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MMACADAMIAMMaMacadamia Programme:

Introduction to Research at ICS Department

Erkki Oja

Professor, Director of Macadamia

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Research at ICS Department

Research is coordinated by two national Centers of Excellence:

Adaptive Informatics Research Centre (AIRC)

Algorithmic Data Analysis Research Centre (Algodan); Pattern Discovery subgroup

2009-05-22

Research at AIRC

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Adaptive Informatics Research Centre (AIRC)

Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research, 2006-2011 (also 1994-1999, 2000-2006)

Highly competitive position (Aalto has 7 CoE’s in total in all research fields)

Financed by Aalto, Academy of Finland, Tekes, and Nokia Co.

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ProbabilisticProbabilisticModellingModelling

Analysis of Analysis of Natural Data Natural Data

Computer Computer ScienceScience

Adaptive Informatics

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Structure of the AIRC CoE

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SOM ICA

Probabilistic Latent

Variable Models,Bayes

Reliability Reliability

Linear mixtures

FastICA

Visualization,nonlin.

dim. reduction Bayes blocks Nonl.dynamics,

subspaces

Nonlinear,non-neg. BSS

Sparse PCA,DSS, nonneg. projections

Relationalmodels

Relevance bydata fusion

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Algorithms and Methods example: ICA

ISI citations: 2230

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Neuroinformatics: EEG, MEG, fMRI

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Bioinformatics

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Multimodal Interfaces: speech recognition

Speech recognition (on-line, continuous, speaker-independent)

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Multimodal Interfaces: image retrieval, relevance

Content-based image retrieval

Relevance fromeye movements

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Computational Cognitive Systems: language translation

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Industrial Partners in joint projectsIndustrial Partners in joint projects

• Nokia • TeliaSonera• Nethawk • Process Vision • Data Rangers • Envidata • Siemens Corporate Research• Jaakko Pöyry Consulting (JPC)• Xtract

Envidata Ky

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EricssonFinnish Defence ForcesYle, Digita ConformiqMipro Airspan Set-Security Tecnomen Elektrobit,Space Systems Finland

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Biocomputing Platforms

Cyberell

Medicel

Jurilab

Orion Pharma

ToolTech Finland

Juvantia Pharma

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• Raha-automaattiyhdistys, RAY

• Fujitsu Services• Fazer • i-Sieve (Greece)• Lingsoft• Sanako• Xerox• Inria

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• ABB• Teollisuuden Voima (TVO)• Neste Oil Oyj• UPM Kymmene• Danisco Sweeteners Oy• Keskuslaboratorio (KCL)• Rautaruukki Raahe Steel

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Important projects

Emime, EU, personalized speech-to-speech translation

PinView, EU, personal information navigator

UI-ART, Aalto, multimodal augmented reality

T4ME, EU NoE, technologies for multilingual Europe

Pascal2, EU NoE, pattern analysis, stochastic modelling

NOVAC, Academy, computational climatology

MultiBio, Tekes, fusion of biological information sources

Kulta, Tekes, modelling consumer behaviour

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In December 2009, the computer science departments in Aalto University were chosen as part of the ”ICT Labs” of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT (together with KTH Stockholm, Technische Universität Berlin, 3TU Eindhoven, and Universite Paris) with budget 100 Meuro over 5 years

Macadamia is on the list of possible EIT Master Programmes.

Aalto and EIT

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M.Sc. Theses

Some Master of Science Thesis topics of previous Macadamia students (2009 – 2011)

- Modeling and profiling people’s way of living: a data mining approach to a health survey (Luis Gabriel de Alba Rivera)

- Histogram equalization for noise robuts speech recognition (Stevan Keraudy)

- A proactive interface for image retrieval (Laszlo Kozma)

- Fast variable selection using delta test (Dusan Sovilj)

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M.Sc. Theses

- Reinforcement learning in real time strategy games (Antonio Cocco Martins Gusmao)

- Traffic flow simulation and optimization using evolutionary strategies (Alejandro Lopez Vidal)

- Applying data mining for fault detection in energy data management (Yao Lin)

- Mixture modelling of multiresolution 0-1 data (Prem Raj Adhikari)

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Welcome to Macadamia 2011 !!