Jeremiah D. Deng

PhD, Senior Lecturer
Department of Information Science
University of Otago
Po Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel: 64-3-479 8090, Fax: 64-3-479 8311
E-mails - jddeng at ieee dot org / ddeng at infoscience dot otago.ac.nz -

Office: Room CO903, Commerce Bld., Cnr Union St. & Clyde St.

My research areas are machine learning, pattern recognition, vision, neural networks, and telecommunications.

Recent publications

Machine learning for multimedia data analysis J. D. Deng, Improving feature extraction for automatic medical image categorization, Proc. IVCNZ'09, Wellington, November 2009, pp.379-384. J. D. Deng, R. Brinkworth, D. O'Carroll, Assessing the naturalness of scenes: an approach using statistics of local features, Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2008. IVCNZ 2008. 23rd International Conference, Christchurch, November 2008, 6 pages. [doi] J. D. Deng, C. Simmermacher and S. Cranefield. A study on feature analysis for musical instrument classification. IEEE Trans. System, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, vol. 38, no. 2, pp.429-438, 2008. [IEEExplore] J. D. Deng and M. Gleeson, Automatic sapstain detection in processed timber, Proc. AI'07, LNAI 4830, pp.637-641, Springer Verlag, 2007. [bib | doi] I. Koprinska, D. Deng, F. Feger, Image classification using labelled and unlabelled data, Proc. 14th European Signal and Image Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, September 2006, 5 pages. [online]
Computer vision and image retrieval SP Yong, J. D. Deng, M. K. Purvis, A new keypoint matching method for object classification using local descriptors, Proc. of ICITA'08, pp.343-348, Cairns, Australia, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9803267-2-7 D. Deng, Content-based image collection summarization and comparison using self-organizing maps. Pattern Recognition, 40:2, pp.718-727, 2007. [doi]
Chaotic neural networks J. D. Deng, S. Li, Improving the pattern retrieval characteristics of the Aihara chaotic neural network mode, Proc. of ICITA'08, pp.732-737, Cairns, Australia, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9803267-2-7
Telecommunications, software engineering etc. J. D. Deng and M. K. Purvis, Queueing analysis for multi-core performance improvement: two case studies, Proc. Australasian Conf. Telecommunications Networks and Applications (ATNAC 2007), IEEE Catalog No. 07EX2003, (2007) 390-395. [doi] D. Deng, M. K. Purvis and M. A. Purvis, Software metric estimation: an empirical study using an integrated data analysis approach, Proc. IEEE ICSSSM 2007, Chengdu, PR China, 2007, 5 pages. [doi]

Here is a longer list of my (less recent) selected publications.

Teaching

• Reviewing:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • IEEE Transactions: SMC-B, TNN, TKDE, TM, TITB
  • IEEE Multimedia
  • Information Sciences
  • IET Signal Processing
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Soft Computing
  • JRPIT
• Co-chair, special session on Machine Learning Techniques for Image and Video Processing for KES'05.
• Programme Committee co-chair, Australasian Workshop on Data Mining and Web Intelligence, 2004
• Confrerence programme committees: IVCNZ'08, '09, AI07/08/09, IIH-MSP'08, CMLS'07, IEEE ICCCAS'07, HIS'06, KES'04-06, VIP'05/ 06, ICDM'04-07, ANNES-2001.
• CSIS Seminar coordinator (Year 2004)

Postgraduate theses supervised:

• Chikako van Koten, PhD, Bayesian Statistical Models for Predicting Software Effort, 2007.
• Xin Wang, PhD, Time-line Hidden Markov Mixture of Experts for time series prediction, 2005.
• Jianhua Zhang, MSc, An approach for intelligent image collection navigation and semantic analysis, 2005.
• Christian Simmermacher, MSc, Detecting musical instrument in classical music: a view on timbre, musical features, and classification, 2005.
• Heiko Wolf, MSc, Automatic video summarisation using an MPEG-7 based Visual Attention Model, 2006.

Miscellaneous

• My little AWK-ward experience
• Southernmost Miners
• Tony Moore sketched out his ideas
• Some of my Chinese writings:
• The Story of the Door, Overseas Campus Magazine, Issue 67, 2004
• And The River Flows - Day and Night, Overseas Campus Magazine, 60, 2003.