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Pre-Conference Workshops

(TUESDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2023)

Venue: Charles Sturt University 7 Major Innes Road, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

TIME:	SESSION	LOCATION
9:00-9:30	Registrations	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer
9:30-9:55	Morning Tea	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer
09:55-10:00	Acknowledgement of Country Dennis Taylor, Director of First Nations Student Success	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer (802.1020-1021)
10:00-11:00	Workshop 1: Advanced Machine Learning and Computer Vision for Agriculture Invited Speaker: Mr. Phil Clare (TRACKZ)	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer (802.1020-1021)
11:00-11:30	Weed management: The potential of remote sensing and machine learning Invited Speaker: Dr Kathryn J Sheffield (Agriculture Victoria Research)	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer (802.1020-1021)
11:30-12:00	AI Innovations in Remote Sensing for a Sustainable Future Invited Speakers: Dr Bin Liang and Dr Yaqiong Li (University of Technology, Sydney)	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer (802.1020-1021)
12:00-13:00	Lunch	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer & Grounds
13:00-15:00	Workshop 2 Deep Learning with Images using MATLAB – a Hands-on Workshop – Part 1 Dr Emmanuel Blanchard, MathWorks Session Chair: Assoc/Prof. Lihong Zheng Charles Sturt University	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer (802.1020-1021)
15:00-15:20	Afternoon Tea	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer
15:20-17:20	Remote Sensing/Hyperspectral Imaging with MATLAB– a Hands-on Workshop – Part 2 Dr Emmanuel Blanchard, MathWorks Session Chair: Assoc/Prof. Lihong Zheng Charles Sturt University	Charles Sturt Theatre Foyer (802.1020-1021)
17:20	Pre-conference Workshops Close	–

PLEASE NOTE: It is the Draft Program and Might Change slightly.

Day 1 – Main Conference

(WEDNESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2023)

