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Institute for Institute for
Infocomm Research Infocomm Research
(I(I22R)R)
Transforming Knowledge Into Prosperity
Imagination 2 Reality
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15 November 2002
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Signal Processing (Jun 96 )
Optical Group, Network Technology
Research Centre (NTRC)-Nov 91
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Centre for WirelessCommunications
(CWC)-Aug 92
R&D Group, Institute of Systems Science
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Information Technology Institute (Jun 86)
(Jan 02) (Jan 02)
Kent Ridge Digital Labs (Apr 98)
Our HistoryOur History
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• Mission To be the globally preferred source of innovations in ‘Interactive Secured Information, Content and Services Anytime Anywhere’, through research by passionate people dedicated to Singapore's economic success.
• Vision The Infocomm and Media value creator that keeps Singapore ahead.
• Size– 360 Core Research Headcount
– 57 Researchers (Thematic - SERC Funded)
– 43 Postgraduate studentsAs at December 2009
Vision and MissionVision and Mission
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Research Manpower ProfileResearch Manpower Profile
Total Research Staff = 499*
Others, 6, 1%
Masters, 132, 26%
Bachelor, 131, 26%
PhD, 230, 47%
Masters, 5, 12%
PhD, 38, 88%
Total Postgraduate Students = 43*
Research Manpower = Core + Non Core + GAP
*As at 31 December 2009
Some of our PartnersSome of our Partners
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Successful SpinoffsSuccessful Spinoffs
Novel video & music analysis system for automatic production of high-quality MTV
Real World Face Recognition“Innovation through breakthrough, award winning technology.”
Acquired 2002Highly interactive
Virtual Reality systems for radiology and surgery planning
An efficient, stable and reliable solution helps increase your productivity. CommonTown provides roust and high quality portal solutions, specializing in education, mobile and resource repository portals
June 2006 - Smart ID released its latest ISO18000-6C/EPCGen2 UHF Reader Module for OEM embedded applications. Multiple interface options available to be compatible across a range of applications
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Research PublicationsResearch Publications
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FY03 to FY09*Journals = 939Conferences = 2660Total = 3599* As at end December 2009* As at end December 2009
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• Karthik Nandakumar, Arun Ross (West Virginia University) and Anil K. Jain (Michigan State University) “Biometric Fusion: Does Modeling Correlation Really Matter?”Best Poster Award, IEEE Third International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2009)
• Xiaoli Li and See-Kiong Ng“Mining for Domain Dependency Sets from Protein Interactions”Best Poster Award, 12th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2008)
• Hwee-Pink Tan, Adriana F. Gabor, Winston K.G. Seah, and Pius W.Q. Lee"Performance Analysis of Data Delivery Schemes for a Multi-sink Wireless Sensor Network“Highly Commended Paper Award, IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2008)
Best Paper & Poster Awards Best Paper & Poster Awards
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• L. Zhang, Y.C. Liang and Y.Xin“Joint beamforming and power allocation for multiple access channels in cognitive radio networks”Ten most popular articles published in ComSoc, IEEE Xplore (2008)
• Kong Peng Yong, Tham Chen Khong and Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi“A Cooperative Retransmission Scheme for IR-UWB Networks” Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB2008)
• Dr Chen Zhining“Wideband Reconfigurable Rolled Planar Monopole Antenna”CST University Publication Award 2008
• Dr. Karthik Nandakumar, Abhishek Nagar and Anil K“Securing Fingerprint Template: Fuzzy Vault with Minutiae Descriptors”Best Scientific Paper Award for the Biometrics track, 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008)
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Intellectual PropertyIntellectual Property
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• Singapore Youth Award - 2009, 1999
• "Nokia Visiting Professor" for 2009
• IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award – 2009,
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
• Technology Review (TR35) Award 2008
• Net-atHome 2007 Award
• National Technology Award - 2007, 2001, 1996
• Red Hat Certified Engineer of the Year 2007
• Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award (Open Category) -
2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
• TEC Innovator Award - 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002
• Microsoft Fellowship Award 2005
• FEER Asian Innovation Gold Award 2003
AwardsAwards
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Winning International BenchmarksWinning International Benchmarks• Rich Transcription International Benchmarking 2009
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 1st place among 6 international teams in Speaker Diarization category,
• Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO 2009)National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece1st place among 35 international institutions, the algorithm submitted achieved the best detection performance
• Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2008 (SRE `08)National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)1st place among 46 international institutions
• 2007 Speaker Recognition EvaluationNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Top 3 positions for 31 categories against 21 participating teams from US, Europe, Asia and Africa including MIT, UC Berkeley, IBM, CNRS etc.
