NPUST students involved with the ACVLab have been taking prizes left and right at both national and international competitions for their research on computer vision, artificial intelligence and algorithm design. In response, the president of NPUST expressed his hopes to see their work expand and become integrated with a variety of disciplines throughout the university.
Assistant Professor Chih-Chung Hsu heads up the Advanced Computer Vision Laboratory (ACVLab). A professor of Management Information Systems, Dr. Hsu has been focused on teaching students to use information management skills that are aligned with AI development trends. By incorporating computer vision and deep learning into the educational activities, he has been helping students to become more acute in their understanding of to software design and current events and setting them up for a lot of success at both local and international competitions.
The students are being coached on how to designing professional algorithms that can be applied to social media or life in general. Taking what they had learned to the international ACM Multimedia 2019 “Social Media Prediction Challenge”, two third-year undergraduates, Li Jun Yi and Wu Shao-min, returned home with the first place prize in tote.
Two more undergraduates, Tseng Wen-hai and Yang Hao-ting entered themselves in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) autonomous vehicle prediction competition to put their skills to the test and among all the excellent entries they were honored to come out of it with the third place prize.
Also hailing from the ACVLab, graduate student Chuang Yi-Hsiu submitted a research paper he authored to the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) and received the distinction of “best student paper”—also becoming the first person from Taiwan to win an ICIP academic award in 2019.
To date, the outstanding research results of students at the lab have resulted in prizes at six international and two national competitions.
NPUST President Chang-Hsien Tai expressed that “information management is improving with the times and students must keep in step so that they can maintain a cutting edge position, and use the advanced knowledge they acquire to improve their future competitiveness. We hope that interdisciplinary integration will allow the achievements of the Department of Management Information Systems to become integrated with other fields and developed into a special feature of the university”.
Department of Information Management Director Deng-Neng Chen expressed his hopes that “we can strengthen for our AI and “deep learning” technical curriculum planning so that our students can learn these technologies and use them in every field. We trust that students will have a major competitive advantage in this information and smart-technology era”. Assistant Professor Chih-Chung Hsu said that “the main idea of the Advanced Computer Vision Laboratory is getting students to hone their skills through the trials of competition and increase their professional capabilities. In our modern society, with its low rate of birth, the objective is to equip the students in such a way that they are ready to take on challenges—and to provide them with a type of learning that resonates, so that more students will be interested in coming to learn”.
