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December 2017

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  Dominik L. Michels receives the first Procter & Gamble Faculty Award

  1 min read · Sun, Dec 10 2017

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  numerical simulations machine learning algorithm scientific computing visual computing

  Dominik L. Michels, Computer Science and Mathematics faculty in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division (CEMSE) and head of the Computational Sciences Group within the Visual Computing Center (VCC), recently received the first Procter & Gamble (P&G) Faculty Award.

November 2017

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  Job Opportunity - Ph.D. or M.S./Ph.D. student

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 15 2017

  News

  ​The student will work on combining methods from Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (formal logics, rule-based systems) with machine learning and statistical approaches to data mining, and apply these methods to biomedical datasets. Major application areas include understanding molecular mechanisms underlying traits, phenotypes, and disease, and identifying ways to perturb biological systems through bioactive compounds (drugs).​
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  Job Opportunity - Postdoctoral Researcher

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 15 2017

  News

  ​The postdoctoral researcher will work on the development and application of Artificial Intelligence methods in bioinformatics and computational biology, with a particular focus on combining symbolic AI approaches (e.g., ontologies, knowledge graphs, rule-based systems) with machine learning methods.​​​

October 2017

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  Facebook AI new language explained by KAUST Professor Xiangliang Zhang

  1 min read · Tue, Oct 24 2017

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  machine learning big data cloud computing

  That is not a Messenger troll, but the actual conversation between two chatbots by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR). The two robots, Bob and Alice, were thought the art of negotiation apples and books. They had been instructed to work out how to negotiate between themselves and improve their bartering as they went along. But, after leaving the pair alone, they start talking in this uncompressible but yet effective vocabulary.
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  Professor Robert Hoehndorf will be a guest speaker at upcoming Science to Watch

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 22 2017

  News

  ​Professor Robert Hoehndorf will be a guest speaker at the upcoming Science to Watch Film and Forum. Science to Watch is a science orientated movie series followed by a discussion about the movie as it relates to science. The objective of the series is to increase public awareness about science, to stimulate curiosity about the research conducted here at KAUST, and at the same time enjoy a good movie with friends, including pizza and popcorn. The post-movie discussion is guided by a KAUST scientist working in the area.
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  Streamlining space structures

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 22 2017

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  Computer science

  A new computational framework marries ideas from computer graphics with civil engineering to reduce times and costs of constructing frame-based structures.
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  Announcement for Internship Opportunities

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 12 2017

  News

  SSI

  The Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) is pleased to announce the Saudi Summer Internship 2018 (SSI2018). The CEMSE Saudi Summer Internship is an 8-12 week research program designed to introduce in-kingdom students to topics of research in our Division.
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  Invited talk at GTC Europe 2017

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 12 2017

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  talk GTC Europe 2017 GPU Technology Conference munich learning detection human activity in untrimmed video

  ​Prof. Ghanem gives an invited talk on learn​ing to detect human activity in untrimmed video at GTC Europe 2017
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  Congratulations to Ph.D. student Maxat Kulmanov for new publication

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 5 2017

  News

  ​Ph.D. student Maxat Kulmanov's paper, "DeepGO: predicting protein functions from sequence and interactions using a deep ontology-aware classifier" was recently published in Bioinformatics.
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  CEMSE's new underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) opens new frontier for off-shore control system

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 1 2017

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  Underwater wireless optical communication underwater video transmission

  Billions of liters of fuel travel every day along an intricate network of pipelines. Reports show that 15 thousand kilometers of infrastructure exist worldwide, with more than a third being underwater. Efficient real-time monitoring is the next frontier to achieve improved industrial productivity and prevent environmental accidents.

September 2017

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  KAUST Ph.D. student Lukas Larisch wins the PACE 2017 Challenge

  1 min read · Thu, Sep 14 2017

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  Acoustics simulation PDE

  Lukas Larisch, a KAUST Ph.D. student in Computer Science working under the supervision of Professor Gabriel Wittum, won the PACE 2017 Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge. The award ceremony that took place in Vienna, Austria, at the beginning of September this year has been held during the ALGO Congress at the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2017).
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  No strings attached for underwater video system

  1 min read · Thu, Sep 14 2017

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  electrical engineering communications marine science underwater sensor underwater camera

  An underwater wireless optical communications system for streaming high-quality, live video.