• NTCIR International Benchmark Competition 2007 1st place in 7 criteria and 2nd place in 1 criterion in retrieving Chinese documents, using both Chinese and
English languages queries
• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2007) competition 1st place in Chinese to English translation among 15 international teams including CMU, MIT, RWTH and NTT
• Photographic Image Retrieval Task (ImageCLEFPhoto) of ImageCLEF 2007 3rd place among 20 participating research groups from North America, Europe and Asia.
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WLAN
• IEEE 802.11n
WPAN
• IEEE 802.15.4a
• IEEE 802.15.4b
• WiMedia
WRAN
• IEEE 802.16j
• IEEE 802.22
Cellular
• 3GPP LTE
Biometrics• ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 29794
biometric quality• ISO/IEC JTC1 SC17 WG11
match-on-cardJPEG• JPEG Part 8 – JPEG2000 security• JPSearchAudio/Video• H.264• H.264 Extension• MPEG4 ALS• MPEG4 SLS
I2R CONTRIBUTES technologies to world standards!
Setting World StandardsSetting World Standards
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506997 DAIDALOSDesigning Advanced Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent Optimised personal Services
507995 E2R End-to-End Reconfigurability
506897 PULSERS Pervasive Ultra-wideband Low Spectral Energy Radio Systems
2 511575 GAPFILL Getting more Asian Participants involved in IST Calls
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15604 ASTRALS Audio-visual STReaming plAtform for domestic Leisure and Security
15606 BOOTStrepBootstrapping Of Ontologies and Terminologies STrategic REsearch Project
15299 E2R II End-to-End Reconfigurability II
15584 ImmunoGrid ImmunoGrid - The European Virtual Human Immune System Project
14793PULSERS
Ph IIPervasive Ultra-wideband Low Spectral Energy Radio Systems Phase II
5 033563 SMEPP Secure Middleware for Embedded Peer to Peer Systems
10 Consortia projects in FP6 (Total EU grant ~100M Euros)
EU-funded EU-funded 66thth Framework Programme Framework Programme
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215330 SEACOOPFurther developing strategic R&D cooperation with South East Asia on ICT
216026 WOMBAT Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors And Threats
EU’s EU’s 77thth Framework Programme Framework Programme
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Research VisionResearch Vision
ContentContent
UsersUsers
ServicesServices
Ubiquitous Network
Ubiquitous Network
DataData
Privacy & Security
Privacy & Security
Semantic web, Datamining, CRM, Healthcare
Cryptography, DRM, Surveillance, Biometrics
Sensors & Actuators
InformationInformationCorporate Databases, CRM
TV, Games, Movies, Music
Interactive secured information, content and Interactive secured information, content and services anytime anywhereservices anytime anywhere
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Core Technical Review Panel
Core Management Team
Signal Processing
Human Language Technology
Communication Systems
Computer Graphics & Interface
RF & Optical
Modulation & Coding
Computer Vision & Image
UnderstandingCryptography &
Security
Networking Protocols
Data Mining
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OurResearch
Departments
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Departments
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Communications Systems Department
Key Competencies
• Hardware - Software co-design and system
engineering methodologies would be developed
to improve the reusability of our research outputs
for multiple applications.
• Focuses on real time software and embedded
system design and development to translate
research outputs to functional prototypes.
• Communication System/Architecture Design
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Key Competencies
• Accurate motor imagery detection and
classification
• Context-awareness, service-oriented
architecture
• Middleware for device/sensor/service
management in smart spaces
Potential Applications
• 3D modeling and animation
• Personal 3D entertainment systems
Computer Graphics & Interface Department
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Key Competencies• Image and Video Retrieval
• Object, Scene and Event Recognition
• Human Identity and Activity Modeling
• Active and Passive Media Authentication
• Statistical Methods and Learning
• Performance Evaluation
Application Areas• Biometrics (secured access)
• Video Surveillance (law enforcing)
• Human Behavior Tracking (elderly care)
• Media Forensics (authenticity assurance)
• Natural Interface (3D gaming interaction)
• Medical Image Analysis (computed aided diagnosis)
• Multimedia Content Indexing (interactive television)
• Mobile Image-Based Information Access (mobile search)
Computer Vision & Image Understanding Department
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Key Competencies
• Cryptography - design and analysis of cryptosystems
• Defending against malware - protect mobile devices
from virus and worms
• Digital rights management - digital copyright
protection by software obfuscation
• Sensor network security - key distribution and
detection of node compromise
• Privacy protection - security and privacy in e-commerce and data mining
• RFID security - fighting physical counterfeits by secure RFID data chaining and
management
• Security protocols - authentication, fair exchange, e-payment, key agreement
Cryptography and Security Department
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Key Competencies
• Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Text Mining
• Graph Mining
• Semantic Web Technologies
• Privacy-preserving data mining
• Bioinformatics
Potential Applications
• Analyzing scientific and research
information
• Analyzing business intelligence
• Detecting fraud, waste and abuse
• Sharing and mining of sensitive information
Data Mining Department
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Key Competencies
• Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
Applications: Automatic Transcription; Spoken Document Retrieval;
Voice Surveillance
• Speaker and Language Recognition
Applications: Voice Biometrics; Spoken Document Retrieval;
Automatic Call Routing; Rich Transcription
• Machine Translation
Applications: Machine Translation; Cross-lingual Information
Retrieval; Speech Translation
• Robotic Intelligence and Cognitive Computing
Applications: Social Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Speech and
Language Acquisition
Human Language Technology Department
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Key Competencies• Forward error correction coding
• Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
• Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)
• Modem algorithms
• Iterative turbo processing
• Multiple access and joint detection
• Cognitive Channel Sensing
• Resource allocation and link adaptation
Potential Applications• 3GPP Long Term Evolution
• Wireless sensor networks
• Wireline communication systems
• High throughput wireless local area network based on IEEE 802.11n
• Ultra-wideband wireless personal area network based on WiMedia
• Wireless Regional Area Network based on IEEE 802.22
• WiMAX systems, including IEEE 802.16d, IEEE 802.16e, IEEE 802.16m etc
• Next generation wireless local area network system beyond IEEE 802.11n
Modulation & Coding Department
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Key Competencies
• Wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor
networkingApplications: monitoring and surveillance for
healthcare, security, smart space etc.
