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Media Release: Lenovo DCG partners with AIML to provide machine learning expertise to ANZ businesses
Partnership to provide consulting services to businesses in Australia and New Zealand that are looking to invest in projects in machine learning and deep learning.
ECCV 2018
Double congratulations to our PhD student Zhipeng Cai who had two first-authored papers accepted as oral presentations at the European Conference on Computer Vision in Munich, Germany (and presented them back to back!). Congrats also to his supervisor, Dr Tat-Jun Chin.
Media Release: Tetris-like program could speed breast cancer detection
Researchers from the University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) are developing a fully-automated medical image analysis program to detect breast tumours. The program uses a unique style to focus on the affected area.
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Google Summer of Code
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We were involved in our very first Google Summer of Code . Dr Zygmunt Szpak mentored student Arijit Kar from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
First place!
Results for the REFUGE Retinal Fundus Glaucoma Challenge are in! First place in the Segmentation leaderboard and also in the Segmentation of Nuclei competition.
NVIDIA Pioneer Award
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Dr Qi Wu (ACRV / AIML) has been awarded the prestigious NVIDIA Pioneer Award for his paper 'Learning semantic concepts and order for image and sentence matching' at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City.
We're number one in VQA 2.0
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A team led by Damien Teney (AIML) and Peter Anderson (ACRV, ANU, and Microsoft) has just placed first in the VQA 2.0 challenge.
Adelaide ranks 43 in the world in Computer Science and Engineering
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Not that these ranking exercises mean all that much, but the latest Shanghai ratings put the University of Adelaide at 43 in the world in Computer Science and Engineering, above Cambridge, Caltech, Peking and Delft.
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Number one in the world in Visual Question Answering again, for now
Entries for the latest VQA v2 challenge close on Monday morning, and we’re currently number one amongst the entries that have been submitted thus far.
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Award for Excellence in Collaboration
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The collaboration between AIML and LBT Innovations won the SA Science Excellence award for Research Collaboration for the development of that APAS technology.