28 Nov - 1 Dec | Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Program

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.