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RC Lead: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goh Ching Pang
Location: Centre of Computational Intelligence (CCI) Research Laboratory, B001C, Block B,
Centre of Excellence in Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (COE BDA AI), CITC Ground Floor,
TAR UMT Main Campus
What is Computational Intelligence？
It stands for a sub-domain of Artificial Intelligence that endows the ability for a computer or machine to learn and perform any intellectual task, similar to a human being.
What we do？
To explore on designing algorithm and techniques that close to the human’s way of reasoning, i.e. utilizes inexact and incomplete knowledge and performs control actions in an adaptive way. Image and video processing, data mining, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, computer vision processing, robotics and human computer interaction seek the similar goals with Computational Intelligence. It is a way of performing like human beings and most of the time heavily used to perform reasoning and decision making processes.
What we aim for？
To research and integrate the nature-inspired intelligence methodologies into the computer systems to address the complex real-world problems.
There are four sub-groups:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Group
AI is a general term that implies the use of computer to model and / or replicate intelligent behaviour. AI research focuses on the development and analysis of algorithms that learns and / or performs intelligent behaviour with minimal human intervention. These techniques have been and continue to be applied to a broad range of solution in robotics, e-commerce, medical diagnosis, gaming, mathematics, etc. Specifically, research is being conducted in estimation theory, mobility mechanism, active computer vision and so on.
CV processing works on the computer-based interpretation of 2D and 3D image data set from conventional and nonconventional image sources. It involves the field of Medical Image Analysis, Visualization, Object recognition, Gesture Analysis, Facial Expression, Tracking and Scene understanding and modelling, etc.
Robotic Group
Robotic research is involved in research pertaining to all aspects of robotic manipulation, controls and developing Socially Assistive Robots. Our primary focus is to engineer robots that can operate and interact with humans in unstructured environment.
Furthermore, human motion and models development is focused. The current project is working on capturing elegant human motion, improve the system and robot programming in Python language.
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Group
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Group
HCI group aims to bridge gap between the human and digital world. Thus, we explore the possibilities to reduce the gap by integrating emerging technologies (e.g., new affordance of the Internet of Things) into our interaction design and solution, with new affordances . Beside, human factors such as human behavior, cognitive psychology, culture, environment, etc will be taken into consideration during the design process, as human/users is the centre of this field of study.
Led by Dr. Lim Khai Yin
Led by Prof. Ts. Dr. Tew Yiqi
Led by Mr. Wong Hon Yoon
Led by Dr. Aw Kien Sin
Event / Achievement in the past 10 years
Computational Intelligence Research Lab is working towards to set up the facilities and take opportunity for supporting innovative development through undergraduate final year projects, projects in postgraduate programmes offered by TAR UMT.
2025: Won the Best Poster Awards in the 14th International Conference on Information Technology in Asia 2025 (CITA '25), titled: Adaptive Speech Emotion Recognition via Reinforcement Learning, students Chen Zhun Lee, Lee Kevin, supervised by Dr Lim Siew Mooi. - NEWS - Page 10
2025: Won the Gold and Silver awards in the Malaysia Innovation and Invention Creativity Association (MIICA) via online presentation, by Dr Goh Ching Pang.
2025: Won the Best Paper Awards in the 6th International Conference on Computer Information Technology & Intelligent Computing (CITIC 2025), titled: An Empirical Study on Hyperbolic Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Lead Scoring, by Dr Tan Chi Wee and Dr Ho Chuk Fong.
2025: Won the Best Presentation Awards in the International Conference on Advanced Science, Engineering & Innovation (ICASEI 2025), titled: The Declining Role of Lemmatization and Stemming in Modern NLP Pipelines, by Dr Ho Chuk Fong.
2025: Won the Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards in the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Computer Science and Engineering (ICICSE 2025), titled: Robustness Assessment of LoRA-Enhanced Qwen 2.5 Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis under Dataset Shifts, by student Lim Pei Ying, supervised by Dr Ho Chuk Fong and Dr Tan Chi Wee. - NEWS -
2025: Obtained TAR UMT internal grant: Gated Recurrent Unit Architectures for Enhanced Food Loss Forecasting (RM 58,000) by Dr Lim Siew Mooi.
2025: Obtained TAR UMT internal grant: An Investigation Into Improving Small Language Model Robustness When Facing Unseen Paraphrased Inputs (RM 89,130) by Dr Kathleen Tan Swee Neo.
2025: Obtained industrial grant: Recommender System and Chatbot in Modular Digital Twin Line from Omis Consulting Sdn Bhd (RM 76,800) by Dr Goh Ching Pang and Dr Tan Chi Wee.
