Our Team

Prof. Michael Greenspan

Laboratory Director

Graduate Students

Akash Jadhav

MASc Student

Research Topics: 6DoF pose estimation, 3D surface estimation, symmetric keypoints

Ali Zavareh

MASc Student

Research Topics: 6DoF pose estimation, novel object estimation, multi-scale feature extraction

Haleh Dimirchi

PhD Student

co-supervised with Prof. Ali Etemad

Research Topics: Multiscale crowd counting, bicycle collision prediction, video datasets, localization

Naser Al-Obeidat

MASc Student

Research Topics: 6DoF pose estimation, image language models

Jayalekshmi Jayakumar

MASc Student

co-supervised with Prof. Matthew Pan

Research Topics: Robotic grasp planning, point cloud learning

Justin Jacob

MASc Student

co-supervised with Prof. Yong-Jun Lai

Research Topics: Biomedical image processing, segmentation, eye tracking

Undergraduate Students

Nathan Harrison

BASc in Computer Engineering

Research Topics: 6DoF pose estimation, algorithm parallelization and optimization

Eric Haden

BASc in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering

Research Topics: Robotic grasp planning, stereovision, image calibration

Alumni

• Mahdiyar Molahasani: PhD (2025), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "Advancing Generalization in Deep Representation Learning"
• Milad Soltany: MASc (December 2024), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "Federated Learning with Generalization to New Domains"
• Nishq Desai: MASc (August 2024), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "CycleCrash: A Dataset of Bicycle Collision Videos for Collision Prediction and Analysis"
• Yangzheng Wu: PhD (August 2023); Thesis Title: "Advancing 6DoF Object Pose Estimation: Keypoint Voting, Optimal Keypoint Sampling, and Bridging the Simulation-to-real Gap"; MASc (2020); Thesis Title: "Radial Voting Based Keypoint and 6DoF Pose Estimation"
• Mohsen Zand: PDF (January 2019-March 2023), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad
• Alireza Javaheri: PDF (January 2022-February 2023)
• Nicholas Merz: MASc (August 2021); Thesis Title: "EdgeNet: Dense Instance Segmentation via Contour-Detection and Foreground Clustering"
• Hardik Uppal: MASc (December 2020), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "Attention and Depth Hallucination for RGB-D Face Recognition with Deep Learning"
• Iqbal Singh: MASc (December 2020), Co-Supervisor: Xiaodan Zhu; Thesis Title: "Observation Points based Multi-modal Fusion Systems for Skeleton Action Recognition"
• Kevin Huang: MASc (October 2020); Thesis Title: "A One Shot Method For Estimating The Two Parameter Division Model Of Lens Radial Distortion Based On The Direct Linear Transformation"
• Ghani Lawal: MASc (November 2020); Thesis Title: "ProCam Calibration using Single Pose of 2D Planar Target"
• Joy Mazumder: MASc (August 2020); Thesis Title: "A Deep Learning Network for Validation of 3D Point Cloud Surface Registration"
• Sheikh Ziauddin: PDF (May 2018-April 2020)
• Avery Cole: MASc (December 2019); Thesis Title: "Imperceptible Structured Light Range Sensor for Dynamic Projection Mapping"
• Yubo Qui: MASc (August 2019); Thesis Title: "Inverse Rectification for Efficient Procam Pattern A"
• Ian Maquignaz: MASc (December 2018); Thesis Title: "Imperceptible Pattern Embedding: Structured Light Steganography For Augmented Reality Applications"
• Mustafa Muhamad: PhD (2018), Co-Supervisor: David Rappaport; Thesis Title: "New Algorithms for 3D Registration using raw point techniques"
• Alexandra Wiseman: MASc (December 2017); Thesis Title: "Line Signatures for 3D Object Recognition"
• Mirza Tahir Amhed: PhD (May 2017); Thesis Title: "Virtual Interest Points for Registration"
• Edith Deretey: MASc (August 2016); Thesis Title: "Visual Localization in Underground Mines and Indoor Environments using PnP"
• Joseph Lam: PhD (October 2015); Thesis Title: "Object Recognition by Registration of Repeatable 3D Interest Segments"; MASc (October 2015); Thesis Title: "Eye-in-Hand Visual Servoing to Improve Accuracy in Pool Robotics"
• Salar Sarwar Awan: MASc (July 2014); Thesis Title: "Object Class Recognition Using Global Shape Descriptors in 3D"
• Dwaipayan Sinha: MASc (April 2014); Thesis Title: "Image Retrieval using Landmark Indexing for Indoor Navigation"
• Kevin Hughes: MASc (June 2013); Thesis Title: "Subspace Bootstrapping and Learning for Background Subtraction"
• Vivek Panwar: MASc (August 2011); Thesis Title: "Interest Point Sampling for Range Data Registration in Visual Odometry"
• Diego Macrini: PDF (September 2009-August 2011)
• Hong Li: PhD (September 2010); Thesis Title: "Model-Based Segmentation and Recognition of Continuous Gestures"
• Yani Ioanou: MASc (August 2010); Thesis Title: "Automatic Urban Modelling using Mobile Urban LIDAR Data"
• Limin Shang: PhD (January 2010); Thesis Title: "Real-time Object Recognition in Sparse Range Images Using Error Surface Embedding"; MASc (August 2004); Thesis Title: "Efficient Tracking in Sparse Range Data with the Bounded Hough Transform"
• Babak Taati: PhD (2009); Thesis Title: "Generation and optimization of local shape descriptors for object recognition in range data"; MASc (2002), Co-Supervisor: Kamal Gupta; Thesis Title: "A Dynamic Load-Balancing Parallel Formulation for Enumerative Robot Motion Planning"
• Michael Belshaw: MASc (August 2008); Thesis Title: "A high-speed Iterative Closest Point tracker on an FPGA platform"
• Sam Jordan: MASc (May 2008); Thesis Title: "Projector-Camera Calibration Using Gray Code Patterns"
• Will Leckie: MASc (August 2006); Thesis Title: "Continuous-Domain Stochastic Search for Computational and Robotic Pool"
• Eric (Fei) Long: MASc (August 2005); Thesis Title: "Techniques for Planar Metric Rectification"
• Ian Fraser: MSc (August 2005); Thesis Title: "Colour Indexing by Nonparametric Statistics"
• Shaobo Zhang: MASc (May 2005); Thesis Title: "Variable Homography Compensation of Parallax Along Mosaic Seams"
• Ingrid Wang: MSc (May 2004), Co-Supervisor: Randy Ellis; Thesis Title: "Segmentation of Bone in Computer Tonography Images Using Contour Coherency"