Reinforcement learning for mobile robots

Reinforcement learning for mobile robots

Deep Reinforcement Learning have proven robustness in many areas such as robotics, games. In Deep Reinforcement Learning, neural networks have strong ability to deal with high dimensional data, a good mean to learn features and functional approximation while reinforcement learning can make a system learn itself for a new goal and in a new environment.
From success of deep reinforcement learning, we are motivated to investigate methods that enable unmanned vehicle remember environment, identify location of target objects and navigate themselves to the target.
In the presentation, we briefly review notion of reinforcement learning and how deep learning enhance the success of reinforcement learning recent years. Some related research and toolboxes also will be introduced. Lastly, we will discuss challenges and some achievement in our research project.

Dr. Nguyen Do Van – Vietnam National University (Vietnam)

Dr. Nguyen Do Van received B.Eng. degree in Information Technology from Le Quy Don University in 2004 with honor, M.Eng and PhD degree in 2011 and 2014 respectively, in Information Science and Control Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan.
He currently is a researcher at Institute of Information Technology, MIST. He also is an adjunct lecturer at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
His research interest includes Machine Learning (Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning), Data Mining (Statistical Model, Big Data), Intelligent Systems and Robotics. He is now advising an industrial project on Graph representation learning for social network mining and leading a research project on Deep reinforcement learning for intelligent mobile robots.
Dr. Van is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Rough Set Society (IRSS) and The Vietnamese Association for Pattern Recognition (VAPR). He was the recipient of Vietnam Intelligence Award in 2003 and AIAI Best Paper Adward in 2015.

Applied AI for predicting the quality of irrigation services in the Red river delta

Applied AI for predicting the quality of irrigation services in the Red river delta

To predict the satisfaction of users who use the water services is very important for the fee exemption policy to water and agriculture services. This policy has positive impacts on the water exploited and management enterprises, the national budget and social security. In this talk, some machine learning models are presented to predict the satisfaction of users related to the quality of irrigation service in the red river delta. Experimental results showed that the non-linear machine learning models achieve lower regression errors than linear models, these linear models are commonly used by irrigation experts. The diversity and feasibility of these machine learning models can be applied for dealing with economic problems in the domain of water resource management.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Tung – Thuyloi University (Vietnam)

Tung Nguyen received his BS and MSc. degree in Information Technology from Vietnam National University (Hanoi) and a PhD. in Computer Applied Technology from Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He has worked as a lecturer, researcher, consultant positions related to data management and mining for more than 20 years. He has been a visiting researcher at Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), big data institute-Shenzhen University in China (2015), Machine learning and Robot Lab, Department of Computer Science, SUSTech and Center for Automata Processing, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia.
His current research interests include Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and Data mining, especially advanced machine learning methods for the problems of classification; statistical learning, regression ensemble methods for high-dimensional data. He has published around 20 papers in international journals and conference proceedings in these areas.

ML&AI Approach to User Understanding Ecosystem at VCCorp: Applications to News, Ads, and E-commerce

ML&AI Approach to User Understanding Ecosystem at VCCorp: Applications to News, Ads, and E-commerce

Nowadays, computer vision algorithms – automated translation, image recognition – have surpassed others in the industry, even humans. AI technology improves human life, facilitating their working performance, thanks to the breakthroughs in computational technology with the rapid development of hardware (CPUs/GPUs). In this presentation, we will be discussing AI platforms in VCCORP, the challenges and possibilities.

Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan – VCCorp (Vietnam)

Tuan Hoang is the Chief Technology Officer of Admicro – VCCORP – a company pioneer in technology and software development in Vietnam. Tuan has over 10 years of experience in the field of intelligence and large-scale processing system. His numerous contributions mainly focus on the AI applications, big data processing services which are able to server millions of customers and internet users in Vietnam.

Analyzing Daily Activity Logs for Smart Interaction

Analyzing Daily Activity Logs for Smart Interaction

Collecting and analyzing daily activity logs can provide potential insights for better understanding and possible optimization for individual and organizational activities and operations. There are multiple sources to gather information in various formats during daily activities. People usually post photos, video clips, or messages to their social channels everyday. People may record their daily activities with wearable cameras or other types of sensors. Millions of surveillance cameras capture various events in traffic systems, offices, or supermarkets. It is an increasing demand to process and analyze such information, mostly in visual format, to develop useful services and utilities for smart environments.
In this talk, we present several modalities to analyze and interact with daily activity logs to develop potential applications for smart environments. Our proposed systems are based on practical social needs and aim to provide people natural experience with smart services and utilities.
– People can access to augmented data and services for tourism or shopping by recognizing the current context and retrieving similar known cases.
– Lost items can be found or memories can be retrieved or verified by searching daily logs.
– Reminiscence can help people to positively revive past memories and connections with their relatives.
– Regular events and anomalies can be detected from surveillance systems for appropriate actions.
– Event simulation in virtual or mixed reality environments can be generated from real life data for education and training.
We also discuss about privacy and security issues in collecting and analyzing daily activity logs.

