Sensing and Machine Vision for Automation and Robotic Intelligence

Sensing and Machine Vision for
Automation and Robotic Intelligence

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Mar. 2024: Congratulations to Angel Valencia who received a Best Poster Award (2nd place in Technology for the Digital Transformation of Society category) for his poster on Deformation Modeling for the Robotic Manipulation of 3D Elastic Objects using Physics-Informed Graph Neural Networks at the 2024 edition of the Engineering and Computer Science Poster Competition!!!

Nov. 2023: Alfa Budiman successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Optimized Task Coordination for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems, on Tuesday, November 21st, 2023.
Congratulations Alfa!!!

Aug. 2023: Welcome to Fernanda Barrientos Ramos and Carlos Gerez Gonzalez who join the SMART research team for a research internship.

Jul. 2023: Eric Maia successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on On-policy Object Goal Navigation with Exploration Bonuses, on Wednesday, July 19th, 2023.
Congratulations Eric!!!

Jul. 2023: Welcome to Mahrokh Hosseinkhani who joins the SMART research team for her Ph.D. degree.

Mar. 2023: Congratulations to Lian Kang who was awarded the Best Paper Award for her work on 3D Objects Detection and Recognition from Color and LiDAR Data for Autonomous Driving recently presented at the 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA 2023)!!!.

Jan. 2023: Lian Kang successfully defended her M.A.Sc. thesis on 3D Objects Detection and Recognition from Colour and LiDAR Data, on Tuesday, January 10th, 2023.
Congratulations Lian!!!

Jan. 2022: Welcome to Donglin Wang who joins the SMART research team for his Master's degree.

Oct. 2021: Congratulations to Haitao Tian who was awarded the Springer Best Paper Award for his work on Unsupervised Pixel-wise Weighted Adversarial Domain Adaptation recently presented at the 16th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2021)!!!.

Sep. 2021: Welcome back to Dr. Ghazal Rouhafzay who joins the SMART research team as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Sep. 2021: Welcome to Alfa Budiman who joins the SMART research team for his Master's degree.

Sep. 2021: Welcome back to James Dickens who joins the SMART research team for his Ph.D. degree.

August 2021: James Dickens successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis on Depth-Aware Deep Learning Networks for Object Detection and Image Segmentation, on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021.
Congratulations James!!!

July 2021: Stephen Rowlands successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Robotic Control for the Manipulation of 3D Deformable Objects, on Tuesday, July 6th, 2021.
Congratulations Stephen!!!

April 2021: Ghazal Rouhafzay successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on 3D Object Representation and Recognition Based on Biologically Inspired Combined Use of Visual and Tactile Data, on Thursday, April 8th, 2021.
Congratulations Dr. Rouhafzay!!!

December 2020: Wenbo Wu successfully defended her M.A.Sc. thesis on Object Recognition with Progressive Refinement for Collaborative Robots Task Allocation, on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020.
Congratulations Wenbo!!!

November 2020: Omar Al-Buraiki successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Specialized Agents Task Allocation in Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems, on Thursday, November 19th, 2020.
Congratulations Dr. Al-Buraiki!!!

Sep. 2020: Welcome to Christophe Graveline who joins the SMART research team for his Master's degree.

June 2020: Yangyu Shi successfully defended her M.A.Sc. thesis on Infrared Imaging Decision Aid Tools for Diagnosis of Necrotizing Enterocolitis, on Monday, June 15th, 2020.
Congratulations Yangyu!!!

June 2020: Angel Valencia successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on 3D Shape Deformation Measurement and Dynamic Surface Representation for Non-Rigid Objects under Manipulation, on Friday, June 5th, 2020.
Congratulations Angel!!!

May 2020: Shengsong Yang successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Active Sensing for Collaborative Localization in Swarm Robotics, on Thursday, May 14th, 2020.
Congratulations Shengsong!!!

Jan. 2020: Welcome to Dharna Shukla who joins the SMART research team for a research project as part of her Master's degree.