Sails Port Macquarie by Rydges at 20 Park St, Port Macquarie NSW 2444

TIME:	SESSION	LOCATION
8:00-8:45	Registrations Espresso Coffee & Tea on arrival	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
8:45–8:50	Emcee Daily Welcome Kate Wood-Foye, Director of External Engagement Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
8:50-9:30	The Opening Ceremony Welcome to Country Uncle Bill O’Brien Elder in the Birpai Community First Nations Performance – Steve Donovan Welcome Address: DICTA 2023 Chair: Dr Anwaar Ul-Haq Hosting University Address: Professor Michael Friend Pro Vice Chancellor Research & Innovation Charles Sturt University, Australia APRS President Address: Professor Ajmal Mian University of Western Australia Major Sponsor Address: Dr Sebastian Wong Department of Science, & Technology Group Government of Australia Local Address: Duncan Coulton, Executive Manager Strategy, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
9:30-10:30	Keynote 1 – Prof. Yaser Sheikh Vice President of Research, Meta Topic: Photorealistic Telepresence Keynote Session Chair: Dr Anwaar Ulhaq, General Chair DICTA 2023 Charles Sturt University, Australia	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
10:30-10:40	Group Photo (Weather permitting)	Boathouse Lawn (Outdoors)
10:40-11:00	Morning Tea (Industry Expo)	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom & Waterfront Balconies
11:00-12:00	Oral Session 1 – Visual Segmentation, Categorisation and Search (4 papers- 15 minutes) Session Chair: Professor Brian Lovel Director of the Advanced Surveillance Group, University of Queensland 79 Contrastive-Aware ViT for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation 67 Multiscale Kernel Atrous Convolution Network for Segmentation of Myocardium 91 Towards Fully Decoupled End-to-End Person Search 69 DeepCornerNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Automated Corner Grading in Trading Cards 65 Revisiting Image Reconstruction for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
12:15-13:00	LUNCH	Boathouse Restaurant Sails Port Macquarie
13:00-14:00	Keynote 2 – Prof. Simon Lucey, AIML, Australia Topic: The Rise of Neural Priors Session Chair: Professor Ajmal Mian, APRS President University of Western Australia	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
14:00-15:15	Oral Session 2 – Medical Imaging and Analysis Session Chair: Professor Jun Zhou Deputy Head of School (Research) School of Information & Communication, Griffith University (6 papers- 15 minutes each) 60 Understanding the Role of Saliency Maps for Biomarker Research in 3D Medical Imaging Classification 72 Adaptive Local Prototype and Cycle Attention for Few-shot Medical Image Segmentation 114 Self-Supervised Multimodal Fusion Network for Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Grading 47 Uncertainty-Guided Cross-Modality Semi-Supervised Learning for MRI Segmentation 23 Semantic Segmentation for Improved Cell Nuclei Analysis 54 Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning Leveraging Confidence Score to Identify Retinal Disease	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
15:15-15:50	Afternoon Tea (Industry Expo)	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom & Waterfront Balconies
15:50-16:30	Poster Session 1 Session Chair: Dr Imran Razzak, University of New South Wales (8 Papers – 5 Minutes Each) 17 Ball Detection for a Lightweight Mobile Platform 18 A Feature Enhanced Scale-adaptive Convolutional Network for Ship Detection in Maritime Surveillance 20 PiGPDS: Perspective Independent Ground Plane Detection and Segmentation for Complex 3D Indoor Scenes 24 Diving into Continual ultra-fine-grained visual categorization 25 Synthetic Data Generation and Deep Learning for the Topological Analysis of 3D Data 27 What EXACTLY are We Looking at?: Investigating for Discriminance in Ultra-Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Tasks 45 Scalable Label-efficient Footpath Network Generation using Remote Sensing Data and Self-supervised Learning 84 A Novel Graph-based Framework for Explainable Image Classification: Features That Matter	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
16:30-17:30	ECR Award Presentations (2 Presentations – 25 Minutes Each) Professor Ajmal Mian APRS President University of Western Australia	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
17:30	Day 1 Conference Close	–
17:30-18:30	APRS AGM	Sails Cape Ballroom

PLEASE NOTE: It is the Draft Program and Might Change slightly.

Day 2 – Main Conference

(THURSDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2023)

