Making Sense of Data
Across nearly every industry sector ICT has enabled the systematic gathering of large quantities of data. There remains the challenge of making sense of it all.
Many industry sectors are drowning in a flood of complex and voluminous data created by the digital revolution.
These include security and surveillance systems, medical data and images, financial transaction records, management of electronic documents and environmental monitoring.
In order to control, use and understand this data, NICTA is creating new technologies based on research in areas such as machine learning, image and video analysis, natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning.
RESEARCH PROJECTS IN MAKING SENSE OF DATA:
Develop underlying technology for intelligent systems. Formalise perception and control algorithms in a higher-order logic.
Develop research tools for early diagnosis of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, schizophrenia and epilepsy
Small, smart devices collecting, interpreting, transmitting biometric data reliably to those who need it in a form they can use.
Research how computer systems assist teams of co-workers to collaborate more effectively across a distance
Develop software techniques and tools enabling conversion of genetic profiles of tissue into clinically useful knowledge assisting oncologists and pathologists
Better techniques and tools for evaluating integration between people, ICT, and environments of use.
Computed tomography is a method of performing non-invasive colonoscopy. Project will develop tools to assist radiologists in analysing the images
Develop parsimonious XML memory representations and efficient algorithms for XML query evaluation
Develop efficient tools to answer pattern questions in large data sets related to movement of objects
Develop statistical machine learning tools and algorithms for use in the different stages of the intelligence life-cycle. This implicitly includes data and text mining.
Open source software platform for Machine Learning community
Development of improved solvers, visualisation of constraint graphs and of the software and contribution to applications for end users including Roads and Traffic Authority, NSW
Develop scalable natural language processing technologies for extracting, analysing and presenting information locked up in large bodies of text and speech data on the web
Demonstrate a real-time interference canceling, software defined radio, intended for the base station of a WiMax wireless system
Develop expertise and tools in genomics. Large volume of samples, data sets at least one order of magnitude larger than what is currently practical in human genomics
Develop generic, robust, expressive and efficient models and algorithms to interpret and query data under uncertainty in digital forensics and environmental management
Focuses on improving ICT technologies in the emergency and disaster management domains
The Smart Transport and Roads project (STaR) technologies are applied to transport and road systems
Spectral camera technology and exploration of spectral properties over 3D models and the localisation of spectral energy sources within objects
Allow XML information to be stored in a succinct representation: a space-efficient representation which maintains low access and update costs for all the desired operations. The Universal Storage Scheme Project also referred to as USS and mcontext
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN MAKING SENSE OF DATA:
PubRes
A web-based system for reviewing research publications