Directors – VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING (VIP) RESEARCH GROUP

John Zelek

John Zelek — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:41:49 +0000

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.

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Research topics

Computer Vision
Sports Analytics

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Alexander Wong

Alexander Wong — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:38:59 +0000

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.

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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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Paul Fieguth

Paul Fieguth — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:12:37 +0000

Paul Fieguth received his B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1995, both degrees in electrical engineering. He joined the faculty at the University of Waterloo in 1996, where he is currently Professor and, since 2010, Department Chair in Systems Design Engineering. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, at INRIA/Sophia in France, at the Cambridge Research Laboratory in Boston, at Oxford University and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England, and with postdoctoral positions in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and in Information and Decision Systems at MIT.

Students

Supervision – Current

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M.A.Sc.

Research topics

Biomedical Imaging
BIOSCAN Insect Biodiversity Assessment
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Multiresolution Techniques
Remote Sensing
Scientific Imaging
Stochastic Models
Video Analysis

Research demos

3D Reconstruction of Underwater Scenes
Decoupled Active Contours
Image Denoising
Porous Media
SAR Sea Ice Image Synthesis
Skin Cancer Detection
Texture Classification

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David Clausi

David A Clausi — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:18:05 +0000

I completed my Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering in 1996 and immediately afterwards, I worked in software medical imaging field at Agfa (nee Mitra) in Waterloo, Ontario. I started my academic career in 1997 as an Assistant Professor in Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. In 1999, I returned to my alma mater and I am now a Professor specializing in the fields of Intelligent and Environmental Systems. In addition, I was the Associate Chair – Graduate Studies (2009-2012). I was the Co-chair of IAPR Technical Committee 7 – Remote Sensing during 2004-2006. I have numerous recognitions, including received five Outstanding Performance Awards, three Distinguished Performance Awards, the Sanford Fleming Teaching Excellence Award, and a University of Calgary Teaching Excellence Award. In 2010, I received the award for “Research Excellence and Service to the Research Community” by the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS). In 2012, I received the Engineering Research Excellence Award.

Currently, I am the Associate Dean – Research & External Partnerships within the Faculty of Engineering, responsible for all research related activities in the largest Engineering school in Canada.

Research interests

My research interests are in the fields of computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition with an emphasis on the automated interpretation of SAR (synthetic aperture radar) and sports analytics (ice hockey). I am an active interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researcher, publishing refereed journal and conference papers in the diverse fields of remote sensing, sports analytics, computer vision, algorithm design, and biomechanics. My research efforts have led to successful commercial implementations including creating and selling a startup company (CREZ).