Our people
| Name | Award | Status | Date | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Tai | Alumni Gold Medal Winner | MASc student | 2024 | University of Waterloo |
| Lily de Loe | Norman Miller Prize: , 1st place présenter at OCEANS2024 Student Poster Competition in Halifax “Fusing Ice Surface Temperature with the AI4Arctic Dataset for Enhanced Sea Ice Concentration Estimation” | MASc student | 2024 | OCEANS2024 |
| Alexander Wong | Fellow, Geological Society | Professor | 2024 | Geological Society |
| Alexander Wong | Fellow, Royal Society of Public Health | Professor | 2024 | Royal Society of Public Health |
| Alexander Wong | Fellow, Institute of Physics | Professor | 2024 | Institute of Physics |
| Alexander Wong | Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce | Professor | 2024 | Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce |
| Alexander Wong | Fellow, Royal Geographical Society | Professor | 2024 | Royal Geographical Society |
| Alexander Wong | Fellow, International Society for Design and Development in Education | Professor | 2024 | International Society for Design and Development in Education |
| Alexander Wong | Fellow, Institute of Engineering and Technology | Professor | 2024 | Institute of Engineering and Technology |
| Nick Torenvliet and Yizhe Liu | 2nd place in the Ultrasound Dataset Challenge | PhD, MASc | 2023 | CVPR 2023 workshop on Deep Learning in Ultrasound Image Analysis |
| David Clausi | Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (FAAIA) | Professor | 2022 | Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association |
| David Clausi | Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) | Professor | 2022 | Canadian Academy of Engineering |
| Nicholas Pellegrino | Alumni Gold Medal | MASc | 2022 | University of Waterloo |
| Amir-Hossein Karimi | Alumni Gold Medal | MMath | 2018 | University of Waterloo |
| Robert Amelard | Alumni Gold Medal | PhD | 2017 | University of Waterloo |
| Audrey Chung | Alumni Gold Medal | MASc | 2016 | University of Waterloo |
| Jeffrey Glaister | Alumni Gold Medal | MASc | 2013 | University of Waterloo |
| David Clausi | Engineering Research Excellence Award | Professor | 2012 | Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Alumni Gold Medal | PhD | 2010 | University of Waterloo |
| David Clausi | Research Excellence and Service to the Research Community Award | Professor | 2010 | Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) |
| David Clausi | Teaching Excellence Award | Professor | 2005 | Sanford Fleming Foundation, Faculty of Engineering |
| Alexander Wong | AI Leader of the year (Nominated) | Professor | 2018 | 4th Annual Candian FinTech & AI Awards |
| Alexander Wong | Outstanding Performance Award | Professor | 2018 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Millennium Technology Prize (Nominated) | Professor | 2018 | Technology Academy Finland |
| Alexander Wong | E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship (Nominated) | Professor | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| Alexander Wong | AquaHacking 2017 Challenge First Place Award | Professor | 2017 | de Gasp Beaubien Foundation |
| Alexander Wong | Young Engineer Award (Nominated) | Professor | 2017 | Professional Engineers Ontario |
| Alexander Wong | Newport Research Excellence Award | Professor | 2017 | SPIE Photonics West |
| Alexander Wong | Distinguished Performance Award | Professor | 2016 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Sandford Fleming Teaching Excellence Award | Professor | 2015 | Sandford Fleming Foundation |
| Alexander Wong | Outstanding Performance Award | Professor | 2015 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences (Nominated) | Professor | 2015 | E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fund |
| Alexander Wong | Norman Edmund Inspiration Award | Professor | 2014 | Edmund Optics |
| Alexander Wong | Canada Research Chair Tier II | Professor | 2013 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| Alexander Wong | Early Researcher Award | Professor | 2012 | Ministry of Research and Innovation |
| Alexander Wong | Engineering Faculty Research Award | Professor | 2012 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Outstanding Performance Award | Professor | 2012 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (Nominated) | Professor | 2012 | Microsoft Corp. |
