University of Waterloo

Robert Amelard

Ph.D. 2017

Robert Amelard

I completed my Ph.D. with professors Alex Wong and David Clausi. Please see my new website for updated activities:

Website: http://www.robertamelard.com/

Research interests
My research passions lie broadly in the realm of computer vision with a HCI/human factors twist. I am focusing my PhD thesis work on extracting hemodynamic information from videos. For my Master’s, I designed intuitive image features to help doctors make more accurate diagnoses of melanoma. Apart from medical image processing, I have also dappled with remote sensing (hyper- & multi-spectral) and photogrammetry (3D stereo vision). Wherever I find myself, I aim to devote my skills to create socially responsible technology to help make people’s lives more meaningful.
Publications
Journal Articles

Beltrame T., Amelard R., Wong A., and Hughson R.L, "Extracting aerobic system dynamics during unsupervised activities of daily living using wearable sensor machine learning models", Journal of Applied Physiology, vol. 124, pp. 473-481, 2018. Get it here. Beltrame T., Amelard R., Wong A., and Hughson R.L, "Prediction of oxygen uptake dynamics by machine learning analysis of wearable sensors during activities of daily living", Scientific Reports, vol. 7, 2017. Get it here. Beltrame T., Amelard R., Villar R., Shafiee M.J., Wong A., and Hughson R.L, "Estimating oxygen uptake and energy expenditure during treadmill walking by neural network analysis of easy-to-obtain inputs", Journal of Applied Physiology, vol. 121, pp. 1226-1233, 2016. Get it here. Amelard R., Glaister J., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "High-Level Intuitive Features (HLIFs) for intuitive skin lesion description", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 62, pp. 820-831, 2015. Get it here. Glaister J., Amelard R., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "MSIM: Multistage illumination modeling of dermatological photographs for illumination-corrected skin lesion analysis", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, pp. 1873-1883, 2013. Get it here.

Conference Papers

Chung A., Wang X.Y., Amelard R., Scharfenberger C., Leong J., Kulinski J., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "High-resolution motion-compensated imaging photoplethysmography for remote heart rate monitoring", Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 2015. Get it here. Cho D.S., Haider S., Amelard R., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "Quantitative features for computer-aided melanoma classification using spatial heterogeneity of eumelanin and pheomelanin concen", Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2015. Get it here. Amelard R., Scharfenberger C., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "Illumination-compensated non-contact imaging photoplethysmography via dual-mode temporally coded illumination", Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 2015. Get it here. Amelard R., Scharfenberger C., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "Non-contact assessment of melanin distribution via multispectral temporal illumination coding", Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 2015. Get it here. Cho D.S., Haider S., Amelard R., Wong A., and Clausi D, "Physiological characterization of skin lesion using non-linear random forest regression model", 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014, 2014. Get it here. Haider S., Cho D., Amelard R., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "Enhanced classification of malignant melanoma lesions via the integration of physiological features from dermatological photogra", 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014, 2014. Get it here. Amelard R., Wong A., Li F., and Clausi D.A, "Unsupervised classification of sea-ice using synthetic aperture radar via an adaptive texture sparsifying transform", International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013. Get it here. Amelard R., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "Unsupervised classification of agricultural land cover using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar via a sparse texture dictiona", International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013. Get it here. Wong A., Scott K.A., Li E., and Amelard R, "Continuous sea ice thickness estimation using a joint MODIS and AMSR-E guided variational model", International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013. Get it here. Amelard R., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "Extracting morphological high-level intuitive features (HLIF) for enhancing skin lesion classification", Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 2012. Get it here. Amelard R., Wong A., and Clausi D.A, "Extracting high-level intuitive features (HLIF) for classifying skin lesions using standard camera images", Proceedings of the 2012 9th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2012, 2012. Get it here.