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Evaluation Of Sigfox Lpwan For Sensor-Enabled Homes To Identify At Risk Community Dwelling Seniors, Crys TAN, Hwee-pink TAN 2019 Singapore Management University

Evaluation Of Sigfox Lpwan For Sensor-Enabled Homes To Identify At Risk Community Dwelling Seniors, Crys Tan, Hwee-Pink Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

It is projected that Singapore will become superaged (where 20% of its population will comprise seniors) by 2025. Although various community programs are available to promote active ageing among seniors who are well, provide befriending services for seniors at risk of isolation and care and support for frail and vulnerable seniors, it is not easy to differentiate between `well' seniors and `at risk' seniors. While privacy-preserving z-wave based sensor-enabled homes have been piloted in 100 homes of seniors living alone and have been successful in the timely detection of at-risk seniors, they have limited scalability due to high costs, reliability …


Automatic Fashion Knowledge Extraction From Social Media, Yunshan MA, Lizi LIAO, Tat-Seng CHUA 2019 Singapore Management University

Automatic Fashion Knowledge Extraction From Social Media, Yunshan Ma, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fashion knowledge plays a pivotal role in helping people in their dressing. In this paper, we present a novel system to automatically harvest fashion knowledge from social media. It unifies three tasks of occasion, person and clothing discovery from multiple modalities of images, texts and metadata. A contextualized fashion concept learning model is applied to leverage the rich contextual information for improving the fashion concept learning performance. At the same time, to counter the label noise within training data, we employ a weak label modeling method to further boost the performance. We build a website to demonstrate the quality of …


Who, Where, And What To Wear?: Extracting Fashion Knowledge From Social Media, Yunshan MA, Xun YANG, Lizi LIAO, Yixin CAO, Tat-Seng CHUA 2019 Singapore Management University

Who, Where, And What To Wear?: Extracting Fashion Knowledge From Social Media, Yunshan Ma, Xun Yang, Lizi Liao, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fashion knowledge helps people to dress properly and addresses not only physiological needs of users, but also the demands of social activities and conventions. It usually involves three mutually related aspects of: occasion, person and clothing. However, there are few works focusing on extracting such knowledge, which will greatly benefit many downstream applications, such as fashion recommendation. In this paper, we propose a novel method to automatically harvest fashion knowledge from social media. We unify three tasks of occasion, person and clothing discovery from multiple modalities of images, texts and metadata. For person detection and analysis, we use the off-the-shelf …


Mixed-Dish Recognition With Contextual Relation Networks, Lixi DENG, Jingjing CHEN, Qianru SUN, Xiangnan HE, Sheng TANG, Zhaoyan MING, Yongdong ZHANG, Tat-Seng CHUA 2019 Chinese Academy of Sciences

Mixed-Dish Recognition With Contextual Relation Networks, Lixi Deng, Jingjing Chen, Qianru Sun, Xiangnan He, Sheng Tang, Zhaoyan Ming, Yongdong Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Mixed dish is a food category that contains different dishes mixed in one plate, and is popular in Eastern and Southeast Asia. Recognizing individual dishes in a mixed dish image is important for health related applications, e.g. calculating the nutrition values. However, most existing methods that focus on single dish classification are not applicable to mixed-dish recognition. The new challenge in recognizing mixed-dish images are the complex ingredient combination and severe overlap among different dishes. In order to tackle these problems, we propose a novel approach called contextual relation networks (CR-Nets) that encodes the implicit and explicit contextual relations among …


Collaborative Online Ranking Algorithms For Multitask Learning, Guangxia LI, Peilin ZHAO, Tao MEI, Peng YANG, Yulong SHEN, Julian K. Y. CHANG, Steven C. H. HOI 2019 Singapore Management University

Collaborative Online Ranking Algorithms For Multitask Learning, Guangxia Li, Peilin Zhao, Tao Mei, Peng Yang, Yulong Shen, Julian K. Y. Chang, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

There are many applications in which it is desirable to rank or order instances that belong to several different but related problems or tasks. Although unique, the individual ranking problem often shares characteristics with other problems in the group. Conventional ranking methods treat each task independently without considering the latent commonalities. In this paper, we study the problem of learning to rank instances that belong to multiple related tasks from the multitask learning perspective. We consider a case in which the information that is learned for a task can be used to enhance the learning of other tasks and propose …