Sails Port Macquarie by Rydges at 20 Park St, Port Macquarie NSW 2444

Time	Session	Location
08:30-08:55	Registrations Espresso Coffee & Tea on arrival	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
08:55-09:00	Emcee Daily Welcome Kate Wood-Foye, Director of External Engagement Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
09:00-10:00	Keynote 3 – Professor. Nathan Jackob Washington University, St Louis USA Topic: Learning to Map Anything, Anywhere, Anytime. Session Chair: Kate Wood-Foye, Director of External Engagement Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
10:00-10:25	Morning Tea (Industry Expo)	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom & Waterfront Balconies
10:25-11:55	Oral Session 3 – Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis (15 minutes each) Session Chair: Associate Professor Lihong Zhang Director of Data Science Research Unit, Charles Sturt University (6 Papers – 15 minutes each) 43 Novel Dry Soil and Vegetation Indices to Predict Soil Contents from Landsat 8 Satellite Data 104 Feature Enhancer Segmentation Network (FES-Net) for Vessel Segmentation, 111 Towards end-to-end automatic insect handling and insect scanning 30 Leveraging Segment-Anything model for automated zero-shot road width extraction from aerial imagery 101 Look for Tiny Rosettes from Drone Imagery 102 FireRisk: A Remote Sensing Dataset for Fire Risk Assessment with Benchmarks Using Supervised and Self-supervised Learning	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
11:55-12:45	LUNCH	Boathouse Restaurant Sails Port Macquarie
12:45-14:00	Oral Session 4 – 3D Point Clouds and 3D Vision Session Chair: Professor Manoranjan Paul Director, Computer Vision Lab, Charles Sturt University (5 papers – 15 minutes each) 12 DiffSDF: Learning Implicit Surface from Noisy Point Clouds 115 Automatic Insect Loading and 3D Scanning 112 Semantic Segmentation on 3D Point Clouds with High Density Variations, 31 Transformer-based Geometric Point Cloud Compression with Local Neighbor Aggregation 29 Clustering-TinyPointNet for Fast Large-scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
14:00-14:25	Afternoon Tea (Industry Expo)	Sails Port Macquarie –Cape Ballroom & Waterfront Balconies
14:25-15:25	Oral Session 5 – Generative Models and Innovative Data Synthesis Session Chair: Dr Mohammad Awrangjeb, Griffith University (4 papers – 15 minutes each) 46 Preliminary Study of Pseudo-PET Image Synthesis of Glucose Metabolism from Early-Phase PET Images of an Uncorrelated Radiotracer 40 Suspicious Naevi Classification Using Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network 28 Semantic-Driven Global-Local Cooperative Contrastive Learning for Medical Report Generation 96 Enhanced Experience Replay for Class Incremental Continual Learning	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
15:25-16:30	Poster Session 2 Session Chair: Dr Subrata Chakraborty, University of New England (12 papers – 5 Minutes Each) 35 Assembling Extra Feature with Grouped Pointwise Convolutions for MobileNets 37 Deep Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection Using VQ-VAE 41 SupCon-ViT: Supervised Contrastive learning for ultra-fine-grained visual categorization, 95 Improving Non-Invasive Brain Tumor Categorization Using Transformers On MRI Data 42 Estimating Depression Severity from Long-Sequence Face Videos via an Ensemble Global Diverse Convolutional Model 44 Enhancing Image Representation and Compression: An Innovative NZ-NQER Framework with Block Truncation Quantum coding 49 Attention and Pooling based Sigmoid Colon Segmentation in 3D CT images 53 Automatic Detection of Sugarcane Billet Nodes and Eyes using Machine Vision 59 A Bottom-Up Capsule Network for Hierarchical Image Classification 61 Manipulating Medical Image Translation with Manifold Disentanglement 63 Analysis and Prediction of Heart Stroke Using LSTM Deep Learning Approach 77 Text-image guided Diffusion Model for generating Deepfake celebrity interactions	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
16:30	Day 2 Conference Close
17:15-17:30	Delegates to travel by bus to Clarence St Wharf Bus must leave by 5:10 Sharp	Bus to Depart from Sails Port Macquarie reception
17:30-18:45	Sunset Cruise on the Hasting River from Town Wharf to Lady Nelson Wharf and Gala Dinner Rydges Port Macquarie ( Walk from wharf to venue)	River End of Clarence Street
19:00-23:00	Conference Gala Dinner with live band Alter Ego Welcome by Emcee Kate Wood-Foye Conference Chair Welcome Gala Address: Dr Anwaar Ul-Haq DICTA – DICTA 2023 Conference Chair Gala Dinner Address by Dr Sebastian Wong Defence Science and Technology Group Hosting University Dinner Address by Professor Lewis Bizo Executive Dean of Business Justice & Behavioural Science Charles Sturt University Presentation of Conference Awards by Professor Ajmal Mian & Dr Anwaar Ul-Haq Presentation of the Tony Awards by Tony Adriaansen APRS Treasurer	Rydges Port Macquarie 1 Hay St, Port Macquarie
23:00	Bus Returns to Sails Port Macquarie	Rydges Port Macquarie 1 Hay Street, Port Macquarie

PLEASE NOTE: It is the Draft Program and Might Change slightly.

