报告题目：Scalable Scientific Image Informatics

时间：2014年11月21日 上午8:30-9:20

地点：玉泉校区行政楼108会议室

报告人： Professor B. S. Manjunath
                              

Biography:

 B. S. Manjunath received the B.E. degree (with distinction) in electronics from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India, in 1985, the M.E. degree (with distinction) in systems science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1991. He is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering, Director of the Center for Bio-Image Informatics, and Director of the newly established Center on Multimodal Big Data Science and Healthcare at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current research interests include image processing, distributed processing in camera networks, data hiding, multimedia databases, and Bio-image informatics. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles on these topics and is a co-editor of the book Introduction to MPEG-7 (Wiley, 2002). He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Multimedia, Information Forensics, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and is currently an AE for the BMC Bio Informatics Journal. He is a co-author of the paper that won the 2013 Transactions on Multimedia best paper award and is a fellow of the IEEE.
Abstract:
This talk will present recent work at the Vision Research Lab and the Center for Bio-Image Informatics at UCSB. First I will present an overview of the various research projects, including wide area camera networks and biologically inspired vision.  The main talk will focus on scalable image informatics with emphasis on microscopy data.  Recent advances in microscopy imaging, image processing and computing technologies enable large scale scientific experiments that generate not only large collections of images and video, but also pose new computing and information processing challenges. These include providing ubiquitous access to images, videos and metadata resources; creating easily accessible image and video analysis, visualizations and workflows; and publishing both data and analysis resources. In this context,  I will describe the BISQUE (Bio-Image Semantic Query and Environment) open-source platform for integrating image collections, metadata, analysis, visualization and database methods for querying and search. We have developed new techniques for managing user-defined data models for biological datasets, including experimental protocols, images, and analysis. Bisque is currently used in many laboratories around the world and is integrated into the iPlant cyber-infrastructure (see http://www.iplantcollaborative.org) which serves the plant biology community. For more information on Bisque see http://www.bioimage.ucsb.edu

报告题目：Visual Computing for Mobile Remote Collaboration

时间：2014年11月21日 上午9:20–10:10

地点：玉泉校区行政楼108会议室

报告人：Professor Matthew Turk

Biography:

Matthew Turk is a professor of Computer Science and former chair of the Media Arts and Technology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-directs the UCSB Four Eyes Lab, focused on the "four I's" of Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces. He received a B.S. from Virginia Tech, an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining UCSB in 2000, he worked at Microsoft Research, where he founded the Vision Technology Group in 1994. He is on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems and the Journal of Image and Vision Computing, and he serves on advisory boards for the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction and the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Prof. Turk has been general or program chair for several major conferences, including general co-chair for the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). He has received several best paper awards, most recently at the 2012 International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). He is an IEEE Fellow, an IAPR Fellow, and the recipient of the 2011-2012 Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies.

Abstract:

Collaborating remotely on tasks that require engagement with the physical environment is difficult with existing videoconferencing technologies, since they do not adequately support a shared 3D space or ways to effectively communicate spatial information. We propose a framework for unobtrusive mobile telecollaboration that integrates the physical environment, supporting rich interaction by using computer vision-based tracking and mapping, along with augmented reality techniques to communicate spatial information about a novel scene. This allows for a decoupling of the participants’ views of the environment based on a real-time tracking and mapping technique that supports general camera motion (both rotation-only and translational movement) in the 3D environment. The approach effectively integrates panorama mapping and tracking with a keyframe-based SLAM system, behaving like one or the other depending on the camera movement, with no prior information about the environment. We describe the framework and prototype system, a user study to evaluate the benefits of the interface, and experiments in building scene models to support the remote collaboration.

