Research activities

Here are the list of research events that I had taken part in with respect to my research on computer vision and image processing.

Conferences

• International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPR2007), Beijing, 2 - 4 November, 2007.

• SPIE International Conference on Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, 11 - 16 February, 2006.

• The 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA2006), Dalian, China, 21 – 23 June, 2006.

• The 10th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2005), Beijing, China, 15 – 21 October, 2005.

• The First International Conference on Medical Imaging and Telemedicine (MIT2005), Wu Yi Palace, FuJian, China, 16 – 19 August, 2005.

• Biosciences Presentations by Britain’s Top Younger Scientist, Engineers and Technologists at the House of Commons, 14th March, 2005.

  “Atlas of Gene Expression”, Biosciences Presentations by Britain’s Top Younger Scientist, Engineers and Technologists for UK National Science Week, SET for Britain, the House of Commons, Westminster, London, United Kingdom, 14 March, 2005.

• Agriculture Engineering (AgEng2004) Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 12 – 16 September, 2004.

• Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT2004), Thessaloniki, Greece, 6 – 9 September, 2004.

• The 17th IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2004), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23 – 26 August, 2004.

• British Society of Animal Science (BSAS2004) Annual Conference, University of York, England, United Kingdom, 5 – 7 April, 2004.

• The Royal Society's MP Scientists Pairing Scheme, Westminster, London, 2004

  The Royal Society's MP Scientists Pairing Scheme aims to build bridges between some of the best research scientists in the country and members of the UK parliament. I spent one week in Westminster shadowing an MP (Mr. Patrick Hall), attending various meetings and gaining first hand experience of how science policy is formed at the House of Commons, Parliament.

• British Council Franco-British Fellowship, 2004

  British Council Franco-British Seminar for Top Young Scientists on Bio-engineering and Medical Imaging, Paris, France, 29 March – 2 April, 2004.

• Image Processing & Optical Tehnology, Birmingham, UK (IPOT2004)

  IPOT, NEC, Birmingham, UK, 11-12 February, 2004. IPOT and Machine Vision are the UK's leading Optical, Photonics and Vision events. IPOT is the definitive industry event for Image Processing & Optical Technology, supported by the BMVA and UKIVA.

• Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2004), Jeju Island, Korea, 28 - 30 January, 2004

• Imaging and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ2003), Palmerston North, New Zealand, 26 - 28 November, 2003

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2003), Nice, France, 13 - 16 October, 2003

• The 3rd International Workshop on Texture Analysis, Nice, France, 17 October, 2003

• Taking Science to Parliament: The 2003 Great British Research and R&D Show at the House of Commons, Westminster, London

  Under “SET for BRITAIN” (Science, Engineering and Technology), a special annual Parliamentary Presentation for Britain’s Younger Scientists and Engineers was held on Monday, 17 March 2003 at the House of Commons, Westminster, London. I and my boss Robin Tillett were selected and had the enviable opportunity to present our work in the Terrace Pavilion Room, the House of Commons, where we were joined by other top younger research scientists and about 40 M.P.s to discuss current research and R&D work underway in the UK. The focus of my presentation are (1). “Three-dimensional Imaging of Pigs”; (2). "Three-dimensionalSurface Texture Classification".

• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2002), Cardiff, UK, 2 - 5 September, 2002

• British Machine Vision Association Technical Meeting, London, UK, 1st November, 2000

Academic Visits

• LaTIM, INSERM, Brest, France, 2005

  International Networks for Young Scientist (INYS) Follow-up Funding, 2004-2005. Academic visiting in LaTIM (Medical Information Processing Laboratory), Brest, France, INSERM(the French Institute of Health and Medical Research).

• AgResearch New Zealand Limited, Ruakura MIRINZ Centre, Hamliton, New Zealand, November, 2003

• 3D-MATIC Research Lab, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004

• Department of Biology, University of York, 2003-2004

Invited Presentations and Seminars

• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Industry Workshop on Genome-wide RNAi Application

  Jiahua Wu, RNAi Screening, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Industry Workshop on Genome-wide RNAi Application, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, 23 – 24 May, 2005.

• Digital Imaging Research Centre(DIRC), Kingston University

  3D Computer Vision Applictions, Digital Imaging Research Centre(DIRC), Kingston University, London, United Kingdom, 25th March, 2004.

• Annual Live Cell Imaging Seminar, Institute of Cancer Research

  Chester Beatty CRUK Laboratories, London, 12th November, 2003. Sponsored by Digital Pixel Imaging Systems.

• Sensing Group, Silsoe Research Institute

  Extract Three-dimensional Shape of the Live Pigs Using Photogrammetry Stereo, 29th April, 2003.

• Image Analysis and Control Group, Silsoe Research Institute

  My PhD works on "Rotation Invariant Classification of 3D Surface Texture", 17 September, 2002.