Orientation day at the Ghent University Global Campus in Korea: Introduction

Wesley De Neve

Ghent University – iMinds & KAIST

Songdo, KoreaAugust 29, 2014

Orientation Day at the Ghent University Global Campus in Korea: Introduction

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• Academic credentials- Master’s degree in computer science (2002)

• at Ghent University, Belgium- Ph.D. degree in computer science engineering (2007)

• at Ghent University, Belgium• “Description-driven media resource adaptation”

• Current employment- Multimedia Lab @ Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium (since 2011)- Image and Video Systems Lab @ KAIST, Korea (since 2007)

Professional Background

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• Main track- social media understanding- visual content understanding- machine learning

• artificial neural networks

• Side track- compression of genomic data using

video coding principles- querying of biomedical datasets

using Semantic Web technology

Research Topics

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• Researchers are often confronted with time-consuming and repetitive tasks when gathering and processing data- collecting data from websites- converting files from one format into another- analyzing, summarizing and visualizing the data obtained

• The exponential flow of newly incoming data requires researchers to automate these tasks in order to speed up their daily job routines

Informatics 1: Background

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• To teach you how to describe time-consuming and repetitive tasks in such a way that these can be performed automatically by a computer

• To teach you how to think and work in Python- highly popular language for teaching introductory computer science- helps bridging the language gap between humans and computers

Informatics 1: Goals

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• Teaching- theory lectures- supervised hands-on sessions- self-study using a handbook

• Evaluation- weekly programming assignments

• basic exercises• advanced exercises

- open book examination

Informatics 1: Practicalities