Creating a sustainable, healthy, and equitable food system. This project aims to develop a whole-of-food system approach that will result in a more healthy, sustainable, and equitable food environment. A multi-disciplinary approach, based on the US Vermont Farm to Plate initiative, will bring together key stakeholders to collectively increase availability and access to locally sourced food, increase consumer awareness of sustainable food choices, accompanied with a retail “Love Local” campaign. ....Creating a sustainable, healthy, and equitable food system. This project aims to develop a whole-of-food system approach that will result in a more healthy, sustainable, and equitable food environment. A multi-disciplinary approach, based on the US Vermont Farm to Plate initiative, will bring together key stakeholders to collectively increase availability and access to locally sourced food, increase consumer awareness of sustainable food choices, accompanied with a retail “Love Local” campaign. Knowledge created by this research will inform policy and legislative reforms that will empower local governments and communities to respond to food system challenges. This case study in regional NSW will demonstrate the effectiveness of a framework that can be upscaled to other areas and countries.Read moreRead less
Deep Interaction Learning in Unlabelled Big Data and Complex Systems. This project aims to effectively model intricate interactions deeply embedded in unlabelled big data and complex systems, which are often hierarchical, heterogeneous, contextual, dynamic or even contrastive. Learning such interactions is the keystone of robust data science and for realizing the value of big data but it poses significant challenges and knowledge gaps to existing data analytics and learning systems. The expected ....Deep Interaction Learning in Unlabelled Big Data and Complex Systems. This project aims to effectively model intricate interactions deeply embedded in unlabelled big data and complex systems, which are often hierarchical, heterogeneous, contextual, dynamic or even contrastive. Learning such interactions is the keystone of robust data science and for realizing the value of big data but it poses significant challenges and knowledge gaps to existing data analytics and learning systems. The expected outcomes include new-generation theories and methods for the unsupervised learning of complex interactions in real-life big data, which are anticipated to enable the intrinsic processing of big data complexities and substantially enhance Australia’s leadership in frontier data science research and applications. Read moreRead less
Molecular and immunological approaches to managing Australia's seafood allergy epidemic. Seafood is an increasingly important cause of food allergy. Novel insight into the functions of why and how proteins from seafood develop to potent allergens will lead to the development of better diagnostics and therapeutics. This will assist patients to better manage their serious food allergy.
Fatigue Life Prediction of Nano-filler Modified Composites. The proposed project aims to study the behaviour and the failure mechanisms of polymer nanocomposites under cyclic loading. The outcomes of the project will make original contributions to our knowledge base on such materials. The mechanics modelling and statistical analysis of the prediction of fatigue life will provide a sound physical basis and a useful tool for any future improvement and optimisation of the composites to achieve bett ....Fatigue Life Prediction of Nano-filler Modified Composites. The proposed project aims to study the behaviour and the failure mechanisms of polymer nanocomposites under cyclic loading. The outcomes of the project will make original contributions to our knowledge base on such materials. The mechanics modelling and statistical analysis of the prediction of fatigue life will provide a sound physical basis and a useful tool for any future improvement and optimisation of the composites to achieve better reliability and integrity in their intended applications. This study will bring economic benefits to the end-users of advanced material technology including the Australian materials industries. Read moreRead less
Automatic video annotation by learning from web data. This project aims to study next-generation video annotation technologies to automatically tag raw videos using a huge set of semantic concepts. The project will study new domain adaptation schemes and frameworks in order to substantially improve video annotation performance. The resulting prototype system can be directly used by ordinary users worldwide to search their personal videos using textual queries. The system is also applicable to vi ....Automatic video annotation by learning from web data. This project aims to study next-generation video annotation technologies to automatically tag raw videos using a huge set of semantic concepts. The project will study new domain adaptation schemes and frameworks in order to substantially improve video annotation performance. The resulting prototype system can be directly used by ordinary users worldwide to search their personal videos using textual queries. The system is also applicable to video surveillance applications, which can enhance Australia’s homeland security.Read moreRead less
