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The School of Computer Science is organizing the “Computer Science Week” [29th Oct – 2nd Nov], in collaboration with the Careers Services, Incubation Centre, Students’ Computer Science Society.

A Range of activities, talks and field trip (to AirAsia HQ) are scheduled.

Have a nice week everyone…. (Thanks for the organizers for such a huge effort and interesting program)

Please see poster & program attached for more details.

Amr attended the annual “Academic Away Days” of the University of Nottingham, School of Computer Science, in the UK. He represented the School of Computer Science (from the Malaysia Campus) and meeting colleagues and the Head of Schools from the UK and China campuses.

Amr was appointed as the new “Head of School” of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, starting from 1st August 2018.

Amr attended the “Academic Away Day – 2017”. Both Research and Teaching aspects were discussed.

It was a good opportunity for Amr to meet his new colleagues at the University of Nottingham, following his appointment as an “Associate Professor”.

Explore, get in touch, collaborate, join PhDs, RAs,…etc.

You are very welcome to explore the pages/posts, see what Amr and his groups are doing, and even better, get in touch for potential collaboration and/or if we can be of any help. Potential PhDs and RAs, you are welcome to get in touch to discuss your proposals.

Another successful end of year annual Showcase event, organised by Amr Ahmed for the 4th year.

At the University of Lincoln, School of Computer Science. (6th and 7th May): Annual Showcase Event for the School of Computer Science,

Several companies attended the event, including Google UK, Siemens, QinetiQ, mass, Artsgraphica, Heritage Lincolnshire, to name a few.

They were impressed by the level and quality of the presented work, as well as how students presented and engaged with questions.

Also, DCAPI group participated in the event and Saddam won a prize:   http://dcapi.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2015/05/13/pgrs-showcase-event-2015/ 

Saddam next to his poster.

Annual Showcase Event for the School of Computer Science,

A PhD studentship is advertised at

“Object and Action Recognition Assisted by Computational Linguistics”

The research is collaboration between University of Kingston (Digital Imaging Research Centre) and University of Lincoln (DCAPI group)

For details of the applications process:  http://sec.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/current-research-opportunities/funded/

Deadline: 20th June

Summary:  “Object and Action Recognition Assisted by Computational Linguistics”.

The aim of this project is to investigate how computer vision methods such as object and
action recognition may be assisted by computational linguistic models, such as WordNet.
The main challenge of object and action recognition is the scalability of methods from
dealing with a dozen of categories (e.g. PASCAL VOC) to thousands of concepts (e.g.
ImageNet ILSVRC). This project is expected to contribute to the application of automated
visual content annotation and more widely to bridging the semantic gap between
computational approaches of vision and language.

Deadline: 20th June.

Video Matching Using DC-image and Local Features Saddam Bekhet, Amr Ahmed, Andrew Hunter

Paper (PDF): Video Matching Using DC-image and Local Features – WCE2013_pp2209-2214

Video Demos:  … soon..

INTRODUCTION:

Videos, especially the compressed ones, became a major part of our daily life. With the amount of videos growing exponentially, Scientists are being pushed to develop robust tools that could efficiently index and retrieve videos in a way similar to human perception of similarity.

*Based on http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html

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