Loop Simulation System for Crane Operation
  • 22/08/2011 - Slides - Mian Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): GIS-Based Grid Electricity Trade System
  • 22/08/2011 - Slides - Linxuan Zhang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): Research on Simulation and Virtual Manufacturing at National CIMS-ERC of Tsinghua University

 

2010/2011

  • 07/06/2011 - Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Real-World Complex Systems - Representing Uncertainty
  • 31/05/2011 - Slides - R-Script - Robert Oates: ARMAX for System Identification
  • 31/05/2011 - Hao Fu: Semantic Image Segmentation (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 24/05/2011 - Milena Radenkovic: Framework for Utility Driven Congestion Control in Delay Tolerant Opportunistic Networks (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 24/05/2011 - Slides - Demo Software - Yujie Mei: High Dynamic Range Imaging and Display
  • 24/05/2011 - Slides - Lei Yu: Modelling Electrical Car Diffusion - An Agent Based Approach
  • 17/05/2011 - Slides - Jie Shu: Immunostaining Analysis
  • 17/05/2011 - Slides - Uwe Aickelin: IMA - Achievements and Vision
  • 10/05/2011 - Slides - Julie Greensmith: Making Affective Effective
  • 10/05/2011 - Slides - Noor Azizah KS Mohamadali: Modelling Student’s Perception on Factors Influence Acceptance of Research Related Software using Multi-criteria Decision Analysis Techniques (MCDA) – A case study
  • 22/03/2011 - Slides - Nick McCullen (University of Leeds): Modelling the Diffusion of Energy Technology on Social Networks
  • 22/03/2011 - Slides - Richard Snape and Mark Rylatt (DeMonfort University): Behaviour and Learning in an Agent Based Model of the Smart Grid
  • 15/03/2011 - Slides - Stephanie Foan: Computational Modelling of Immunosenescence
  • 15/03/2011 - Slides - Hazlina Hamdan: An Investigation of The Effect of Input Representation in ANFIS Modelling of Breast Cancer Survival
  • 08/03/2011 - Slides - References - Zhiming Cai: The Application of System Dynamics in the Modeling of Natural Resources Industries - A Case in a Study of Global Helium Resources
  • 01/03/2011 - Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Real-World Complex Systems - Representing Uncertainty
  • 22/02/2011 - Slides - Christian Wagner: Ambient Intelligent Environments, Transparency and Fuzzy Logic
  • 15/02/2011 - Slides - Jianyong Sun: Robust Bayesian Clustering for Datasets with Repeated Measures
  • 08/02/2011 - Slides - Stephanie Foan: Computational Modelling of Immunosenescence
  • 08/02/2011 - Slides - Wanlu Wang: A Novel Method for Volume Rendering
  • 08/02/2011 - Slides - Daphne Lai: Distance-based Semi-Supervised Fuzzy c-Means Algorithms
  • 08/02/2011 - Slides - Jenna Reps: Detecting adverse events in a general practice database
  • 08/02/2011 - Slides - Ian Dent: Ian Dent - An Introduction
  • 08/02/2011 - Slides - Sameh Zakhary: Reliability of Communication in Challenged Environments
  • 08/02/2011 - Hala Helmi: Predicting Based on TSVM (Tranductive Support vector machine) (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 01/02/2011 - Yihui Liu: Finding the Prognosis Biomarkers in Survival Analysis Based on Wavelet Feature Extraction (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 07/12/2010 - Guoping Qiu: Social Image Quality - Image Quality Assessment by the Mass for the Mass (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 30/11/2010 - Slides - Chris Roadknight: Simulating the Port of Dover
  • 23/11/2010 - Daniele Soria: Breast Cancer Classification: From Consensus Clustering to Fuzzy Logic (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 23/11/2010 - Slides - Mazlina Abdul Majid: Human Behaviour Modelling Practice: A Comparison of Traditional Discrete Event and Combined Discrete Event and Agent-Based Simulation
  • 16/11/2010 - Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: Comparing ABS and SDS for Tumour Growth and its Interactions with Effector Cells
  • 16/11/2010 - Slides - Nadine Holmes: Travel & Expenses Request and Pre-Approval
  • 16/11/2010 - Slides - Tao Zhang: Complexity Science, Agent-Based Simulation & Energy Research
  • 09/11/2010 - Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Conceptual Modelling for Simulation - A Tutorial for Beginners
  • 02/11/2010 - Slides - Jon Garibaldi: Non-Stationary Fuzzy Reasoning in Clinical Decision Support
  • 26/10/2010 - Slides - Aslam Ahmed: Multi-paradigm Simulation of TRAPS
  • 26/10/2010 - Slides - Feng Gu: The Extended Dendritic Cell Algorithm for Large Anomaly Detection Datasets
  • 19/10/2010 - Slides - Naisan Benatar: An Investigation into a Mechanism for Selection of Fuzzy Logic Type Based on Noise & Uncertainty
  • 19/10/2010 - Jan Feyereisl: Learning Using Privileged Information: The Power of X* (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 19/10/2010 - Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Seminar Series 2010/2011 Welcome
  • 05/10/2010 - Slides - Chris Musselle: Malware and Artificial Immune Systems

