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.
The Making Sense of Data Vision outlines the Making Sense of Data landscape and areas in which NICTA will focus its efforts in the future to make a global impact.
RESEARCH PROJECTS IN MAKING SENSE OF DATA:
Applications for sensor technologies with a particular focus on cameras and CCTV, for the detection and analysis of safety and security threats.
Reducing the cost of doing biological experiments as well as the time taken to do them using tools that provide a more efficient way of extracting biologically relevant information from video sequences of live cells. Potentially this could lead to wider applications in the development of drug discovery and clinical screening.
Open source software platform for Machine Learning community
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
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
Better techniques and tools for evaluating integration between people, ICT, and environments of use.
Develop efficient tools to answer pattern questions in large data sets related to movement of objects
Increasing the efficiency of control centres, such as call centres and air traffic control centres, by developing techniques that can detect the load on the operators and take remedial action.
Small, smart devices collecting, interpreting, transmitting biometric data reliably to those who need it in a form they can use.
There are estimates that one in five Australians will suffer a period of chronic pain in their lifetime. Many others will suffer from neurological disorders - such as Parkinson's Disease - which produce debilitating physical symptons. NICTA is developing small, sophisticated and inexpensive implantable therapies that will help these people.
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
Which parts of the city are going to be most affected by the smoke plume from a burning building? Street will address urban challenges like this by creating a platform, tools, interfaces, and design methodologies for urban ubiquitous computing, enableing experts and non-experts alike to define personally and collectively meanful urban computing applications.
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
Develop parsimonious XML memory representations and efficient algorithms for XML query evaluation
A web-based system for reviewing research publications
