Image, text, signal, and language processing

Computer vision, image analysis, and pattern recognition

Computer vision, image analysis, and pattern recognition is a major area of research that the Centre has been focused on.

We have been involved in research into areas that include:

• automatic image feature extraction
• selection and construction
• image and object classification
• detection and tracking
• edge detection
• image segmentation
• image understanding
• pattern recognition (classification, regression, and clustering).

This area has many real-world applications with economic and social value. There are many funded research grants in this area.

Text mining and natural language processing

Text mining and natural language processing is a growth area of AI.

We have been carrying out research into:

• text mining
• opinion mining
• web mining
• web intelligence
• intelligent agents
• natural language processing in medical data
• hate speech detection
• event detection
• fake news detection
• multi-view text classification.

We have been developing:

• new deep neural networks
• evolutionary computation algorithms
• other learning algorithms such as kernel-based methods.

Audio, speech and signal processing is a major area of research by the Centre, and the core techniques that some modern video conference tools such as Skype were developed by researchers in the Centre.