Dec. 2019: Félix Nadon successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Sélection de prise et contrôle d'une main robotique pour la manipulation d'objets non rigides, on Friday, December 13th, 2019.
Félicitations Félix!!!

Nov. 2019: Guillaume Plouffe successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Real-Time Gesture-Based Posture Control of a Manipulator, on Monday, November 25th, 2019.
Félicitations Guillaume!!!

Sep. 2019: Welcome to Ghazal Rouhafzay, Stephen Rowlands, Narmadha Sambandam, James Dickens, Lian Kang, and Shuyuan Wang who join the SMART research team for their Ph.D. or Master's degree.

Aug. 2019: Welcome to Gabriel Da Silva De Carvalho, Paulo Vitor Do Canto Cardoso, and Victor Pereira Piesicki who join the SMART research team for a research internship.

Jan. 2019: Welcome to Eric Maia who joins the SMART research team for his Master's degree.

Jan. 2019: Welcome to Clément Isombeco Kitandala who joins the SMART research team for a research project as part of his Master's degree.

Jan. 2019: Welcome to Ahmed ben Ayed who joins the SMART research team for a research internship.

Sep. 2018: Welcome to Wenbo Wu who joins the SMART research team for her Master's degree.

Jun. 2018: Welcome to Eric Maia who joins the SMART research team for a research internship.

Jun. 2018: Welcome to Navya Sandrana who joins the SMART research team for a project as part of her Master's degree.

Jan. 2018: Welcome to Félix Nadon and Angel Valencia Armijos who join the SMART research team for their Master's degree.

Dec. 2017: Danial Nakhaeinia successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Hybrid-Adaptive Switched Control for Robotic Manipulator Interacting with Arbitrary Surface Shapes under Multi-Sensory Guidance, on Thursday, December 7th, 2017. Congratulations Dr. Nakhaeinia!!!.

Dec. 2017: Arjun Yogeswaran successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Self-Organizing Neural Visual Models to Learn Feature Detectors and Motion Tracking Behaviour by Exposure to Real-World Data, on Monday, December 4th, 2017. Congratulations Dr. Yogeswaran!!!.

Oct. 2017: Welcome to Carlos Sánchez Díaz, who joins the SMART research team for an international internship as an ELAP scholar.

Sep. 2017: Welcome to Yangyu Shi and Shengsong Yang who join the SMART research team for their Master's degree.

Jul. 2017: Fei Hui successfully defended her M.A.Sc. thesis on Visual Tracking of Deformation and Classification of Object Elasticity with Robotic Hand Probing, on Tuesday, July 11th, 2017. Congratulations Fei!!!

May 2017: Welcome to Arnaud Mignotte who joins the SMART research team for an international internship.

Feb. 2017: Welcome to Matheus Torquato who joins the SMART research team for an international internship as an ELAP scholar.

Jan. 2017: Welcome to Oluwadara Odunewu who joins the SMART research team for a project as part of his Master's degree.

Jan. 2017: Welcome to Henrique Busiquia who joins the SMART research team for an international internship.

Nov. 2016: Welcome to Jorge Luis Prieto Diaz who joins the SMART research team for an international internship as an ELAP scholar.

Oct. 2016: Ruslan Masinjila successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Multirobot Localization using Heuristically Tuned Extended Kalman Filter, on Friday, October 21st, 2016. Congratulations Ruslan!!!

Oct. 2016: Pascal Laferrière successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Instrumented Compliant Wrist System for Enhanced Robotic Interaction, on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016. Congratulations Pascal!!!

Sep. 2016: Welcome to Aakash Sharma who joins the SMART research team for a project as part of his Master's degree.

Mar. 2016: Danial Nakhaeinia received the Best Poster Award (1st place in Electrical and Computer Engineering) for his poster "Object Detection, Tracking and Interaction under Integrated RGB-D Visual Guidance and Proximity Sensing" at the 2016 edition of the Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Poster Competition. Congratulations Danial!

Mar. 2016: Claude Viau successfully defended his M.A.Sc. thesis on Multispectral Image Analysis for Object Detection and Classification, on Tuesday, March 15th, 2016. Congratulations Claude!!!

