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Showcase Event – May 2015

Amr Ahmed / May 9, 2015December 6, 2018 / Uncategorized

Postgraduates by Research (PGRs) presented and showed their research work in the Annual Showcase Event for the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln. (6th May). The event spread over all the day with visitors and companies representatives. Guests praised the high quality of presented work and demos. A high level of engagement and discussions took place during the day.

The panel had difficulty deciding on the winners. But finally agreed on:

* Christian Dondrup.

* Saddam Bekhet.

* Alaa Al-Zoubi

Showcase Event - May 2015 — Showcase Event – May 2015

Thank to all participants, contributors, and all who helped in the event (and in the preparation).

PGRs meeting and Research Presentations – March 2015

Amr Ahmed / March 12, 2015December 6, 2018 / Uncategorized

The monthly PGRs Research Presentations was held on Wed. 11^th March, 2pm, Room MC3108.

This session we had the following presentations:

Title: “Retinal Vascular Measurement“.		Title: “4D Lifelong Exploration of Dynamic Environments”
By: Francesco Caliva		By: Joao Santos
Abstract: Several studies have shown that systemic diseases affect blood vessels’ geometry. Retina is a window in the vascular system, thus fundus images can be adopted to diagnose or evaluate pathological conditions. Segmentation algorithms are not able to completely segment blood vessels. This failure results in a set of disconnected vascular segments. Reconstructing the whole network has crucial importance. At this aim, in this work, implicit neural cost functions have been adopted to evaluate how the segments can be joined. In this talk I will present my current and future work.		Abstract: We present a novel 4D lifelong exploration method for dynamic, human populated environments. In contrast to other exploration methods that model the environment as being static, our spatio-temporal exploration method creates and maintains a world model that not only represents the environment’s 3D structure, but also its dynamics over time.The predictive ability of the 4D spatio-temporal model allows the exploration method not only where, but also when to make environment observations. To validate our method, a mobile robot was deployed over 5 days in an office environment, and the proposed method was compared against a static approach. The results show that through understanding of the environment dynamics, the spatio-temporal exploration algorithm could predict which locations were going to change at a specific time and used this knowledge to guide the robot. This allowed our spatio-temporal exploration method to gather more information that the exploration method that relied on a static environment model.

PGRs meeting and Research Presentations – Feb. 2015

Amr Ahmed / February 12, 2015December 6, 2018 / Uncategorized

The monthly PGRs Research Presentations was held on Wed. 11^th February, 2pm, Room MC3108.

This session we had the following presentations:

Title: “Designing, Developing and Evaluating Mobile and Social Technology to Improve Sleep Quality“.		Title: “Brain Tumour Grading in Different MRI Protocols using SVM on Statistical Features ”
By: Ibraheem Alnejaidi		By: Mohammadreza Soltaninejad
Abstract:		Abstract: Brain tumours are caused by abnormal and uncontrolled growing of the cells inside the brain or spinal canal. Regarding to the World Health Organization (WHO) grading system, the tumours are graded from I to IV, corresponding to least advanced to the most advanced diseases, respectively. In our work a feasibility study of brain MRI dataset classification, using ROIs which have been segmented either manually or through a superpixel based method in conjunction with statistical pattern recognition methods is performed. The aim is classifying tumour grades II, III and IV using different MRI acquisition protocols i.e. FLAIR, and T2. We found by using the Leave-One-Out method that the combination of the features from the 1^st and 2^nd order statistics, achieved high classification accuracy in pair-wise grading comparisons.

Then our usual catch-up agenda, including: Prepare for the March CRDB, PG Conference, plans for Showcase,….etc.

PGRs meeting and Research Presentations – Jan. 2015

Amr Ahmed / January 15, 2015December 6, 2018 / Uncategorized

The monthly PGRs Research Presentations was held on Wed. 14^th January, 2pm, Room MC3108.

This session we had the following presentations:

Title: “Automatic Phonetization and segmentation of Arabic Text and Speech“.
By: Belal Al-Daradkah
Abstract: The large vocabulary phonetic corpus is an essential component of speech processing application.The research aims to generate an Arabic phonetic corpus based on Quran text. The corpus will be built using an automatic implemented pronunciation dictionary. We developed the phonetic dictionary automatically by applying Arabic pronunciation rules and Tajweed rules, and converting Grapheme to Phoneme. This will be the base of developing Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition (LVSR) .

Then our usual catch-up & Refresh on the PGRs activities, procedures, and upcoming events.

June’s Research Seminar

Amr Ahmed / June 11, 2014December 6, 2018 / Uncategorized

The monthly PGRs Research Presentations was held on Wed. 11^th June, 2pm, Room MC3108. This session we had the following presentations:

Title: “Exploring the co-creation of narrative using social technology“.		Our Trip to London (Natural History Museum)
By: Kwamena Appiah-Kubi		By: Amr Ahmed
Abstract: This is the first in a series of studies exploring collaborative creation of narratives by a group of people engaged in a shared experience such as on a tour in a museum, visiting a theme park etc. The group in this and a number of later studies have an existing relationship between them such as being friends, family, class/course mates etc. Some of the themes being investigated are anonymity, privacy and group dynamics as well as tools that can better support/enhance these shared experiences.		Brief on the trip to London, during the Universities Week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnSNU7oPJY?rel=0 Photos, and video summary.