Alexander Wong – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP https://vip.uwaterloo.ca The University of Waterloo's Vision and Image Processing Lab Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:34:02 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Alexander Wong – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP https://vip.uwaterloo.ca 32 32 Alexander Wong https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/a-wong/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:38:59 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=491 Alexander Wong is currently the Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems and an assistant professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He had previously received his B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada in 2005, his M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada in 2007, and his Ph.D. degree Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada in 2010. He was also a NSERC postdoctoral research fellow at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.  He has published over 450 refereed journal and conference papers, as well as patents, in various fields such as computational imaging, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and multimedia systems. He has received numerous awards including three Outstanding Performance Awards, a Distinguished Performance Award, an Engineering Research Excellence Award, a Sandford Fleming Teaching Excellence Award, an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, a Best Paper Award at the NIPS Workshop on NIPS Workshop on Transparent and Interpretable Machine Learning (2017), a Best Paper Award at the NIPS Workshop on Efficient Methods for Deep Neural Networks (2016), two Best Paper Awards by the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) (2009 and 2014), a Distinguished Paper Award by the Society of Information Display (2015), two Best Paper Awards for the Conference of Computer Vision and Imaging Systems (CVIS) (2015,2017), Synaptive Best Medical Imaging Paper Award (2016), two Magna Cum Laude Awards and one Cum Laude Award from the Annual Meeting of the Imaging Network of Ontario, CIX TOP 20 (2017), AquaHacking Challenge First Prize (2017), Best Student Paper at Ottawa Hockey Analytics Conference (2017), and the Alumni Gold Medal.

Students

Supervision – Current

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ph.D.

Ziyao Shang, Amy Tai

M.A.Sc.

Supervision – Completed

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Yuhao Chen (2023), Mehrnaz Fani (2019-2022), Linlin Xu (2016), Hicham Sekkati (2016), Christian Scharfenberger (2014)

ph.D.

Mingzhe (Major) Jiang (2022), Zilong Zhong (2021), Audrey Chung (2020), Robert Amelard (2017), Shahid Haider (), Farnoud Kazemzadeh (2016), Daniel S. Cho (2016), Fan Li (2015), Shimon Schwartz (2013), Chenyi Liu (2012)

M.A.Sc.

Chang Liu (2025), Vasyl Chomko (2025), Saeejith Nair (), Kimathi Kaai (2024), Brennan Gebotys (2022), Chi-en (Amy) Tai (), Marjan Shahi (), Pascale Walters (2021), Chris Dulhanty (2020), Ahmadreza Jeddi (2020), Edward Li (2016), Francis Li (2016), Brendan Chwyl (2016), Shahid Haider (2015), Andrew Cameron (2014), Dorothy Lui (2014), Robert Amelard (2013), Hayden Gunraj (), Jeffrey Glaister (2013), Aanchal Jain (2012)

Research topics
Biomedical Imaging
Computer Vision
Discovery Radiomics
Evolutionary Deep Intelligence
Image Segmentation/Classification
Multiresolution Techniques
Remote Sensing
Scientific Imaging
Stochastic Models
Video Analysis
Research demos
Action Recognition in Video
Bias Field Correction in Endorectal Diffusion Imaging
Coded Hemodynamic Imaging
Correlated Diffusion Imaging
Disparate Scene Registration
Enhanced Decoupled Active Contour Using Structural and Textural Variation Energy Functionals
Enhanced Low-dose Computed Tomography
Grid Seams: A fast superpixel algorithm for real-time applications
Hybrid Structural and Texture Distinctiveness Vector Field Convolution for Region Segmentation
Image Denoising
Multiplexed Optical High-coherence Interferometry
SAR Sea Ice Image Synthesis
Skin Cancer Detection
Statistical Textural Distinctiveness for Salient Region Detection in Natural Images
Stereo Vision for Dimension Estimation
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Journal Articles

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