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CCIS Talk: Image Processing and Interactive Arts by Lee Byung Gook
Prof Lee Byung Gook from Dongseo University, Korea was invited to give a talk on the following date/time:
Title: Image Processing and Interactive Arts
Date: 23 January 2015 (Friday)
Time: 11AM - 12PM
Venue: SA 6th Floor West Wing Meeting Room, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR KL Campus, Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.


Professor Lee Byung Gook shared his past, current and future researches which include: Image Sensor, Color Sensor, Flat Panel Display Defect Detection, Keypad Inspection System, Hand Tracking, Shadow Garden, Interactive Board – IR Pen & Laser Pointer, u-Pointer, AR Toolkit, Shall we dance, Magic Projector, Multi Touch Table, reacTIVision, Mixed Reality Interfaces, DJ Mix with Kinect, Deform 2D Shape Manipulation, Multi Touch System with Kinect, Multi-Level AR, MiniCar with Arduino, MagicalSketchPad and LookEdu@AR

CCIS Talk: Keeping Singapore bright through sensor and data analytics by Koh Niak Wu
Dr Koh Niak Wu, CEO and Founder of Cosmiqo International, was invited by CCIS to give a talk on the following date/time:
Title: Keeping Singapore bright through sensor and data analytics
Date: 16 February 2015 (Monday)
Time: 4PM - 5PM
Venue: DK4, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR KL Campus, Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.



A city that is optimally lit results in many socio-economic benefits enjoyed by the urban population. The sharing session touched on Cosmiqo’s analytical solutions that they are building.

CCIS Talk: Build Your Prototype for Free by Lim Wai Kheong
Mr Lim Wai Kheong from EFox Sdn Bhd was invited by CCIS to give a talk on his expertise on the following date/time:

Title: Build Your Prototype for Free
Date: 3 March 2015 (Tuesday)
Time: 11AM - 1PM
Venue: SE109, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR KL Campus,
Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.



Mr. Lim shared on a walkthrough on creating a prototype using various tools, a LAMP stack, and some free resources such as Bitbucket, Trello and Openshift.

CCIS Talk: HTML5 and Beyond by Junichi Kishigami
Prof Junichi Kishigami from Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan was invited by CCIS to give a talk at UTAR KL campus:

Title: HTML5 and Beyond
Date: 15 July 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 2.30PM - 3.30PM
Venue: KB200, UTAR Sungai Long Campus, Bandar Sungai Long, Selangor.

W3C released the final recommendation of HTML5 last October 2014. At that moment, a lot of browsers have already complied with this version. HTML5 has lots of dynamic functions, especially multimedia and communications. These new functions, namely webRTC, WoT, and webApps, were discussed in this talk and its relevance with AI technologies.

CCIS Talk: Professional Software Development - What you don't learn in college by Ilyas Sapiyan
Mr Ilyas Sapiyan, Managing Director, InternetNow International Sdn. Bhd., was invited to give a talk of his experience in software development to UTAR researchers and students:

Title: Professional Software Development - What you don't learn in college
Date: 27 July 2015 (Monday)
Time: 9AM - 10AM
Venue: KB522, UTAR Sg Long Campus, Bandar Sungai Long, Selangor



In this talk, the speaker covered on what it means to be a professional developer: how to behave, how to deal with different people in the team, how to code, how to manage one’s time, how to practice and hone one’s programming skills, how to test one’s software, how to estimate one’s completion dates, how to deal pressure and what tools professionals use

CCIS Talk: Joys of Tech: Discovering Your Calling in a Tech Career by Leong Seh Hui
Leong She Hui from MindValley, also a UTAR alumnus, was invited to give a talk of this experience in software development to UTAR researchers and students:

Title: Joys of Tech: Discovering Your Calling in a Tech Career
Date: 13 July 2015 (Monday)
Time: 12PM - 1PM
Venue: KB106, UTAR Sg Long Campus, Bandar Sungai Long, Selangor.

Mr. Leong Seh Hui shared his experience and perspective of the tech industry and how would an individual chart their career path, tips on tools and practices that a person would be interested to pick up and set himself up for his own dream job

CCIS Talk: 3D Challenges by Hsueh-Ming Hang
Prof Hsueh-Ming Hang from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan was invited to give a talk at UTAR Kampar campus:

Title: 3D Challenges
Date: 28th August 2015 (Friday)
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Venue: N010, UTAR Kampar Campus, Perak



3D films have a history of several decades, but only recently 3D video consumer products are gradually becoming popular. The focus of next-negation 3D research is on the so-called virtual-viewpoint (or free-viewpoint) video system. It is also an on-going standardization item in the international ITU/MPEG Standards. In addition to the movie special effects, one application of virtual-view system is the multi-view auto-stereoscopic (glasses free 3D) display.

Typically, a densely arranged camera array is used to acquire input images and a number of virtual view pictures are synthesized at the receiver using the depth-image based rendering (DIBR) technique. Three essential components are needed for building a virtual-view system; depth estimation, data compression, and view synthesis.

An interesting application of virtual-view system is 3D scene composition. It is an extension of the traditional chroma key technique but it now tries to merge two sets of 3D vide scenes into one consistent 3D scene. Another issue is depth map acquisition. Recent devices such as Microsoft Kinect offer an inexpensive hardware solution to this problem. However, its depth map quality needs to be improved. Prof Hsueh-Ming Hang presented a quick overview on these challenging topics and summarised the university’s study on these subjects.

CCIS Talk: State of The Net by Goh Su Gim
Mr Goh Su Gim, F-Secure Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd was invited by CCIS to give talk at UTAR KL campus:

Date: 4 Sept 2015 (Friday)
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: KB522, UTAR Sungai Long Campus, Bandar Sungai Long, Selangor.
Title: State of The Net

Majority of the attacks today are well targeted, gone are the days of the amateurs hacking for fun with a few tricks up their sleeves from a YouTube video. Today we are dealing with targeted attacks more than ever, they know what to get and how to do it stealthily.They may not be after your money, but your reputation and secrets; the private stuff. Mr. Goh reviewed the threat landscape, and mobile devices and ever growing data that is making life easy for these hackers



3D films have a history of several decade

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