Seminars and Tutorials

Every Tuesday
12:00 - 2:00pm

Room C01, Computer Science Building, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham
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Organised by Peer-Olaf Siebers (Room: B35, Phone: 011584 ext 66526, Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Next Event @ 22/05/2012: IMA Seminars

Salvador Garcia Bernal: Multiple Exposure Video Merging

Consumer digital cameras have limitations that make it impossible for them to capture scenes as we see them. This talk describes the basis theory and applications of high dynamic range imaging (HDRI). HDRI allow us to capture images with any camera and extended its dynamic range captured by them.

HDRI in still images have been in the public domain for more than ten years, some research have been done recently in video. One of the focuses of this research is to apply these techniques to obtain a high dynamic range video (HDRV).

In this talk I will present some preliminary results for obtaining a HDRV from a set of differently exposed frames, and compare them with traditional video recording.

Yujie Mei: Camera Shutter Speed Based Radiance Map Recovery and Photograph Fusion

To fuse the multiple LDR images into a single radiance map, most previous methods just simply used each pixel’s value in each frame to decide how heavy the weighting of a particular exposure should be. In the following particular cases, this approach will fail to produce sensible radiance values: In the extremely bright areas, in a spatial coordinate where the pixels across every frame are saturated, i.e., the pixel value is 255, all weightings for differently exposed pixels will be same. In extremely dark areas, in a spatial coordinate where all pixels across every frame are either 0 or 1, all weightings for differently exposed pixels are either 0 or 1. This means that in these cases, we cannot determine a reasonable estimation of the radiance values. In practice, when there is a need to use HDR imaging technology to record the real world scenes, these cases (saturated or dimly illuminated) will always present. To fix the defect I propose to explicitly exploit information contained in the shutter speeds. This idea can also be applied to photograph fusion.

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 Presentations

2011/2012

Slides - Michel Valstar: Next Generation Facial Expression Recognition Systems
Slides - Aslam Ahmed: Variance in System Dynamics and Agent Based Modelling Using the Sir Model Of Infectious Disease
Slides - Stephanie Foan: Investigating T Helper Cell Subsets Throughout the Human Lifetime
Slides - Jie Shu: Colour Detection on Immunostaining Slide
Shabbar Naqvi: An investigation into the use of advanced computational methods for the automation of breast cancer grading with spectral data sets
Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Survey Data with Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
Slides - Naisan Benatar: An Investigation into the Relationship between Type-2 FOU Size and Environmental Uncertainty in Robotic Control
Slides - Jon Garibaldi: Addressing Uncertainty in Cyber-Security Experts’ Perceptions of Risk
Christian Wagner: Crowd-Sourcing, Fuzzy Meta-Measures, Integrals and Where to Have Lunch on Campus
Daphne Lai: Breast Cancer Data Classification using Semi-Supervised Fuzzy c-Means
Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: A Brief Introduction to the Exciting World of Object Oriented Systems
HTML - Robert Miles: Applying Artificial Immune System Approaches to New Domains (requires a modern browser, Chrome or Safari recommended)
Orod Razeghi: Understanding Visual Content with Human in the Loop
Slides - Salvador Bernal: HDR Video
Slides - Bozhi Liu: Color Constancy
Sameh Zakhary: Erasure Coding with Replication to Defend Against Malicious Dropping Attacks in DTNs
Slides - Julie Greensmith: From Inspiration to Application: A Tutorial On Artificial Immune Systems
Slides - Yihui Liu: Dimensionality Reduction and Main Component Extraction of Mass Spectrometry Cancer Data
Slides - Nick McCullen: Investigating Energy Efficiency Interventions Using a Network-Diffusion Model
Slides - Tao Zhang: Modelling the Effects of User Learning on Smart Metering Technology Adoption
Slides - Joel Fischer: Living with Energy Monitoring
Slides - Chris Roadknight: Classifying Tumours from Biological, Chemical and Immunological Attributes
Slides - Lauri Lättilä: Multi-Method Simulations in Logistics
Uwe Aickelin: Potential Future IMA Research Projects
Slides - Ian Dent: Background on the UK electricity market, some issues, and a clustering approach to demand side management interventions
Jamie Twycross: Modelling ABA perception: From water to networks
Slides - Linda Fiaschi: Establishing a routinely updated maternal-child linkage system in The Health Improvement Network database
Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: A Beginner’s Guide to Systems Simulation in Immunology
Slides - Jenna Reps: Comparison of the Disproportionality methods for Pharmacovigilance in the THIN Database
Slides - Tao Zhang: A Three-Dimensional Model of Residential Energy Consumer Archetypes for Local Energy Policy Design in the UK
Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Seminar Series 2011/2012Welcome
Slides - Hongwei Qin (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): Hardware-In-Loop Simulation System for Crane Operation
Slides - Mian Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): GIS-Based Grid Electricity Trade System
Slides - Linxuan Zhang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China): Research on Simulation and Virtual Manufacturing at National CIMS-ERC of Tsinghua University