| Alexander Wong | NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 2010 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| Alexander Wong | Alumni Gold Medal (Top Ranking Doctoral Graduate) | PhD | 2010 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Best Oral Presentation Award | PhD | 2010 | University of Waterloo Graduate Research Conference |
| Alexander Wong | Carl A. Pollock Postgraduate Fellowship | PhD | 2009 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | Annual Conference Travel Grant | PhD | 2009 | GEOIDE (GEOmatics for Informed DEcisions) Network |
| Alexander Wong | NSERC Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship | PhD | 2007 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| Alexander Wong | President’s Graduate Scholarship | PhD | 2007 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship | MASc | 2005 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| Alexander Wong | Faculty of Engineering Graduate Scholarship | PhD | 2007 | University of Waterloo |
| Alexander Wong | University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship | PhD | 2007 | University of Waterloo |
Our papers
- Voted one of the top three papers at MaCVi. Chen, X., Scott, K.A., Jiang, M., Fang, Y., Xu, L., and Clausi, D.A. (2023) Sea ice classification with dual-polarized SAR imagery: a hierarchical pipeline. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops, 1st Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision, pp. 224-232.
- Best Student Poster Award. Radhakrishnan K., Lee P. Q., Sankar V., Scott K.A., Clausi D.A., Xu L., “Automated Whale Detection from Airborne Optical Imagery along Eastern Canadian Arctic”. 40th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing & Geomatics Atlantic, June 4-6 2019.
- Best Student Paper Award. Neher, H., Fani, M., Clausi, D.A., Wong, A.. Zelek, J. (2017) Pose estimation Proof players in hockey videos using deep learning. 3rd Annual Hockey Analytics Conference¸ May 6. Ottawa, ON.
- Top 10% Award for a conference paper presented at International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2014. Kasiri, K., Fieguth, P., and Clausi, D.A. “Cross Modality Label Fusion in Multi-Atlas Segmentation”. Awarded based on reviewer scores and recommendations.
- Conference Best Paper Award: Chwyl, B., Chung, A.G., Wong, A., and Clausi, D.A., Remote heart rate measurement through broadband video via stochastic Bayesian estimation”, Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems. 1(1) p. VL109, 2015.
- Conference Best Paper Award: Wong, A., Clausi, D.A., and Fieguth, P. (2009) Adaptive Monte Carlo retinex method for illumination and reflectance separation and color image enhancement. 5th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision. Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, May 25-27.
- Best Student Paper Award: Gignac, C., Gauthier, Y. Bernier, M., Clausi, D.A. (2011) SAR sea-ice classification of neighborhood of Nunavik marine infrastructures using RADARSAT-2. Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions, Technical Topic: Remote Sensing in Ice. July 10-14, Montreal, Canada
- Best Paper Award: David Abou Chacra and John S. Zelek, The Topology and Language of Relationships in the Visual Genome Dataset. at 1st Workshop on Vision Datasets Understanding, 2022
- Best Vision Paper Award: Zobeir Raisi, John S. Zelek, Occluded Text Detection and Recognition in the Wild, 2022 IEEE/IAPRS Computer & Robot Vision conf. 2022.
- Best Paper Award: A. Singh, S. Sengupta, J.J. Balaji, V. Jayakumar, M.A. Rasheed, J.S. Zelek, V. Lakshminarayanan, “What is the optimal attribution method for explainable ophthalmic disease classification”, in International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, Springer 2020.
- 2011 IEEE/IAPRS Computer & Robot Vision conf. Best Paper Award: Guanghui Wang and John Zelek “Spatial and Temporal Weighted Structure from Motion” at the 8th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, May, 2011, St. John, NF.
- The IAPR Best Paper award for CRV 2007: Ehsan Fazl Ersi and John S. Zelek “Local Graph Matching for Object Category Recognition.” at the 4th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, May 28-30, 2007, Montreal, Quebec.