Towards interpretable deep learning with limited examples. Existing visual concept detection systems are incapable of detecting ever-evolving concepts in daily life. This project aims to extract patterns that describe the semantics of visual concepts and to develop or adapt knowledge transfer learning technologies for new concepts with limited examples. The expected outcomes will provide major technological breakthroughs for building efficient and interpretable learning systems for visual analys ....Towards interpretable deep learning with limited examples. Existing visual concept detection systems are incapable of detecting ever-evolving concepts in daily life. This project aims to extract patterns that describe the semantics of visual concepts and to develop or adapt knowledge transfer learning technologies for new concepts with limited examples. The expected outcomes will provide major technological breakthroughs for building efficient and interpretable learning systems for visual analysis and will open an entirely new research direction: interpretable deep learning with communication mechanism. This new field and its technologies will help us to recognise misuse of home patient medical devices and unauthorised activity, and enable us to devise effective responses to prevent cyberattacks.Read moreRead less
Deep analytics of non-occurring but important behaviours. This project aims to build a systematic theory for the deep analytics of complex and important occurring and non-occurring behaviours. Behaviours that should occur but do not take place, called non-occurring behaviours (NOB), are widely evident but easily overlooked, such as missed important medical treatments. While often occurring behaviours are focused, such NOB may be associated with significant effects such as a threat to health. Thi ....Deep analytics of non-occurring but important behaviours. This project aims to build a systematic theory for the deep analytics of complex and important occurring and non-occurring behaviours. Behaviours that should occur but do not take place, called non-occurring behaviours (NOB), are widely evident but easily overlooked, such as missed important medical treatments. While often occurring behaviours are focused, such NOB may be associated with significant effects such as a threat to health. This project expects to fill the knowledge gaps in representing, analysing and evaluating NOB complexities and impact, with significant benefits for the evidence-based detection, prediction and risk management of covert NOB applications and their important effects.Read moreRead less
Deep Interaction Learning in Unlabelled Big Data and Complex Systems. This project aims to effectively model intricate interactions deeply embedded in unlabelled big data and complex systems, which are often hierarchical, heterogeneous, contextual, dynamic or even contrastive. Learning such interactions is the keystone of robust data science and for realizing the value of big data but it poses significant challenges and knowledge gaps to existing data analytics and learning systems. The expected ....Deep Interaction Learning in Unlabelled Big Data and Complex Systems. This project aims to effectively model intricate interactions deeply embedded in unlabelled big data and complex systems, which are often hierarchical, heterogeneous, contextual, dynamic or even contrastive. Learning such interactions is the keystone of robust data science and for realizing the value of big data but it poses significant challenges and knowledge gaps to existing data analytics and learning systems. The expected outcomes include new-generation theories and methods for the unsupervised learning of complex interactions in real-life big data, which are anticipated to enable the intrinsic processing of big data complexities and substantially enhance Australia’s leadership in frontier data science research and applications. Read moreRead less
Assistive micro-navigation for vision impaired people. This project aims to develop novel algorithms to transform a simple camera into a smart sensor, that can enable a vision-impaired person to navigate freely and without additional aids in a crowded area. Such a smart sensor will be endowed with the capability to detect and locate obstacles, identify the walking path, recognise objects and traffic signs and convey step-by-step instructions to the user. The project outcomes are expected to impr ....Assistive micro-navigation for vision impaired people. This project aims to develop novel algorithms to transform a simple camera into a smart sensor, that can enable a vision-impaired person to navigate freely and without additional aids in a crowded area. Such a smart sensor will be endowed with the capability to detect and locate obstacles, identify the walking path, recognise objects and traffic signs and convey step-by-step instructions to the user. The project outcomes are expected to improve the well-being and accessibility to public areas for vision-impaired people and reduce physical access disparities for this disadvantaged and vulnerable group. Furthermore, technologies developed in this project can potentially be adapted for use in related special navigation applications such as road safety, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous robots.Read moreRead less
Dynamic Visual Scene Gist Recognition using a Probabilistic Inference Framework. How can we see the forest without intentionally looking for the trees? How can we tell traffic is flowing smoothly on a busy highway without identifying vehicles or measuring their speed? These are the questions that inspire this research project. Humans are endowed with the ability to grasp the ‘gist’ or overall meaning of a complex visual scene from a single glance and without attention to details. The aim of this ....Dynamic Visual Scene Gist Recognition using a Probabilistic Inference Framework. How can we see the forest without intentionally looking for the trees? How can we tell traffic is flowing smoothly on a busy highway without identifying vehicles or measuring their speed? These are the questions that inspire this research project. Humans are endowed with the ability to grasp the ‘gist’ or overall meaning of a complex visual scene from a single glance and without attention to details. The aim of this project is to develop new computational vision models that combine biological visual processing with probabilistic inference for gist recognition. The developed models will be able to mimic human vision by analysing a complex dynamic scene rapidly and classifying its semantic categories, without identifying individual objects.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120102900
