Imagination 2 Reality1

IntroductionIntroduction toto

Institute for Institute for

Infocomm Research Infocomm Research

(I(I22R)R)

Transforming Knowledge Into Prosperity

Imagination 2 Reality

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15 November 2002

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+ Centre for

Signal Processing (Jun 96 )

Optical Group, Network Technology

Research Centre (NTRC)-Nov 91

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Centre for WirelessCommunications

(CWC)-Aug 92

R&D Group, Institute of Systems Science

(Aug 85 ) +

Information Technology Institute (Jun 86)

(Jan 02) (Jan 02)

Kent Ridge Digital Labs (Apr 98)

Our HistoryOur History

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• Mission To be the globally preferred source of innovations in ‘Interactive Secured Information, Content and Services Anytime Anywhere’, through research by passionate people dedicated to Singapore's economic success.

• Vision The Infocomm and Media value creator that keeps Singapore ahead.

• Size– 360 Core Research Headcount

– 57 Researchers (Thematic - SERC Funded)

– 43 Postgraduate studentsAs at December 2009

Vision and MissionVision and Mission

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Research Manpower ProfileResearch Manpower Profile

Total Research Staff = 499*

Others, 6, 1%

Masters, 132, 26%

Bachelor, 131, 26%

PhD, 230, 47%

Masters, 5, 12%

PhD, 38, 88%

Total Postgraduate Students = 43*

Research Manpower = Core + Non Core + GAP

*As at 31 December 2009

Some of our PartnersSome of our Partners

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Successful SpinoffsSuccessful Spinoffs

Novel video & music analysis system for automatic production of high-quality MTV

Real World Face Recognition“Innovation through breakthrough, award winning technology.”

Acquired 2002Highly interactive

Virtual Reality systems for radiology and surgery planning

An efficient, stable and reliable solution helps increase your productivity. CommonTown provides roust and high quality portal solutions, specializing in education, mobile and resource repository portals

June 2006 - Smart ID released its latest ISO18000-6C/EPCGen2 UHF Reader Module for OEM embedded applications. Multiple interface options available to be compatible across a range of applications

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• Karthik Nandakumar, Arun Ross (West Virginia University) and Anil K. Jain (Michigan State University) “Biometric Fusion: Does Modeling Correlation Really Matter?”Best Poster Award, IEEE Third International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2009)

• Xiaoli Li and See-Kiong Ng“Mining for Domain Dependency Sets from Protein Interactions”Best Poster Award, 12th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2008)

• Hwee-Pink Tan, Adriana F. Gabor, Winston K.G. Seah, and Pius W.Q. Lee"Performance Analysis of Data Delivery Schemes for a Multi-sink Wireless Sensor Network“Highly Commended Paper Award, IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2008)

Best Paper & Poster Awards Best Paper & Poster Awards

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• L. Zhang, Y.C. Liang and Y.Xin“Joint beamforming and power allocation for multiple access channels in cognitive radio networks”Ten most popular articles published in ComSoc, IEEE Xplore (2008)

• Kong Peng Yong, Tham Chen Khong and Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi“A Cooperative Retransmission Scheme for IR-UWB Networks” Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB2008)

• Dr Chen Zhining“Wideband Reconfigurable Rolled Planar Monopole Antenna”CST University Publication Award 2008

• Dr. Karthik Nandakumar, Abhishek Nagar and Anil K“Securing Fingerprint Template: Fuzzy Vault with Minutiae Descriptors”Best Scientific Paper Award for the Biometrics track, 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008)

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Intellectual PropertyIntellectual Property

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• Singapore Youth Award - 2009, 1999

• "Nokia Visiting Professor" for 2009

• IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award – 2009,

2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

• Technology Review (TR35) Award 2008

• Net-atHome 2007 Award

• National Technology Award - 2007, 2001, 1996

• Red Hat Certified Engineer of the Year 2007

• Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award (Open Category) -

2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

• TEC Innovator Award - 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002

• Microsoft Fellowship Award 2005

• FEER Asian Innovation Gold Award 2003

AwardsAwards

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Winning International BenchmarksWinning International Benchmarks• Rich Transcription International Benchmarking 2009

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 1st place among 6 international teams in Speaker Diarization category,

• Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO 2009)National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece1st place among 35 international institutions, the algorithm submitted achieved the best detection performance

• Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2008 (SRE `08)National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)1st place among 46 international institutions

• 2007 Speaker Recognition EvaluationNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Top 3 positions for 31 categories against 21 participating teams from US, Europe, Asia and Africa including MIT, UC Berkeley, IBM, CNRS etc.

