Friday, June 17, 2011
Conference paper deadline: ADMA 2011
The deadline for submitting papers to the 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA) 2011 is July 7 2011. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, 17-19 December, 2011.
Call for papers: AISec 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec) 2011 is July 6 2011. This conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois, 21 October 2011.
Paper submission deadline: MICAI 2011
The deadline for registration of abstracts for the 10th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) 2011 is July 1, 2011, with full papers due July 7, 2011. This conference will be held in Puebla, Mexico, November 26 - December 4, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: CiSE 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE) 2011 is July 20, 2011. This conference will be held in Wuhan, China, December 9-11, 2011.
Call for papers: CIS 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2011 is 30 June 2011. This conference will be held in Sanya, Hainan, China, on December 3-4, 2011.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Paper submission deadline: HIS 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 11th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) 2011 is July 1, 2011. This conference will be held in Malacca, Malaysia, 5-8 December, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: IWACI 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI) 2011 is July 1, 2011. This conference will be held in Wuhan, China, October 19-21 2011.
Conference paper deadline: CIDM 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2011) is 30 June, 2011. This conference will be held in Fukuoka, Japan, November 30 - December 2, 2011.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Call for papers: FUZZ-IEEE 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) is December 19, 2011. This conference is part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) and is held concurrently with the 2012 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). WCCI 2012 will be held in Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.
Conference paper deadline: ACAL 11
The deadline for papers submitted to the 5th Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL) 2011 is 28 June 2011. This conference will be held in Perth, Australia, 6-8 December, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: UKCI 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 11th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) 2011 is 20 June 2011. This workshop will be held in Manchester, UK, 7-9 September, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: ACIIDS 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 4th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS) 2012 is September 15, 2011. This conference will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 19-21, 2012.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Detecting reefs with ANN
I have just published a paper, along with several of my colleagues at the University of Adelaide, on detecting reefs using MLP.
The problem was that while there is coarse-scale bathymetric data from sonar surveys, and surveys of small areas that list the presence and absence of reefs in a relatively small number of points, there have not been large-scale surveys of where, exactly, reefs are. This is because the fine-scale sonar surveys needed to detect them remotely are very expensive and time consuming, and surveying manually (divers going into the water and looking) can be dangerous in places (either dangerous sea conditions, or big bitey beasties in the water). Not knowing where reefs are is a problem, especially if you want to construct ecological models of reef-dwelling creatures like abalone. In short, abalone like to live on reefs, so to build an accurate model, you must know where the reefs are.
We addressed this problem by firstly, processing the bathymetric data into slope and curvature measures of the sea bed, then training MLP over sliding 2D windows of these variables, where a known reef presence or absence was in the centre of the window. A window in this case was an n * n matrix of values, where we used n=5. So, the third element of the third row was the target cell, which the MLP was learning to classify as either a reef or non-reef point.
We found that combinations of the bathymetric value of the target cell, and a 5*5 window of seabed slope, gave us the best results. The overall experimental method we used was as I described in this post. While we weren't able to classify every reef exactly, the overall accuracy of 85% was enough to construct a useful map of reefs for ecological models of abalone.
We're looking at boosting the accuracy of our models by various means - this first paper is just a proof-of-concept, to show that we can find reefs with ANN.
The full citation for this paper is:
Watts, M.J., et al., A novel method for mapping reefs and subtidal rocky habitats using artificial neural networks. Ecological Modelling (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.024
The problem was that while there is coarse-scale bathymetric data from sonar surveys, and surveys of small areas that list the presence and absence of reefs in a relatively small number of points, there have not been large-scale surveys of where, exactly, reefs are. This is because the fine-scale sonar surveys needed to detect them remotely are very expensive and time consuming, and surveying manually (divers going into the water and looking) can be dangerous in places (either dangerous sea conditions, or big bitey beasties in the water). Not knowing where reefs are is a problem, especially if you want to construct ecological models of reef-dwelling creatures like abalone. In short, abalone like to live on reefs, so to build an accurate model, you must know where the reefs are.
We addressed this problem by firstly, processing the bathymetric data into slope and curvature measures of the sea bed, then training MLP over sliding 2D windows of these variables, where a known reef presence or absence was in the centre of the window. A window in this case was an n * n matrix of values, where we used n=5. So, the third element of the third row was the target cell, which the MLP was learning to classify as either a reef or non-reef point.
We found that combinations of the bathymetric value of the target cell, and a 5*5 window of seabed slope, gave us the best results. The overall experimental method we used was as I described in this post. While we weren't able to classify every reef exactly, the overall accuracy of 85% was enough to construct a useful map of reefs for ecological models of abalone.
We're looking at boosting the accuracy of our models by various means - this first paper is just a proof-of-concept, to show that we can find reefs with ANN.
The full citation for this paper is:
Watts, M.J., et al., A novel method for mapping reefs and subtidal rocky habitats using artificial neural networks. Ecological Modelling (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.024
Call for papers: IJCNN 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks is December 19, 2011. This conference is part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) and is held concurrently with the 2012 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Logic (Fuzz-IEEE). WCCI 2012 will be held in Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.
Monday, June 13, 2011
IJCNN 2011 Final Program
The final program for the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) has been posted. This conference will be held in San Jose, California, July 31 - August 5, 2011.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Call for papers: CEC 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 2012 Congress on Evolutionary Computation is December 19, 2011. This conference is part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) and is held concurrently with the 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) and IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Logic (Fuzz-IEEE). WCCI 2012 will be held in Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Conference paper deadline: CIBCB 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 2012 conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is November 20, 2011. This conference will be held in San Diego, California, May 9-12, 2012.
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