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September 2012 Issue 2

Xuhui Fan and Wei (David) Wei will be presenting the above papers at CIKM 2012 which will be held from October 29 to November 2, 2012 in Maui, USA.

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CoLLaBoRatIon UtS: Engage Event Huawei technologies MicrosoftResearch CollaborationMeetingsinChina

EDUCatIon a new Food Choice Model IEEE SPS Seasonal School air Passengers’ Loyalty and Its BusinessAnalytics Upcoming Big Data Workshop FEIt teaching and Learning Grant FEIt Research Showcase

nEtWoRKInG Chinese University Research OfficeDelegation Liaoning technical University Delegation Computer Graphics and InteractiveMediaLab,Houston

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tHE aaI tEaM Business Development Manager new Lecturer aaI Welcomes Four new Students Doctorate Conferral academic visitors

Zhenhua Li, Ying He, Limsoon Wong and Jinyan Li, “Progressive dry-core-wet-rim hydration trend in a nested-ring topology of protein binding interfaces,” BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:51.

Longbing Cao, Yuming Ou, Philip S. Yu, “Coupled Behavior Analysis with Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1378-1392, 2012.

Jingsong Xu, Qiang Wu, Jian Zhang & Zhenmin Tang, “Object Detection Based on Co-occurrence GMuLBP Features,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July, 2012.

A/Prof. Jinyan Li has had two papers accepted by the 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics. One will be published by BMC Bioinformatics and the other will be published by BMC Genomics. Both of these are ERA-A ranked journals.

Worapan Kusakunniran, Qiang Wu, Jian Zhang and Hongdong Li, “Gait Recognition under Various Viewing Angles based on Correlated Motion Regression,” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, December 2011.

Xuhui Fan, Lin Zhu, Longbing Cao, Xia Cui and Yew Soon Ong. “Maximum Margin Clustering on Evolutionary Data.” Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM). October 2012.

Wei Wei, Xuhui Fan, Jinyan Li, Longbing Cao. “Model the Complex Dependence Structures of Financial Variables by Using Canonical Vine,” Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM). October 2012.

Worapan Kusakunniran, Qiang Wu, Jian Zhang and Hongdong Li, “Gait Recognition across Various Walking Speeds using Higher-order Shape Configuration based on Differential Composition Model,” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, April 2012.

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Collaboration

UTS: Engage Event

Collaboration Meetings in China

HUAWEI Technologies

Microsoft Research

UTS: Engage is a showcase for research collaboration between leading UTS academics and their industry partners. Each event is themed around a specific discipline and national and international thought leaders from industry, government and academia come together to workshop some of the most pressing issues in their field.

The most recent UTS Engage event, held on 26 July 2012, focused on the theme of “Future Services, Industries and Productivity” and featured a number of high profile presenters including the Federal Minister, Bill Shorten. A case study booklet on “Big Data, Smarter Decision Making,” accompanied the event and showcased AAI. Please see the following link: http://www.research.uts.edu.au/engage/future-services/docs/uts-engage-big-data.pdf

In August 2012, Professor Longbing Cao and Dr Xinhua Zhu initiated collaboration discussions and gave presentations during Australia Week to major organisations in Shenyang and Dalian, China including Neusoft Corporation (one of the largest IT Solutions and Services providers in China with a global presence), Northeastern University (one of China’s designated high level “985 project” Universities), the broad-based Shenyang Normal University (SYNU), Liaoning University, and Dalian Maritime University.

The collaborative opportunities discussed with Neusoft included national grants applications, technical support, project consulting, short-term analytics training, and the AAI Analytics Masters Degree. The collaborative interests canvassed at the four Universities included student and early career academic exchange and possible research projects including an ocean freight project with the Dalian Maritime University.

Associate Professor Jian Zhang has been awarded a project from Huawei Technologies to develop a software platform for automatic human detection which is based on image/video processing technology that Jian and his team have developed at UTS. The technology will support Huawei’s hardware development in the video surveillance area for safety and security applications.

Associate Professor Jian Zhang recently attended the Microsoft Research (MSR) Faculty Summit in Seattle from 16-19 July 2012. Nine academics from Australia and New Zealand attended the summit. MSR Faculty Summits seek to unite academic researchers and educators with Microsoft researchers, product group engineers and architects to explore new opportunities and challenges in computer science research. During his visit, Jian forged a research collaboration project with the MSR Multimedia, Interaction, and Communication research group (MIC).

