University of Waterloo

Category: John Zelek

  • Ryan Schmalenberg

    Ryan Schmalenberg

    Hi, my name is Ryan Schmalenberg. I am a graduate of the Master of Applied Science program in Systems Design Engineering. My work in the VIP lab relates to 3D computer vision through camera calibration, and is specifically related to validating methods for accurate camera calibration from out-of-focus images, which is required for long focal…

  • Liam Salass

    Liam is a Master of Applied Science candidate in System Design Engineering at Waterloo. He completed his undergraduate studies at Queen’s University’s Smith School of Engineering in Computer Engineering. Liam’s previous research as an undergrad was in 6 degrees of freedom pose estimation as part of the RCVLab. Currently, Liam is contributing to the sports…

  • Jerrin Bright

    Jerrin Bright

    Jerrin Bright is a doctoral student in Systems Design Engineering. Jerrin’s research focuses on understanding and interacting with the dynamic, 3D world around us, with a particular emphasis on human behavior. By combining computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning, Jerrin is exploring how to capture, perceive, and understand the 4D world from what we…

  • Yan Song Hu

    Yan Song Hu

    Yan Song Hu is a MASc student at this lab working on combining 3D Gaussian Splatting and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).

  • Matthew Bradley

    Matthew Bradley

    Matthew Bradley is a Master’s student at the Department of Systems Design Engineering supervised by Dr. John Zelek. He works on Visual place recognition which is the ability of a camera system to detect when a previously seen location has been revisited. VPR is core to Simultaious Localization and Mapping and its use in mobile…

  • Yuxiang Huang

    Yuxiang Huang

    Yuxiang Huang is a Master of Applied Science student in Systems Design Engineering, supervised by Prof. John Zelek and associated with the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab. His research focuses on motion segmentation and structure from motion. Prior to this, he completed his Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering degree with a Minor in Statistics at…

  • Ken M. Nsiempba

    Ken M. Nsiempba

    Ken is a PhD student, he teaches computers how to interpret ice hockey games events by improving player tracking, action recognition and play detection.

  • Chun-Cheng (Kris) Feng

    Chun-Cheng (Kris) Feng

    Kris is a MASc student in the Systems Design Engineering department with a research focus on photometric calibration and camera calibration, working under the supervision of Prof. John Zelek.

  • Peter Q. Lee

    Peter Q. Lee

    Peter Lee is currently a PhD student (2020 – ) supervised by Prof. Katja Mombaur and Prof. John Zelek. His research interests include optimal control, compliant control with force feedback, and visual servoing. He is currently working to automate the nasopharyngeal swab test using the collaborative Franka Emika 1 research arm.

  • Kanav Vats

    Kanav Vats

    Kanav was a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo, supervised by Prof. David Clausi and Prof. John Zelek. He worked on computer vision-based sports analytics, with a focus on problems such as player tracking, player identification, event detection, and pose estimation.