CPII was delighted to welcome approximately 40 American delegates to our office at Hong Kong Science Park on 2 December, 2024. The visit aimed to explore collaboration opportunities and share insights on innovative practices in business development and implementation. This event sought to strengthen ties between the global community and Hong Kong, focusing on key areas such as technology, research and sustainable development. Delegates engaged in discussions with our Centre Director, Professor Helen Meng, and our research staff, exchanging ideas on best practices and strategies for addressing global challenges. During...

CPII is pleased to announce that our Centre Director, Prof. Helen Meng, had the honor of participating as a speaker in the “Greater Bay Area Science Forum 2024: Sub-forum on International Organizations and Bay Areas Dialogue,” co-hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for Belt and Road Regions successfully held on November 12, 2024. During the forum, Prof. Helen Meng shared her recent innovative projects and the features of the CPII Speech to Summary Meeting Assistant. The forum attracted approximately...

CPII is pleased to participate and to sponsor the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2024) held in Beijing on 7-10 Nov 2024, showcasing our latest progress in theoretical and technological aspects of Chinese spoken language processing. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is the flagship conference of SIGCSLP. It is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of Chinese spoken language processing. It is scheduled to take turns running the...

We are pleased to invite you to join the talk with the topic of AI Ethics and Governance Lecture Series: Building Brain-inspired Ethical AI for Human-AI Symbiosis co-organized by CUHK and CPII. Join us for a lecture by Professor Yi Zeng, with Professor Helen Meng, our Centre Director, as moderator. The event is available both in person and on Zoom. Speaker: Professor Yi Zeng Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences Director, Brain-Inspired Cognitive Intelligence Lab Director, International Research Center for AI Ethics and Governance Moderator: Professor Helen Meng Patrick Huen Wing...

We are thrilled to announce that our Chief Engineer and Solution Lead, Dr. Philip Liu has been invited to attend the Reception for I&T Awards 2024 organized by the Innovation and Technology Commission on 15 July 2024 on behalf of our Centre Director, Professor Meng. Under the theme of “Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Achievements Shine in International Arena”, over 300 representatives from the local I&T sector were gathered and were commended for their outstanding research and development achievements in the field of Innovation and Technology on the Mainland and...

We are pleased to announce that one of our Principal Investigators, Professor Raymond Yeung has been invited to attend the 2024 NAI Fellows Induction Ceremony on 18 June 2024 at Raleigh, North Carolina. Professor Yeung was elected as NAI Fellow for his profound contributions to the field of information theory and network coding in 2022 and was induction in 2024, commending his outstanding invention. The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have...

We are proud to announce that CPII supported the “Restore Land, Restore Hope 2024” seminar organized by World Vision in Macau on 7th June 2024 in using the CPII Meeting Assistant Speech to Summary, which provides AI-based subtitles, translations and summaries for conferences, seminars and workshops. This seminar focused on actions to combat climate change and featured distinguished speakers, including Mr. Tony Rinaudo, a renowned agronomist and Right Livelihood (Alternative Nobel Prize) laureate. CPII provided technical support for the seminar and deployed our CPII Meeting Assistant Speech to Summary, an...

We are thrilled to announce and celebrate the remarkable success of the Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2024. CPII and our Centre Director Professor Helen Meng have been awarded a prestigious Gold Medal and a Silver Medal in recognition of their groundbreaking innovations. Led by our Centre Director Professor Meng and Dr. Philip Liu, the invention "Shattering Language Barriers in Multilingual, Multiparty Communication with the CPII Meeting Assistant: An AI-Powered Solution Providing Real-Time, High-Performance Speech Recognition, Advanced Machine Translation, and...

We are pleased to announce that CPII participated in the second edition of InnoEx, themed "Innovations for a Smarter World," was successfully held from 13th to 16th, April 2024. At InnoEx 2024, CPII was delighted to showcase our groundbreaking achievements and cutting-edge inventions to various industry pioneers, potential investors, and the general public for the second year running. The remarkable innovations we showcased at InnoEx 2024 highlight our endeavors to leverage the transformative potential of AI and generate meaningful societal impact.

CPII is participating in the second edition of InnoEX, co-organized by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) on 13th – 16th April 2024 to present and demonstrate our six innovations. The 2nd InnoEX taking place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), under the theme of “Innovation for A Smarter World” is expected to gather worldwide next-generation smart solutions. During the four-day event, we will demonstrate and show our new technologies including CPII Meeting Assistant Speech...

CPII is pleased to announce the jointly organized seminar “CPII-MIT-UoM Forum: Design and Fabrication for Enhanced Intelligence and Robotic Perception” is successfully held on 21 March 2024. Our Centre Director, Professor Meng and The Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Albert Wong gave a welcoming remarks to the audience before the seminar started. Our collaborators, Professor John Hart from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Professor Charlie Wang, from the University of Manchester (UoM) are invited to present the works and shared their valuable insights. Our Program Coordinator and Principal Investigator,...

We are pleased to extend our invitation to you for the upcoming seminar on Design and Fabrication for Enhanced Intelligence and Robotic Perception. This event showcases the latest progress and results achieved by the Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) in Program 5-1 on the fabrication of personalized wearables. The event features scientific talks and short presentations on various topics, including shape-driven manufacturing, 3D personalized design, deformable structures and soft robots, electroadhesion, fabrics incorporating non-traditional materials, AI-enhanced robotic sensing and perception, and multi-axis photopolymerization. Collaborators from the Massachusetts Institute...

CPII is pleased to announce that our Centre Director, Prof. Helen Meng, had the honor of participating as a speaker in the "In The Lead" forum hosted by Goldman Sachs. The forum, held for the first time in Asia this year on March 7th in Hong Kong, an inspiring community of accomplished women who build upon each other’s experiences, successes and ambitions and propel each other even further. During the forum, Prof. Helen Meng engaged in a conversation with Marie Louise Kirk, Chief Administrative Officer, Asia Pacific, and Head of...