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).
Students
Supervision – Current
Ph.D
M.A.Sc
Supervision – Completed
Ph.D
M.A.Sc
Computer Vision
Image Segmentation/Classification
Multiresolution Techniques
Remote Sensing
Scientific Imaging
Sports Analytics
Stochastic Models
Video Analysis
Action Recognition in Video
Coded Hemodynamic Imaging
Compressed Sensing
Decoupled Active Contours
Disparate Scene Registration
Enhanced Decoupled Active Contour Using Structural and Textural Variation Energy Functionals
Hybrid Structural and Texture Distinctiveness Vector Field Convolution for Region Segmentation
Image Denoising
MAGIC System
SAR Sea Ice Image Synthesis
Satellite SAR Sea Ice Classification
Skin Cancer Detection
Statistical Textural Distinctiveness for Salient Region Detection in Natural Images
Stereo Vision for Dimension Estimation
Texture Classification
Conference Papers