Professor Longbing Cao and Mr Bin Qu from the IT Service Division of Neusoft Corporation, China’s largest IT solution and service provider.


http://www.research.uts.edu.au/engage/future-services/docs/uts-engage-big-data.pdf

http://www.research.uts.edu.au/engage/future-services/docs/uts-engage-big-data.pdf


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Education Context Free Grammars and Topic Models

A New Food Choice Model

An Innovative Online Advertising Model

On 10 August 2012, Professor Mark Johnson (pictured), the Director of the Centre for Language Sciences (CLAS) in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University gave a talk at the AAI Seminar Series entitled “Grammars and Topic Models”. The talk outlined the surprising connection between context free grammars and topic models and suggested novel ways of extending these models for the purposes of text data mining and information retrieval.

On 22 June 2012, Professor Joffre Swait, the Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Choice (CenSoC) and Research Professor in the School of Marketing, UTS gave an illuminating talk entitled “Are Food Choices Really Habitual? Integrating Habits, Variety Seeking and Compensatory Choice in a Utility Maximising Framework.” This talk challenged the view that consumers in supermarkets adopt decision strategies that minimize cognitive effort and outlined a conceptual and empirical model of choice which takes into account the factors that lead to decision strategies other than habitual selection.

On 5 July 2012, Dr Tao Mei from Microsoft Research Asia gave a talk entitled “Contextual Internet Multimedia Advertising” at the AAI Seminar Series. This talk gave an overview of the trends in online multimedia advertising and proposed an innovative advertising model which is driven by the contextual relevance of the online advertisement.

Professor Mark Johnson, Macquarie University

Professor Joffre Swait, UTS

Dr Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia

IEEE Signal Processing Society Seasonal School

The above event was successfully held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) from 2 July to 7 July at UTS. The Seasonal School was co-sponsored by AAI. Dr Qiang Wu was one of the Committee Chairs for the Seasonal School and AAI’s Associate Professor Jian Zhang was a member of the Advisory Group. It featured an exciting and wide-ranging lecture program delivered by international experts in the field including: Dr Lei Wang from the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr Ton Kalker from DTS Inc., USA; Dr Zhen Wen from the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA; Dr Tao Mei from Microsoft Research Asia, China; and Dr Xian-Sheng Hua from Microsoft Research Asia, China.


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Air Passengers’ Loyalty and Its Business Analytics FEIT Research Showcase 2012

2012 FEIT Teaching and Learning Grant

On 31 August 2012, Mr Vaughan Chandler, the Head of Strategy and Analytics for Qantas Loyalty gave a talk at the AAI Seminar series entitled “Air passengers’ Loyalty and Its Business Analytics.” The talk provided a facinating introduction to the loyalty industry and the Qantas Frequent Flyer program served as an example to explain the subtle field of customer loyalty analytics.

Congratulations to AAI PhD candidate, Ms Wei Wei who received the best presentation prize in the Management and Software category in the UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology 2012 Research Showcase which was held on 13 June. Wei (pictured) is supervised by Professor Chengqi Zhang and Professor Longbing Cao. Wei’s presentation topic was “Effective Detection of Sophisticated Online Banking Fraud on Extremely Imbalanced Data.”

In late July, Professor Longbing Cao and his team were awarded a 2012 Faculty of Engineering and IT Teaching and Learning Grant. The grant will allow the team to continue their valuable work into the prediction (for early intervention purposes) of academically at risk students in key engineering subjects. This work builds on a number of educational data mining projects and a system called i-Educator which has been deployed for UTS student academic risk management.

PhD candidate, Ms Wei Wei receiving her Prize from Mr Paul Freeman, General Manager, Asset Management, Sydney Water.

