Students Supervised:

Ph.D. Students:

  • Zohre Foroushi (2022/09–present, OCIECE)
  • Hediyeh Toufani (2022/09–present, OCIBME, co-supervision with E. Tsai and P. Phan)

M.A.Sc. Students:

  • Yuxiao Zhou (2021/09–present, OCIECE, co-supervision with S. Rajan)
  • Shaad Fazal (2022/09–present, OCIECE)

Alumni:

Research Associates:

Ph.D. Alumni:

  • Youhao Yu (2015/09–2023/05, OCIECE)
    Thesis: Reconstruction of Compressive Sensed (CS) Images with Deep Equilibrium Model (DEQ) Based on Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (ISTA)
  • Zahra Ashouri Talouki (2015/09–2022/01, OCIECE, Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D), Ontario Graduate Scholarship, co-supervision with R. deKemp)Thesis: Kernel-based PET image reconstruction using dynamic PET and MR anatomical information
  • Tayebeh Lotfi Mahyari (2014/09–2019/04, OCIECE)Thesis: Image separation using multi-layer image segmentation for translucent partially overlapped objects
  • Hossein Chahrour (2015/01–2021/09, OCIECE, co-supervision with S. Rajan)Thesis: Signal processing methods in riemannian geometry with application to drone detection
  • Ce Peng (2012/09–2017/09, OCIECE)Thesis: Monaural music separation via supervised non-negative matrix factorization with side-information
  • Assem Moustafa Mohammed Rashad Assem (2014/09–2017/08, OCIECE)Thesis: Low latency compressive sensing using multi-resolution analysis in radar signal processing
  • Hoda Dehghan (2011/08–2016/05, OCIECE, co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)Thesis: EMG signal decomposition thru semi-blind source separation
  • Jie Zhu (2009/09–2012/08, OCIECE, co-supervision with A. Cuhadar)Thesis: Error-resilient and error concealment 3-D SPIHT for multiple description video coding with added redundancy
  • Tarek Khairy Mohamed Helaly, Ph.D. (2007/09–2010/08, OCIECE, co-supervision with M. El-Tanany)Thesis: Satellite communication system characterization and implementation
  • Mohamed Mahmoud Aly Fouad Abdel-Motagally, Ph.D. (2007/09–2010/08, OCIECE, co-supervision with A. Whitehead)Thesis: Image registration under arbitrarily-shaped locally variant illumination and occlusions
  • Yasser Mahgoub, Ph.D. (2003–2010, OCIECE), Assistant Professor at Yanbu University College, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.Thesis: Co-channel speech separation using state-space reconstruction and Sinusoidal modelling
  • M. Hossein Radfar, Ph.D. (2005–2007, Amirkabir University, co-supervision with A. Sayadiyan)Thesis: Single channel speech separation
  • David Lo, Ph.D. (2003–2005, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran), with Department of National Defence (Canada)Thesis: Multimodal talker localization in video conferencing systems

M.A.Sc. Alumni:

  • Tung Nguyen (2014/09–2017/01, OCIECE)Thesis: Complex NMF for multichannel source separation
  • Mamoon Rashid (2012/09–2016/01, OCIECE)Thesis: Cramer-Rao lower bound derivation and performance analysis for space-based SAR SMTI
  • Revanth Pentyala (2012/09–2015/09, OCIECE)Thesis: Musical score to musical recording time-frequency registration
  • Shabana Baig (2011/01–2013/03, OCIECE, co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)Thesis: Quantitative Analysis of the Performance of Center-of-Pressure Measures in Static Posturography
  • Ali Ghazisaeidi (2010–2011, OCIECE, co-supervision with P. Payeur, previously co-supervised by A. Cuhadar)Thesis: Estimating human limb motion from video sequences with anatomical knowledge
  • Alex McKenzie (2006–2010, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, OCIBME, co-supervision with J.R. Green)Thesis: On methods for the suppression of aliasing in time-series gene expression data
  • Junci Zhang (2004–2010, OCIECE, part-time student)Thesis: Robust coefficient encoding for wavelet scalable video coding
  • Junwu Zhu (2007–2010, OCIECE, co-supervision with C. Joslin)Thesis: Perceptual noise shaping in DCWT for image coding
  • Todor Pandeliev (2009–2009, ISS, School of Computer Science, co-supervision with M. Smid)Thesis: Asymmetrical load-balancing for incremental fast Fourier transform on multi-core processors
  • Felix Petngang (2007–2009, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, OCIECE, co-supervision with C. Joslin)Thesis: Resolution scalable image coding using rational wavelet transform
  • Mustafa H. Fanaswala (2007–2009, OCIECE, OGSST Scholar, John Ruptash Memorial Fellowship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, co-supervision with E. Dubois)Thesis: Regularized super-resolution of multi-view images
  • Khalil Yonis (2006–2009, OCIECE)Thesis: Objective video quality assessment using the 3D dual-tree complex wavelet transform
  • Vesal Badee (2004–2006, OGS scholar, OCIECE, co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)Thesis: Fetal electrocardiogram extraction and enhancement using triggered adaptive filtering
  • Giuseppe Agnello (2004–2006, OCIECE)Thesis: Parametric mixing for centralized VoIP conferencing using ITU-T recommendation G.722.2
  • Chengliang Li, M.A.Sc. (2001–2003, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran)Thesis: Lip feature extraction and audio – video synchronization
  • Shuman Jin, M.A.Sc. (2001–2003, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran)Thesis: Multiple packet-streams in encrypted voice over IP

