Contour and Region Harmonic Features for Sub-local Facial Expression Recognition
Speaker: Ali Raza Shahid, PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 15 February 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:00 – 5:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Rough Paths and Streamed Data – Current Challenges
Speaker: Prof. Terry Lyons, FLSW, FRSE, FRS, Wallis Professor Emeritus and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
Date: 15 February 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:30 – 6:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Hardware Methods for Efficient Function Approximation
Speaker: Dr Ray Cheung, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 2 March 2022 (Wed)
Time: 5:00 – 5:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Representation of Dynamic Topological Features Using Path Signatures
Speaker: Dr Darrick Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher EPFL and Oxford/CIMDA postdoc from Aug 2022
Date: 2 March 2022 (Wed)
Time: 5:30 – 6:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Intelligent Video Coding by Data-driven Techniques and Learning Models
Speaker: Prof. Sam Kwong, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, CityU
Date: 15 March 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:00 – 5:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Activation Function Design for Deep Networks: Linearity and Effective Initialisation
Speaker: Prof. Jared Tanner, Professor of Mathematics of Information, University of Oxford
Date: 15 March 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:30 – 6:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
The Study of Data Augmentation Based Few-shot Learning Algorithms
Speaker: Tiexin Qin, PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 30 March 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Quantifying the Estimation Error of Principal Component Vectors
Speaker: Prof. Raphael Hauser, Professor of Numerical Mathematics, University of Oxford
Date: 30 March 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:30 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Modelling and Data Analysis of Safety and Reliability of Intelligent Systems
Speaker: Prof. Min Xie, Chair Professor, Department of Advanced Design and Systems Engineering, CityU
Date: 12 April 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Addressing Bias to Improve Performance
Speaker: Dr Elena Gal, Oxford/CIMDA Researcher, University of Oxford
Date: 12 April 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:30 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Sensitive RNA Virus Read Binning Using Learning-Based Models
Speaker: Xubo Tang, PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 27 April 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Mutual Information of Random Neural Networks
Speaker: Dr Giuseppe Ughi, Oxford/CIMDA Researcher, University of Oxford
Date: 27 April 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:30 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Two-branch Unit and Temporal Gating: A Deep Architecture for Human Motion Recognition
Speaker: Dr Kwok Leung Chan, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 10 May 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Rethinking Exponential Averaging of the Fisher
Speaker: Constantin Puiu, PhD student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 10 May 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:30 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Human Facial Behavior Analysis Based on Deep Learning
Speaker: Frank Fan, PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 25 May 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Multilevel Monte Carlo and Reduced Precision Arithmetic
Speaker: Prof. Mike Giles, Department Chair, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 25 May 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:30 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
A Study on Data Characteristics-based Efficient Deep Learning Algorithms for Disease Diagnosis
Speaker: Xiaohan Xing, Former PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 7 June 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Coordinate Descent on the Orthogonal Group for Recurrent Neural Network Training
Speaker: Dr Estelle Massart, FNRS scientific collaborator, University of Louvain and postdoctoral researcher, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 7 June 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:30 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Bacteriophage Classification for Assembled Contigs Using Graph Convolutional Network
Speaker: Jiayu Shang, PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 22 June 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Choice of Control Signal for Neural CDEs
Speaker: Dr James Morrill, PhD student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 22 June 2022 (Wed)
Time: 4:30 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Internet Cable Path Planning: The Challenge in Making a Real-world Impact
Speaker: Prof. Moshe Zukerman, Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 20 September 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Topological Data Analysis
Speaker: Prof. Vidit Nanda, Associate Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 11 October 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Rethinking Attention-Model Explainability via Faithfulness Violation Test
Speaker: Yibing Liu, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, CityU
Date: 25 October 2022 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Path Recovery from Signatures (Cancelled)
Speaker: Dr Weixin Yang, Postdoctoral Researcher, DataSig Group, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 8 November 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 10:00 am (GMT)
A 3-stage Spectral-spatial Method for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Speaker: Prof. Raymond Chan, Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, CityU
Date: 22 November 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 10:00 am (GMT)
AI in Medical Image Analysis: Challenges and Solutions
Speaker: Dr Yixuan Yuan, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU
Date: 6 December 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 10:00 am (GMT)
Tensor Methods for Nonconvex Optimization
Speaker: Kate Zhu, CIMDA PhD Student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 20 December 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:00 – 5:30 pm (HKT), 9:00 – 9:30 am (GMT)
Generalising Quasi-Newton Updates to Higher Dimensions
Speaker: Karl Welzel, CIMDA PhD student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Date: 20 December 2022 (Tue)
Time: 5:30 – 6:00 pm (HKT), 9:30 – 10:00 am (GMT)