Our Team

Prof. Michael Greenspan

Laboratory Director

Graduate Students

Javad Azadbakht

PhD Student

co-supervised with Prof. Mark Daymond

Research Topics: Computational mechanics, crystal plasticity finite element methods, computer vision-based deep learning

Ali Zavareh

MASc Student

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

Naser Al-Obeidat

MASc Student

Research Topics: 6DoF pose estimation, image language models

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

Alumni

• Haleh DimirchiPhD (2026), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "Context-Aware Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction with Multimodal Transformer"
• Jayalekshmi JayakumarMASc (2026), Co-Supervisor: Matthew Pan; Thesis Title: "Zero-Shot Grasping from Local Surface Geometry"
• Akash JadhavMASc (2025); Thesis Title: "A Symmetric Keypoint Generation Framework for Dense Surface-Aware 6DoF Pose Estimation"
• Mahdiyar MolahasaniPhD (2025), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "Advancing Generalization in Deep Representation Learning"
• Milad SoltanyMASc (December 2024), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "Federated Learning with Generalization to New Domains"
• Nishq DesaiMASc (August 2024), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "CycleCrash: A Dataset of Bicycle Collision Videos for Collision Prediction and Analysis"
• Yangzheng WuPhD (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 ZandPDF (January 2019-March 2023), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad
• Alireza JavaheriPDF (January 2022-February 2023)
• Nicholas MerzMASc (August 2021); Thesis Title: "EdgeNet: Dense Instance Segmentation via Contour-Detection and Foreground Clustering"
• Hardik UppalMASc (December 2020), Co-Supervisor: Ali Etemad; Thesis Title: "Attention and Depth Hallucination for RGB-D Face Recognition with Deep Learning"
• Iqbal SinghMASc (December 2020), Co-Supervisor: Xiaodan Zhu; Thesis Title: "Observation Points based Multi-modal Fusion Systems for Skeleton Action Recognition"
• Kevin HuangMASc (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 LawalMASc (November 2020); Thesis Title: "ProCam Calibration using Single Pose of 2D Planar Target"
• Joy MazumderMASc (August 2020); Thesis Title: "A Deep Learning Network for Validation of 3D Point Cloud Surface Registration"
• Sheikh ZiauddinPDF (May 2018-April 2020)
• Avery ColeMASc (December 2019); Thesis Title: "Imperceptible Structured Light Range Sensor for Dynamic Projection Mapping"
• Yubo QuiMASc (August 2019); Thesis Title: "Inverse Rectification for Efficient Procam Pattern A"
• Ian MaquignazMASc (December 2018); Thesis Title: "Imperceptible Pattern Embedding: Structured Light Steganography For Augmented Reality Applications"
• Mustafa MuhamadPhD (2018), Co-Supervisor: David Rappaport; Thesis Title: "New Algorithms for 3D Registration using raw point techniques"
• Alexandra WisemanMASc (December 2017); Thesis Title: "Line Signatures for 3D Object Recognition"
• Mirza Tahir AmhedPhD (May 2017); Thesis Title: "Virtual Interest Points for Registration"
• Edith DereteyMASc (August 2016); Thesis Title: "Visual Localization in Underground Mines and Indoor Environments using PnP"
• Joseph LamPhD (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 AwanMASc (July 2014); Thesis Title: "Object Class Recognition Using Global Shape Descriptors in 3D"
• Dwaipayan SinhaMASc (April 2014); Thesis Title: "Image Retrieval using Landmark Indexing for Indoor Navigation"
• Kevin HughesMASc (June 2013); Thesis Title: "Subspace Bootstrapping and Learning for Background Subtraction"
• Vivek PanwarMASc (August 2011); Thesis Title: "Interest Point Sampling for Range Data Registration in Visual Odometry"
• Diego MacriniPDF (September 2009-August 2011)
• Hong LiPhD (September 2010); Thesis Title: "Model-Based Segmentation and Recognition of Continuous Gestures"
• Yani IoanouMASc (August 2010); Thesis Title: "Automatic Urban Modelling using Mobile Urban LIDAR Data"
• Limin ShangPhD (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 TaatiPhD (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 BelshawMASc (August 2008); Thesis Title: "A high-speed Iterative Closest Point tracker on an FPGA platform"
• Sam JordanMASc (May 2008); Thesis Title: "Projector-Camera Calibration Using Gray Code Patterns"
• Will LeckieMASc (August 2006); Thesis Title: "Continuous-Domain Stochastic Search for Computational and Robotic Pool"
• Eric (Fei) LongMASc (August 2005); Thesis Title: "Techniques for Planar Metric Rectification"
• Ian FraserMSc (August 2005); Thesis Title: "Colour Indexing by Nonparametric Statistics"
• Shaobo ZhangMASc (May 2005); Thesis Title: "Variable Homography Compensation of Parallax Along Mosaic Seams"
• Ingrid WangMSc (May 2004), Co-Supervisor: Randy Ellis; Thesis Title: "Segmentation of Bone in Computer Tonography Images Using Contour Coherency"