Assoc. Prof. Tran Minh Triet – VNUHCM University of Science (Vietnam)

Minh-Triet Tran obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from University of Science, VNU-HCM, in 2001, 2005, and 2009. He joined the University of Science, VNU-HCM, in 2001. His research interests include cryptography and security, computer vision and human-computer interaction, and software engineering. He was a visiting scholar at National Institutes of Informatics (NII, Japan) in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2015-2016.
He is currently Head of Software Engineering Laboratory and Deputy Head of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Science, VNU-HCM. He is also the Deputy Head of Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCM. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Information Security Program of Ho Chi Minh city. He is a member of the Management Board of Vietnam Information Security Association (South Branch) and also a member of the Executive Committee of ICT Program for Smart Cities (2018-2020) of Ho Chi Minh city.

AI in Healthcare – Opportunities for Vietnam

AI in Healthcare – Opportunities for Vietnam

“Data is the new oil. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.”
(Clive Humby, UK Mathemetician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard, 2006)
Healthcare has been long understood as the most promising application area for AI. In the past five years, 300 deals in the field of healthcare AI have been closed, with total investments of over USD 2 billion. This trend is accelerating quickly.
The two most active areas of research and deployment are Medical Imaging & Diagnostics (e.g. automated detection of medical conditions on X-Ray) and Patient Data & Risk Analytics (e.g. identifying patients with high risk of stroke from their past medical record), both of which require vast amount of labeled data.

Dr. Tran Dang Minh Tri (Dimitry Tran) – Harrison-AI (Australia)

In a world where algorithms are open-sourced and processing power is easily accessible over the cloud, the future superpowers in healthcare AI will be the countries that best capture and apply their population’s health data to develop machine learning solutions.
Every single day, each Vietnamese hospital create tens of thousands of new data points – X-Ray images, CT scans, blood tests, disease diagnoses. All these data are the crude oil that currently being wasted. How do we refine this oil to run the healthcare AI machine?
How do we – government, hospitals, tech companies, AI researchers – work together to capture this opportunity and make Vietnam into a healthcare AI superpower in the next 3 years?
Dimitry Tran (Trần Đặng Minh Trí), a health care innovator with bases in Australia and Vietnam, is a co-founder of Harrison-AI with his brother Aengus Tran (Trần Đặng Đình Áng).
Harrison-AI is a Sydney-based healthcare artificial intelligence lab. Taking the implementation path, Harrison-AI seeks to bring the latest developments in AI to solve the biggest challenges in healthcare – making it better and cheaper for all. In 2017, Harrison-AI made a breakthrough in the field of reproductive health. The technology is now patent-pending and undergoing multi-national and multi- centre clinical trial with a global healthcare provider.
Dimitry is the Head of Innovation at Ramsay Health Care – a USD 10 billion enterprise, and one of the largest hospital operators in the world with over 200 facilities in Australia, France, UK, Indonesia and Malaysia. In this role, Dimitry works on growing innovative care models and technologies to expand healthcare services and improve patient outcomes.
He is also a founding investor and on the board of directors of MediRecords.com – the first cloud-based doctor practice management software in Australia.
Dimitry is a Honorary Associate at the Hoc Mai Foundation, a 20-year-old charity operated by University of Sydney Medical School in partnership with Hanoi Medical University. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Centre for Healthcare Improvement (CHIRvn.org), a social enterprise with the goal of accelerating the pace of change and ‘make healthcare better for patients, professionals and population’ in Vietnam.
Dimitry holds the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) designation, Executive MBA degree from the University of New South Wales, and Executive Education Certificate from Harvard Business School. He is studying toward the Master of Applied Science in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality degree at Johns Hopkins University.
Dimitry graduated first in his class at Bond University, where he completed bachelor degrees in Accounting and Finance and was the recipient of the Dean Scholarship and University Medal.