August 2017

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  The awesome scope of big data

  1 min read · Sun, Aug 6 2017

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  big data artificial intelligence computational methods health protein structures biology

  Sifting through huge amounts of data may bring a better understanding of whale shark social structures, protein targets for drug therapies and disease-causing genes.

July 2017

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  Hosted the 2nd annual ActivityNet challenge in CVPR 2017

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 26 2017

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  Action Recognition Challenge untrimmed classification temporal localization dense captioning CVPR

  ​​IVUL hosted the 2nd annual ActivityNet Large Scale Action Recognition Challenge during CVPR 2017.

May 2017

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  BORG at ISMB/ECCB

  1 min read · Tue, May 30 2017

  News

  ​​Meet members of the BORG at ISMB/ECCB this year in Prague. We will present one tutorial on ontologies in biology and biomedicine, one poster presentation at the Bio-Ontologies SIG, one flash talk at the Function SIG, and one oral presentation in the Variant Interpretation SIG.​
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  Cocoon finally out: Professor Marco Canini together with VMware, Samsung, and Microsoft craft the ultimate SDN ally

  1 min read · Mon, May 29 2017

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  distributed systems machine learning artificial intelligence

  With the recent emergence of software-defined networking, which brings programmability and lowers the barrier for new functionalities into networks, the academic and industry communities have become very interested in the problem of network verification.
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  Sharing expert experimental knowledge to expedite design

  1 min read · Thu, May 25 2017

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  synthetic biology bioscience Computer science

  A repository of metabolic information provides a quick reference tool for designing useful synthetic biological systems.
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  One size does not fit all: an innovative analytical tool will help pave the way for tailor made health care

  1 min read · Wed, May 24 2017

  News

  genetic mutation drug effects genomeFit

  It is estimated that each year, around eight million children worldwide are born with a serious genetic condition that is either life-threatening or debilitating. These disorders are caused by underlying mutations affecting the genetic makeup contained in our cells, and according to experts, half of the variations responsible for these diseases are still unknown. Because of the lack of information on these disorders, physicians are often unable to pinpoint the exact molecular cause of the disease or opt for the most appropriate treatment.
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  Student life: studying and working at the Computational Bioscience Research Center (KAUST)

  1 min read · Thu, May 4 2017

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  machine learning graph mining genomics pathway design computational methods data mining data analysis bioinformatics

  For Ph.D. students Arturo Magana Mora, Haitham Ashoor and Olaa Motwalli, April 2017 was a particularly nerve-wracking month. After years of hard work and sleepless nights, they finally defended their thesis, bringing them one step closer to graduation.
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  Adel Bibi and Matthias Mueller going to ICVSS 2017

  1 min read · Mon, May 1 2017

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  Italy Summer School Computer Vision ICVSS

  Adel Bibi and Matthias Mueller have been accepted to participate in the ICVSS (International Computer Vision Summer Schoole) 2017 in Italy. Admission into this summer school is quite competitive in the vision community.​​​

April 2017

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  Algorithm scours datasets to diagnose medical mysteries

  1 min read · Sat, Apr 29 2017

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  bioscience Computer science algorithm

  A new tool uses genetic and clinical information to find the root cause of unexplained illnesses.
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  Building SANDS at KAUST

  1 min read · Sat, Apr 15 2017

  News

  SDN machine learning

  ​​​​​We live in a connected world where networked systems play an increasingly important role. These systems, which are the foundational pillars of our modern digital lives, are the result of some remarkable technological advancements and progress in computer science over the past three decades.

March 2017

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  PhD Student positions available

  1 min read · Mon, Mar 27 2017

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  We have two openings for Ph.D. student positions available on the interface between Linked Data, ontologies, and machine learning.
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  Professors discuss big data and human health in latest Sci-Café

  1 min read · Mon, Mar 13 2017

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  machine learning big data artificial intelligence comparative genomics biomedical data human health

  ​Professors Takashi Gojobori, Xin Gao and Robert Hoehndorf spoke about big data and human health at the Sci-Café event held on February 27. Their talk, which was moderated by James Calvin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, aimed to answer the question, "Can Big Data Solve My Health Problems?" This event was open to all members of the KAUST community.
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  Signaling success for 5th gen communications

  1 min read · Sat, Mar 4 2017

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  applied mathematics mobile

  An efficient wireless signal optimization scheme achieves peak performance for next-generation mobile communications.

