CFP: TENCON 2009 S'Pore

TENCON is a premier international technical conference of IEEE Region 10, also referred as the Asia Pacific Region, comprises of 56 Sections, 5 Councils, 8 Sub-sections, 334 Chapters and 490 student branches. Held annually since 1980, TENCON provides an important forum for researchers and engineers from the industries, and professors and graduate students from the academia to network and to discuss new ideas and development in emerging areas of electrical and electronic engineering, computers science and related topics.

TENCON 2009 will be held in Singapore during November 23-26, 2009. The conference will feature plenary / invited talks by eminent scientists and engineers, tutorials, paper presentations, poster sessions and industrial exhibits. The main theme of the conference is related to novel and innovative technologies that bring about societal changes for good. An interesting feature of this conference is the student design contest being organized in all subject areas relevant to the conference.

The Proceedings of TENCON2009 will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI Compendex.

For further information, please visit http://www.tencon2009.org

How are universities ranked?

Januari lalu, Webomatrics, salah satu pengeluar ranking universitas dunia, menempatkan UGM di nomer yg cukup membanggakan. Nomer 64 bo...., tertinggi diantara universitas indonesia lainnya. Sampai-sampai DIKTI pun menggunakan ranking ini sbg referensi, lihat aja di halaman depan http://www.dikti.go.id. Siapa dulu dong Menteri nya? hehehe...

Sebagai alumni, salut deh buat UGM. Tapi sebenarnya, menurut saya yg hebat adalah 'TIM WEB UGM', bukan UGM itu sendiri. Loh kok ngono? Iyo, karena Webomatrics adalah 'world universities' ranking on the web'. Artinya Tim Web UGM telah berhasil 'memamerkan UGM' dalam dunia maya, ya to?

"Lha nek dudu ranking sing neng web, UGM ki nomer piro le?"
"Wah susah njawabnya mbak.. :-("

Sebenarnya banyak sekali ranking universitas yg dibuat oleh berbagai institusi, baik lokal maupun internasional, bisa di-refer di sini. Universitas2 di Malaysia banyak me-refer dan berusaha menaikkan ranking universitas versi THES, the Times Higher Education Supplement. Indonesia (baca: DIKTI) dengan Webomatrics-nya. Tiap-tiap versi ranking punya pendekatan masing-masing, yg meliputi criteria, indikator dan bagaimana measurement process nya.

Sebagai contoh, coba kita copy-paste criteria yg dipake oleh tiga versi peranking yg cukup dikenal: THES, Shanghai (ARWU) dan Webomatrics. Yg terakhir dipilih karena ini yg dipakai DIKTI.

1. THES-QS

Indicator	Explanation	Weighting
Academic Peer Review	Composite score drawn from peer review survey (which is divided into five subject areas). 6,354 responses in 2008.	40%
Employer Review	Score based on responses to employer survey. 2,339 responses in 2008.	10%
Faculty Student Ratio	Score based on student faculty ratio	20%
Citations per Faculty	Score based on research performance factored against the size of the research body	20%
International Faculty	Score based on proportion of international faculty	5%
International Students	Score based on proportion of international students	5%

Detail-nya, silahkan baca di sini.

2. Shanghai (Academic Ranking of World Universities). Baca lengkap di sini.

Criteria	Indicator	Code	Weight
Quality of Education	Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals	Alumni	10%
Quality of Faculty	Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals	Award	20%
	Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories	HiCi	20%
Research Output	Articles published in Nature and Science*	N&S	20%
	Articles indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded, and Social Science Citation Index	PUB	20%
Per Capita Performance	Per capita academic performance of an institution	PCP	10%
Total	0	0	100%

3. Webomatrics

Size (S). Number of pages recovered from four engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead. For each engine, results are log-normalised to 1 for the highest value. Then for each domain, maximum and minimum results are excluded and every institution is assigned a rank according to the combined sum. --> 50%
Visibility (V). The total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site can be only confidently obtained from Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead. For each engine, results are log-normalised to 1 for the highest value and then combined to generate the rank. --> 20%
Rich Files (R). After evaluation of their relevance to academic and publication activities and considering the volume of the different file formats, the following were selected: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Adobe PostScript (.ps), Microsoft Word (.doc) and Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt). These data were extracted using Google and merging the results for each filetype after log-normalising in the same way as described before. --> 15%
Scholar (Sc). Google Scholar provides the number of papers and citations for each academic domain. These results from the Scholar database represent papers, reports and other academic items. --> 15%


Nah, sekarang kita bisa lihat, bagaimana mereka menentukan ranking tersebut. Sungguh sangat beda. Perbedaan criteria dan weighting sangat berpengaruh pada hasil ranking.

"Lha terus versi mana yg kita sebaiknya ikuti le?"
"Wah itu tergantung demand mas..."

Maksudnya, masa' ya UGM mo ngikuti ranking versi THES ato Shanghai, ga bakalan ketemu kalau sampeyan nyari. Buktiin di sini dan situ. Saya memahami bahwa dalam rangka 'image building', memang betul langkah DIKTI utk menggunakan versi Webomatrics, karena di versi inilah nama unversitas2 indonesia (paling tidak) muncul. Dan saya faham juga kenapa UKM selalu nge-push postgraduate students utk publish di journal impak tinggi.

Wis berhenti mbaca blog, mari kita lanjutin nulis paper utk submit ke high-impact-journal....!

Lagi... MSc/PhD Studentship di UKM

Grup kami, Vision & Robotics Research Group (ViROB) - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, memerlukan seorang calon mahasiswa MSc/PhD dengan topik:
"Vision based smart crowd surveillance system"

Supervisor: Prof Aini Hussain

Kualifikasi:
- S1/S2 Teknik Elektro/Computer Science
- Punya background image processing
- Mahir Matlab & C++
- Bekerja keras & bisa bekerja sama dlm tim

Bila berminat dan memenuhi kualifikasi, silahkan kirim CV dan
transkrip nilai S1/S2 ke masimet at gmail dot com, sebelum 27
February 2009.

2009 New Year Prize

One paper "Cardio-Spatial Profile Extraction using Optical Flow of Echocardiographic Images" was submitted to The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Imaging Engineering, Hong Kong, 18-20 March, 2009.

Special thanks to Dr Azrin for advance editing on the paper.

Abstract:
Detection of cardiac movement is very important subject on cardiac image analysis. Cardiologist needs an accurate motion estimation to diagnose the abnormality of cardiac. In this paper, we present the utilization of optical flow technique to estimate the myocardial motion. Then the computed motion vectors are used to provide the cardiac profile, such as its displacement and direction. The proposed implementation provides real-time movement profiles of cardiac with a precision up to 0.11 pixel / 22.50° for their displacements.

Keywords: optical flow, myocardial movement, cardiac profile, echocardiography

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