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No. 2, April 2005
THE QUEEN
JADWIGA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF UNDERSTANDING – the first steps in the
scientific world
Magdalena
Les and Dr. Zbigniew Les
The inauguration of the activities
of the Queen Jadwiga Research Institute of
Understanding (QJRIU) was during the evening
lecture presented by Magdalena Les and Dr. Zbigniew Les that took
place on 23 November 2004, at Swinburne University
of Technology, Melbourne.
The host of this event was Australian Statistical Society Inc. The topic of
the lecture was Shape Understanding System: application of
statistical methods in designing of the system with the visual thinking
capabilities. In
this presentation the focus was on the issues connected with shape,
understanding, reasoning and statistical methods. In the first part of the
presentation the general concepts such as understanding, visual thinking and
reasoning were presented. The basic concepts of shape understanding method
and selected issues of the implementation of the shape understanding system
(SUS) were introduced. In the second part, the statistical shape theory as
well as selected statistical methods applied in the pattern recognition and
expert systems such as Hidden Markov Models or Bayesian networks,
were briefly discussed. The visual inference of SUS that is applied to solve
the problem of curve identification, a graphical investigation of the
characteristic points of the curve, visual tests, and identification of
statistical visual objects, were presented. Examples of application of the
SUS in statistics (the regression analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis) were also shown.
This year the
Queen Jadwiga Research Institute of Understanding
was represented by Dr. Z.
Les and Magdalena Les at the International Statistical Conference (ISI2005),
5-12 April, 2005, Sydney,
Australia.
This was a very successful event that gathered statisticians from all over
the world, from more than 100 countries. A diverse Scientific Program included
invited and contributed papers sessions, key note speakers of world repute,
poster sessions, tutorials and short courses.
Sydney welcomes us with sunny weather
– before inauguration of the ISI 2005 conference
During presentation of the papers at the International Conference ISI
2005, Sydney, Australia
The topic of our presentation was Understanding of the irregular object. In this
presentation a method of understanding
of the irregular object was presented. The term the irregular object referes to a 2-D object that possesses the small
irregularities or is representative of the irregular real world object such
as a leaf. The irregular object is also an object for which an exemplar has a
distortion caused by the perceptual limitation of the generated tools. These
irregularities can be interpreted as the useful information or as a noise
that is the result of the processing stage. In understanding process of shape
understanding system (SUS) the “noise” of the irregular object is
interpreted in the context of the concept of the object. Our approach has a
big advantage by relating the perceptual data into conceptual structure of
the knowledge about the visual object. In this approach the conceptual
similarities make it possible to find the different interpretation for the
same visual object.
Selected slides from
the final presentation
Discussion
on the presented paper continued after the session
We had great pleasure to meet with Sir Clive
Granger, the Nobel Laureate in economics in the year 2003. He won a Nobel
Prize in his discovery in the analysis of time series data.
During
the break –playing Chopin and meeting with prof.
Gatnar from Poland
Waiting for news from Vatican
before the Pope’s funeral– internet centre and St. Mary’s
Cathedral in Sydney
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