Master's students

• Sean McGinnis - Novel class detection in video

PhD students

• Alejandro Rico Espinosa - Data augmentation and preprocessing for fisheries monitoring

• Declan McIntosh - Unsupervised methods for anomaly detection

• Alireza Soltaninezhad - Computer vision methods for fisheries monitoring

Post-doctoral fellow/Research associate

• Melissa Cote, Ph.D. 

Alumni 

• Ben Blake (summer 2025) - USRA internship 

• Amanda Dash (Ph.D. 2024) - Deep learning for small datasets 

• Femina Senjaliya (M.A.Sc. 2024) - Computer vision for automatic analysis of acoustic data

• Rhythm Vohra (M.A.Sc. 2024) - Deep learning-based image vectorization applied to scene text recognition

• Alejandro Rico Espinosa (M.A.Sc. 2023) - Deep-learning based underwater image enhancement

• Tunai Porto Marques (Ph.D., 2022) - Computer vison-based systems for environmental monitoring

• Maryam Alizadeh (Ph.D., 2022) - Visual tracking and assessment of prosthetic heart valves

• Atsuko Umeki (M.A.Sc. 2022) - Deep learning for higher education fundraising

• Alex Slonimer (M.A.Sc. 2022) - Machine learning for event detection in underwater acoustic data

• Alireza Rezvanifar (Ph.D., 2021) - Symbol spotting in architectural plans

• Khalid Al Hammuri (M.A.Sc. 2019) - Computer vision-based tracking and feature extraction for lingual ultrasound

• Dany Cabrera (M.A.Sc. 2018) - Room segmentation in architectural floor plans

• Kawthar Moria (Ph.D., 2016) - Computer vsion-based detection of abnormal events in videos acquired with handheld devices 

• Tanmana Sadhu (M.A.Sc, 2016) Obstacle detection for Image-Guided Surface Navigation

• Jeremy Svendsen (Ph.D., 2015) Chart Recognition and Characterization in Electronic Business Documents

• Marzieh Mehrnejad (M.A.Sc, 2015)  Detection of static and slow moving sea life from Neptune Canada underwater video footage

• Anissa Agahchen (M.A.Sc, 2014) A computational approach for the study of colour modulation and contrasts in visual art

• Aleya Gebali (M.A.Sc, 2012) Video summarization for underwater imaging applications

• Joey Quevillon (M.A.Sc, 2012) Human Motion Tracking with PTZ Cameras

• Chris Gat (M.A.Sc, 2012) Feature-based matching in historic and repeat photography

• Frederic Jean (Ph.D., 2012) (co-supervised with Dr. Bergevin) View Invariant Gait Modelling

• Patrick Bonneau (M.A.Sc, 2011) (co-spervised with Dr. Hilts) Automatic detection of fiducial markers from electronic portal images of prostate radiotherapy 

• Nguyen Nhat Tan (Ph.D., 2011) (co-supervised with Dr. Laurendeau) Human motion tracking from movie sequences