 

2009/2010

  • 08/06/2010 - Slides - Hazlina Hamdan: Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) in Modelling Breast Cancer Survival
  • 08/06/2010 - Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Scenario Analysis, Decision Trees and Simulation for Cargo Screening
  • 01/06/2010 - Van Hieu (Harry) Nguyen: Cosine Similarity Metric Learning for Face Verification (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 01/06/2010 - Slides - Konstantin Vikhorev (UoN AgentLAB): Real-time Agent Systems
  • 25/05/2010 - Slides - Shabbar Naqvi: An Investigation into the use of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for the analysis of Breast Cancer Data Sets
  • 25/05/2010 - Milena v Radenkovic: Security in Delay Tolerant Networks (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 18/05/2010 - Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: Immune System Aging and Cancer - Defining a Simulation Strategy
  • 18/05/2010 - Slides - Tao Zhang: Modelling Office Energy Consumption - An Agent Based Approach
  • 11/05/2010 - Slides - Model Applet - Peer-Olaf Siebers: System Dynamics - Yet Another Simulation Modelling Method
  • 11/05/2010 - Slides - Proposed Evaluation Model - Noor Aziza KS Mohamadali: Modelling User Acceptance of Software Technology using AHP and Fuzzy AHP
  • 16/03/2010 - John Rabone: The Use of Articles - An English Grammar Tutorial (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 09/03/2010 - Hongmei He: Soft Computing Approaches Under the Framework of Hierarchical Decision Making or Classification System (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 02/03/2010 - Slides - R-Script+Recordings Daniele Soria: An Introduction to R: Statistics, Graphics and Data Mining
  • 23/02/2010 - Slides - Chris Roadknight: Real World Data, Real World Problems
  • 23/02/2010 - Slides - Uwe Aickelin: The Last 10 Years of Artificial Immune System Research
  • 16/02/2010 - Slides - Andrew Grundy: Promoting Congestion Control in Opportunistic Networks
  • 16/02/2010 - Slides - Jianyong Sun: Robust Mixture Modeling using the Pearson Type VII Distribution
  • 09/02/2010 - Slides - Mazlina Abdul Majid: Modelling Reactive and Proactive Behaviour in Simulation
  • 09/02/2010 - Slides - Julie Greensmith: The Three R's of Research: Reading, (W)Riting and Reviewing
  • 02/02/2010 - Jon Garibaldi: Introduction to Data Mining using Weka (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 26/01/2010 - Slides - Aslam Ahmed: Multi-paradigm Simulation of Cellular Pathways
  • 26/01/2010 - Slides - Adam McMaster: Adaptive Theme Park Rides: Responding to Thrill
  • 26/01/2010 - Slides - Sang Joon Park: Modelling & Simulation in Complexity
  • 26/01/2010 - Slides - Hao Fu: Total Image Understanding
  • 26/01/2010 - Slides - Galina Sherman: Decision Trees vs. Simulation for Cost Benefit Analysis of Cargo Screening Processes
  • 08/12/2009 - Slides - Daniele Soria: Novel Methods to Elucidate Core Classes in Multi-Dimensional Biomedical Data
  • 08/12/2009 - Slides - Jan Feyereisl: On the Importance and Incorporation of Additional Knowledge in Cluster Analysis
  • 01/12/2009 - Slides - Iain Fraser: Improving Congestion Latency for Online Games
  • 24/11/2009 - Slides - Robert Oates: Robotics as Embodied Software
  • 17/11/2009 - Guoping Qiu: Modelling User Intentions in Interactive Image Retrieval (please ask This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly)
  • 17/11/2009 - Slides - Feng Gu: Theoretical Aspects of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm
  • 03/11/2009 - Slides - Naisan Benatar: An Introduction to Robotic Sailing Systems
  • 03/11/2009 - Slides - Julian Zappala: Biologically Inspired Agent-Based Models - Finding Real Answers in Virtual Worlds
  • 20/10/2009 - Slides - Yousof Al Hammadi: Behavioural Correlation for Malicious Bot Detection
  • 20/10/2009 - Slides - Haichang Gao: A Drawing Reproduction Graphical Password Strategy
  • 20/10/2009 - Slides - Tao Zhang: Social Simulations of Technology Adoption and Consumer Behaviour
  • 20/10/2009 - Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Research Group Meeting and IMA Seminar Series Introduction

