News
October 22, 2012
Conference Proceedings from the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2012) are available for the group under resources: ICIP 2012
July 03, 2012
Haiping, Lu, an alumini of the dsp group, has received the 2013 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award. This award recognizes outstanding Ph.D. dissertations that have contributed to the advancement of the theory and/or applications of computational intelligence
His dissertation, titled: "Multilinear subspace learning for face and gait recognition", focused on multilinear subspace learning for dimensionality reduction of multidimensional data. A webpage on this topic is hosted here.
May, 13, 2012
Thesis templates recommended by School of Graduate Studies are uploaded under the Resources directory, both in Microsoft Word format and in latex format (zip folder). More thesis formatting information can be found on the SGS website here.
April 19, 2012
Call for papers from the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013) can be found here. More information is available on its official website here.
April 10, 2012
Conference Proceedings from the 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012) are available for the group under resources: ICASSP 2012
Resources concerned with the theories and applications of multilinear subspace learning (MSL) can be found through this link: Multilinear Subspace Learning (MSL)
September 29, 2011
Conference Proceedings from the 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011) are available for the group under resources : PIMRC 2011
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September 20, 2011
ICIP2011 Conference Proceedings are available for the group under resources: ICIP2011
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February 16, 2011
Today Prof. Plataniotis hosted a group of 8 key US corporate delegates accompanied by Janice Mason, Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C. and Mauricio Ospina, Government of Ontario. The focus of the visit was on mobile content and applications, health IT, and cyber security.
Graduate students that participated successfully demonstrated their work on ECG biometrics, BUSNet framework, and EEG signal modeling. A big Thanks to them for helping out in this event.
October 10, 2010
Please be aware of the following conference deadlines:
ICASSP 2011
http://www.icassp2011.com/en/abstract-submission
Submission of Camera Ready Papers October 20, 2010
ICIP 2011
http://www.icip2011.com
Submission Deadline Jan 14, 2011
Ph.D students and postdocs are "required" to work towards ICASSP/ICIP paper submissions
MASc students are encouraged to consider ICASSP or ICIP submissions
January 26, 2010
Privacy protected surveillance research received NSERC Ideas to Innovation grant for commercialization. See press release from the office of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner (local copy) and media coverage.
June 10, 2009
Three papers co-authored by Multimedia Laboratory researchers, namely:
Label: Lu-2003
Title: Face recognition using kernel direct discriminant analysis algorithms
Journal: IEEE TRANS NEURAL NETWORKS, 14 (1): 117-126 JAN 2003
Authors: Lu, JW; Plataniotis, KN; Venetsanopoulos, ANLabel: Lu-2003
Title: Face recognition using LDA-based algorithms
Journal: IEEE TRANS NEURAL NETWORKS, 14 (1): 195-200 JAN 2003
Authors: Lu, JW; Plataniotis, KN; Venetsanopoulos, ANLabel: Lu-2005
Title: Regularization studies of linear discriminant analysis in small sample size scenarios with application to face recognition
Journal: PATTERN RECOGNITION LETT, 26 (2): 181-191 JAN 15 2005
Authors: Lu, JW; Plataniotis, KN; Venetsanopoulos, AN
have been named "core research papers" in the area of "MACHINE LEARNING AND FACE RECOGNITION," by Thomson Citation Index.
» See http://sciencewatch.com/ana/st/face/rfmap1/
» Visit the Multimedia Lab Learning for Biometric Signal Recognition project page
December 5, 2008
Privacy Protected Surveillance work cited by the UK-based Enterprise Privacy Group in the report Privacy by Design – An Overview of Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
August 20, 2008
Privacy Protected Surveillance work cited in the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner publications Privacy & Radical Pragmatism: Change the Paradigm and Transformative Technologies Deliver Both Security and Privacy: Think Positive-Sum not Zero-Sum.
April 25, 2008
itWorldCanada.com article by Rosie Lombardie cites Privacy Protected Surveillance work, including commentary from Karl Martin.
March 10, 2008
Karl Martin profiled in Toronto Star Article by Jim Coyle in relation to Privacy Protected Surveillance work.
March 3, 2008
Privacy Protected Surveillance work cited and recommended for evaluation by the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner in her report on the Toronto Transit Comission (TTC) video surveillance system.
The CBC covers the story here.
January 26, 2007
Dr. Juwei Lu wins 2006 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
October, 2005
The following paper, co-authored by Multimedia Lab members, is listed in the ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles in Pattern Recognition Letters for July – September, 2005:
J. Wang, K. N. Plataniotis, and A. N. Venetsanopoulos, "Selecting Discriminant Eigenfaces for Face Recognition," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 1470-1482, July 2005.
Additonally, the following paper is listed in the ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles in Pattern Recognition for July – September, 2005:
J. Lu, K. N. Plataniotis, A. N. Venetsanopoulos, and J. Wang, "An Efficient Kernel Discriminant Analysis Method," Pattern Recognition, vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 1788-1790, October 2005.
July, 2005
The following paper, co-authored by Multimedia Lab members, is listed in the ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles in Pattern Recognition for April – June, 2005:
K. Martin, R. Lukac, and K. N. Plataniotis, "Efficient Encryption of Wavelet-Based Coded Color Images," Pattern Recognition, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1111-1115, July 2005.
Additionally, the following paper is listed in the ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles in Real-Time Imaging for April – June, 2005:
R. Lukac and K. N. Plataniotis, "Digital Zooming for Color Filter Array-Based Image Sensors," Real-Time Imaging, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 129-138, April 2005.
January, 2005
The following paper, co-authored by Multimedia Lab members, is listed in the ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles in Pattern Recognition Letters for October – December, 2004:
B. Smolka, K. Czubin, J. Y. Hardeberg, K. N. Plataniotis, M. Szczepanski, and K. Wojciechowski, "Towards Automatic Redeye Effect Removal," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1767-1785, July 2003.