January 2017

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  New Data Mining approach makes recurring patterns easier to be spotted

  1 min read · Wed, Jan 18 2017

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  supercomputing infoclouds Frequent subgraph mining algorithm

  The ultimate answer is ScaleMine, cost-effective and agile scalable parallel frequent subgraph mining in a single large graph. Panagiotis Kalnis, Professor of Computer Science (CS), and the team from the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC), under the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division signed this novel approach.
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  New cost-effective GPUs solver redesigns the computational game

  1 min read · Thu, Jan 12 2017

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  exascale High Performance Computing parallel computing

  Prof. David Keyes and his team proposed a GPUs light architecture to solve systems of multiple equations involving a large amount of data. Broadly used in computer gaming, mobile, and PC graphics - GPUs allow customizing an effective result-driven support to create a computational framework for increasing the number of processors while reducing the memory required to temporarily store the data.
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  Taking graphics cards beyond gaming

  1 min read · Mon, Jan 9 2017

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  graphic card computing applied mathematics computational science

  A highly efficient mathematical solver designed to run on graphics processors gives scientists and engineers a powerful new tool for a common computational problem.

December 2016

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  Divide and conquer pattern searching

  1 min read · Tue, Dec 27 2016

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  Computer science computing

  Searching for recurring patterns in network systems has become a fundamental part of research and discovery in fields as diverse as biology and social media. KAUST researchers have developed a pattern or graph-mining framework that promises to significantly speed up searches on massive network data sets. “A graph is a data structure that models complex relationships among objects,” explained Panagiotis Kalnis, leader of the research team from the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center. “Graphs are widely used in many modern applications, including social networks, biological networks like
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  BORG Ph.D. Student wins 3rd Prize at CBRC Student Poster Competition

  1 min read · Wed, Dec 14 2016

  News

  ​BORG member and Ph.D. Student Imene Boudellioua won 3rd Prize in the CBRC Student Poster Competition of the recently-held KAUST Research Conference: Computational Systems Biology in Biomedicine. Her winning poster is titled "Semantic Prioritization of Novel Causative Genomic Variants". She received a certificate and a PHOTO CUBE Compact Photo Printer.
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  CEMSE Big Data Open Day shows off fascinating discoveries

  1 min read · Thu, Dec 8 2016

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  big data machine learning knowledge discovery supercomputing

  The fifth-anniversary event marked CEMSE's biggest successes and featured 20 KAUST discoveries, with more than 1,000 visitors from the community attending the event."Big data has many applications: to understand medicine better; to manage food supplies, and to connect objects. Data is at the center of everything," said Dean Mootaz Elnozahy of the University's Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division at the CEMSE Big Data Open Day held on December 4, 2016.

November 2016

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  Driven to diffraction

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 9 2016

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  electrical engineering bioscience light

  Optical elements that diffract light could lead to smaller and more powerful cameras.

October 2016

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  ​PhenomeNET method wins at Ontology matching workshop

  1 min read · Tue, Oct 25 2016

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  ontology phenotype ontologies PhenomeNET

  CBRC congratulates Professor Robert Hoehndorf and Postdoctoral Fellow Miguel Angel Rodriguez Garcia for being one of the winners of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative challenge sponsored by Pistoia Alliance, presented in the Ontology Matching Workshop that is co-located with ISWC 2016 in Kobe, Japan.
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  Professor Robert Hoehndorf's PhenomeNET method wins at Ontology matching workshop

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 23 2016

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  artificial intelligence bioinformatics biomedical data PhenomeNET

  Professor Robert Hoehndorf and Postdoctoral Fellow Miguel Angel Rodriguez Garcia are the winners of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative Challenge sponsored by Pistoia Alliance.

September 2016

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  CS Graduate Seminar: Symbolic AI in Bioinformatics

  1 min read · Tue, Sep 20 2016

  News

  Professor Robert Hoehndorf recently held a seminar on Symbolic AI in Bioinformatics on September 19, 2016.

