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Author: Santosh Tirunagari
The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing Conference (ICIVC) took place in Portsmouth, UK, from August 3rd to 5th August 2016, held at the Conference Auditorium, University of Portsmouth. The main objective of the ICIVC 2016, is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Image, Vision and Computing to a common forum. I attended this conference in order to present a article entitled: “Can DMD obtain Scene Background in Color?” which is available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.06783.pdf. This is an excellent opportunity because this three-day conference brought together various academics working particularly in the field of computing. Therefore, this provided me with an interactive and friendly platform to present my work, discuss my work with fellow PhD students.
The main track of the Conference was composed of three types of session, namely: 1) Oral presentation sessions (1,2), 2)Plenary session 3) keynote session. Keynote and plenary Speakers in ICIVC 2016 included Prof. Ezendu Ariwa (University of Bedfordshire, UK), Dr. Branislav Vuksanovic (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK), Prof. Jenny Benois, (University of Bordeaux, France), Dr. Hui Yu (University of Portsmouth, UK) and Dr. Huseyin Seker, The University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. My presentation was in session 2 and Dr. Branislav Vuksanovic was the chair. My presentation was selected as the best presentation from session 2 and was awarded a certificate at the end of this session.
This two-day workshop (https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/830/timetable/#20160609) was organised by CNRS and took place from 9-10 June 2016 in Lille, France, gathered researchers from the industry and the academia working in the area of big data. While the talks on the first day were tutorials targeting the general audience; on the second day, talks were focused around technical and mathematical details such as alternative methods to improve gradient-descend type of optimization. Dr Norman Poh’s talk was arranged at the beginning of the second day in order to link the high-level tutorial on the first day and the technical talks which followed after that.
Dr Poh’s talk was entitled ‘What could we learn from millions of patient records? A machine-learning perspective’. The talked provided the healthcare context, justifying why healthcare records are a big data problem and motivated the need to develop novel machine-learning algorithms that are more adapted to modelling the temporal dynamics, potentially over the life course of a patient, defined on a large concept space, which is spanned by hundreds of thousands of clinical concepts. In addition, the population denominator, which is in the order of millions of patients, thus qualifies the problem of modelling healthcare records as ‘big data’.
By way of using Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) as a disease of interest, Dr Poh’s talk highlighted how classical machine learning tasks such as classification, regression, and clustering can be applied to modelling CKD. The slides can be found here (http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Norman.Poh/data/2016-06-10_BigData_Lille_compact.pdf).
Dr Poh’s work is funded by MRC project: Modelling the Progression of CKD (www.modellingCKD.org).
Increasing healthcare cost coupled with an ageing population in both developing and developed worlds means that it is important to understand disease demographic profiles in order to better optimize resources for quality health and care. By using Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) as a case study, I will present challenges that are related to understanding, modelling and predicting the progression of CKD; and how machine learning techniques can be used to solve them. Examples include calibration of estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR), modelling of eGFR, automatic selection clinically relevant variables, and non-linear dimensionality reduction for data discovery.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is offering bursaries to the University of Surrey for covering tuition fees for up to 4 students undertaking the Department of Computer Science’s GCHQ-certified MSc Information Security programme. These students will need to begin their studies in the 2016/17 academic year and have their MSc applications submitted by 9th September 2016.
Prof Anthony TS Ho of Surrey CS has been awarded a Tianjin Distinguished Visiting Professorship from 1 August 2016 until 31 July 2020 for 4 years.
Two Surrey Computer Science and Surrey Centre for Cyber Security researchers received the Best Paper Award at the ISC 2016.
