Achievements in computer vision for fashion, art and design at the “Fashion GenChallenge 2018” at the ECCV2018

An attention-driven generative network for generating fashion images conditioned on input text descriptions developed by a team comprising Mr. Kenan Emir Ak (NUS-ECE & A*STAR scholar), Dr. Ashraf A. Kassim (NUS-ECE), Dr. Lim Joo Hwee (I2R-A*STAR), Dr. Tham Jo Yew (ESP xMedia Pte. Ltd.) was ranked second overall at the recent “FashionGen challenge” organized as part of the Computer Vision for Fashion, Art and Design Workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision 2018 (ECCV2018) in Munich, Germany (8 to 14 September 2018).

The “FashionGen challenge” jointly organized by Ssense & Element AI, is the first of its kind for ‘text-to-image synthesis’ tasks and the winners were determined after user evaluations which checked for the correlation between the text and generated images.

Top nine submissions were shortlisted from the many worldwide submissions using algorithm generated scores and these were then ranked based on user evaluations that checked for visual quality, and the correlation between the text and generated images. The figure below shows fashion images generated by our algorithm for various text descriptions.

mBot Workshop 2022

The NUS ECE Department organized the mBot Workshop on 2 and 5 December 2022. 56 students from various junior colleges and high schools (Dunman High School, Hwa Chong Institution, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, Nanyang Junior College, NUS High school of Math and Science, Raffles Institution, River Valley High School) participate in this 2-day workshop. During

Young Researcher Award at the 2022 International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM)_Ph.D. student Mr. CHIEN Yu-Chieh

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Mr. CHIEN Yu-Chieh, supervised by Associate Professor Ang Kah-Wee from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the Young Researcher Award at the 2022 International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM). The SSDM Young Researcher Award is awarded to the first authors of excellent papers presented at the previous

First demonstration of a secure quantum network with untrusted quantum devices

An international team comprising researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and LMU Munich (LMU) have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated a new form of quantum key distribution (QKD) that is secure even if the users are not privy to the underlying quantum hardware. The work, paving the way for a more secure