Building the future of artificial thought
In the field of AI, Griffith is on a mission to incorporate human behaviours into intelligence devices to create innovative, exploratory and entrepreneurial technologies with practical applications.
Powering farms with deep learning and computer vision
Griffith’s ARC Research Hub for Driving Farming Productivity and Disease Prevention is an Australian research centre of excellence for industrial transformation, funded by the federal government and industry partners.
Their successes to date include projects such as the development of automated strawberry quality control, monitoring and managing lobster production, and improved sugarcane planting technology and processes.
Led by Professor Yongsheng Gao, the Hub’s researchers seek to increase farm production and disease prevention by advancing and transferring new artificial intelligence technologies into agricultural deployment. The Hub improves profits for Australian farms by implementing machine learning-based vision solutions to enable higher farming efficiency while lowering production costs and risks of disease.
Lead researcher: Professor Yongsheng Gao
Griffith institute: ARC Research Hub
Blockchain innovators Everledger and Griffith develop technology to combat counterfeiters
Griffith Business School cemented a fruitful partnership with the UK-based supply chain transparency company Everledger though a 2020 memorandum of understanding.
The partnership has since delivered practical research outcomes such as the development of machine learning technology to combat circulation of counterfeit retail products through authentication, identified by Everledger as a major concern in the industry.
Authentication is a detailed analysis of a specific pattern, such as a face or fingerprint. The prevailing technology is a tool to establish providence, which provides trust to marketplaces.
The partnership will also deliver professional development outcomes for Everledger’s employees, as well as business school curriculum development that capitalises on Everledger’s areas of expertise.
Lead researcher: Professor Dian Tjondronegoro
Griffith institute: Griffith business school
Project: The Counterfeit Detectives: in partnership with Everledger
Catching crypto criminals with AI and big data toolkit
A Griffith University-led project into detecting criminal cryptocurrency payments aims to address security issues causing Australians to lose millions of dollars each year.
Cryptocurrency is transacted with anonymity or pseudo-anonymity, making it difficult for law enforcement authorities to link payments with illegal activity.
This project creates new AI-based tools to analyse anonymised transactions and link them with financial crime patterns to identify perpetrators.
Griffith’s Associate Professor Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy leads the project, which is funded by the Office of National Intelligence and the Department of Defence’s National Security Science and Technology Centre and conducted in partnership with the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne.
Lead researcher: Associate Professor Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy
Griffith institute: School of Information and Communication Technology
Fighting fake news with AI
Griffith researchers are leading a study funded by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award to build the first real-time computer-generated system to fight the rise of online fake news.
Creators of fake news optimise their chance to manipulate public opinion and maximise their financial and political gains through sophisticated pollution of our information diffusion channels.
The project will develop cost-effective, scalable models to help media organisations and governments monitor fake news, reduce risk in intervention decisions, and broadly re-emerge as guarantors of information quality.
Fake news attacks are driven by advances in artificial intelligence and pose an ever-evolving cyberthreat at the information level, a far more advanced threat than traditional cybersecurity attacks at the hardware and software levels.
Lead researcher: Dr Henry Nguyen
Griffith institute: Griffith Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems
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