Factors Influencing Knowledge Transfer In Onshore Information Systems Outsourcing In Ethiopia, Solomon A. Nurye, Alem Molla, Temtim Assefa Desta 2019 Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Factors Influencing Knowledge Transfer In Onshore Information Systems Outsourcing In Ethiopia, Solomon A. Nurye, Alem Molla, Temtim Assefa Desta

The African Journal of Information Systems

Knowledge transfer in onshore information systems (IS) outsourcing projects in Africa is an important but under-researched phenomenon. This study focuses on the client-vendor perspective and examines the factors that influence knowledge transfer in onshore information systems outsourcing in Ethiopia. Conceptually, knowledge-based perspectives of IS outsourcing is used to identify an initial set of factors to frame the empirical study. This is followed by semi-structured interviews with ten project managers. The findings indicate that five key factors, namely mutual absorptive capacity, mutual learning intent, mutual trust, mutual disseminative capacity and project staff turnover influence knowledge transfer in outsourced IS projects. The …


Deep Hashing By Discriminating Hard Examples, Cheng YAN, Guansong PANG, Xiao BAI, Chunhua SHEN, Jun ZHOU, Edwin HANCOCK 2019 Singapore Management University

Deep Hashing By Discriminating Hard Examples, Cheng Yan, Guansong Pang, Xiao Bai, Chunhua Shen, Jun Zhou, Edwin Hancock

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper tackles a rarely explored but critical problem within learning to hash, i.e., to learn hash codes that effectively discriminate hard similar and dissimilar examples, to empower large-scale image retrieval. Hard similar examples refer to image pairs from the same semantic class that demonstrate some shared appearance but have different fine-grained appearance. Hard dissimilar examples are image pairs that come from different semantic classes but exhibit similar appearance. These hard examples generally have a small distance due to the shared appearance. Therefore, effective encoding of the hard examples can well discriminate the relevant images within a small Hamming distance, …


Automatic Fashion Knowledge Extraction From Social Media, Yunshan MA, Lizi LIAO, Tat-Seng CHUA 2019 Singapore Management University

Automatic Fashion Knowledge Extraction From Social Media, Yunshan Ma, Lizi Liao, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fashion knowledge plays a pivotal role in helping people in their dressing. In this paper, we present a novel system to automatically harvest fashion knowledge from social media. It unifies three tasks of occasion, person and clothing discovery from multiple modalities of images, texts and metadata. A contextualized fashion concept learning model is applied to leverage the rich contextual information for improving the fashion concept learning performance. At the same time, to counter the label noise within training data, we employ a weak label modeling method to further boost the performance. We build a website to demonstrate the quality of …


End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning For Multi-Agent Collaborative Exploration, Zichen CHEN, Budhitama SUBAGDJA, Ah-hwee TAN 2019 Singapore Management University

End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning For Multi-Agent Collaborative Exploration, Zichen Chen, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Exploring an unknown environment by multiple autonomous robots is a major challenge in robotics domains. As multiple robots are assigned to explore different locations, they may interfere each other making the overall tasks less efficient. In this paper, we present a new model called CNN-based Multi-agent Proximal Policy Optimization (CMAPPO) to multi-agent exploration wherein the agents learn the effective strategy to allocate and explore the environment using a new deep reinforcement learning architecture. The model combines convolutional neural network to process multi-channel visual inputs, curriculum-based learning, and PPO algorithm for motivation based reinforcement learning. Evaluations show that the proposed method …


Multi-Agent Collaborative Exploration Through Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning, Tianze LUO, Budhitama SUBAGDJA, Ah-hwee TAN, Ah-Hwee TAN 2019 Singapore Management University

Multi-Agent Collaborative Exploration Through Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning, Tianze Luo, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan, Ah-Hwee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Autonomous exploration by a single or multiple agents in an unknown environment leads to various applications in automation, such as cleaning, search and rescue, etc. Traditional methods normally take frontier locations and segmented regions of the environment into account to efficiently allocate target locations to different agents to visit. They may employ ad hoc solutions to allocate the task to the agents, but the allocation may not be efficient. In the literature, few studies focused on enhancing the traditional methods by applying machine learning models for agent performance improvement. In this paper, we propose a graph-based deep reinforcement learning approach …


Detecting Cyberattacks In Industrial Control Systems Using Online Learning Algorithms, Guangxia LI, Yulong SHEN, Peilin ZHAO, Xiao LU, Jia LIU, Yangyang LIU, Steven C. H. HOI 2019 Singapore Management University

