On Oct. 29th, Professor Stephen. Marshall and professor Jinchang Ren from University of Strachclyde, Glasgow, UK came and visited the school of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University. Moreover, Pro. Marshall and Pro. Ren gave reports entitled “A New Design Tool for Feature Extraction in Noisy Images based on grayscale Hit-or-Miss Transforms” and “Semantic content analysis for advanced video processing and understanding” respectively. Pro. Mingyan Jiang, the deputy dean of School of ISE hosted the reports. It attracted a lot of professors and students including Pro. Ju Liu, the head of the department of Communication Engineering, Pro. Hui Chen, Pro. Mingqiang Yang and the postgraduate students of the Communication Engineering department and the Signal Processing department.
Professor Stephen. Marshall delivered the first report. Firstly, he gave a brief introduction of the theory of The Hit-or-Miss Transform and explained the Greyscale Hit-or-Miss Transform & Noise and Percentage Occupancy Hit-or-Miss Transform in detail and then he introduced the new method he proposed and demonstrated the power of their technique using a set of very noisy images and made a comparison between their method and the most recent extensions of the HMT. During the following Q&A session he gave a brief introduction of Strathclyde Hyperspectural Imaging Centre which broadened the view of the audience.
Pro. Jinchang Ren made the following presentation. He started his report with Topics of Interest and Main Workflow, and then he introduced video segmentation, camera motion estimation, video object extraction, content-adaptive video summarization and semantic video retrieval based on Semantic content analysis. At last his demonstration of his data analysis made it more understanding.
After the reports, they answered questions from the audience in detail.
At the end of the report Pro. Yang Mingqiang made a conclusion and encouraged every student to work hard and make a further development in their interested field. The whole academic report ended in the atmosphere of harmony.