2025: Obtained industrial grant: In-Born Talent Discovery using Fingerprint with Image Processing from Luminous Systems Sdn Bhd (RM 74,000) by Dr Goh Ching Pang and Dr Goh Kam Meng (FOET).
2025: Obtained industrial grant: Centralized Psychological Therapy Management System from Azon Allied Health & Educare Development Sdn. Bhd (RM 85,000) by Dr Tan Bee Sian.
2025: Obtained industrial grant: CVs-Jobs Matching from Technology Visionaries Sdn Bhd (RM 12,000) by Dr Ho Chuk Fong.
2024: Staff exchange with experience sharing on AI projects, briding AI and sustainability with Adamson University, Phillipines, by Dr Tan Chi Wee. - NEWS -
2024: Conducted AI talk at Leardership Training Camp by Youth Circle of Arts in Johor Bahru, and AI workshop to the Youth Raub Division of MCA by Dr Tan Chi Wee. - NEWS1 - - NEWS2 -
2024: Conducted 8-days industrial workshop on deep learning and neural networks to Estek Automation Sdn Bhd, by Dr Ang Sau Loong and Dr Lim Khai Yin.
2024: Staff exchange programme with Dr Zhao Hongfei from Zhejiang University of Water Resrouces and Electic Power (ZJWEU), involving courses: Data Engineering , AI and Machine Learning.
2024: Conducted online workshop on AI, Image Processing and Computer Vision, personalised AI assistant to Quandatic Academy Sdn Bhd by Dr Goh Ching Pang and Dr Yu Yong Poh.
2024: Conducted workshop on Object & Face Detection using Haar Cascade to Chinese High School Batu Pahat by Dr Goh Ching Pang.
2024: Won the Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Computing (ICOCO 2024), titled: Addressing Distortion in Social Distance Monitoring: Calibration for Accurate Distance Calculation, by student Ng Yi Pei, supervised by Dr Tan Chi Wee.
2024: Won the Outstanding Science and Technology Innovation Awards in iSPARK International Pitching Competition 2024, titled: 1) Carisma: Responsive Car Recommendations System Enhanced with Content-Based Filtering, 2) moniv: Malaysian Money Detection for The Visually Impaired using YOLOv8, 3) CVGenie: Your Resume's 24/7 Wingman, by Dr Tan Chi Wee. - NEWS -
2024: Won the Best Presenter Award in IEEE 3rd International Conference on Digital Transformation and Applications (ICDXA), titled: Sign Language to Text Translation with Computer Vision: Bridging the Communication Gap, by student Thong So Xue, supervised by Dr Goh Ching Pang.
2024: Won the CBIEV Ispark Competition: Demoral Diagnose System (3rd prize: RM2,000), student name: Amos Teo Hua An, Leong Jing En, and AI-power tutoring system (10th prize: RM 500), student name: Christopher Wong Jia He, Teh Chong Shin, supervised by Dr Goh Ching Pang. - NEWS -
2024: Obtained internal grant: Neural Motor Control Through Electroencephalography Signals via Advanced Brain-Computer Interface Technology (RM 83,000), by Dr Goh Ching Pang.
2024: Obtained industrial grant: AI Q&A LLM Model from GOAT Collectible Sdn Bhd (RM 69,552) by Dr Tan Chi Wee, Dr Lim Khai Yin and Dr Goh Ching Pang.
2024: Obtained industrial grant: CVs-Job Similarity-Semantic AI Search from Technology Visionaries Sdn Bhd (RM 12,000) by Dr Lim Khai Yin and Dr Ho Chuk Fong.
2024: Obtained industrial grant: AI-Powered Text-to-SQL from TESS Innovation Sdn Bhd (RM 20,088) by Dr Lim Khai Yin.
2024: Obtained industrial grant: Crypto Trading with Smart Configuration of Entry Factors and Capital Allocation from TESS Innovation Sdn Bhd (RM 99,360) by Dr Ang Sau Loong and Dr Wong Thein Lai.
2024: Obtained industrial grant: Design and Implement Self-Learning and Self-Improving Framework using Hadoop Distributed Architecture for Lexicon Generation from Work At Cloud (RM 96,000) by Dr Tan Chi Wee.
2024: Obtained industrial grant: Coaching and Consultancy Services on Lexicon and Sentiment Analysis from Unit Penyelidikan, Jaringan Industri & Masyarakat, Jabatan Perdana Menteri (RM 10,500) by Dr Tan Chi Wee.
2023: Online training on Image and Video Processing to support ICStar Hackathon by Dr Tew Yiqi and Dr Tan Chi Wee.