Detecting Cyberattacks In Industrial Control Systems Using Online Learning Algorithms, Guangxia Li, Yulong Shen, Peilin Zhao, Xiao Lu, Jia Liu, Yangyang Liu, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Industrial control systems are critical to the operation of industrial facilities, especially for critical infrastructures, such as refineries, power grids, and transportation systems. Similar to other information systems, a significant threat to industrial control systems is the attack from cyberspace-the offensive maneuvers launched by "anonymous" in the digital world that target computer-based assets with the goal of compromising a system's functions or probing for information. Owing to the importance of industrial control systems, and the possibly devastating consequences of being attacked, significant endeavors have been attempted to secure industrial control systems from cyberattacks. Among them are intrusion detection systems that …


Who, Where, And What To Wear?: Extracting Fashion Knowledge From Social Media, Yunshan MA, Xun YANG, Lizi LIAO, Yixin CAO, Tat-Seng CHUA 2019 Singapore Management University

Who, Where, And What To Wear?: Extracting Fashion Knowledge From Social Media, Yunshan Ma, Xun Yang, Lizi Liao, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fashion knowledge helps people to dress properly and addresses not only physiological needs of users, but also the demands of social activities and conventions. It usually involves three mutually related aspects of: occasion, person and clothing. However, there are few works focusing on extracting such knowledge, which will greatly benefit many downstream applications, such as fashion recommendation. In this paper, we propose a novel method to automatically harvest fashion knowledge from social media. We unify three tasks of occasion, person and clothing discovery from multiple modalities of images, texts and metadata. For person detection and analysis, we use the off-the-shelf …


Fusion Of Multimodal Embeddings For Ad-Hoc Video Search, Danny FRANCIS, Phuong Anh NGUYEN, Benoit HUET, Chong-wah NGO 2019 Singapore Management University

Fusion Of Multimodal Embeddings For Ad-Hoc Video Search, Danny Francis, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Benoit Huet, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The challenge of Ad-Hoc Video Search (AVS) originates from free-form (i.e., no pre-defined vocabulary) and freestyle (i.e., natural language) query description. Bridging the semantic gap between AVS queries and videos becomes highly difficult as evidenced from the low retrieval accuracy of AVS benchmarking in TRECVID. In this paper, we study a new method to fuse multimodal embeddings which have been derived based on completely disjoint datasets. This method is tested on two datasets for two distinct tasks: on MSR-VTT for unique video retrieval and on V3C1 for multiple videos retrieval.


Who, Where, And What To Wear?: Extracting Fashion Knowledge From Social Media, Yunshan MA, Xun YANG, Lizi LIAO, Yixin CAO, Tat-Seng CHUA 2019 Singapore Management University

Who, Where, And What To Wear?: Extracting Fashion Knowledge From Social Media, Yunshan Ma, Xun Yang, Lizi Liao, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Fashion knowledge helps people to dress properly and addresses not only physiological needs of users, but also the demands of social activities and conventions. It usually involves three mutually related aspects of: occasion, person and clothing. However, there are few works focusing on extracting such knowledge, which will greatly benefit many downstream applications, such as fashion recommendation. In this paper, we propose a novel method to automatically harvest fashion knowledge from social media. We unify three tasks of occasion, person and clothing discovery from multiple modalities of images, texts and metadata. For person detection and analysis, we use the off-the-shelf …


The Vid3oc And Intvid Datasets For Video Super Resolution And Quality Mapping, S. KIM, G. LI, D. FUOLI, M. DANELLJAN, Zhiwu HUANG, S. GU, R. TIMOFTE 2019 Singapore Management University

The Vid3oc And Intvid Datasets For Video Super Resolution And Quality Mapping, S. Kim, G. Li, D. Fuoli, M. Danelljan, Zhiwu Huang, S. Gu, R. Timofte

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The current rapid advancements of computational hardware has opened the door for deep networks to be applied for real-time video processing, even on consumer devices. Appealing tasks include video super-resolution, compression artifact removal, and quality enhancement. These problems require high-quality datasets that can be applied for training and benchmarking. In this work, we therefore introduce two video datasets, aimed for a variety of tasks. First, we propose the Vid3oC dataset, containing 82 simultaneous recordings of 3 camera sensors. It is recorded with a multi-camera rig, including a high-quality DSLR camera, a high-end smartphone, and a stereo camera sensor. Second, we …


Weakly-Supervised Deep Anomaly Detection With Pairwise Relation Learning, Guansong PANG, Anton Van Den HENGEL, Chuanhua SHEN 2019 Singapore Management University