Visiting Ph.D. Students:

  • Alaa Fathy Seleim Eldeken – Military Technical College, Egypt – (2014/11–2015/02)HEVC video coding
  • Ahmed Wesam Sallam – Military Technical College, Egypt – (2011/05–2011/08)Real-time object tracking in video

Visiting Researchers:

  • Youhao Yu – Putian University, China – (2015/03–2015/08) 

Other former students:

  • Zhong Lin (PhD Student, 2004–2008, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran)Speech enhancement for VoIP impairment

M.Eng. Students:

  • Vaseetharan Sivarajah (2013/09–2013/12, OCIECE)Image inpainting using texture synthesis

Undergraduates:

  • Waqas Muhi Kanwar (May 2005–Aug 2005, NSERC-USRA scholar)Lip-tracking in video
  • Patrick Lalonde (May 2006–June 2006)Real-time face tracking
  • Matt Solheim (May 2006–June 2006)Real-time skin detection

Undergraduate 4th Year Thesis Students and Topics:

2022/2023

  • Autonomous vehicle project: Central embedded system controller and management
  • Autonomous vehicle project: Stay in your lane! Lane keeping
  • Autonomous vehicle project: Yellow means go faster! Intersection control and safety
  • Autonomous vehicle project: Potholes, Barricades and Cones on My!
  • Autonomous vehicle project: Pedestrian behaviour prediction

2019/2020

  • Multichannel Contactless ECG Monitor

2016/2017

  • Tin Can Radar for Breathing Monitoring
  • Tin Can Radar for Navigation for the Blind
  • Robot Arm

2015/2016

  • Human Interface for Robotic Control
  • Speech Learning Application (co-supervised by Eva Kartchava)

2014/2015

  • Portable Glove ECG
  • Remote Interactive Laboratory Experimentation (RILE) (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan and Mojtaba Ahmadi)
  • Virtual Reality Meeting Rooms
  • Medical Heart Rate Monitor-Mobile Application ECG

2013/2014

  • Musical instrument/vocal suppression in a musical recording
  • Contactless ECG heart monitoring
  • Jackhammer Headphones
  • Gesture Based UI for an Augmented Reality System

2012/2013

  • Steven Klickermann,
    Peter Wright
    Beat detection and signal separation of instruments from musical recordings
  • Barnabus Fung,
    Abdulhak Nagy,
    Jonathan Wong
    Contactless ECG monitoring
  • Kevin Lee,
    Amanda Visaya
    Locust controlled robot car using EMG
    (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)

2011/2012

  • Wail Al-Waili,
    Yazan Awwad,
    Abbas Mughal,
    Dawod Nofal
    Portable ECG monitor using compressive sensing
  • Mohammed Farhan, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)
    Harel Lichtenstein
    Locust controlled robot car using EMG

2010/2011

  • Michail Greshishchev,
    Aaron Mcclennon-Sowchuk
    Object removal in multi-view images
  • Syed Adnan Ali,
    Phana Keo,
    Swaroop Srinivasan,
    Auns Yasin
    Ultra-low power ECG monitor with compressive sensing
  • Sakshi Oberoi,
    Nitin Verma,
    Zain Sayed
    iPhone Voice-Operated Wheelchair System

2009/2010

Fayz Al Hajri,
Moufed Elefrangy,
Leila Tlebaldiyeva,
Marwa Yassine

Ultra low power portable ECG monitor using compressive sensing

2008/2009

    On sabbatical.

2007/2008

    On leave.

2006/2007

  • Jevin Maltais,
    Sebastian Jagodzinski
    Automatic speechreading, Part 1: Real-time lip tracking using the TI DM642 video/imaging platform
  • Aleksandar Simic,
    Pooyan Rostamkhani
    Text reader for the visually impaired using camera cellphone
  • Tianhe Zhang, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)
    Konstantin Privalov
    Automatic sign language recognition

2005/2006

  • Abdullah Al-Dalati, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)
    Jetaime Lowe,
    Lisa Meitin,
    Andrew Rowden
    Automatic sign language recognition through motion capture
    (Awarded the NSERC Best Project Award)
  • Bang NguyenText detection in natural scenes
  • Roby Ayres,
    Natasha Tajik
    Point-of-sale fingerprint verification
  • Pierre-Olivier Savoie, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)Fetal ECG enhancement through beamforming

2004/2005

  • Michael SmithSuperresolution of images to improve text readability
    (Honourable mention for Best Poster Award)
  • Nigel Gocan, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)
    Steven Ortis
    Fetal ECG extraction through adaptive noise cancellation
  • Victor TazlauanuChaotic communication and synchronization using an implementation of Chua’s circuit
  • Samuel Goh,
    Hai Nguyen,
    Cuong Vuu
    Face detection/recognition for class attendance application

2003/2004

  • Olive XuPolyphonic music transcription – from recording to musical score
  • Ehab HamidFace detection in colour images
  • Cindy Ah-YuenFace detection and tracking in video
  • Andrew Bell,
    Kevin Mar,
    Matthew Yee
    Automatic traffic sign detection and identification in images
  • Ertan OralCo-channel speech separation in convolutive mixtures
  • Ian GagneImage watermarking using quantization index modulation

2002/2003

  • Olivier Dagenais (Comp. Sci.)Polyphonic instrument detection in music
  • Chi Leung Hung,
    Xia Wu
    Automatic traffic sign detection and identification in images
  • Wael AkramSingle channel speech separation