2010/2011

Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Real-World Complex Systems - Representing Uncertainty
Slides - R-Script - Robert Oates: ARMAX for System Identification
Hao Fu: Semantic Image Segmentation
Milena Radenkovic: Framework for Utility Driven Congestion Control in Delay Tolerant Opportunistic Networks
Slides - Demo Software - Yujie Mei: High Dynamic Range Imaging and Display
Slides - Lei Yu: Modelling Electrical Car Diffusion - An Agent Based Approach
Slides - Jie Shu: Immunostaining Analysis
Slides - Uwe Aickelin: IMA - Achievements and Vision
Slides - Julie Greensmith: Making Affective Effective
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
Slides - Nick McCullen (University of Leeds): Modelling the Diffusion of Energy Technology on Social Networks
Slides - Richard Snape and Mark Rylatt (DeMonfort University): Behaviour and Learning in an Agent Based Model of the Smart Grid
Slides - Stephanie Foan: Computational Modelling of Immunosenescence
Slides - Hazlina Hamdan: An Investigation of The Effect of Input Representation in ANFIS Modelling of Breast Cancer Survival
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
Slides - Simon Miller: Modelling Real-World Complex Systems - Representing Uncertainty
Slides - Christian Wagner: Ambient Intelligent Environments, Transparency and Fuzzy Logic
Slides - Jianyong Sun: Robust Bayesian Clustering for Datasets with Repeated Measures
Slides - Stephanie Foan: Computational Modelling of Immunosenescence
Slides - Wanlu Wang: A Novel Method for Volume Rendering
Slides - Daphne Lai: Distance-based Semi-Supervised Fuzzy c-Means Algorithms
Slides - Jenna Reps: Detecting adverse events in a general practice database
Slides - Ian Dent: Ian Dent - An Introduction
Slides - Sameh Zakhary: Reliability of Communication in Challenged Environments
Hala Helmi: Predicting Based on TSVM (Tranductive Support vector machine)
Yihui Liu: Finding the Prognosis Biomarkers in Survival Analysis Based on Wavelet Feature Extraction
Guoping Qiu: Social Image Quality - Image Quality Assessment by the Mass for the Mass
Slides - Chris Roadknight: Simulating the Port of Dover
Daniele Soria: Breast Cancer Classification: From Consensus Clustering to Fuzzy Logic
Slides - Mazlina Abdul Majid: Human Behaviour Modelling Practice: A Comparison of Traditional Discrete Event and Combined Discrete Event and Agent-Based Simulation
Slides - Grazziela Figueredo: Comparing ABS and SDS for Tumour Growth and its Interactions with Effector Cells
Slides - Nadine Holmes: Travel & Expenses Request and Pre-Approval
Slides - Tao Zhang: Complexity Science, Agent-Based Simulation & Energy Research
Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: Conceptual Modelling for Simulation - A Tutorial for Beginners
Slides - Jon Garibaldi: Non-Stationary Fuzzy Reasoning in Clinical Decision Support
Slides - Aslam Ahmed: Multi-paradigm Simulation of TRAPS
Slides - Feng Gu: The Extended Dendritic Cell Algorithm for Large Anomaly Detection Datasets
Slides - Naisan Benatar: An Investigation into a Mechanism for Selection of Fuzzy Logic Type Based on Noise & Uncertainty
Jan Feyereisl: Learning Using Privileged Information: The Power of X*
Slides - Peer-Olaf Siebers: IMA Seminar Series 2010/2011 Welcome
Slides - Chris Musselle: Malware and Artificial Immune Systems

2009/2010

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

2008/2009

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