Day 3 – Main Conference

(FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER 2023)

Sails Port Macquarie by Rydges at 20 Park St, Port Macquarie NSW 2444

Time	Session	Location
08:30-08:55	Registration Espresso Coffee & Tea on arrival	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
08:55-09:00	Emcee Daily Welcome Kate Wood-Foye, Director of External Engagement Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
09:00-10:00	Keynote 4 – Professor Toby Walsh Chief Scientist, University of NSW – AI Institute Topic: Resource & cost allocation, fairness needs efficiency Session Chair: Kate-Wood-Foye Director of External Engagement Charles Sturt University	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
10:00-10:25	Morning Tea (Industry Expo)	Sails Port Macquarie – Cape Ballroom & Waterfront Balconies
10:25-12:00	Oral Session 6 – Deep Learning for Visual Understanding Session Chair: Dr Sebastian Wong, Department of Defence Science & Technology Group Australian Government (6 Papers – 15 minutes each) 99 Feature Correlation Aggregation: on the Path to Better Graph Neural Networks, 50 Automated Netlist generation from offline hand-drawn circuit diagrams 51 Multi-Modal Domain Adaptation for Text Visual Question Answering Tasks 36 Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain, 70 Transformers Are All You Need to Generate Automatic Reports from Chest X-ray Images 56 Improving Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation using Dynamic Kernels	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
12:00-12:50	LUNCH	Boathouse Restaurant Sails Port Macquarie
12:50-14:35	Oral Session 7 – Visual Detection, Classification and Recognition Session Chair: Dr Tariq Khan, Senior Research Fellow, University of New South Wales (7 papers – 15 minutes each) 22 Joint Temporal Pooling for Improving Skeleton-based Action Recognition 118 Learning Stable Task-Level Manifold for Few-Shot Learning 78 ChatGPT-guided Semantics for Zero-shot Learning 6 On the Correlations Between Performance of Deep Networks and Its Robustness to Common Image Perturbations in Medical Image Interpretation 14 Plug n’ Play Channel Shuffle Module for Enhancing Tiny Vision Transformers 68 Hybrid Unsupervised Deformable Image Registration for 4D CT Lung Image Intra-modalities 97 FIN: A Deep Multi-task Model for Face Information Detection	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
14:35-14:55	Afternoon Tea (Industry Expo)	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom & Waterfront Balconies
14:55-15:55	Poster Session 3 Session Chair: Dr Mohamed Reda, Deakin University, Melbourne (13 Papers -5 minutes each) 66 Mask-Aware Facial Expression Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network 81 Self-supervised Defocus Map Estimation and Auxiliary Image Deblurring Given a Single-Defocused Image 38 A Novel Quality Control System of Sugarcane Billet Using Machine Vision 117 Robust quantification of prediction uncertainty by inducing heterogeneity in deep ensembles 86 Accurate and Efficient Urban Street Tree Inventory with Deep Learning on Mobile Phone Imagery 93 AI Enhanced Resistance Training 106 Deep Bayesian Image Set Classification Approach for Defence against Adversarial Attacks 107 Adaptive Local Feature Matching for Few-shot Fine-grained Image Recognition 64 Rice leaf disease detection and classification using YOLOV7 active deep learning approach 26 REIN: Reusing ImageNet to Improve Object Detection in Open Set 80 Contrastive Learning for Ship Classification Using Real and Complex SAR Imagery 32 Bengali News Abstractive Summarization: T5 Transformer and Hybrid Approach 110 Synthetic Underwater Data Generation with Style Transfer for Domain Adaptation	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
15:55	Conference Closing Remarks Thank You & Farewell Conference Chair Dr Anwaar Ul-Haq	Sails Port Macquarie Cape Ballroom
16:00	Day 3 Conference Close
	DELEGATES DEPART FOR PORT MACQUARIE AIRPORT

PLEASE NOTE: It is the Draft Program and Might Change slightly.

PLEASE NOTE: All times allocations are based on Time Zone: AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) UTC/GMT +11 hours

All Pre-Conference Workshops and tutorials on Tuesday 28 NOV 2023, will be held in the Theatre & Lecture Rooms, Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie Campus, 7 Major Innes Road, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

The Main Conference will start on Wednesday, 29th November till the evening of 1st December 2023 at Sails Port Macquarie by Rydges at 20 Park St, Port Macquarie NSW 2444.