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Detection and Classification of Pavement Defects Using Computer Vision

The objective of the project is to automate the detection of pavement defects. Defects can be of different types: cracks, deformations, potholes and others. These defects are cataloged and detailed in standards established by the Quebec Ministry of Transport in Quebec and various authorities in other regions of the world. At present, the inspection of pavement defects (e.g. potholes, cracks, ruts) is mainly done manually. Inspectors crisscross the roads or scrutinize images taken from inspection vehicles. Some existing systems include an element of automation, but these systems are both expensive and not very adaptable to different regional conditions.
This project with Rival Solutions (RSI) seeks to automate this process using Computer Vision methods applied on geotagged images. The subject of study will be mainly Quebec, a region subject to climatic hazards, which have a significant impact on the condition of its road infrastructure.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Amin Hammad

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Rival Solutions Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Accelerate

Durability of EV’s Battery Pack Joints

To address the global concerns regarding climate changes and increase of earth temperature, carbon dioxide emission has to be removed/reduced. A major source of Co2 emission is transportation vehicles, which account for close to 30% of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. An active method to reduce this significant contribution to global warming is electrification of transportation vehicles. Battery operated vehicles are the cornerstone of automotive electrification. To improve the efficiency and safety of these batteries, structural durability of them must be maintained. This project studies the requirements for structural soundness of major weld/joints in a typical battery packs. The joints that are considered in this study include battery terminal to battery connection tabs, new lead-free solder joints, and seam weld used on the housing of battery cells and battery packs. Results will be implemented by Stellantis to expand their adaptation of Battery electric vehicles.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hamid Jahed

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FCA Canada

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Wellness @ Work, Stage 1

According to the HRPA “1 in 5 Canadians are experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety or posttraumatic stress disorder and 68% who reported a mental health issue reported that their mental health has worsened since the pandemic.”
In the private sector, depression alone causes an estimated 200 million workdays per year, or about $17-$44 billion in financial losses – or about $15,000 per employee experiencing mental health issues. We expect that immersive and virtual experiences can provide people with a virtual world of wellness where they can improve their health and well-being and assist in improving mental health and wellness. At a high-level, this project seeks to address mental health in the workplace through the development of an immersive virtual reality world that
implements research backed psychological interventions for individuals to experience in the work-place or at home, to increase their mental health, resilience, and physical health. Imagine for a moment a future where it becomes commonplace to take a 15 minute “reset” at work, where you can enter a virtual world and attend a meditation session on a beach, before returning to your work day. Or perhaps, that you finish work and return home stressed and tired. Before interacting with your friends and family, you wash the day’s stress away in Esvedra, and emerge with your mind refreshed and in a positive mindset. We believe that these digital spaces will be the future of wellness.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ben Unterman

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

EsVedra Wellness Inc.

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

Accounting Internship

The purpose of this project is to ensure Breakaway remains at the forefront of technology utilization in the accounting industry. Our belief is that embracing the next generation of accountants and their unique experiences and perspective surrounding technology and communications will provide our firm with innovative strategies for the adoption and utilization of tools and technology as well as a progressive marketing plan. As Breakaway is a small and technology focused business, we are in a unique position to quickly adapt to changes in technology in order to continually enhance operational efficiencies and methods of providing value to our clients. The assistance and fresh perspective of a student intern is critical in the identification and implementation of technology, and the most effective means of communicating with existing and prospective clients in an online environment. This will be achieved through the student’s use of three formal environmental scans (S.W.O.T Analysis) throughout the 8-month project to identify areas for improvement. These scans will inform the social media and marketing research and recommendations and content created by the student throughout the internship, as well as the technology based research which will be the focus of the second term.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ryan Young

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Breakaway Chartered Professional Accountants LLP

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

Accelerate Getting Research into Practice (A-GRIP)

There is a growing disconnect between the areas of focus in innovation research occurring at universities and the practical concerns, needs and direction of the animal production industry. Research has shown that ongoing communication and interaction between researchers and end-users is necessary, both before and during research, in order to ensure that research conducted is applicable and meets industry needs. Therefore, this proposal aims to increase knowledge transfer between producers and researchers via the development of digital content – namely, (1) a series of producer interviews, to highlight the state-of-the-art of innovation on-farm in Ontario, and production pinch-points, (2) a series of researcher interviews, to discuss the highs and lows of getting research into practice (GRIP), and (3) white articles to summarize the findings as well as to highlight recent trends and challenges in the industry (eg. with respect to climate change, use of antimicrobials, etc.). The overall goal is to bridge the gap and allow (in particular) early career researchers, graduate and undergraduate students improved insight into on-farm innovation, production pinch points, and what it takes to get research into practice, such that their research programs become better informed and more applicable to real-world problems.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jennifer Ellis

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Livestock Research Innovation Corporation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

University of Guelph

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

Étude de l’achalandage et de la valeur économique des services écosystémiques au parc du Mont-Bellevue