• NTCIR International Benchmark Competition 2007 1st place in 7 criteria and 2nd place in 1 criterion in retrieving Chinese documents, using both Chinese and

English languages queries

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2007) competition 1st place in Chinese to English translation among 15 international teams including CMU, MIT, RWTH and NTT

• Photographic Image Retrieval Task (ImageCLEFPhoto) of ImageCLEF 2007 3rd place among 20 participating research groups from North America, Europe and Asia.

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WLAN

• IEEE 802.11n

WPAN

• IEEE 802.15.4a

• IEEE 802.15.4b

• WiMedia

WRAN

• IEEE 802.16j

• IEEE 802.22

Cellular

• 3GPP LTE

Biometrics• ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 29794

biometric quality• ISO/IEC JTC1 SC17 WG11

match-on-cardJPEG• JPEG Part 8 – JPEG2000 security• JPSearchAudio/Video• H.264• H.264 Extension• MPEG4 ALS• MPEG4 SLS

I2R CONTRIBUTES technologies to world standards!

Setting World StandardsSetting World Standards

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506997 DAIDALOSDesigning Advanced Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent Optimised personal Services

507995 E2R End-to-End Reconfigurability

506897 PULSERS Pervasive Ultra-wideband Low Spectral Energy Radio Systems

2 511575 GAPFILL Getting more Asian Participants involved in IST Calls

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15604 ASTRALS Audio-visual STReaming plAtform for domestic Leisure and Security

15606 BOOTStrepBootstrapping Of Ontologies and Terminologies STrategic REsearch Project

15299 E2R II End-to-End Reconfigurability II

15584 ImmunoGrid ImmunoGrid - The European Virtual Human Immune System Project

14793PULSERS

Ph IIPervasive Ultra-wideband Low Spectral Energy Radio Systems Phase II

5 033563  SMEPP  Secure Middleware for Embedded Peer to Peer Systems

10 Consortia projects in FP6 (Total EU grant ~100M Euros)

EU-funded EU-funded 66thth Framework Programme Framework Programme

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215330 SEACOOPFurther developing strategic R&D cooperation with South East Asia on ICT

216026 WOMBAT Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors And Threats

EU’s EU’s 77thth Framework Programme Framework Programme

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Research VisionResearch Vision

ContentContent

UsersUsers

ServicesServices

Ubiquitous Network

Ubiquitous Network

DataData

Privacy & Security

Privacy & Security

Semantic web, Datamining, CRM, Healthcare

Cryptography, DRM, Surveillance, Biometrics

Sensors & Actuators

InformationInformationCorporate Databases, CRM

TV, Games, Movies, Music

Interactive secured information, content and Interactive secured information, content and services anytime anywhereservices anytime anywhere

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Core Management Team

Signal Processing

Human Language Technology

Communication Systems

Computer Graphics & Interface

RF & Optical

Modulation & Coding

Computer Vision & Image

UnderstandingCryptography &

Security

Networking Protocols

Data Mining

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OurResearch

Departments

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Departments

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Communications Systems Department

Key Competencies

• Hardware - Software co-design and system

engineering methodologies would be developed

to improve the reusability of our research outputs

for multiple applications.

• Focuses on real time software and embedded

system design and development to translate

research outputs to functional prototypes.

• Communication System/Architecture Design

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Key Competencies

• Accurate motor imagery detection and

classification

• Context-awareness, service-oriented

architecture

• Middleware for device/sensor/service

management in smart spaces

Potential Applications

• 3D modeling and animation

• Personal 3D entertainment systems

Computer Graphics & Interface Department

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Key Competencies• Image and Video Retrieval

• Object, Scene and Event Recognition

• Human Identity and Activity Modeling

• Active and Passive Media Authentication

• Statistical Methods and Learning

• Performance Evaluation

Application Areas• Biometrics (secured access)

• Video Surveillance (law enforcing)

• Human Behavior Tracking (elderly care)

• Media Forensics (authenticity assurance)

• Natural Interface (3D gaming interaction)

• Medical Image Analysis (computed aided diagnosis)

• Multimedia Content Indexing (interactive television)

• Mobile Image-Based Information Access (mobile search)

Computer Vision & Image Understanding Department

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Key Competencies

• Cryptography - design and analysis of cryptosystems

• Defending against malware - protect mobile devices

from virus and worms

• Digital rights management - digital copyright

protection by software obfuscation

• Sensor network security - key distribution and

detection of node compromise

• Privacy protection - security and privacy in e-commerce and data mining

• RFID security - fighting physical counterfeits by secure RFID data chaining and

management

• Security protocols - authentication, fair exchange, e-payment, key agreement

Cryptography and Security Department

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Key Competencies

• Data Mining

• Machine Learning

• Text Mining

• Graph Mining

• Semantic Web Technologies

• Privacy-preserving data mining

• Bioinformatics

Potential Applications

• Analyzing scientific and research

information

• Analyzing business intelligence

• Detecting fraud, waste and abuse

• Sharing and mining of sensitive information

Data Mining Department

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Key Competencies

• Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition

Applications: Automatic Transcription; Spoken Document Retrieval;