Jan. 2016: Welcome to Jonathan Guillotte-Blouin who joins the SMART research team for an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) internship.

Oct. 2015: Welcome to Rony Cruz Ramirez who joins the SMART research team for an international internship as an ELAP scholar.

Mar. 2015: Pascal Laferrière and Danial Nakhaeinia received the IEEE Best Poster Award for their poster "Safe Close-Proximity and Physical Human-Robot Interaction using Industrial Robots" at the 2015 edition of the Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Poster Competition. Congratulations Pascal and Danial!

Nov. 2014: Welcome to Yoel Ramos Castillo who joins the SMART research team for an international internship as an ELAP scholar.

Jun. 2014: Welcome to Dr. Luis Gurrieri who joins the SMART research team as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Mai 2014: Welcome to André Progiante, Gabriel Martins Nascimento, Felipe Yamaguti, Clément Leyssene, André Sepulveda, and Varun Bairaboina who join the SMART research team for an internship over the summer term of 2014.

Mai 2014: Welcome to Omar AlBuraiki who joins the SMART research team for his Ph.D. degree.

Apr. 2014: Members of the SMART research group received a Best Paper award at the IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON 2014) for their paper entitled "An Integrated Vision-Guided Robotic System for Rapid Vehicle Inspection". Congratulations!

Nov. 2013: Phillip Curtis successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Data Driven Selective Sensing for 3D Image Acquisition, on Thursday, November 21st, 2013. Congratulations Dr. Curtis!!!

June 2013: Boniface Mbouzao, successfully defended his Masters thesis on Quantitative Assessment of Human Motion Capabilities with Passive Vision Monitoring, on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013. Congratulations Boniface!

May 2013: Welcome to Rafael Toledo, Haritha Valluri, and Vipul Nair who join the SMART research team for internships over the summer term of 2013!

Avr. 2013: Welcome to Si Wu and Raouf Fareh who join the SMART research team as Postdoctoral Fellows.

Feb. 2013: Rizwan Macknojia, successfully defended his Masters thesis on Design and Calibration of a Network of RGB-D Sensors for Robotic Applications over Large Workspaces, on Thursday, Feb. 21st, 2013. Congratulations Rizwan!

Feb. 2013: Mr. Raouf Fareh, Ph.D. candidate, ETS Montreal, will present a seminar on Nonlinear Distributed Control Strategy for Flexible and Rigid Manipulators on Monday, Feb. 4th, 2013, at 2:30PM in CBY A605.

Sep. 2012: Welcome to several new graduate students, Danial Nakhaeinia, Mariay Sharovar, Claude Viau, Ruslan Masinjila, who join the SMART research team for their Ph.D. or Master's degree!

Aug. 2012: Dr. Payeur presented an invited talk on Machine Vision and Automation: an Evolution Toward Cognitive Systems at the International Conference on Electrical and Computer Systems (ICECS 2012), Ottawa, Canada, on August 30th, 2012.

Jul. 2012: Md Ibne Sina successfully defended his Masters thesis on Satellite Image Processing with Biologically-Inspired Computational Methods and Visual Attention, on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012. Congratulations Sina!

May 2012: Dr. Payeur presented an invited talk on Computational Intelligence in Machine Vision and Automation: Filling the Gap between Academia and Industry Expectations at the IEEE Intl Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI 2012), Timisoara, Romania, May 24th, 2012.

Apr. 2012: Sue Twelves successfully defended her Masters thesis on Multi-Spectral Imaging System Calibration and Data Fusion for Applications in the Assessment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Congratulations Sue!

Mar. 2012: Welcome to Antoine Mahé from École Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg who joins the SMART research team for an internship over Summer 2012!

Jan. 2012: Welcome to Pascal Laferrière who joins back to the SMART research team for his Master's degree!

Sep. 2011: Welcome to Mr. Arjun Yogeswaran who will pursue his research work with the SMART research team for his Ph.D. degree!

