Decentralised Data Management for Edge Caching Systems in 5G. This project aims to deliver a suite of decentralised data management approaches to facilitate practical edge caching systems in the 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) environment. Edge caching offers great promises for Australia's post-COVID economic recovery and resilience with the ability to enable real-time mobile and IoT software applications in various domains, e.g., telehealth, online learning/working, advanced manufacturing, etc. ....Decentralised Data Management for Edge Caching Systems in 5G. This project aims to deliver a suite of decentralised data management approaches to facilitate practical edge caching systems in the 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) environment. Edge caching offers great promises for Australia's post-COVID economic recovery and resilience with the ability to enable real-time mobile and IoT software applications in various domains, e.g., telehealth, online learning/working, advanced manufacturing, etc. This project tackles new and urgent challenges in edge data storage, manipulation, maintenance, and protection with optimisation, distributed consensus, graph analytics, and cryptography techniques. The outcomes should build the pillars of edge caching systems and promote Australia's 5G software innovations.Read moreRead less
Constraint-based Privacy Preserving BioSignal Data Management on Blockchain. This project aims to address the issue of user privacy in Bio-Signal data analysis by utilizing the capabilities of differential privacy, smart contracts and blockchain technologies. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of privacy to develop an advanced privacy-preserving Bio-Signal data analytic framework. The expected outcomes of this project include increased privacy of user data, and the unifi ....Constraint-based Privacy Preserving BioSignal Data Management on Blockchain. This project aims to address the issue of user privacy in Bio-Signal data analysis by utilizing the capabilities of differential privacy, smart contracts and blockchain technologies. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of privacy to develop an advanced privacy-preserving Bio-Signal data analytic framework. The expected outcomes of this project include increased privacy of user data, and the unification of standards on human-specific data analysis, saving time and money spent on privacy breaches. This should provide significant benefits in preserving the quality and integrity of the healthcare services provided by the Australian government and private sector.Read moreRead less
Effective and efficient protection of personal privacy in big personal data. Personal privacy protection is becoming increasingly important as personal data is increasingly being hosted in cloud servers, accumulating as big personal data. This project aims to develop innovative solutions for effective and efficient to address the issue of protection of personal privacy. Current approaches are neither effective nor efficient, and lack robustness. The project is expected to enhance theoretical fou ....Effective and efficient protection of personal privacy in big personal data. Personal privacy protection is becoming increasingly important as personal data is increasingly being hosted in cloud servers, accumulating as big personal data. This project aims to develop innovative solutions for effective and efficient to address the issue of protection of personal privacy. Current approaches are neither effective nor efficient, and lack robustness. The project is expected to enhance theoretical foundation of personal privacy protection in big data and cloud, and deliver an effective and efficient personal privacy protection framework with associated algorithms and prototype. These outcomes will help to protect fast-growing privacy sensitive personal data hosting and applications on cloud servers.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
Unlocking Mass Mobile Video Analytics with Advanced Neural Memory Networks. This project will develop neural memory architectures and dense spatial-temporal bundle adjustment to predict movement, behaviour, and perform multi-sensor fusion across large asynchronous video feeds. This capability will allow us to better interrogate and analyse mass video information recorded from the vast number of smartphones, action cameras, and surveillance cameras which exist at public events of interest. Outcom ....Unlocking Mass Mobile Video Analytics with Advanced Neural Memory Networks. This project will develop neural memory architectures and dense spatial-temporal bundle adjustment to predict movement, behaviour, and perform multi-sensor fusion across large asynchronous video feeds. This capability will allow us to better interrogate and analyse mass video information recorded from the vast number of smartphones, action cameras, and surveillance cameras which exist at public events of interest. Outcomes include the ability to ingest multiple video feeds into a dense and dynamic 3D reconstruction for knowledge representation and discovery, and analysis of events and behaviour through new spatio-temporal analytic approaches. This will offer significant benefits for video forensic analysis, policing, and emergency response.Read moreRead less
