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SCK: A Novel Key-point Detector

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SCK: A Novel Key-point Detector

  • LecturerProf. LING GUAN (Ryerson University)
    Host: Mark Liao
  • Time2019-05-14 (Tue.) 10:00 ~ 12:00
  • LocationAuditorium106 at IIS new Building
Abstract

After an overview on state-of-the-art in key-point detectors, we introduce SCK which is a universal key-point detector built upon the theory of sparse coding. SCK can handle any visual structures (blobs, corners, junctions, and more) and has been analytically proven to be invariant to changes in illumination, spatial and rotational transformations. Results show SCK outperforms all the hand-crafted detectors such as SIFT, Harris Corner, etc, and compare favorably with recent deep learning based detectors, setting the stage for extracting high quality visual features.

BIO

Dr. Ling Guan is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Multimedia and Computer Technology from 2001 to 2015.

He held visiting positions at British Telecom (1994), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1999), Princeton University (2000), National ICT Australia (2007), Nanyang Technological University (2007), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2008-09), Microsoft Research Asia (2002, 2009, 2017) and Chinese Academy of Science (2010). Dr. Guan has published extensively in multimedia processing and communications, human-centered computing, machine learning, adaptive image and signal processing, and multimedia computing in immersive environment. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an Elected Member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE Circuits and System Society Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Guan has been honored with numerous awards, including the 2014 IEEE Canada C.C.

Gotlieb Medal for Technical Achievement in Computer Science and Engineering, the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award and numerous conference best paper awards.

Dr. Guan received his B.Sc. Degree from Tianjin University, M.A.Sc Degree from University of Waterloo, and Ph.D. Degree from the University of British Columbia.