Dr Joo-Hwee - Wearable Visual Computing: Preliminary Results & Road Ahead

15:00
Wednesday
12
Mar
2014
  • Seminar
Place: 
Organized by: 

Équipe MRIM

Speaker: 

Joo-Hwee Lim

Teams: 

- Wednesday 12 of March 2014 at 4pm (16h) at l’amphithéâtre de la MJK

- Dr. Joo-Hwee Lim is heading the Visual Computing Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore. He is also the co-Director of IPAL (Image & Pervasive Access Laboratory), a French-Singapore Joint Lab (CNRS UMI 2955) linked with Grenoble University though UJF Agreement.

- BIOGRAPHY

Joo-Hwee Lim received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) and M.Sc. (by research) degrees, both in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of New South Wales.

He is the Head of the Visual Computing Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the co-Director of IPAL (Image & Pervasive Access Laboratory), a French-Singapore Joint Lab (CNRS UMI 2955, Jan 2007 to Jan 2015).

Dr. Lim is bestowed the title of ’Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques’ by the French Government in 2008 and the National Day Commendation Medal by the Singapore Government in 2010. He has published more than 200 international refereed journal and conference papers and co-authored 17 patents (awarded and pending) in his research areas of computer vision, cognitive vision, pattern recognition, and medical image analysis.

- Contact Information


Dr. Joo-Hwee LIM
Head, Visual Computing Department Institute for Infocomm Research

1 Fusionopolis Way #10-25 Connexis, Singapore 138632
Tel : +65 64082533 Fax : +65 64667558 H/P : +65 96889627 Email:joohwee@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

In this seminar, I will describe our vision in wearable vision computing (WVC) : how networked wearable cameras can capture our visual experience (memory) and augment human in vision-related tasks for broad applications such as assisted living, learning, surveillance and diagnostics. We show some preliminary results of a wearable visual assistant prototype on indoor navigation and social networking with a video demo and list research challenges and plan forward. Before presenting WVC, I will briefly introduce IPAL (CNRS 2955), a French-Singapore joint lab, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, and the Visual Computing Department within I2R.