Digital Contents Analysis, Production, and Interaction
The conference paper entitled “Hierarchical Classification of Liver Tumor from CT Images Based on Difference-of-features (DOF) ” presented earlier in “World Congress on Engineering 2016“ got “Best Student Paper Award 2016″ well done and congratulations to Hussein Alahmer
Congratulations to Noha Ghatwary , She passed her MPhil transfer and she is now officially a PhD researcher , wish Noha all the Luck and success in her life.
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 March 2015.
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://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/funding/phd-studentships-2015/faqs/
Deadline: 20th March 2015
Deema Abdal Hafeth, Amr Ahmed, David Cobham
Downloads: Paper (PDF) , Dataset
Text Analysis for Health Applications_Poster
Introduction
Clinical reports includes valuable medical-related information in free-form text which can be extremely useful in aiding/providing better patient care. Text analysis techniques have demonstrated the potential to unlock such information from text. I2b2* designed a smoking challenge requiring the automatic classification of patients in relation to smoking status, based on clinical reports (Uzuner Ö et al,2008) . This was motivated by the benefits that such classification and similar extractions can be useful in further studies/research, e.g. asthma studies.
Aim & Motivation
Our aim is to investigate the potential of achieving similar results by analysing the increasing and widely available/accessible online user-generated contents (UGC), e.g. forums. This is motivated by the fact that clinical reports are not widely available and has a long and rigorous process to approve any access.
We also aimed at investigating appropriate compact feature sets that facilitate further level of studies; e.g. Psycholinguistics, as explained later.
Methodology
Results
Conclusion & Future work
The results suggest that analysing user-generated contents, such as forums, can be as useful as clinical reports. The proposed LIWC+POS feature set, while achieving comparable results, is highly compact and facilitates further levels of studies (e.g. Psycholinguistics).
We expect our work to be for health researchers, medical industrial, by providing them with tools to quantify and better understand people smoking relation and how they behave online, and for forum members, by enriching their use of this rapidly developing and increasingly popular medium by searching for peoples who are in the same situation.
For future work:
Reference:
Uzuner Ö, Goldstein I, Kohane I. Identifying patient smoking status from medical discharge records. J Am Med Inform. 2008;15(1):14-24. PMID:17947624.
| Interested in joining us as a “Research Fellow”? Get in touch by emailing aahmed@lincoln.ac.uk |
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Welcome to the DCAPI research group. Our multi-disciplinary research is mainly focused on the analysis and mining of digital contents (Visual; images and videos, and textual). This includes Computer Vision, Image/Video Processing and analysis, Semantic Analysis, annotation, Action recognition, Image/Video Matching and similarity (Copy & Near-Duplicate detection), and many others. We welcome any discussion and potential collaboration. Please get in touch with us (contacts on the right side-bar). |
Congratulations to Saddam Bekhet , he passed his MPhil transfer and he is now officially a PhD researcher , wish Saddam all the Luck and success in his life.
Saddam Bekhet presented his accepted paper in “World Congress on Engineering 2013“.
The paper title is “Video Matching Using DC-image and Local Features ”
Abstract:
This paper presents a suggested framework for video matching based on local features extracted from the DC-image of MPEG compressed videos, without decompression. The relevant arguments and supporting evidences are discussed for developing video similarity techniques that works directly on compressed videos, without decompression, and especially utilising small size images. Two experiments are carried to support the above. The first is comparing between the DC-image and I-frame, in terms of matching performance and the corresponding computation complexity. The second experiment compares between using local features and global features in video matching, especially in the compressed domain and with the small size images. The results confirmed that the use of DC-image, despite its highly reduced size, is promising as it produces at least similar (if not better) matching precision, compared to the full I-frame. Also, using SIFT, as a local feature, outperforms precision of most of the standard global features. On the other hand, its computation complexity is relatively higher, but it is still within the real-time margin. There are also various optimisations that can be done to improve this computation complexity.
Well done and congratulations to Saddam Bekhet .
Saddam Bekhet, member of the DCAPI group presented a short presentation about his PhD work “Video similarity in compressed domain” at the school of computer science postgraduate monthly seminar on 13/03/2013 .