August 2016

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  Filling in the blanks of virtual cities

  1 min read · Sat, Aug 27 2016

  News

  Computer science computational science applied mathematics planning machine learning

  New software generates three-dimensional models of buildings, with applications for disaster relief support.
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  Peter Wonka's new query tool, called a relation-augmented image descriptor will change forever querying images online.

  1 min read · Thu, Aug 18 2016

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  visual computing 3D reconstruction urban modeling

  Today, querying the massive amounts of images available in online databases such as Instagram can be a time-consuming experience. Researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the University College London, have developed a new tool that generates image queries based on a geometric description of objects in spatial relationships with potential applications in computer graphics, computer vision and automated object classification.
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  Amin Allam (CEMSE PhD) wins the second prize in the DREAM Challenge 1B

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 15 2016

  News Spotlight

  algorithm artificial intelligence Computational biology

  Amin Allam (CEMSE PhD student in the InfoCloud group) supervised by Prof Panos Kalnis has won the second prize in the AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge 1B. Amin Allam utilized Bayesian inference to achieve the 2nd place.
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  Enhancing understanding of genetic regulation

  1 min read · Sat, Aug 13 2016

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  applied mathematics computational science genomics genes

  Researchers round up clues to track down enhancers.
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  Victor participates in the Deep Learning Summer School

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 8 2016

  News

  An IVUL Ph.D. student (Victor Escorcia) participated in the Deep Learning Summer School. He was selected among many students/researchers worldwide to attend this event, where he had the opportunity to interact with and learn from leaders in the field of deep learning.
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  Technology search for relationships

  1 min read · Sat, Aug 6 2016

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  Computer science computational science images

  A sketch-based query for searching for relationships among objects in images could enhance the power and utility of image search tools.

July 2016

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  Fabian participates in the Computer Vision Summer School

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 24 2016

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  ICVSS PhD student participated IVUL international event

  An IVUL Ph.D. student (Fabian Caba)​ participates in the Computer Vision Summer School.
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  Exploring artificial biosynthesis

  1 min read · Sat, Jul 16 2016

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  Computer science bioscience biosynthesis

  Metabolic route explorer helps to optimize the pathways for artificial biosynthesis of valuable products.
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  Fabian and Victor participate in the annual MSR Summer School!

  1 min read · Fri, Jul 8 2016

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  PhD Summer School 2016 Computer Vision Deep learning

  Two IVUL Ph.D. students (Fabian Caba and Victor Escorcia) participate in the annual MSR Summer School.

June 2016

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  Best Business Plan at VIEW 2016

  1 min read · Sun, Jun 26 2016

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  CVPR high-tech startup Computer Vision robotics

  Hachid won the award for the Venture pitch with the best business plan at the Fifth Annual Vision Industry and Entrepreneur Workshop (VIEW) 2016.
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  Exploring protein form to find function

  1 min read · Sat, Jun 25 2016

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  Computer science genomics proteins

  Existing systems for predicting protein structure are outperformed by a newly developed method.
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  Sharing movement aids learning

  1 min read · Sat, Jun 4 2016

  News

  Computer science learning computational science

  Automated learning of an individual’s movement patterns shared over mobile and social networks could help us to connect better.

February 2016

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  Noisy cells produce bursts of protein

  1 min read · Sat, Feb 20 2016

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  Computer science bioscience genetics

  A new mathematical model explains how random factors affect the production of proteins within the cells.

December 2015

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  First Annual ActivityNet Challenge to be held at CVPR2016!

  1 min read · Fri, Dec 18 2015

  News

  Our workshop proposal on large-scale human activity understanding was accepted to CVPR2016. We will be releasing the results of the 1st annual ActivityNet challenge during the workshop. This venue allows researchers in the field to evaluate their activity classification and detection techniques on a large-scale benchmark of in-the-wild video sequences.

November 2015

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  Smart technology shows where we're at

  1 min read · Sat, Nov 7 2015

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  marine science electrical engineering fauna

  A combination of state-of-the-art sensors and standardized data analysis will transform research for tracking animals and humans.