Weakly-Supervised Deep Anomaly Detection With Pairwise Relation Learning, Guansong Pang, Anton Van Den Hengel, Chuanhua Shen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper studies a rarely explored but critical anomaly detection problem: weakly-supervised anomaly detection with limited labeled anomalies and a large unlabeled data set. This problem is very important because it (i) enables anomalyinformed modeling which helps identify anomalies of interests and address the notorious high false positives in unsupervised anomaly detection, and (ii) eliminates the reliance on large-scale and complete labeled anomaly data in fullysupervised settings. However, the problem is especially challenging since we have only limited labeled data for a single class, and moreover, the seen anomalies often cannot cover all types of anomalies (i.e., unseen anomalies). We …


Cognitive And Social Interaction Analysis In Graduate Discussion Forums, Mallika GOKARN NITIN, Swapna GOTTIPATI, Venky SHANKARARAMAN 2019 Singapore Management University

Cognitive And Social Interaction Analysis In Graduate Discussion Forums, Mallika Gokarn Nitin, Swapna Gottipati, Venky Shankararaman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Discussion forums play a key role in building knowledge repositories in an education institute. Asynchronous discussion forums enable part-time graduate professionals to have a better learning experience. This paper reports how a carefully curated discussion forum enhances the cognitive and social interactions among students in a graduate information systems course. In particular, we analyse the cognitive and social interactions and their impact on the student grades. To our surprise, the graduate students with their limited time resources, have higher order cognitive contributions and reasonable amount of social posts. We present the discussion forum design, cognitive and social behaviour analysis, grade …


Topicsummary: A Tool For Analyzing Class Discussion Forums Using Topic Based Summarizations, Swapna GOTTIPATI, Venky SHANKARARAMAN, Renjini RAMESH 2019 Singapore Management University

Topicsummary: A Tool For Analyzing Class Discussion Forums Using Topic Based Summarizations, Swapna Gottipati, Venky Shankararaman, Renjini Ramesh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This Innovative Practice full paper, describes the application of text mining techniques for extracting insights from a course based online discussion forum through generation of topic based summaries. Discussions, either in classroom or online provide opportunity for collaborative learning through exchange of ideas that leads to enhanced learning through active participation. Online discussions offer a number of benefits namely providing additional time to reflect and synthesize information before writing, providing a natural platform for students to voice their ideas without any one student dominating the conversation, and providing a record of the student’s thoughts. An online discussion forum provides a …


On Analysing Supply And Demand In Labor Markets: Framework, Model And System, Hendrik Santoso SUGIARTO, Ee-peng LIM, Ngak Leng SIM 2019 Singapore Management University

On Analysing Supply And Demand In Labor Markets: Framework, Model And System, Hendrik Santoso Sugiarto, Ee-Peng Lim, Ngak Leng Sim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The labor market refers to the market between job seekers and employers. As much of job seeking and talent hiring activities are now performed online, a large amount of job posting and application data have been collected and can be re-purposed for labor market analysis. In the labor market, both supply and demand are the key factors in determining an appropriate salary for both job applicants and employers in the market. However, it is challenging to discover the supply and demand for any labor market. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to built a labor market model using …


Smartbfa: A Passive Crowdsourcing System For Point-To-Point Barrier-Free Access, Mohammed Nazir KAMALDIN, Susan KEE, Songwei KONG, Chengkai LEE, Huiguang LIANG, Alisha SAINI, Hwee-pink TAN, Hwee Xian TAN 2019 Singapore Management University

Smartbfa: A Passive Crowdsourcing System For Point-To-Point Barrier-Free Access, Mohammed Nazir Kamaldin, Susan Kee, Songwei Kong, Chengkai Lee, Huiguang Liang, Alisha Saini, Hwee-Pink Tan, Hwee Xian Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

At the Bloomberg Live `Sooner Than You Think' forum [1] held in Singapore in 2018, nearly 75% of delegates picked inclusiveness to be the key measure of success for a smart city. An inclusive smart city is a citizen-centered approach that extends the experiences provided by smart city solutions to all citizens, including seniors and persons with disabilities (PwDs).Despite existing regulations on barrier-free accessibility for buildings and public infrastructure, pedestrian infrastructure is generally still inaccessible to PwDs in many parts of the world. In this paper, we present SmartBFA (Smart Mobility and Accessibility for Barrier Free Access) - a publicly-funded …


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