 

2008/2009

  • 23/06/2009 - Slides - Daniele Soria: Application of Affinity Propagation on Breast Cancer Data Sets
  • 16/06/2009 - Slides - Jamie Twycross: Executable Modelling for Plant Systems Biology
  • 09/06/2009 - Slides - Extras - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Simulation with AnyLogic
  • 02/06/2009 - Slides - Navapat Khantonthong: Introduction to Neural Networks
  • 26/05/2009 - Slides - Xiao Ying Wang (Sally): Methods of Interpretation of a Non-stationary Fuzzy System for the Treatment of Breast Cancer
  • 19/05/2009 - Slides - Francisco Bonachela Capdevila: Application of Clustering Techniques in Gene Prioritization Using Endeavour
  • 12/05/2009 - Slides - Cesar Caballero: Single-trial BOLD fMRI
  • 12/05/2009 - Slides - Shabbar Naqvi: An investigation into the use of Fourier Transform Infrared Micro-Spectroscopy for the automation of Breast Cancer Grading
  • 05/05/2009 - Slides - Duc Thang Ho: A Fuzzy Approach for the 2007 CIG Simulated Car Racing Competition
  • 28/04/2009 - Slides - Naisan Benatar: Introduction to Thermal Management
  • 28/04/2009 - Slides - Noor Azizah KS Mohamadali: Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics and a Proposed Integrated Model of User Acceptance of Technology
  • 21/04/2009 - Slides - Andrew Grundy: Routing in Networks of Varying Connectivity
  • 21/04/2009 - Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: Immunosenescence and its Aplications to Artificial Immune Systems
  • 07/04/2009 - Slides - Julie Greensmith: Are We Having Fun Yet?
  • 31/03/2009 - Slides - Hazlina Hamdan: Modelling Survival Prediction in Medical Data
  • 17/03/2009 - Slides - Robert Oates: An Introduction to Cybernetics
  • 10/03/2009 - Slides - Jianyong Sun: A Gentle Introduction to Latent Variable Model and Variational EM Algorithm
  • 24/02/2009 - Slides - Jan Feyereisl: Cluster Interpretation of the Self-Organising Map (Part 2/2)
  • 24/02/2009 - Slides - Linda Fiaschi: Standards for SNPs Analysis with Decision Trees Tools
  • 17/02/2009 - Slides - Milena Radenkovic: Experiences with Supporting Mass Socio Technical Sensor Networks
  • 10/02/2009 - Slides - Pooja Jain: Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Protein Structure Classification
  • 10/02/2009 - Slides - Jan Feyereisl: Cluster Interpretation of the Self-Organising Map (Part 1/2)
  • 03/02/2009 - Slides - William Armitage: Clusters and Conferencing
  • 27/01/2009 - Slides - Jon Garibaldi: An Overview of Fuzzy Systems
  • 20/01/2009 - Slides - Qi Chen: Dempster-Shafer for Classification and Anomaly Detection
  • 16/12/2008 - Will Lowe: Statistics for Computer Scientists (Short Course) (please see presenter's website for information on topics covered)
  • 09/12/2008 - Slides - R-Script+Data - Jon Garibaldi: Introduction to Statistics
  • 02/12/2008 - Slides - Video - Amanda Whitbrook: An Idiotypic Immune Network as a Short-Term Learning Architecture for Mobile Robots
  • 25/11/2008 - Slides - Feng Gu: The Evolution of the DCA
  • 25/11/2008 - Slides - Yousof Al-Hammadi: Detecting Botnet/Bot based on Correlating Activities
  • 18/11/2008 - Slides - Extras - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Everything you always wanted to know about Discrete Event Simulation - but were afraid to ask ;o)
  • 11/11/2008 - Slides - Mazlina Abdul Majid: Human Behaviour Modelling for Discrete Event and Agent Based Simulation
  • 04/11/2008 - Slides - Adrian Adewunmi: Investigating the combined application of Common Random Numbers and Antithetic Variates
  • 28/10/2008 - Slides - Julie Greensmith and Uwe Aickelin: How to Survive Inter-disciplinary Collaborations
  • 21/10/2008 - Slides - Extras - Gianni Tedesco: Real-Time Alert Correlation with TypeGraphs
  • 14/10/2008 - Slides - Robert Oates: An Introduction to Control Theory
  • 07/10/2008 - Slides- Phil Birkin: Comparison of Tuned Membership Functions of Type-1 andType-2 for a Seven Term Fuzzy Logic Controller