报告题目：III-V Semiconductors, Metals, Heusler Compounds and Perovskite Oxides Heterostructures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy:

Semiconductor Spintronics and More

时间：2014年11月21日 上午10:30–11:20

地点：玉泉校区行政楼108会议室

报告人：Professor Chris Palmstrøm

Biography:

Chris J. Palmstrøm is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Materials Departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research involves atomic level control and interface formation during molecular beam and chemical beam epitaxial growth of metallic compounds, metal oxides and compound semiconductors. He received his B.Sc. in physics and electronic engineering and Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Leeds. After being a Lecturer in Norway and a Research Associate at Cornell, he joined Bellcore as a Member of Technical Staff in 1985. From 1994-2007 he was a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota in 2004 and became the Amundson Chair Professor In 2007 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has pioneered dissimilar materials epitaxial growth studies using a combination of molecular beam epitaxial growth with in-situ surface science probes including STM, XPS and AES, and ex-situ structural and electronic characterization. An important aspect of his work has been to go beyond surface science and structural studies to make materials for device structures allowing for detailed electrical and optical measurements of materials and interfacial properties. Specific studies have emphasized metallization of semiconductors, dissimilar materials epitaxial growth, thin film analysis, and molecular beam and chemical beam epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductor heterostructures, metallic compounds, metal oxides, multifunctional, magnetic, thermoelectric, and spintronic materials, and superconductors. He is the author of 245+ publications, including five review chapters and research monographs. Chris is a Fellow of AVS  APS, and MRS.

Abstract:

In this presentation I will discuss some of the unique epitaxial growth and in-situ characterization facilities available at UCSB and give a brief overview of a number of projects involving the molecular beam epitaxial growth and characterization of different heterostructures. These range from the growth of conventional As-, Sb- and P- based III-V semiconductor heterostructures, with quantum wells and two dimensional electron gas structures for qubit and quantum computing applications, epitaxial semimetal-III-V semiconductor nanocomposites for thermoelectrics, epitaxial ferromagnetic metal/III-V semiconductor heterostructures for semiconductor spintronics, novel half Heusler semiconducting compounds to Perovskite oxides for studies of metal-insulator transitions.

报告题目：Mobile Heterogeneous Systems: From Emerging Memories for Mobile

Teraflops Computing to Microsystems for Healthcare

时间：2014年11月21日 上午11:20–12:10

地点：玉泉校区行政楼108会议室

报告人：Professor K.-T. Tim Cheng

Biography:

K.-T. Tim Cheng received his Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He worked at Bell Laboratories from 1988 to 1993 and joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993 where he is currently Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of ECE. He was the founding director of UCSB’s Computer Engineering Program (1999-2002) and Chair of the ECE Department (2005-2008). He held a Visiting Professor position at TsingHua Univ. Taiwan (1999), Univ. of Tokyo, Japan (2008), and Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (2012) and is current holding Adjunct Chair Professorship at Zhejiang University. His current research interests include mobile embedded systems, SoC design validation and test, and multimedia computing. He has published more than 350 technical papers, co-authored five books, and holds 12 U.S. Patents in these areas. He currently serves as Director for DoD/MURI Center for 3D hybrid circuits which aims at integrating CMOS with high-density memristors.

Cheng, an IEEE fellow, received 10 Best Paper Awards from various IEEE conferences and journals. He has also received the 2004-2005 UCSB College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award. He served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Design and Test of Computers and was a board member of IEEE Council of Electronic Design Automation’s Board of Governors and IEEE Computer Society’s Publication Board. He has also served as General and Program Chair for several international conferences including Program Chair for 2012 IEEE International Test Conference.

Abstract:

In this presentation I will give a brief overview of some recent projects at the Learning-Based Multimedia Lab, the SoC Design and Test Lab, and the DoD/AFOSR Center of 3D Hybrid Circuits at UCSB. First, I will give an overview of recent efforts in Center of 3D Hybrid Circuits on monolithic 3D integration of CMOS and memristive nanodevices. Our initial prototype, combining the advantages of mainstream CMOS technology with the extremely high density of memristor crossbars and interface vias, could enable 3D hybrid computing systems with unprecedented memory density and memory bandwidth at manageable power dissipation. I will then discuss several efforts on adaptation and mapping of complex vision algorithms to heterogeneous mobile application processors for achieving real-time performance with minimized energy consumption. Finally, I will present a context-aware ECG patch, jointly developed by Zhejiang University and UCSB in the past three years, which can capture patients’ and athletes’ ECG signals anywhere anytime, together with relevant context information.