Computing Science and Maths Seminars, 2020/2021
Seminars will take place via Microsoft Teams, with a meeting link to be shared via the seminar-announce emails. Unless otherwise stated, from 15.00 to 16.00 on Friday afternoons during semester time, followed by informal discussions.
Autumn 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title/Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 18 September |
||
| Friday 25 September |
Dr. Mohamed Elawady, CSM, University of Stirling | Reflection Symmetry Detection in 2D Images Abstract: Symmetry is a fundamental principle of visual perception to feel the equally distributed weights within foreground objects inside an image. It is used as a significant visual feature through various computer vision applications (i.e. object detection and segmentation), plus as an important composition measure in the art domain (i.e. aesthetic analysis). The development of symmetry detection has been improving rapidly since last century. In this work, the main objective is detecting reflection symmetry inside real-world images in a global scale. This method wins a recent symmetry competition worldwide in single and multiple cases. In summary, the spatial and context information of each candidate axis inside an image can be used as a local or global symmetry measure for further image analysis and scene understanding purposes. Bio: Mohamed Elawady is a new appointed university lecturer in data science, Stirling university. He was a lead computer vision researcher at a parisian startup: Qopius. He has studied in different European universities: PhD in computer vision at Hubert Curien laboratory, Lyon university [France] (2014-2019). European masters in vision and robotics (VIBOT) with Erasmus Mundus scholarship at Burgundy university [France], Girona university [Spain] and Heriot-Watt university [UK] (2012-2014). In addition, he is the winner of 2D reflection symmetry competitions (among participants) in ICCV’17 workshop: Detecting symmetry in the wild. |
| Friday 2 October |
||
| Friday 9 October |
||
| Friday 16 October |
||
| Friday 23 October |
||
| Friday 30 October |
Reading Week | |
| Friday 6 November |
||
| Friday 13 November |
||
| Friday 20 November |
||
| Friday 27 November |
||
| Friday 4 December |
Previous Seminar Series
Top image: Evolution of sounds by crowd-sourcing, from Brownlee, A. E. I., Kim, S-J., Wan, S-H., Chan, S. & Lawson, J. A. Crowd-Sourcing the Sounds of Places with a Web-Based Evolutionary Algorithm. Companion Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, pp 131-132. DOI:10.1145/3319619.3322028