Voice Surveillance

• Speaker and Language Recognition

Applications: Voice Biometrics; Spoken Document Retrieval;

Automatic Call Routing; Rich Transcription

• Machine Translation

Applications: Machine Translation; Cross-lingual Information

Retrieval; Speech Translation

• Robotic Intelligence and Cognitive Computing

Applications: Social Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Speech and

Language Acquisition

Human Language Technology Department

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Key Competencies• Forward error correction coding

• Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

• Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)

• Modem algorithms

• Iterative turbo processing

• Multiple access and joint detection

• Cognitive Channel Sensing

• Resource allocation and link adaptation

Potential Applications• 3GPP Long Term Evolution

• Wireless sensor networks

• Wireline communication systems

• High throughput wireless local area network based on IEEE 802.11n

• Ultra-wideband wireless personal area network based on WiMedia

• Wireless Regional Area Network based on IEEE 802.22

• WiMAX systems, including IEEE 802.16d, IEEE 802.16e, IEEE 802.16m etc

• Next generation wireless local area network system beyond IEEE 802.11n

Modulation & Coding Department

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Key Competencies

• Wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor

networkingApplications: monitoring and surveillance for

healthcare, security, smart space etc.

applications; infrastructure-less communications

• Architectures for mission-critical

services, including control and management of

optical networks

Applications: next generation services-based

telecommunications infrastructure

Sensor

Local aggregator

Local sink

• Cooperative and coordinated networkingApplications: improved end-to-end and system-wide performance, e.g. throughput and

delay, through cross-layer design and inter-node cooperation

• Autonomic self-healing and robust networksApplications: fault tolerant survivable networks

Networking Protocols Department

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Key Competencies• Antenna technology focused on novel design concepts

and new applications of electromagnetic materials for

antennas with high performance such as

broadband/multiple-mode operation for modern wireless

systems such as UWB, WLAN WiMAX, WiFi, MIMO,

on-body/implanted communications.

• RF technology targeted at development of components,

modules and sub-systems for emerging wireless

systems such as phased arrays, UWB radar, UWB

localization, and RFID systems.

• Optical fiber transmission to investigate optically amplified, high-speed, multi-wavelength

optical signals in long-haul and metropolitan area networks, and develop RoF technology

for picocell applications with low cost optical components.

• Sensors based on optical fibre to perform measurements with distributed sensing and high

level of immunity from interferences, like EM and RF interference.

RF & Optical Department

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Potential Applications• Live and on-demand video coding, scalable video archival/retrieval; heterogeneous video

delivery over diverse wireline and wireless networks targeting video surveillance and

entertainment applications

• Online music store, Internet radio, personal CD archive

• Automatic and objective image and video quality measurements, perceptually-optimized

image and video compression

• Computer game, Interactive advertisement, Interactive kiosk and information system

• Personalized mobile phone ringtones

• Mobile healthcare, Homecare for elderly, healthcare and medical devices

• Assistive ICT systems for monitoring & rehabilitation for the elderly

Key Competencies• H.264 and SVC encoder, decoder and IP-based delivery; MPEG2-

to-H.264 transcoding; video pre- and post-processing

• Audio signal processing, Lossless audio compression, Scalable

audio coding

• Perceptual image and video quality measurements

• Natural interface for computer game using human gesture

• Scratched Sound Synthesis

• Cardiac signal processing, Multimodal sensor data processing

• High performance P300-based brain-computer interfaces

Signal Processing Department

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OurResearch

Programmes

OurResearch

Programmes

Personal 3D Entertainment Systems

Programme Director Susanto Rahardja

Personal 3D Entertainment Systems

Programme Director Susanto Rahardja

Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring &

Rehabilitation

Programme Manager Guan Cuntai

Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring &

Rehabilitation

Programme Manager Guan Cuntai

Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity

Programme Manager Chin Po Shin Francois

Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity

Programme Manager Chin Po Shin Francois

Power-aware Wireless Sensor Network for

Tracking & Monitoring

Programme Director Chia Yan Wah Michael

Power-aware Wireless Sensor Network for

Tracking & Monitoring

Programme Director Chia Yan Wah Michael

Research ProgrammesResearch Programmes

High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks

Programme Manager Jaya Shankar s/o

Pathmasuntharam

High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks

Programme Manager Jaya Shankar s/o

Pathmasuntharam

Personalization, Optimization and

Intelligence through Services

Programme Manager Tham Chen Khong

Personalization, Optimization and

Intelligence through Services

Programme Manager Tham Chen Khong

Next Generation Content for IPTV

Programme Manager Yau Wei Yun

Next Generation Content for IPTV

Programme Manager Yau Wei Yun

Joint Labs

Image & Pervasive Access Lab (IPAL)

Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)

Daniel Racoceanu (CNRS)

Singapore Advanced Imaging Lab for Ocular

Research (Sailor)

Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)

Wong Tien Yin (SERI)

Joint Labs

Image & Pervasive Access Lab (IPAL)

Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)

Daniel Racoceanu (CNRS)

Singapore Advanced Imaging Lab for Ocular

Research (Sailor)

Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)

Wong Tien Yin (SERI)

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Mobile Care

MobiCare

Elderly Care

V4ButlerVU

ICT-ADI

Home Care

AIHECAEMCVD WBAN

Hospital

SIRIANMedIRASSMS

Rehab Center

BCIRobot

BCIFES

NSP

Healthcare Applications

Technologies

Neural Rehabilitationfor Stroke Rehab, Biofeedback,

and Assistive Technology

Medical Image Processingfor disease detection &

diagnoses

Homecarefor Home Based Fall Detection,Home Medicine, Elderly Care

Mobile Healthcarewith wearable sensors,

any time, anywhere

Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring and Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring and RehabilitationRehabilitation (AIM)

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Fiber Optic Hydrophones - Development of practical distributed feedback fiber laser array for all optical underwater acoustic sensing

Fiber Optic Hydrophones - Development of practical distributed feedback fiber laser array for all optical underwater acoustic sensing

Ship-to-ship/shore Mesh Networks - Development of 802.16 based mesh networks with robust end-to-end QoS and communication Middleware integrating satellite and mesh networks

Ship-to-ship/shore Mesh Networks - Development of 802.16 based mesh networks with robust end-to-end QoS and communication Middleware integrating satellite and mesh networks

Collaborative Multi-hop AUV Networks - Multi-hop MAC and routing techniques to improve data acquisition and delivery in underwater submersibles

Collaborative Multi-hop AUV Networks - Multi-hop MAC and routing techniques to improve data acquisition and delivery in underwater submersibles

Electric Conduction Modems - Development of high speed (1 Mbps), short range (10m) electric conduction based modems for communications between submersibles

Electric Conduction Modems - Development of high speed (1 Mbps), short range (10m) electric conduction based modems for communications between submersibles

High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks (HSMMN)High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks (HSMMN)

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Content RepurposingContent Repurposing

Content Understanding & Management

Multi-Media Search, Indexing & Retrieval

Personalized Interface

Multimedia Content Server

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Scalable Media Coding

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Quality of Experience (QoE) & Quality of Service (QoS)

Out-source Expertise Avail Focus Area

Content Creation & Ingest

Middleware

Next Generation Content for IPTV (IPTV)Next Generation Content for IPTV (IPTV)

IPTV Testbed @ Fusionopolis

Key Differentiation: Scalable delivery, personalization & interactivity

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Personal 3D Entertainment Systems (P3DES)Personal 3D Entertainment Systems (P3DES)

Home Virtual Reality

Interactive Sports Game Engine

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Power-aware Wireless Sensor Networks for Power-aware Wireless Sensor Networks for Tracking & Monitoring (PAWSN)Tracking & Monitoring (PAWSN)

Broadband

RFID

WSNMiddleware

& Service platforms

Sensor

Wireless Sensor nodesSource:UCN

Challenges:1. Energy Harvesting for low

power/battery-less radios/ RFID/ Zigbee

2. Networking Protocols for highly dense WSN.

3. Security for WSN & RF tags4. Tracking UWB tags in

heterogeneous wireless environment -cognitive radio sensing.

5. Power efficient wireless nodes

Temperature Sensors, etc

Internet of things!

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ServersServers

Outdoor Info Access• Licensed Band• Bandwidth Limited • Ubiquitous Wireless• Target – 10x 3.5G (3GPP) >

100Mbps • Technology - ↑Mbps/MHz

ContentExchange

Information Access

Indoor

Outdoor

Indoor Info Access• Hybrid Wire-

Wireless• Indoor Coverage &

QoS• Target – 10x WiFi

11a/g• Technology -

↑Mbps*m

Short Range Exchange• Device Limited Power• Peer-to-Peer• Low Emission Power • Technology -↑Mbps/mW Indoor

Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity (TGPC)Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity (TGPC)

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Enhanced SOA

Advanced Services

Mobile Services

Recommendation Analytics (Data & Text Mining)& Semantic Technologies

Dynamic ServiceComposition

Healthcare & Wellness Services

Real-Time Sensor Data

Context Awareness

Personalization Optimization Intelligence

Business ProcessOptimization

Security & Authentication

PPersonalization, ersonalization, OOptimization & ptimization & IIntelligence through ntelligence through SeServices rvices (POISe)(POISe)

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