Big Data Machines: Internet-Scale Machine Learning Techniques to Combat the Curse of Big Data. The advent of “big data” in business, government, science, social networks, the internet, etc. creates opportunity in business and commercial domains. Big data also raises issues of increasing volume, variety, dimensionality and categories in open domain big data applications, which this project will solve by developing novel machine learning techniques, including theoretical foundations, a big data ma ....Big Data Machines: Internet-Scale Machine Learning Techniques to Combat the Curse of Big Data. The advent of “big data” in business, government, science, social networks, the internet, etc. creates opportunity in business and commercial domains. Big data also raises issues of increasing volume, variety, dimensionality and categories in open domain big data applications, which this project will solve by developing novel machine learning techniques, including theoretical foundations, a big data machine learning framework and open source website. The outcomes of this project will provide frontier technologies for big data analysis that will have social and economic impact in such areas as social media computing, bioinformatics and business intelligence, and enhance Australia’s global position in the pattern recognition and data mining communities.Read moreRead less
Deep Weak Learning for Morphology Analysis of Micro and Nanoscale Images. This project will develop novel methods for automated discovery and quantification of image phenotypes from micro and nanoscale images. The outcome will be an advance of the state of the art in biomedical image analysis with a particular focus on generalized weakly-supervised deep learning models for morphological feature representation. The methodologies will transform the deep learning pipeline for real biomedical imagin ....Deep Weak Learning for Morphology Analysis of Micro and Nanoscale Images. This project will develop novel methods for automated discovery and quantification of image phenotypes from micro and nanoscale images. The outcome will be an advance of the state of the art in biomedical image analysis with a particular focus on generalized weakly-supervised deep learning models for morphological feature representation. The methodologies will transform the deep learning pipeline for real biomedical imaging scenarios with high heterogeneity and limited training data. The frameworks will facilitate high-throughput processing for a wide range of microscopy image modalities and biological applications, and potentially become the next generation computational platform to support fundamental research in human biology.Read moreRead less
AUSLearn: AUtomated Sample Learning for Object Recognition. This project aims to enable computers to learn how to effectively use training samples for object recognition. Training sample is the only source used by computers to learn recognising objects. This project creates a new research direction that will enable the first full exploration of the power of samples. The aims will be enabled by leveraging the recent advances in reinforcement learning, fast training algorithms, and by developing n ....AUSLearn: AUtomated Sample Learning for Object Recognition. This project aims to enable computers to learn how to effectively use training samples for object recognition. Training sample is the only source used by computers to learn recognising objects. This project creates a new research direction that will enable the first full exploration of the power of samples. The aims will be enabled by leveraging the recent advances in reinforcement learning, fast training algorithms, and by developing novel deep learning algorithms. The new algorithms will benefit a wide range of applications, e.g. to effectively use car crash training samples for accurately identifying potential road crashes in transport and to effectively use rare medical imaging training data for robustly diagnosing diseases in health.Read moreRead less
Memetic algorithms for multiobjective optimisation problems in bioinformatics. Many questions of paramount importance in life sciences can be formulated as optimisation problems but using just a single criterion can be misleading. This project will address this problem using multiobjective optimisation and leveraging Australia's investment in supercomputing with algorithms that mimic evolutionary processes in silico.
Multiview Complete Space Learning for Sparse Camera Network Research. Data analytics in video surveillance and social computing is a problem because data are represented by multiple heterogeneous features. This project will develop a multiview complete space learning framework to exploit heterogeneous properties to represent images obtained from sparse camera networks. It will integrate multiple features to identify people and understand behaviour, to build a database of activities occurring in ....Multiview Complete Space Learning for Sparse Camera Network Research. Data analytics in video surveillance and social computing is a problem because data are represented by multiple heterogeneous features. This project will develop a multiview complete space learning framework to exploit heterogeneous properties to represent images obtained from sparse camera networks. It will integrate multiple features to identify people and understand behaviour, to build a database of activities occurring in a wide area of surveillance. It will expand frontier technologies and safeguard Australia by providing warnings for hazardous (for example, overcrowding, trespassing), criminal, and terrorist situations. Results will be applicable internationally and enhance Australia’s role in machine learning and computer vision communities.Read moreRead less