John Zelek – 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 17:34:21 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png John Zelek – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP https://vip.uwaterloo.ca 32 32 John Zelek https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/j-zelek/ https://vip.uwaterloo.ca/j-zelek/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:41:49 +0000 https://wwwvip.uwaterloo.ca/?p=519 Professor Zelek is an Associate Professor and co-director of the VIP (Vision Image Processing) lab. He is formerly the Associate Graduate Chair of Systems Design Engineering, serving from 2013 to 2017.
Professor Zelek’s current main research interests include autonomous robotic mapping and localization, 3D scene understanding, man made infrastructure assessment (e.g., roads, buildings, bridges), eye (fundus, OCT) image understanding for disease, learning 3D models from single-views, athletic sport tracking & biomechanical understanding of play & ability from video feeds, to name a few. Some of these projects make use of AI & deep learning techniques.
Prof. Zelek’s interests in the past have included assistive devices, social engineering, haptics, robot navigation to name a few.

Professor Zelek has been the co-founder of two startup companies: Tactile Sight and Sweep3D. Tactile Sight commercialized a haptic navigation device for people who are cognitively (e.g., dementia) or perceptually (e.g., blind) disabled. Sweep3D commercialized technology that produces 3D models by sweeping a camera around objects or spaces for various applications including clothes fitting, orthotics as well as well as exploring real estate premises remotely. Professor Zelek also sits on the advisory boards for Intelligent Health Solutions Inc. and EyeCheck.

Students

Supervision – Current

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ph.D.

Kseniia (Ksusha) Buzko, Jerrin Bright

M.A.Sc.

Kevin Li (), Liam Salass ()

Supervision – Completed

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Mehrnaz Fani (2019-2022)

ph.D.

Kanav Vats (2022), Amir H. Shabani (2011), Ken M. Nsiempba (), Peter Q. Lee ()

M.A.Sc.

Dheeraj Khanna (2025), Ryan Schmalenberg (2024), Yan Song Hu (2024), Matthew Bradley (2024), Yuxiang Huang (), Chun-Cheng (Kris) Feng (2024), Harish Prakash (2024), Jerrin Bright (2024), Francis Li (2016), Fred Tung (2010), Wen Zhang (2009), Natalie El-Nabbout (2008)

Research topics
Computer Vision
Sports Analytics
Publications
Journal Articles

Conference Papers

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