Researchers have devoted to developing a variety of soft robotic systems in the laboratory to take advantage of compliance introduced by soft materials. While being able to mimic natural systems and building compatible robots working together with humans, the challenge of lacking computational tools in design also dampens the development of soft robotics in industrial applications. Specifically, the design and control practices taken in soft robotics at present are mainly based on intuition and trial-and-error empirical tests. In this talk, I am going to introduce our recent work to overcome...

As one of the CUHK InnoHK Centres, Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) was invited to demonstrate our research and development works in The Chinese University of Hong Kong Innovation Day 2022 on 28th October 2022. The Innovation Day involved a range of innovative research projects from CUHK scholars, 24 booths showcased innovative projects from 6 CUHK InnoHK Centres and 17 companies funded by the CUHK Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) and others.

The event is launched by The South China Morning Post which brings together Hong Kong based e-commerce leaders and etailers, policymakers and techpreneurs to discuss and debate how AI can spur business growth, innovative ideas and customised consumer experience in the e-commerce space. Our Centre Director, Prof Helen Meng, is being invited as one of the panellists to share her thoughts about "the consumers have spoken: actionable strategies for a sustainable, ethical e-commerce business". ​ Source and More Information: https://ai-consumer.scmp.com/agenda/speakers/2831575

CPII is pleased to announce that the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2022 – Hong Kong Branch organized by the Innovation and Technology Commission with the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation was successfully held on 1 Sep 2022 at Hong Kong Science Park. The Centre Director, Prof. Helen Meng was invited to give a speech on her latest development of CPII research and participate in the interactive exhibition showcasing their latest AI Innovations with her team.

The Director of CPII, Professor Helen Meng, shared the latest development of CPII research and innovations at the Webinar “The Journey of AI and Robotics: From Research to market” organized by the Invest HK on 19 August 2022. InvestHK is a HKSAR government department responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment into Hong Kong.

The Innovation Hub@HK Launch Ceremony was successfully held on Aug 18, organised by the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC). The Innovation Hub@HK is a dedicated website for Hong Kong to showcase research and development (R&D) strengths of HK's public research institutes and universities. as well as act as a focal point to bring together the relevant stakeholders, including the academia, research institutes and the industry. The event was officiated by the Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Professor Sun Dong and the Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, Ms Rebecca Pun....

CPII is pleased to announce that Prof. Meng was awarded as the Most Successful Women 2022 at 《旭茉Jessica》in recognition of her contributions to the development of innovation and technology in Hong Kong. Source from: https://www.jessicahk.com/msw2022_helenmeng/

CPII is pleased to announce that Prof. Eric Lo and his team members (Ziliang Lai, Chris Liu, Chenxia Han, Pengfei Zhang and Ben Kao) won the best demonstration runner-up award at ACM SIGMOD 2022 with “Everest: A Top-K Deep Video Analytics System“. ​ The SIGMOD demonstration program is for sharing cutting-edge, data management system prototypes with the greater SIGMOD community. Demonstrations may consist of software, hardware, or both. The emphasis of the SIGMOD demonstration program is on visionary, next-generation systems requiring significant research and development effort.

The InnoHK Launch Ceremony was successfully held today on May 25, marking a new milestone in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government's commitment to promoting Hong Kong's innovation and technology (I&T). As the flagship I&T initiative of the HKSAR Government, InnoHK aims to promote global research collaboration with a view to putting Hong Kong on the global advanced technology map.

We are pleased to announce that our Principal Investigator Professor Helen Meng’s system ranks an overall FIRST in the 2022 DialDoc Workshop which was organized by The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This year, ACL organized the 2022 DialDoc Workshop which hosted the Shared Task on building open-book goal-oriented dialogue systems. Out of the many systems that entered the Challenge, the organizers conducted automatic evaluation on two tests. The CPII-NLP system topped both leaderboards. Then the organizers selected a fraction (100) of the dialogs for human evaluators who scored them...

CPII is pleased to announce that our Principal Investigator Professor Chen Shih-Chi has been awarded the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in recognition of his contribution to the city’s innovation ecosystem. ​ The International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva is the world’s most prestigious award devoted exclusively to inventions. This year, the event was held virtually on 16 - 20th March and attracted nearly 800 inventions from 25 countries and regions. Total 78 awards were scooped by HKSTP’s partner companies, while Prof Chen’s team contributed...

CPII is partnering with key global institutions from Artificial Intelligence (AI) Science and Technology to establish the Principles on AI for Climate Action. To address the importance of global climate change and ecosystems, CPII is now partnering with key global institutes, including International Research Center for AI Ethics and Governance of Institute of Automation, Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University, Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence of Technical University of Munich, Center for AI and Data Governance of Singapore Management University, SPARK UNDP Sustainable Development Goals Innovation Lab,...

Professor Helen Meng gave an inaugural lecture as the Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management on Dec 7, 2021 (4pm). Details can be found at: https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event/inaugurallecturehelenmeng/

Professor Rosanna Chan has been awarded the IEEE William E. Sayle II Award for Achievement in Education in recognition of her contributions to the field of learning technologies for special education needs. Source from: https://ieee-edusociety.org/awards/ieee-william-e-sayle-ii-award-achievement-education

CPII's team in spoken language research participated in the SciTech Challenge 2021 and won the championship with the entry entitled "Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction". The goal of our work is to leverage AI-enabled speech technologies to help people with difficulty in pronouncing words due to a neuromotor disorder -- a condition known as dysarthria. Dysarthria has a number of causes, including stroke, Parkinsons, brain injuries, etc. The individual needs to devote much effort to speaking and yet dysarthric speech often has reduced intelligibility for listeners. In order to overcome reduced communicative...

Population ageing is a global concern. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people aged over 60 will nearly double to make up 22% of the world’s population by 2050, while the number of Hong Kong people aged over 65 will rise to make up 35% of the local population. Neurocognitive disorders (NCD), which include various types of dementia, are particularly prominent in elderly people. As spoken language can be easily captured (even remotely) and enables sensitive cognitive assessments, it can be used for early NCD diagnoses....

IEEE Information Theory Society announced that Professor Raymond Yeung will be awarded the 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award recognizes consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. ​ Source from: https://www.itsoc.org/honors/claude-e-shannon-award https://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/lnews/21-07-20.shtml https://www.itsoc.org/news/yeung-named-2022-claude-e-shannon-award-winner

Professor Raymond Yeung has been awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in recognition of his fundamental contributions to information theory and pioneering network coding and its applications. Source from: https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/ieee_awards/2021-ieee-honors-ieee-richard-w-hamming-medal-raymond-w-yeung