Le besoin grandissant d’espaces verts en temps de pandémie, l’engouement croissant pour le plein air ainsi que le développement domiciliaire à proximité du Parc du Mont-Bellevue amplifient les pressions anthropiques sur ses écosystèmes. Dans l’optique d’assurer la protection à long terme du parc, l’Université de Sherbrooke et la Ville de Sherbrooke envisagent de restaurer les services écosystémiques du parc (qualité des sentiers, achalandage, connectivité verte, biodiversité et qualité des écosystèmes, opportunités de recherche et d’éducation).
Pour la mise en oeuvre de ce projet, nous réalisons une enquête en ligne en vue de déterminer la valeur économique des caractéristiques des services écosystémiques et la valeur de l’achalandage.
Nous anticipons une valeur positive de la volonté à payer des répondants pour les caractéristiques des services écosystémiques.
Les résultats profiteront aux membres du comité de cogestion du Parc du Mont-Bellevue, issus de l’Université de Sherbrooke, du Regroupement du Parc du Mont-Bellevue et de la Ville de Sherbrooke. Si les résultats sont tels qu’attendus, ceux-ci profiteront également à la population générale du Québec dans la mesure où les résultats obtenus inciteront les divers paliers gouvernementaux, notamment les villes, à renforcer leurs politiques de conservation, de protection, de restauration et de mise en valeur des territoires naturels.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jie He

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Regroupement du parc du Mont-Bellevue

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

Syntheses of novel 3,5-bis(benzylidene)-4-piperidone derivatives as potential anticancer agents

The principal objective of this proposal is to discover novel drugs to treat colon cancers. Currently colon cancer is a huge medical problem and there are many disadvantages to current drug therapies. These disadvantages include their ineffectiveness to completely eradicate cancers, causing toxic side effects and the development of multidrug resistance. A group of compounds discovered in the laboratory of the supervisor designated series 1 has significant potencies towards a number of human colon cancer cell lines. However it is unlikely that they will be effective when given orally due to their low water solubility. Thus this proposal outlines the preparation of analogs of series 1 which retain their anticancer properties but have increased water solubility thereby enabling the compounds to be given by mouth. Bertech requires novel anticancer agents in order to attach antibodies to them which are specific for colon cancers. In other words, this application is part of a long term strategy of Bertech to provide treatment for the detection and treatment of patients with colon cancer.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

J. R. Dimmock

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bertech Pharma Ltd

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Accelerate

Sparse Representations for Embodied AI

Understanding scenes representing real world environments is a challenging problem at the intersection of Computer Vision research and Deep Learning and a necessary pre-requisite for Embodied AI. Embodied AI is an emerging field within Machine Learning that focuses on the challenges that need to be addressed for successful deployment of edge devices such as drones and robots. In this setting estimating the semantics of an environment plays an essential role in addition to how it can be efficiently navigated to solve a variety of tasks that can involve other agents as well. The Embodiment Hypothesis states that intelligence emerges from the interaction of an agent and its perception of the environment it is embodied within. This project establishes an empirical study to validate this hypothesis for Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents trained on environments derived from simulations as well as real world data. We use DRL as a methodology to model a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) that describe optimal processes for navigation-perception problems. The embodiment hypothesis implies that an end-to-end understanding of this problem should outperform conventional methods for training computer vision models.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Lei Lei

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

EthicalAI

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Guelph

Programme :

Accelerate

Impact d’un programme résidentiel adapté et novateur sur la qualité de vie des adultes autistes

La plupart des personnes autistes souhaitent être autonomes dans une majorité des sphères de leur vie, particulièrement dans celle de l’hébergement. Toutefois, plusieurs obstacles peuvent se présenter à eux tels que le manque de ressources résidentielles adaptées et l’arrêt des services de soutien. C’est dans cette optique que la Fondation Véro & Louis (FVL) a décidé de créer un projet de résidences novatrices et adaptées dans le but de pallier à ces lacunes. Le projet proposé servira à en apprendre davantage sur l’impact d’un milieu de vie adapté sur le niveau de stress et d’anxiété, le bien-être, le développement de l’autonomie et la participation sociale des adultes autistes. Ce stage aura comme avantages pour la FVL d’avoir l’expertise d’une stagiaire qui connait le domaine et de son superviseur qui est le chercheur qui a été invité pour les aider.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Roger Godbout

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Mental Health Research Canada;Fondation Véro & Louis

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Exploring outcomes of a virtual education and training program

The delivery of online education and training has increased significantly over recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on online course delivery has focused largely on offerings delivered by academic institutions for course credit. Little is known about learner outcomes during training courses that focus on skill development. Findings from this study will provide much needed evaluation data on one online education and training course. Recommendations for maximizing learner outcomes in online courses will be developed.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Rose McCloskey;Isdore Chola Shamputa

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Life Start Training Inc

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

Université :

University of New Brunswick

Programme :

Accelerate

A framework for smart banking conversational services

Nowadays, the banking sector has undergone a massive transformation of its services from e-banking to smart banking that implements modern technologies to provide a more innovative experience for customers. This project addresses the challenge of providing a smart banking conversational service as a new-generation self-service in order to improve customer experience and satisfaction. The purpose of this research is to propose a novel framework by which a dialogue system can adapt and learn to choose an optimal and personalized dialogue strategy based on customer knowledge and interactive experience with human users. The proposed service receives the user’s questions, analyzes the requirements using machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques, and make a personalized appropriate response that may include the answer, hint, process, or recommended product and service to satisfy user needs.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Thang Le Dinh

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Mouvement des caisses Desjardins;École Polytechnique de Montréal

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance

Université :

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Programme :

Accelerate

Dandelion Open Distributed Computing Platform Development – BLS

The proposed project is aimed at adding smart contract and sharding functionality to the Dandelion network, improving cryptographic efficiency with aggregable signatures under the BLS signature scheme, identifying a roadmap to a Quantum Resistant aggregable signatures, and mathematically proving the safety and liveness properties of the extended system using TLA+ proofs. This improve the platforms throughput and finalization speed, allow sophisticated transactions, and ensure the finished product is mathematically sound.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Albert Danison

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Dandelion Networks Inc.

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology

Programme :

Accelerate

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