applications; infrastructure-less communications
• Architectures for mission-critical
services, including control and management of
optical networks
Applications: next generation services-based
telecommunications infrastructure
Sensor
Local aggregator
Local sink
• Cooperative and coordinated networkingApplications: improved end-to-end and system-wide performance, e.g. throughput and
delay, through cross-layer design and inter-node cooperation
• Autonomic self-healing and robust networksApplications: fault tolerant survivable networks
Networking Protocols Department
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Key Competencies• Antenna technology focused on novel design concepts
and new applications of electromagnetic materials for
antennas with high performance such as
broadband/multiple-mode operation for modern wireless
systems such as UWB, WLAN WiMAX, WiFi, MIMO,
on-body/implanted communications.
• RF technology targeted at development of components,
modules and sub-systems for emerging wireless
systems such as phased arrays, UWB radar, UWB
localization, and RFID systems.
• Optical fiber transmission to investigate optically amplified, high-speed, multi-wavelength
optical signals in long-haul and metropolitan area networks, and develop RoF technology
for picocell applications with low cost optical components.
• Sensors based on optical fibre to perform measurements with distributed sensing and high
level of immunity from interferences, like EM and RF interference.
RF & Optical Department
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Potential Applications• Live and on-demand video coding, scalable video archival/retrieval; heterogeneous video
delivery over diverse wireline and wireless networks targeting video surveillance and
entertainment applications
• Online music store, Internet radio, personal CD archive
• Automatic and objective image and video quality measurements, perceptually-optimized
image and video compression
• Computer game, Interactive advertisement, Interactive kiosk and information system
• Personalized mobile phone ringtones
• Mobile healthcare, Homecare for elderly, healthcare and medical devices
• Assistive ICT systems for monitoring & rehabilitation for the elderly
Key Competencies• H.264 and SVC encoder, decoder and IP-based delivery; MPEG2-
to-H.264 transcoding; video pre- and post-processing
• Audio signal processing, Lossless audio compression, Scalable
audio coding
• Perceptual image and video quality measurements
• Natural interface for computer game using human gesture
• Scratched Sound Synthesis
• Cardiac signal processing, Multimodal sensor data processing
• High performance P300-based brain-computer interfaces
Signal Processing Department
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OurResearch
Programmes
OurResearch
Programmes
Personal 3D Entertainment Systems
Programme Director Susanto Rahardja
Personal 3D Entertainment Systems
Programme Director Susanto Rahardja
Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring &
Rehabilitation
Programme Manager Guan Cuntai
Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring &
Rehabilitation
Programme Manager Guan Cuntai
Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity
Programme Manager Chin Po Shin Francois
Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity
Programme Manager Chin Po Shin Francois
Power-aware Wireless Sensor Network for
Tracking & Monitoring
Programme Director Chia Yan Wah Michael
Power-aware Wireless Sensor Network for
Tracking & Monitoring
Programme Director Chia Yan Wah Michael
Research ProgrammesResearch Programmes
High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks
Programme Manager Jaya Shankar s/o
Pathmasuntharam
High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks
Programme Manager Jaya Shankar s/o
Pathmasuntharam
Personalization, Optimization and
Intelligence through Services
Programme Manager Tham Chen Khong
Personalization, Optimization and
Intelligence through Services
Programme Manager Tham Chen Khong
Next Generation Content for IPTV
Programme Manager Yau Wei Yun
Next Generation Content for IPTV
Programme Manager Yau Wei Yun
Joint Labs
Image & Pervasive Access Lab (IPAL)
Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)
Daniel Racoceanu (CNRS)
Singapore Advanced Imaging Lab for Ocular
Research (Sailor)
Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)
Wong Tien Yin (SERI)
Joint Labs
Image & Pervasive Access Lab (IPAL)
Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)
Daniel Racoceanu (CNRS)
Singapore Advanced Imaging Lab for Ocular
Research (Sailor)
Co-DirectorsLim Joo Hwee (I2R)