June 2011: Welcome to Mr. Rizwan Macknojia who joins the SMART research team for his Master's degree!

May 2011: Welcome to Mr. Pascal Laferrière who joins the SMART research team for his COOP intership over the Summer of 2011!

Apr. 2011: Arjun Yogeswaran successfully defended his Masters thesis on 3D Surface Analysis for the Automated Detection of Deformations on Automotive Panels, on Thursday, April 7, 2011. Congratulations Arjun!

Jan. 2011: Welcome to Mr. Ibne Sina who joins the SMART research team for his Master's degree!

Nov. 2010: Valentin Borsu successfully defended his Masters thesis on Pose and Motion Estimation of Parts Exhibiting Few Visual Features for Robotic Marking of Deformations, on Friday, November 19, 2010. Congratulations Valentin!

Oct. 2010: Andrew Thompson successfully defended his Masters thesis on Hierarchical Segmentation of Videos into Shots and Scenes using Visual Content, on Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Félicitations Andrew!

Sep. 2010: Welcome to Ms. Chang Qin who joins the SMART research team for a one year internship in relation with her Master's program in China.

Aug. 2010: Master's students Valentin Borsu and Arjun Yogeswaran, supervised by Dr. Payeur, were selected as Best Poster Award Finalists at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2010) in margin of their presentation of the paper "Automated Surface Deformations Detection and Marking on Automotive Body Panels". Congratulations!

Aug. 2010: Welcome to Dr. Alberto Chavez who joins the SMART research team as a PostDoctoral Fellow!

Apr. 2010: Dr. Alireza Nakhaei, LAAS-CNRS, France, will present a seminar on Perception, Environment Modeling and Motion Planning: Integration on Humanoid Robots on Friday, May 7th, 2010, at 1:30PM in CBY A605. (read more)

Mar. 2010: Welcome to Benjamin Ahsan who joins the SMART research team and VIVA research laboratory for an internship over Summer 2010!

Apr. 2010: Dr. Akrem El-ghazal, University of Waterloo, will present a seminar about Shape-based Image Retrieval on Monday, Jan. 25th, 2010, at 10:00AM in SITE 5084. (read more)

Nov. 2009: Mai Moussa Chetima successfully defended his Masters thesis on Auto-Tuning Mechanisms for Vision-Based Food Inspection Systems, on Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Félicitations Mai!

Oct. 2009: Alain Boyer successfully defended his Masters thesis on Adaptive Structured Light Imaging for 3D Reconstruction and Autonomous Robotic Exploration, on Friday, October 30, 2009. Félicitations Alain!

Oct. 2009: Dr. Payeur and Dr. Laganière were successful in the 2009 NSERC Strategic Grants competition. Their new research project entitled "Automated Robotic Screening of Dangerous Substances on Vehicles and Containers with Multi-Modal Sensor Guidance" will develop computer vision and dexterous robotic technologies to increase safety in the protection of critical facilities and for the transportation industry. The project will be developed in collaboration with Scintrex Trace Corp, a Ottawa-based company specializing in trace detection products and systems. It will involve a team of graduate researchers affiliated with the VIVA Research Laboratory and the SMART Research Group.

Sep. 2009: Welcome to Michel Bray and Boniface Mbouzao who join the SMART research team for their Master's degree!

Oct. 2008: Danick Desjardins successfully defended his Masters thesis on Structured Lighting Stereoscopy with Marching Pseudo-Random Patterns, on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008. Félicitations Danick!

May 2008: Our paper entitled Selective Vision Sensing with Neural Gas Networks (A.-M. Cretu, P. Payeur, E.M. Petriu) earns the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2009), in Victoria, BC.

Mar. 2008: Silvain Bériault successfully defended his Masters thesis on Multi-Camera System Design, Calibration and 3D Reconstruction for Markerless Motion Capture, on Friday, March 28th, 2008. Félicitations Silvain!

Feb. 2008: SMART teams up with Neptec and Honda Canada to apply laser range sensing technologies to automated deformation recognition and marking for the automotive industry, an initiative supported by Precarn.