Recent advances in computer vision and applications
The 1st Engineering InnoEdge
Active exchange and learning for the advanced technologies and/or research outcomes from pioneering Engineering projects in the Faculty of Engineering.
Date: March 5, 2021 (Friday), 2pm – 2:30pm
Speaker: Dr Kenneth Wong, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science of HKU
Moderator: Professor Giulio Chiribella, Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Mode: At Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing or via ZOOM
About InnoEdge

InnoEdge creates opportunities for active exchange and learning for the advanced technologies and/or research outcomes from pioneering Engineering projects in the Faculty of Engineering. It is an innovative and multidisciplinary programme for bringing together like-minded students in an active peer learning community where they can delve into diverse topics pertinent to the use of cutting-edge technologies.

Registration
  • All Engineering Undergraduate Students and InnoHub members are welcome to join. 
  • Please make your registration here.
Recent advances in computer vision and applications

With the advances in GPU’s computing power, it is now feasible to train very deep neural networks to solve problems which have not been made possible before. In the past 5 years, we have witnessed the success of applying deep learning to many computer vision problems. Novel deep learning based methods have been proposed for solving various vision tasks, and they have demonstrated unprecedented robustness and accuracy in their results. In this workshop, we will introduce some representative methods for a number of vision tasks, including image classification, object detection, scene reconstruction, and image synthesis. It is hoped that this short introductory talk could serve as a starting point for those who would like to employ computer vision techniques in solving their problems, and for those who would like to engage in computer vision research.

Presentation slides
About the speaker
Kenneth Kwan-Yee Wong received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in computer engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1998, and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in computer vision (information engineering) from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include computer vision and machine intelligence. He is currently an editorial board member of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).
Workshop on March 5, 2021