Slides of Welcome Speech by Dr. Nadeem Ahmad
Slides of Welcome Speech by Dr. Nadeem Ahmad
Slides of Welcome Speech by Dr. Nadeem Ahmad
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CATAR-2012<strong>Welcome</strong>!SIGNAL, IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSSING LAB andall other organizers
The TeamAVG group <strong>of</strong>SIV-Lab
Assistive Robots• Aspiration is touse them in avariety <strong>of</strong>environments:Hospitals, Therapycenters, Schools andeventually homes
CAPAIR PROJECT• DAAD Project: Context Aware Perceptionfor Intelligent Assistive Robots (CAPIAR)• Collaborators:– TU Munich (IAS Group)– NED (Telecom Engg. Dept)– LUMS (AV Group <strong>of</strong> SIV Lab)
R&D Focus at LUMS‣Context Aware Vision TechniquesOngoing Initiatives:• Pain Recognition• Learning <strong>of</strong> New Kitchen ActivitiesNew robot planReference: Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes, Michael Beetz,2011
Workshop Highlights• Above 200+ applicants– LUMS: 54– Other Academic Institutions: 123 (Faculty 30+Students 93)– Industry: 23• Invited Talks are followed <strong>by</strong> the Poster/Demo presentationsession on– Ongoing/completed Projects– Innovative Idea• Contributions from a variety <strong>of</strong> Universities/Institutes
Workshop ProgramFriday Dec 07, 2012 - Venue: Smart Lab, SSE building
Workshop Program – 1/3Morning SessionTime Speaker Title8:00-9:00 Registration9:00-9:10 Recitation from the Holy Quran9:10-9:30 <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Nadeem</strong> <strong>Ahmad</strong> Khan, LUMS <strong>Welcome</strong> talk9:30-9:40 <strong>Dr</strong>. Adil Najam (VC LUMS) Opening <strong>Speech</strong>9:40-10:10 <strong>Dr</strong>. Waqas Majeed, LUMS Biomedical Applications <strong>of</strong> ContextAware Robotics10:10-10:40 Sikandar Amin, TU Munich, Germany Intelligent Autonomous Systems:Human Pose Estimation in MultipleViews10:40- Talk <strong>by</strong> Syed Atif Mehdi, TUSocial Robot Interaction11:10: Kaiserslautern, Germany.11:10-11:30 Tea Break
Workshop Program – 2/3Noon SessionTime Speaker Title11:30-12:00 Qurat-ul-Ain Akram, Al-Khwarizmi Institute,UET, LahoreUrdu Nastalique Optical CharacterRecognition12:00-12:30 <strong>Dr</strong>. Muhammad Usman Ghani, CS Dept,UET, LahoreNatural Language Descriptions for VideoSequences12:30-1:00 Group Photo Session1:00-2:30 Lunch and Prayer Break
Ongoing Research under DAAD CAPAIR projectWorkshop Program – 3/3Afternoon Session: Ongoing Research under DAAD CAPAIR projectTime Speaker Title2:30-3:00 <strong>Dr</strong>. Humera Noor, NED, Karachi Context-Aware Perception3:00-3:20 Zuhair Zafar, LUMS Pain Recognition in Facial Images3:20-3:40 <strong>Ahmad</strong> Tahir, LUMS Kitchen Activity Understanding andRecognition3:40-4:00 Tea and Prayer BeakEvening Session4:00-6:15 Project and Poster PresentationSession6:15-7:00 Closing Ceremony
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