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Multimedia University (MMU) Achievements Posted: 04 December 2009; Category: Achievement

Gold Medal under the category of Multimedia.
19th International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 08).
Project Title : Canny Optimisation Technique for Creative Image Colourisation

Silver medal under the Educational category
19th International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 08).
Project Title : “Student-initiated Curriculum Planning, Visualisation and Assessment for Mobile Learning”.

Silver Medal.
18th International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 07).
May 18 – 20, 2007, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
Project Title: Flat Gain Optical Amplifier

Silver Medal. 18th International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 07).
Name of invention: Hybrid Entropy Decomposition and Support Vector Machine Method for Satellite Image Classification for Crop Fields.

Silver Medal, 18th International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 07),
Name of invention: Enhanced Capacity Secure Steganographic Systems based on LSB Insertion Technique.

1st Runner-up. Agilent Malaysia Innovator Award 2007, 10th September 2007.
Title of project: Advanced Vehicular System (AVS) for the Elderly and Disabled.

2nd Prize - Altera InNoCom 2006. Altera InNoCom 2006.
Project Title: Network Embedded Remote-Controlled Robot

Champion and Best Engineering Award (National Level), ROBOCON 2008.

Best Appealing Design Awards Philips Young Inventors' Challenge (PYIC) 2006

Significant industrial research collaborations with :
Multinational companies (eg.Intel, Alterra, Motorola, Agilent, Alcatel-Lucent, NTT, Panasonic,etc)
MSC Companies (eg. MSC Cyberport Sdn Bhd, Dell Global Business Centre Sdn Bhd, Entellium Technologies Sdn Bhd, NetInfinium Sdn Bhd, Tantalus Asia Sdn Bhd, Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn Bhd,etc)
Many academic research collaborations for example, University Malaya (Optical Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers), Universiti Putra Malaysia (Free Space Optics), Pennsylvania State University, USA (Nanophotonics), NICT, Japan, etc.

Record of Publication (for the year 2006 July – 2007 June):
International Journal Publication – more than 150
International Conference – more than 250

Statistics of Intellectual Property filed (up to 2008):
Malaysia Patent filed (21)
Overseas Patent : US Patent filed (2), Japan Patent filed (1)

Commercialisation of Research
Multimedia Learning System
- awarded Best Smart Learning application in Asia Pacific MSC IT & Telecommunication Awards (APMITTA) , 2000
- awarded Best of Learning Application Category, Asia Pacific Information and communication Technology Awards (APICTA), 2001
- awarded Smart Community International Network (SCIN) Best Practice Award, 2004.

Other Useful Research News
As for Postgraduate Studies, there are more than 700 active postgraduates by research as at 2008. A total of 260 Masters and 90 PhD students have graduated from MMU. For PhD graduate, the average international journal publication is more than two.

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