Wong Tien Yin (SERI)
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Mobile Care
MobiCare
Elderly Care
V4ButlerVU
ICT-ADI
Home Care
AIHECAEMCVD WBAN
Hospital
SIRIANMedIRASSMS
Rehab Center
BCIRobot
BCIFES
NSP
Healthcare Applications
Technologies
Neural Rehabilitationfor Stroke Rehab, Biofeedback,
and Assistive Technology
Medical Image Processingfor disease detection &
diagnoses
Homecarefor Home Based Fall Detection,Home Medicine, Elderly Care
Mobile Healthcarewith wearable sensors,
any time, anywhere
Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring and Assistive ICM for Health Monitoring and RehabilitationRehabilitation (AIM)
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Fiber Optic Hydrophones - Development of practical distributed feedback fiber laser array for all optical underwater acoustic sensing
Fiber Optic Hydrophones - Development of practical distributed feedback fiber laser array for all optical underwater acoustic sensing
Ship-to-ship/shore Mesh Networks - Development of 802.16 based mesh networks with robust end-to-end QoS and communication Middleware integrating satellite and mesh networks
Ship-to-ship/shore Mesh Networks - Development of 802.16 based mesh networks with robust end-to-end QoS and communication Middleware integrating satellite and mesh networks
Collaborative Multi-hop AUV Networks - Multi-hop MAC and routing techniques to improve data acquisition and delivery in underwater submersibles
Collaborative Multi-hop AUV Networks - Multi-hop MAC and routing techniques to improve data acquisition and delivery in underwater submersibles
Electric Conduction Modems - Development of high speed (1 Mbps), short range (10m) electric conduction based modems for communications between submersibles
Electric Conduction Modems - Development of high speed (1 Mbps), short range (10m) electric conduction based modems for communications between submersibles
High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks (HSMMN)High Speed Maritime Mesh Networks (HSMMN)
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Content RepurposingContent Repurposing
Content Understanding & Management
Multi-Media Search, Indexing & Retrieval
Personalized Interface
Multimedia Content Server
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Content Protection, Digital Rights Management
Scalable Media Coding
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Quality of Experience (QoE) & Quality of Service (QoS)
Out-source Expertise Avail Focus Area
Content Creation & Ingest
Middleware
Next Generation Content for IPTV (IPTV)Next Generation Content for IPTV (IPTV)
IPTV Testbed @ Fusionopolis
Key Differentiation: Scalable delivery, personalization & interactivity
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Personal 3D Entertainment Systems (P3DES)Personal 3D Entertainment Systems (P3DES)
Home Virtual Reality
Interactive Sports Game Engine
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Power-aware Wireless Sensor Networks for Power-aware Wireless Sensor Networks for Tracking & Monitoring (PAWSN)Tracking & Monitoring (PAWSN)
Broadband
RFID
WSNMiddleware
& Service platforms
Sensor
Wireless Sensor nodesSource:UCN
Challenges:1. Energy Harvesting for low
power/battery-less radios/ RFID/ Zigbee
2. Networking Protocols for highly dense WSN.
3. Security for WSN & RF tags4. Tracking UWB tags in
heterogeneous wireless environment -cognitive radio sensing.
5. Power efficient wireless nodes
Temperature Sensors, etc
Internet of things!
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ServersServers
Outdoor Info Access• Licensed Band• Bandwidth Limited • Ubiquitous Wireless• Target – 10x 3.5G (3GPP) >
100Mbps • Technology - ↑Mbps/MHz
ContentExchange
Information Access
Indoor
Outdoor
Indoor Info Access• Hybrid Wire-
Wireless• Indoor Coverage &
QoS• Target – 10x WiFi
11a/g• Technology -
↑Mbps*m
Short Range Exchange• Device Limited Power• Peer-to-Peer• Low Emission Power • Technology -↑Mbps/mW Indoor
Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity (TGPC)Towards Gigabit Personal Connectivity (TGPC)
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Enhanced SOA
Advanced Services
Mobile Services
Recommendation Analytics (Data & Text Mining)& Semantic Technologies
Dynamic ServiceComposition
Healthcare & Wellness Services
Real-Time Sensor Data
Context Awareness
Personalization Optimization Intelligence
Business ProcessOptimization
Security & Authentication
PPersonalization, ersonalization, OOptimization & ptimization & IIntelligence through ntelligence through SeServices rvices (POISe)(POISe)
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