Mr Vaughan Chandler

Upcoming Big Data Workshop

On Thursday, 15 November 2012, AAI will present its first UTS: Short Course. The day long course is entitled: “Big Data Workshop: Smarter Business Decisions through Advanced Analytics.” The course will be of interest to business executives seeking to unlock the value of ‘big data’ for their organisations. It will feature a host of analytics experts and will cover a range of topics including: business analytics, risk analytics, multimedia analytics, social media analytics and analytics case studies. Further details can be found at the following link under Information Technology: https://shortcourses-bookings.uts.edu.au/ClientView/

NetworkiNg

Chinese University Research Office Delegation

On 7 August 2012, a delegation (pictured) of 25 Research Office staff, principally Deputy Directors, from 23 Universities across China visited UTS under the China Australia Middle Managers Program (CHAMMP) 2012. The event, held at the UTS Aerial Function centre, featured a welcome and introduction to research at UTS by Mr Jeffrey Francis, Director of the Research and Innovation Office and an inspection of UTS Research Facilities. Representatives from AAI attended the event and gave an integrated presentation including a high level address by Professor Longbing Cao delivered in Mandarin and individual presentations by Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Yiling Zeng and PhD student, Ms Can Wang which focused on AAI’s strong learning and collaborative research culture and the ways in which AAI seeks to bridge the gap between innovation and engagement.

https://shortcourses-bookings.uts.edu.au/ClientView/

https://shortcourses-bookings.uts.edu.au/ClientView/


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eventsLiaoning Technical University Delegation

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

From 7 August to 8 August 2012, AAI extended a warm welcome to a delegation from the Liaoning Technical University, China. The delegation included the Vice President International, Bing Liang; the Director of International Exchange and Cooperation Office, Ping Xu; the Director of Human Resources, Yafei Shan; and the Dean of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Engineering. The delegation also met with the FEIT Associate Dean (International), Professor Deepak Sharma and Ms Lucy Jones, the Manager of the University Graduate School. These meetings discussed potential collaborations including student and young researcher exchange programs.

Liaoning Technical University has around 25,000 students and is renowned for its expertise in coal mining technology. Indeed, it has one of the largest industry and government focused mining networks in China, and is jointly sponsored by the State Administration of Work Safety and Liaoning Province, China.

Associate Professor Jian Zhang (pictured) jointly chaired the recent IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) with Professor Dan Schonfeld from the University of Illinois, Chicago and Professor David Dagan Feng from the University of Sydney. This conference was held between 9 - 13 July in Melbourne.

The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities.

Associate Professor Jian Zhang – General Co-Chair Opening address at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) in July 2012.

Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab

During his recent trip to the United States, Associate Professor Jian Zhang visited the Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab in Houston. The visit allowed Jian to explore common interests with the Lab and may lead to future research collaborations.

Mr Jeffrey Francis, RIO, UTS addressing the Chinese University Research Office Delegation


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The aai Team

Business Development Manager

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Business and Social Analytics

Dr Suresh Sood commenced work as AAI’s Business Development Manager on 17 September 2012. He has extensive international experience in the business development field and a strong academic background, possessing over a decade of teaching experience at UTS and other tertiary institutions.

Recently AAI advertised the above position. The position attracted many high quality applications from all around the world and the successful candidate, Dr Guandong Xu from Victoria University in Melbourne will take up the role in early October 2012. Guandong has been a postdoctoral fellow in Australia and Denmark. He comes highly recommended by key analytics researchers around the world and has a strong teaching background and high impact publications record.

Mr Ahmed Fattah (part time PhD student) currently works in the Financial Services Sector of IBM Australia. He will be supervised by Professor Longbing Cao.

Ms Renhua Song (full time PhD student) is from the Northwest A&F University, China and Ms Jing Ren (full time PhD student) is from the National University of Defence Technology, China. Both Renhua and Jing will be supervised by Associate Professor Jinyan Li.

Mr Ahmed Fattah

Dr Guandong Xu

Dr Suresh Sood

AAI Welcomes 4 New Students

Ms Renhua Song and Ms Jing Ren

Ms Jing Yang

Ms Jing Yang (full time Masters Research Student) is from the University of Science and Technology, China. She will be supervised by Professor Cao.


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Academic Visitors

A number of senior international academics have visited AAI over the last quarter.

From 2 July to 14 July 2012, AAI hosted the world renowned researcher and UTS Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Professor Dan Schonfeld. A Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Bioengineering, he also heads up the University-Industry Engineering Research Centre (UIERC) and co-directs the Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MCL) at the University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A. Further, Professor Schonfeld is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and Area Editor for the Special Issues of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

Professor Bao Qing Hu (pictured) from the School of Mathematics and Statistics in China’s beautiful and highly regarded Wuhan University commenced his three month Honorary Appointment as a Visiting Professor on 1 July 2012.

