Workshop – DCAPI Research Group

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PGRs Showcase Event

Posted on May 17, 2014November 5, 2014 by Amr Ahmed

Members of DCAPI have presented and showed their research work in the Annual Showcase Event for the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln. (14th and 15th May). Saddam also won the “Best Demo” prize for his video matching & retrieval interactive demo.

Saddam receiving his "Certificate of Achievment" for "Best Demo". — Saddam receiving his “Certificate of Achievment” for “Best Demo”.

Saddam presenting his research work in Video Matching and retrieval.

Postgraduates by Research (PGRs) had all day on Wed 14th May and featured in the morning of Thursday 15th May as well, with visitors and companies representatives.

Saddam demonstrating his "Interactive, drag-n-drop Video matching and retrieval" demo to visitors & companies representatives and colleagues — Saddam demonstrating his “Interactive, drag-n-drop Video matching and retrieval” demo to visitors & companies representatives and colleagues

All around the poster, with explanation from Saddam on his work on the "Compressed Video matching and retrieval" — All around the poster, with explanation from Saddam on his work on the “Compressed Video matching and retrieval”

The event is organised by Dr Amr Ahmed (Leader of the DCAPI group, and the Program Leader for PGRs), for a number of years.

Annual "Showcase Event" for School of Computer Science. Dr Amr Ahmed take this intitiative and organised this event for a number of years. — Annual “Showcase Event” for School of Computer Science. Dr Amr Ahmed take this intitiative and organised this event for a number of years.

Amr is arranging the Registration and welcome table.

The event was also officially opened (and concluded) by the Head of School, Dr David Cobham, who attended the full program and handed the certificates to winners as well as the Helpers, including the Admin team.

Head of School handing in the "Thank You" Certificates for Helpers and the Admin Team. — Head of School handing in the “Thank You” Certificates for Helpers and the Admin Team.

All had fun during the Poster session and inbetween the sessions as well.

PGRs together, with the Head of School and the Program Leader for PGRs, following the Posters session

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OpenCV workshop

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Saddam Bekhet

Saddam Bekhet, member of the DCAPI group demonstrated workshop about Using OpenCV with Visual Studio 2010 Express edition on 23/01/2013 . In addition a demonstration about basic OpenCV operations (loading & manipulating images) and advanced operations (face detector & tracker from live camera stream) was demonstrated.

Face detection example link
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceDetection

Summary of installation settings of OpenCV :
1- Download OpenCV files http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-win/2.4.0/
2- Download CMAKE http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
3- Use CMAKE to generate OpenCV library AND DLL’s and use x64 architecture or the architecture what ever suites you in VS2010
4-Open OpenCV build folder and search for “OpenCV.sln” then compile it.
5- Remember to but openCV DLL’s beside The Debug \EXEDirectory of your project in Visual Studio
6- Rememeber to install intel threading block http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ and put the DLL called tbb.dll in your visual studio debug\EXE

Include direcories in VS2010 Project–>Properities–>VC++ Directories
D:\OpenCV\build\include
D:\OpenCV\build\include\opencv

Library direcories in VS2010 Project–>Properities–>Linker–>Input
D:\opencv\build\x64\vc10\lib
Linker–> Input
opencv_core242X.lib opencv_imgproc242X.lib opencv_highgui24X.lib opencv_ml242X.lib opencv_video242X.lib opencv_features2d2X.lib opencv_features2d2X.lib opencv_calib3d242X.lib opencv_objdetect242X.lib opencv_contrib242X.lib
opencv_legacy242X.lib opencv_flann242X.lib opencv_nonfree242X.lib

Make sure to reblace “X” in the previous file names with correct naming of the generated OpenCV library files for example on my machine it is “opencv_nonfree242d.lib”

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Two Presentations and Posters in the Vision & Language Network workshop

Posted on December 22, 2012January 21, 2013 by Amr Ahmed

Three members of the Lincoln School of Computer Science, and the DCAPI group, have attended the Vision & Language (V&L) Network workshop, 13-14th Dec. 2012 in Sheffield, UK.

Amr Ahmed, Amjad Al-tadmri and Deema AbdalHafeth attended the event, where Amjad and Deema delivered 2 oral presentations and 2 posters about their research work:

1. VisualNet: Semantic Commonsense Knowledgebase for Visual Applications

2. Investigating text analysis of user-generated contents for health related applications

Abstracts are available on ( http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VLW12/VLW-2012-Accepted-Abstracts.html)

Congratulations for all involved.

: Amjad Altadmri and Amr Ahmed around their poster at the Vision & Language Net workshop, 13-14th Dec 2012, Sheffield, UK.

: Deema AbdalHafeth and Amr Ahmed at the Vision & Language Net workshop, 13-14th Dec 2012, Sheffield, UK.

The event included tutorial sessions (Vision for language people, and language for vision people). We had an increased presence this year.

Last year, we had a good presence in the last year’s workshop (http://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2011/09/19/vl-network-workshop-brighton/), had good discussions and useful feedback on the presented work.

Looking forward for similar, if not even better, experience this year.

Best wishes for the presentations.

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Amr attended the ECM & workshop of the SUS-IT project

Posted on February 3, 2012January 22, 2013 by Amr Ahmed

Amr Ahmed attended the ECM (Executive Committee Meeting) of his SUS-IT project (http://sus-it.lboro.ac.uk/) at Loughborough, and participated in the 2 days workshop for the project. This is one of the very important meetings, especially towards the late stage of the project, with all workpackages represented.

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(iNET) Intelligent Mobility: Making it a Commercial Reality – National Space Centre

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Amr Ahmed

Amr Presenting a Poster at the National Space Centre, Leicester. iNET Transport, Mobility Scooter with Navigation System

Amr Ahmed has been invited for this iNET Transport event at the National Space Centre, as has been a partner in one of the iNET Transport projects. During the day, Amr presented a Poster, with support from Tony Daniel, about his iNET project; Mobility Scooter with navigation system (Demo video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGQm4GKfgN0 and list of Projects at http://amrahmed.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/projects/ )

Amr Presenting a Poster at the National Space Centre, Leicester. iNET Transport, Mobility Scooter with Navigation System

National Space Centre – Leicester

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V&L Network workshop, Brighton

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Amr Ahmed

Dr Amr Ahmed attended the Vision & Language Netowork Workshop in Brighton last Thursday 15th September, where 2 posters and oral presentation were presented from the DCAPI group.

DCAPI poster at the V&L Network workshop - Sept'11 - Brighton

DCAPI poster at the V&L workshop

Over 40 researchers, from vision and language areas, attended and it was a good opportunity for networking and exchange of contacts and ideas. Posters and sides will be available on the network’s website in the near future

Amr and a keynote speaker

Amr and one of the keynote speaker

Mr Amjad Altadmri also attended and presented in the event.

Some nice photos in Brighton,

Amr in Brighton Pier

with some Icereame!

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SUS-IT Project Write-Up workshop

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Amr Ahmed

Amr participated in the Write-UP workshop of the SUS-IT project consortium (which Amr is a partner in), on 17th and 18th May in Loughborough. Interesting to meet most of the partners, from all over the UK. Many discussions across the work-packages, especially with completion of the project (started in Jan 2009) expected ~mid next year.