2023: Presented AI Face Mask detection system at OCTF Intelligent Technology Exhibition, WTC KL, by Dr Tew Yiqi and Dr Tan Chi Wee. - NEWS -
2023: Presented AI Face Mask detection system at Advantech Asean Wise-Iot Partner Conference, Penang by Dr Tew Yiqi and Dr Tan Chi Wee. - NEWS -
2023: Conducted STEM-driven talks and AI workshops at Pin Hwa High School y Dr Tew Yiqi, Dr Tan Chi Wee and Dr Chin Wan Yoke. - NEWS -
2022: Enveloped Digital Document Recognition with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology by Dr Tew Yiqi (obtained RM 100,000 from TAR UMT internal grant)
2020: Installation of high-end computer terminals and infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics (BDA) related Research and Development, talent development and conducting public training or workshops by Dr Lim Yee Mei (obtained RM399k under RMK11)
2020: Interactive Dashboard with Visual Sensing and Zero-shot Learning Capabilities by Dr Chaw Jun Kit and Dr Tew Yiqi (obtained RM58,200 from TAR UMT internal grant)
2020: Smart Autonomous Drone System for Building Inspections by Ts Ong Jia Hui (obtained RM 4,000 from Hilti (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd)
2019: Obtained competition award from Hilti (malaysia) Sdn Bhd on the project title: Building Condition Evaluation through Crack Detection, by Dr Chaw Jun Kit and a final year project student (obtained RM 4,000 industrial grant)
2019: Collaborated with Asia Roofing Industries Sdn Bhd on the project title: Intelligent Materials and Manufacturing Planning System, by Dr Chaw Jun Kit and a postgraduate student (obtained RM 92,000 industrial grant)
2018: Collaborated with Hotayi Electronic (M) Sdn Bhd in Image Processing Automation (Optical Character Recognition) and Parts Supply Chain Automation (Purchase Order Matching System), by Ts Dr Tew Yiqi, Ms Choon Kwai Mui, and a team of Final Year Project students (obtained RM100,000 industrial grant, co-work with another 4 FOCS and FOET projects)
2018: Collaborated with Kian Joo Can Factory Berhad on the project title: Intelligent Materials and Manufacturing Planning System, by Dr Lim Yee Mei and a postgraduate student (obtained RM 92,000 industrial grant)
2018: Obtained Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) in the area of HEVC Multiview Video Streaming Mechanism for Data Distribution Service Framework, by Ts Dr Tew Yiqi and a postgraduate student (obtained RM 48,000 government grant)
2017: Co-Research with FOET lecturer in the area of Micro-Expression Recognition via Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) by Dr Lim Chern Hong
2017: Participated in PECIPTA 2017 to showcase Smart Classroom Management and Car Plate Recognition System and won bronze medals by Dr Lim Chern Hong
Research and Development Projects
The centre groups support faculty student's projects / initiatives, including, but not limited to :
Intelligent Scene Detection -GOOGLE SITE-
Augmented Reality Application -GOOGLE SITE-
High Efficiency Video Coding -GOOGLE SITE-
Publications
Agatha Jin Jin Lau, Chi Wee Tan (2024). LongT5Rank: A Novel Integrated Hybrid Approach for Text Summarisation. Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 73-96. DOI: 10.18080/jtde.v12n3.977
Amos Chow Li Kuang, Tong Ming Lim, Chi Wee Tan, Chuk Fong Ho, Noor Aida Husaini (2024). AI Ads: Practicability of Text Generation for F&B Marketing. Journal of Logistics, Informatics and Service Science, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 324-345. DOI: 10.33168/JLISS.2024.0220
Liu Jun Yoon, Xuan Yi Tan, Khai Yin Lim, Chi Wee Tan, Ling Ern Cheng, Jenny Tan (2024). A Comparative Study of Lemmatization Approaches for Rojak Language, In: Bee Wah, Y., Al-Jumeily OBE, D., Berry, M.W. (eds) Data Science and Emerging Technologies. DaSET 2023. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 191. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-0293-0_1
Hau Joan, Li Peng Tan, Yiqi Tew (2023). Quick Response (QR) codes embedding in VVC using Quantisation Parameter Manipulation, 2023 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Taipei, Taiwan, 2023, pp. 1697-1704. DOI: 10.1109/APSIPAASC58517.2023.10317417
Chi Wee Tan, Jun Kit Chaw, Yiqi Tew, Siaw Lang Wong, Jennis Tan Gloria, Mohd Suaib Norhaida (2023). An integrated text-based hybrid RNN-CNN model for toxic comment classification. AIP Conference Proceeding. 7 December 2023; 2680 (1): 020132. DOI: 10.1063/5.0125995
Yik Siang Pang, Yiqi Tew (2023). A pilot investigation on real time multi-view high efficiency video coding. AIP Conference Proceeding. 7 December 2023; 2680 (1): 020130. DOI: 10.1063/5.0127385
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