Professor Hu possesses a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and a PhD from Wuhan University. He has published widely in the fields of soft computing and data mining; fuzzy mathematics and applications; rough set theory and applications; fuzzy logic algebras; and quantum logic algebras. During his time at AAI, Professor Hu has given a series of well received Advanced Analytics Study Group lectures and has made strong connections with the AAI staff and students. It is hoped that Professor Hu’s visit will lead to a lasting collaboration with Wuhan University.

Professor Schonfeld enjoyed a packed schedule in Australia. During his time at UTS, Professor Schonfeld held extensive meetings with A/Prof. Zhang and his team, met with Professor Massimo Piccardi (an AAI Associate Member and a Core Member in FEIT’s Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications - iNEXT), attended several lectures at the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Seasonal School at UTS, and gave a memorable talk at the Dean’s Leadership in Innovation Seminar Series entitled “Distributed Multi-Camera Networks: Graphs, Grammars, and Tensors.” This talk examined the deployment of large camera networks in sensitive facilities and metropolitan areas and introduced a new design methodology for signal processing based on complex-structure representation models of multi-camera visual data.

Professor Schonfeld enjoyed his time at UTS and expressed his confidence in AAI’s long term research vision, research networking development, ongoing IEEE Society contributions, and industry engagement prospects. To round out his visit to Australia, Professor Schonfeld co-chaired the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo with AAI’s A/Prof. Zhang in Melbourne (9-13 July 2012).

Professor Dan Schonfeld

Professor Bao Qing Hu

Doctorate Conferral

Congratulations to Dr Zhigang Zheng (pictured). Zhigang’s doctorate was conferred on 21 August 2012. Zhigang was supervised by Professor Longbing Cao and co-supervised by Professor Xingquan Zhu. His thesis was entitled: “Negative Sequential Pattern Mining”.

Dr Zhigang Zheng


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Associate Professor Jing Xin (pictured) from the Department of Information and Control Engineering in Xi’an University of Technology, China arrived for a three month stay at AAI on 20 July 2012. A/Prof. Xin has been collaborating with A/Prof. Jian Zhang on research into 3D surface tracking whilst she has been at AAI.

Professor Gregory Levitin (pictured) is enjoying a month long Honorary Visiting appointment at AAI that will conclude on 30 September. Professor Levitin is a senior expert at the Israel Electric Corporation Ltd and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His current research interests are in system reliability and defence. In these fields he has published four books and more than 190 papers. On 17 September he gave a compelling talk at the AAI Seminar Series entitled: “Defending Complex Systems against Intentional Attacks.” This talk presented a new research theory that combines risk analysis, reliability engineering and game theory and studies the optimal defense resource distribution among different actions (protection, separation, redundancy, fake targets etc). The theory is of particular relevance to the areas of cyber security, homeland defence and system design.

Associate Professor Yew-Soon Ong (pictured), the Director of the Centre for Computational Intelligence at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore visited AAI from 4 – 9 July 2012. During his time at AAI, A/Prof. Ong held discussions with AAI postgraduate students and gave a seminar entitled “Optimization made Smarter with Memetic Computation”. This talk examined the merits of Memetic computing and showcased some successful applications of memetic computing methodologies for solving complex real world problems in the field of arts, science and engineering.

It should also be noted that Associate Professor Bin Shen from Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China, will conclude his visiting appointment at AAI on 31 October 2012. Associate Prof. Shen (pictured) commenced his appointment at AAI on 1 November 2011. During his time at AAI, A/Prof. Shen has focused on mining knowledge from multi-modal data based on the new and promising technology which is known as the ‘Internet of Things’. Late last year he gave a seminar entitled “From Internet of Things to Cyber-physical Society: Applications and Data Mining Challenges” and over the course of his visiting appointment he has established strong links with AAI staff and students.

Associate Professor Jing Xin

Professor Gregory Levitin

Associate Professor Yew-Soon Ong

Associate Professor Bin Shen

Information and enquiries about this publication should be directed to Dr Shale Preston:E: [email protected]: 9514 9267

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