Ninth International Conference on The Image
- 2018 Special Focus - Artificial Images and Visual Intelligence: Seeing in the Age of Big-Data
- 3–4 November 2018
- Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Ninth International Conference on the Image.
Countries represented.
In the age of big data, image perception is no longer a bodily cognitive process. Computer algorithms play a significant role in the pipeline of image generation, management, distribution, and reception. Below are a few examples that illustrate how image, and its associated algorithms, pose new challenges.
By facing such challenges, we have become increasingly dependent on the use of social media platforms to archive our everyday life images at both individual and collective levels. At the same time, the design of the information organization strategies, such as hashtag, personal relationship, and geographical data, helps shape the way in which we store and retrieve such large number of images. On the other hand, we envision more sophisticated machine learning algorithms to recognize and classify our images with accuracy that supersedes our human counterparts. Nevertheless, a significant number of such algorithms rely on supervised learning. The ‘supervision’ of such machine learning activities is actually funded and performed by large corporations, government, and academic institutions. It may be time to consider if we can put the ‘supervision’ back in public scrutiny. The theme of this year’s Conference on The Image aims to trigger responses and critical discussions of how we deal with image in this age of big data and artificial intelligence.
The Ninth International Conference on The Image featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Dean, School of Creative Media, and Chair/Professor, Film and Media Art, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
"Consciousness and the Machine"
Chair Professor of Humanities and Dean of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
"The Public Value of Film: Moving Images, Health, and Well-being"
Professor, Global Cinema, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts; Visiting Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
"Navigation and Curation in the Era of Digital Disruption"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2018 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ambedkar University Delhi, India
Royal College of Art, UK
Jawaharla Nehru University, India
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute "flash" video presentations. Click the button below to view the videos on our YouTube channel.