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
WikiLinks: web-scale linking and fact extraction with Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the most popular web site for finding facts, but articles about local or specialist topics are often missing or unreliable. WikiLinks will use artificial intelligence to link names in text to corresponding Wikipedia articles, allowing us to automatically create and augment Wikipedia content by summarising existing material on the web.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101655
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$297,036.00
Summary
Discriminative detection and quantification of cancer imaging biomarkers. This project aims to develop a new framework for the detection and quantification of cancer biomarkers in diagnostic and histopathology images with discriminative modelling of intrinsic structures. The framework will be the first computerised solution to provide automated, quantitative annotations of cancer imaging biomarkers at the macroscopic and microscopic levels to support standardised reporting of image interpretatio ....Discriminative detection and quantification of cancer imaging biomarkers. This project aims to develop a new framework for the detection and quantification of cancer biomarkers in diagnostic and histopathology images with discriminative modelling of intrinsic structures. The framework will be the first computerised solution to provide automated, quantitative annotations of cancer imaging biomarkers at the macroscopic and microscopic levels to support standardised reporting of image interpretation. It will help to alleviate the inter-observer variability and time-consuming process of manual analysis. The project aims to advance fundamental biomedical imaging research in generalised visual structure extraction and classification, and enable large-scale translational research in systems pathology for personalised cancer care.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220101379
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$417,000.00
Summary
Towards Transferable Visual Understanding in the Real World. This project aims to investigate how to improve the transferability of visual understanding algorithm and system in the real-world applications. This project expects to innovate and advance knowledge in the fields of visual transfer learning and generalizable visual representation learning. Expected outcomes of this project include techniques and algorithms to make the visual understanding system robust to diverse real-world scenarios. ....Towards Transferable Visual Understanding in the Real World. This project aims to investigate how to improve the transferability of visual understanding algorithm and system in the real-world applications. This project expects to innovate and advance knowledge in the fields of visual transfer learning and generalizable visual representation learning. Expected outcomes of this project include techniques and algorithms to make the visual understanding system robust to diverse real-world scenarios. This project should provide significant benefits, such as improving the robustness and safety of autonomous vehicles in transportation area, and reducing the cost of destructive data collection for intelligent fault detection in advanced manufacturing area.Read moreRead less
Coupling Learning in Big Data. Big data features complex coupling relationships within and between diverse entities in various forms and layers. This fundamentally challenges existing learning theories, which usually assume that data is independent and identically distributed (IID). This indicates that such IID tools may either be inapplicable for big data or capture an incomplete or even biased picture of the ground truth in big data. Hence, this project aims to invent breakthrough theories and ....Coupling Learning in Big Data. Big data features complex coupling relationships within and between diverse entities in various forms and layers. This fundamentally challenges existing learning theories, which usually assume that data is independent and identically distributed (IID). This indicates that such IID tools may either be inapplicable for big data or capture an incomplete or even biased picture of the ground truth in big data. Hence, this project aims to invent breakthrough theories and effective tools for systematically modelling and learning sophisticated couplings embedded in big data applications. The outcomes are expected to enhance Australia's leading role in data science research and lift data intelligence-driven productivity and economic growth in a changing world.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160101518
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$294,111.00
Summary
Multi-Object Recognition of Biomedical Images via Holistic Ontology. This project seeks to advance the development of new biomedical image recognition and analysis solutions by associating biomedical images with biomedical knowledge and personalised data. The provision of accurate and robust multi-object recognition and analysis from biomedical image data is a fundamental requirement for biomedical imaging applications. This project aims to improve the recognition and analysis of anatomical and ....Multi-Object Recognition of Biomedical Images via Holistic Ontology. This project seeks to advance the development of new biomedical image recognition and analysis solutions by associating biomedical images with biomedical knowledge and personalised data. The provision of accurate and robust multi-object recognition and analysis from biomedical image data is a fundamental requirement for biomedical imaging applications. This project aims to improve the recognition and analysis of anatomical and functional structures from biomedical images with ‘holistic ontology’ modelling that represents a multi-level biological, physiological, and anatomical knowledge base. The project will potentially have application in many health care areas, such as computer aided diagnosis, image-guided surgery planning, and image-based disease modelling.Read moreRead less