Privacy-aware Smart Access Control for Internet-of-Things on Blockchain. This project aims to address privacy and trust issues in Internet-of-Things (IoT) access control mechanism of smart critical infrastructure. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of IoT access control by leveraging privacy-preserving techniques, blockchain, and machine learning. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced capability to build improved techniques for privacy aware tamperproof IoT a ....Privacy-aware Smart Access Control for Internet-of-Things on Blockchain. This project aims to address privacy and trust issues in Internet-of-Things (IoT) access control mechanism of smart critical infrastructure. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of IoT access control by leveraging privacy-preserving techniques, blockchain, and machine learning. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced capability to build improved techniques for privacy aware tamperproof IoT access control with machine learning based anomaly detection. This should provide significant benefits, such as preventing cyber threats on security and privacy of IoT and improving trust in IoT-enabled smart critical infrastructure of Australia.Read moreRead less
Automatic Machine Learning with Imperfect Data for Video Analysis . This project aims to propose new algorithms and technologies for constructing an efficient video analysis system, which will be aligned with Australia’s science and research priorities. Specifically, during this project, a novel network structure search method based on auto machine learning will be proposed, an unsupervised domain adaptation algorithm will be developed, and a generative data augmentation method will be construct ....Automatic Machine Learning with Imperfect Data for Video Analysis . This project aims to propose new algorithms and technologies for constructing an efficient video analysis system, which will be aligned with Australia’s science and research priorities. Specifically, during this project, a novel network structure search method based on auto machine learning will be proposed, an unsupervised domain adaptation algorithm will be developed, and a generative data augmentation method will be constructed. All of these will construct a stable and efficient deep neural network, which is able to process large size videos captured from real scenarios in high efficiencies. Various fields, such as health care service and cybersecurity, will benefit hugely from this project.Read moreRead less
Learning to Pinpoint Emerging Software Vulnerabilities. This project aims to develop learning-based software vulnerability detection techniques to improve the reliability and security of modern software systems. The existing techniques relying on conventional yet rigid software analysis and testing techniques are ineffective and/or inefficient when detecting a wide variety of emerging software vulnerabilities. The outcomes of this project will be a deep-learning-based detection approach and an ....Learning to Pinpoint Emerging Software Vulnerabilities. This project aims to develop learning-based software vulnerability detection techniques to improve the reliability and security of modern software systems. The existing techniques relying on conventional yet rigid software analysis and testing techniques are ineffective and/or inefficient when detecting a wide variety of emerging software vulnerabilities. The outcomes of this project will be a deep-learning-based detection approach and an open-source tool that can capture precision correlations between deep code features and diverse vulnerabilities to pinpoint emerging vulnerabilities without the need for bug specifications. Significant benefits include greatly improved quality, reliability and security for modern software systems.Read moreRead less
Deeper, Wider, Faster program: Detecting the fastest bursts in the Universe. This Project aims to progress a novel collaboration of worldwide facilities operating at all-wavelengths to discover and rapidly follow up the fastest bursts in the Universe (those lasting only milliseconds to hours). This Project aims to increase the program's scientific output that searches an unexplored time regime and aims to uncover new phenomena and physics. The challenges of 'real-time' identification of the fa ....Deeper, Wider, Faster program: Detecting the fastest bursts in the Universe. This Project aims to progress a novel collaboration of worldwide facilities operating at all-wavelengths to discover and rapidly follow up the fastest bursts in the Universe (those lasting only milliseconds to hours). This Project aims to increase the program's scientific output that searches an unexplored time regime and aims to uncover new phenomena and physics. The challenges of 'real-time' identification of the fast-fading events, including supercomputer data processing and sophisticated data visualisation and sonification techniques, offer an ideal platform to test and accelerate Big Data analyses in science, medicine, and industry, and increase public STEM participation, including the blind and visually-impaired community.Read moreRead less
Fairness aware data mining for discrimination free decision-making. This project aims to develop data mining methods to detect algorithmic discriminations and to build fair decision models. It expects to provide techniques for regulatory organisations to detect discriminations in algorithmic decisions, and for various companies and organisations to build fair decision systems. Expected outcomes are novel and accurate methods for discrimination detection, practical and versatile techniques for fa ....Fairness aware data mining for discrimination free decision-making. This project aims to develop data mining methods to detect algorithmic discriminations and to build fair decision models. It expects to provide techniques for regulatory organisations to detect discriminations in algorithmic decisions, and for various companies and organisations to build fair decision systems. Expected outcomes are novel and accurate methods for discrimination detection, practical and versatile techniques for fair decision model building, and improved understanding of the relationships between privacy preservation and discrimination prevention to enable new techniques to achieve both goals. The developed techniques enable society to tackle ethical challenges in the big data era where many decisions are analytics based. Read moreRead less