Seminar by Smart Nation Translational Lab

Seminar by Smart Nation Translational Lab

Chaired by Prof Gan Woon Seng

Date:  19th June 2024 (Wednesday)

Venue:  Executive Seminar Room (S2.2-B2-53), School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Time:  3:00 pm – 5:15 pm 

Seminar 1   Recent Developments and Outlook in Green AI/ML   Time:  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm		Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo   University of Southern California (USC)

Abstract: 

The term “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” was coined in 1956. Although the field evolved slowly in the first 55 years, we have witnessed rapid advances in AI in the last decade (e.g., the ChatGPT service). Questions are raised about AI’s role in human society and civilization, e.g., whether AI will replace human intelligence (HI), how HI and AI complement each other, etc. I will shed light on them. Then, I will comment on the limitations of today’s deep-learning-based (DL) AI models. DL-based models are neither interpretable nor sustainable. An alternative methodology is desired. To this end, I have investigated a new statistically-based AI/ML framework called “Green Learning” (GL). GL significantly reduces the model size and complexity of DL models while yielding competitive performance and allowing mathematical transparency. GL adopts the feedforward one-pass training pipeline, so all intermediate results are explainable. GL leverages ensemble learning for hard samples to boost prediction accuracy. I will present recent developments in GL and its outlook.

Speaker:

Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. He is now with the University of Southern California (USC) as William M. Hogue Professor, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Media Communications Laboratory. His research interests are in visual computing and communication. He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, NAI, and SPIE and an Academician of Academia Sinica.

Dr. Kuo has received a few awards for his research contributions, including the 2010 Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, the 2010-11 Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies, the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, the 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award, the 72nd annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Award (2020), and the 2021 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award. Dr. Kuo was Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2012-2014) and the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (1997-2011). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the APSIPA Trans. on Signal and Information Processing (2022-2023). He has guided 175 students to their Ph.D. degrees and supervised 31 postdoctoral research fellows.

 

Seminar 2   Personal Information Devices: Portable to wearable, Stand-alone to connected, Players to sensors   Time:  4:15 pm – 5:15 pm		Dr. Akihiko K. Sugiyama   Damas.cus Corporation/Tokyo Metropolitan University

Abstract: 

This talk presents a history of personal information devices. The origin is an audio player dated back to the 1990s which was born at an intersection of audio coding algorithms to provide sufficient subjective audio quality and a sufficient memory size on a single chip. LSI technology was indispensable to its birth which had a revolutionary impact on the hardware business. The audio-only device was naturally extended to include video signals to cover multimedia applications commonly encountered today in our daily life. Integration with a mobile phone brought us continuous extensions to wearables, connected operations, and sensing functions.

Speaker:

40 years of experience developing telecommunications, speech, and audio signal processing systems for consumer and network system products. In addition to proven record of technology adoption in products and international standards as well as publication and granted patents, marketing and sales experience to develop over 300 new contacts in the world in two years and proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluations with world-leading companies for technical licensing are unique as a research engineer.

Once representing Japan for ISO/IEC MPEG Audio standardization including an Interim Chair of the Audio Subgroup at the Angra dos Reis Meeting in Brazil, experiences extend to ITU and 3GPP standardizations as a delegate. Established a bridging career between industry and academia through 20+ year teaching experience at universities and supervision of 75 internship students. Delivered 190 invited talks in 91 cities in 31 countries, and received 23 awards. The sole inventor or a co-inventor of 272 registered patents in Japan and overseas as well as 6 registered trademarks. Fellow of IEEE as well as Honorary Member and Fellow of IEICE. A Distinguished Lecturer for Signal Processing Society (2014-2015) and Consumer Electronics Society (2017-2018), and a Distinguished Industry Speaker for Signal Processing Society (2020-2021), IEEE. Recognized as a Renowned Distinguished Speaker (The Rock Star) in 2020 by Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE.