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2010 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 19 August 2010 (Thursday) at NUS Shaw Foundation Alumni House |
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 |
The 2010 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held in the evening of 19 August (Thursday) in Seminar Rooms 2 and 3, Level 2, Shaw Foundation Alumni House, 11 Kent Ridge Drive (Singapore 119244). Please click here to view the venue on map.
On that night, you will enjoy sumptuous food provided by Kriston Food and Beverage (which is the official caterer for the Singapore Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai). In addition, we have specially invited a guest speaker Dr. Yan Suicheng to deliver a seminar talk. Dr. Yan will share us his exciting research in graph techniques with interesting real applications.
The full program for that night is as follows:
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm Registration
7:00 pm - 9.30 pm Dinner begins (dinner continues during talk and AGM)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Seminar Talk by Dr. Yan Shuicheng
8.30 pm - 9.30 pm AGM
AGM Agenda:
Confirmation of Minutes of AGM 2009
President's Report
Treasurer's Report
Election of President/Vice President 2010/2012
Election of other board members 2010/2012
Appointment of Auditors 2010/2012
Any Other Business
the registration is now closed.
Title of talk: Graph Construction and Manipulation Towards Informativeness and Scalability
Synopsis: Graph is a general and popular representation, which can describe complex high order relations through pairwise relations (edges). This talk covers two aspects of graph. First, graph construction, a fundamental problem for many pattern recognition tasks, is restudied beyond traditional k-NN graph and epsilon-ball graph. Sparse coding is introduced for the construction of the so-called L1-graph to characterize more informative and robust one-to-many relations, whose scalability is further augmented by Hashing trick. The positive semidefinite property of the weight matrix of the enhanced collective L1-graph construction is theoretically proved based on low-rank objective. Several successful applications of L1-graph are introduced from both computer vision and multimedia areas. Then, by taking dense subgraph detection as an example, we introduce how to manipulate large graph for certain tasks. More specifically, we define graph modes, which are the local maxima of graph density functions, to represent such dense subgraphs. We propose the graph shift procedure, which starts from every vertex, iteratively shifts the local small subgraph towards the nearest graph mode along a certain trajectory. Both theoretic analyses and experiments show that graph shift procedure is very efficient (only working on quite small subgraph for each step) and robust, especially when there exists large amount of noises and outliers.
About the Speaker: Dr. Yan Shuicheng is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore, and the founding leader of the Learning and Vision Research Group (http://www.lv-nus.org). Dr. Yan's research areas include computer vision, multimedia and machine learning, and he has authored or co-authored about 180 technical papers over a wide range of research topics. He has close collaborations with industry companies, such as Microsoft, Panasonic, Kodak, Google, and Omron. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and has been serving as the guest editor of the special issue for Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He received the Best Paper Awards from ICME10 and ICIMCS'09.
Buffet Menu:
Action Station:
· Aunty Marry’s Laksa Lemak
Comfort Station:
· Chef’s Appetizing Platter
· Coleslaw and Russian Salad
· Italian Sausage & Bell Pepper
International Station:
· Oven-baked Teriyaki Chicken with Sesame See
· Northern Style Lamb Stew Masala
· Pan-fried Salmon Fillet with Tomato and Scallion
· Seafood on Shell with Florentine
· Braised Beancurd with Cabbage in Vegetarian Oyster Sauce (Vegetarian)
· Medley of Vegetable with Mushroom (Vegetarian)
· Vegetarian Pineapple Fried Rice (Vegetarian)
Dessert:
· Tropical Fresh Fruit Platter
· Mini Chocolate Éclair
Beverage:
· Fruit Punch
· Coffee and Tea
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