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Visit from Prof Mingyi He of Northwestern Polytechnical University
Prof He is the Chairman of the department of electronics and information engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He is the Founder and Director of Shaanxi Provincial key laboratory for information acquisition and processing. He was appointed in Jan 2011 as the Chief Scientist of the Center for Earth Observation Research. The discussion identified a number […]
Vanguard talk
Prof van den Hengel is in Paris in July 2011 speaking at the Vanguard private strategic technology conference. The Vanguard board (who invite speakers) includes Prof Nicholas Negroponte, of the One Laptop per Child Project, and Gordon Bell most recently of Microsoft. Prof van den Hengel will speak on Real-time Imaging. From the conference web site […]
MSR 3D User-Created Content Seminar
Prof van den Hengel will give a seminar at Microsoft Research in Beijing in July titled “3D User-Created Content”. The talk describes much of the recent ACVT work in trying to make the generation of 3D content more accessible. The abstract is The technology to capture and visualise 3D content was invented before the aeroplane, […]
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NLPR visit
Prof van den Hengel will visit China’s National Laboratory for Pattern Recognition in early June to give a seminar and identify opportunities for collaboration. According to their web site The National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR) at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences （CAS）, was established in 1987 to become one of the […]
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TUV Augmented Reality Seminar
Prof van den Hengel will give a seminar in the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Lecture Series at Technische Universität Vienna in July. The title of the talk is Reconstruction and recognition for realistic augmented reality and the abstract: Augmented reality involves the rendering of synthetic content into live video. The believable augmentation of reality requires that synthetic content […]
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Pearcey award for Prof van den Hengel
Prof Anton van den Hengel won the South Australian Pearcey Foundation Award for 2010. The other state winners announced thus far are Lars and Jens Rasmussen, who have won the 2010 NSW Pearcey Award. From the Pearcey Foundation web site: The 2010 South Australian Pearcey Foundation Award was presented to Dr Anton van den Hengel, inventor of […]
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3D User-Created Content in Saarbruecken
Well actually Anton van den Hengel gave a talk at the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication in Saarbreuken (Germany) about 3D User-Created Content (3DUCC). Anton was in Saarbrueken visiting the Computer Graphics Department of Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik there, and particularly the group of Dr. Thorsten Thormaehlen. Thorsten was instrumental in the development of Videotrace […]
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Videotrace wins at iAwards
Videotrace and Punchcard, the company commercialising it won the Research and Development category of this year’s South Australian iAwards. The iAwards are Australia’s premier technology innovation awards program. TheAustralian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has hosted the awards for 16 years, with this year’s awards sponsored by Fujitsu, KPMG, IBM, and Microsoft, amongst others.
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Chunhua Shen talk at ACVT
On 12 Feb, Dr Chunhua Shen from NICTA will be presenting a talk on ‘A Duality View of Boosting Algorithms’: Consideration of the primal and dual problems together leads to important new insights into the characteristics of boosting algorithms. We show that the Lagrange dual problems of AdaBoost, LogitBoost and soft-margin LPBoost with generalized hinge loss are […]
