IEEE CASS Malaysia Chapter 4th High-Tea Networking Event
The IEEE High-Tea Networking event is in its fourth year this year being organized since its inception in 2013. During this event, outstanding PhD and MSc dissertations as well as undergraduate senior years (final year) design projects from local universities are recognized through multiple awards. This year event’s detail as follows:
Date: July 27th 2016
Time: 2pm-6pm
Theme: Moving Forward With Internet of Things (IoT)
Location: SAINS@USM, Persiaran Bukit Jambul, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Organizers: IEEE, IEEE CASS Malaysia Chapter, USAINS, CREST
Objectives:
IEEE CAS High-Tea Networking is a yearly event, which aims:
- To be a platform for intellectual interaction between IEEE members and fellows, engineers and academicians.
- To share knowledge and opportunities for collaboration
- To promote the IEEE CAS society programs and membership
Target Audience:
- Industries and Research Institutes related to circuits and system.
- Government and Funding bodies
- Academicians and students from Local and International Institutions.
Invited Speakers
- Mr. Kamarul Zaman Abdul Rashid, Intel Malaysia Design Center – “Moving Forward with Internet of things with UX centered Software as a Service (SaaS)”
- Dr. Massimo Alioto, National University of Singapore – “Rethinking ‘Things’ Design-the Missing (Technology) Link in the Internet of Things”
- Dr. Asrulnizam Abd Manaf, CEDEC USM – “ Internet of Things: Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Sensor Technology”
For more information, please visit IEEE CASS (M) website. Link to past years High-Tea event: 2013, 2014, 2015. Contact us: Dr Mohd tafir Mustaffa (mohdtafir@gmail.com)
Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani, IEEE CASS Malaysia Chapter (Email: fzr@upm.edu.my)
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IEEE CAS DLP Lecture: Advances in Image/Video Compression using Graph Transforms by Dr. Enrico Magli
IEEE CAS DLP Lecture on Advances in Image/Video Compression using Graph Transforms has been presented by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Enrico Magli from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. The lecture was held on 16 May 2016 from 10:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m in the Tower Block Meeting Room, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia. The co-organizer of this lecture are the Institute of Advanced Technology and, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UPM. Prior to the lecture, Dr. Enrico and participants enjoyed the local breakfast sponsored by IEEE CAS Malaysia Chapter.
The lecture describes technically on recent developments in several areas of image and video compression employing new signal processing and computer vision techniques. After an initial discussion about the future of video compression, the talk centred on graph transforms. The presenter at first addressed the design of graph transforms achieving very good compression efficiency on both piecewise-smooth and natural images, and their application to image compression and intra-frame video compression. Then, he introduced a new video compression paradigm that replaces macro blocks with super pixels, and employs a graph transform to encode each super pixel. Finally, he described a new and very efficient transform, called “steerable” DCT, which is able to orient the DCT basis functions spatially and spectrally so as to adapt to directional features of the block being encoded.
The participations from students, researchers and lectures are quite impressive with the total number of more than 40 participants. The session continued with Q&A after the presentation where the participants and speaker discussed technically on image processing techniques.
At the end of event, a group photo was taken and CASS Malaysia committee members accompanied the speaker for local lunch.
More details of the event: http://cas.ieeemy.org
Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani, IEEE CASS Malaysia Chapter (Email: fzr@upm.edu.my)