Projets novateurs réalisés

Enabling the next revolution in global food production through automatically labelled data sets and machine learning

We envision a future where it will be possible to lavish the same attention on individual plants in a large prairie crop farm as one might on those in a backyard garden. As camera sensors shrink in size, and self-driving vehicles continue to improve, such an idea is no longer the realm of science fiction. The remaining piece of the puzzle, however, is the need for a very large number of pre-identified images of crop plants and weeds with which to train a computer to recognize one from the other. Our research project is to develop the means to automatically generate and label such images and to make the resulting data sets openly available for Canadian researchers and companies. TO BE CONT’D

Developpement experimental d’outils de traitements et d’analyses dethermogrammes pour I’evaluation non destructives des materiaux par thermographie.

L’Evaluation Non Destructive (END) est une science meconnue, pourtant nous en sommes

tous affectee d’une maniere ou d’une autre. Elle permet I’inspection des materiaux afin de

tester leur qualite et integrite. Nombre d’industries de toutes sortes utilisent differentes

methodes d’END pour s’assurer que leurs produits et procedes fonctionnent correctement et

securitairement. Chaque methode d’END a ses forces et interets. La thermographie

infrarouge ou IRT est la methode d’END abordee dansce stage. Elle est par exemple utilisee

dans la detection des fissures, de decollements, de dommages par impacts etc. inflige aux

panneaux composites utilises en aerospatiale, construction navale et autre. Le but de cetle

recherche est de metlre au point un ensemble de procedures, d’outils de traitement et

d’analyse de donnees provenant de mesures par IRT, inciuant des outils d’analyse de

thermographie de phase pulsee prise en mode statique ou en mode de balayage. Un

systeme de mosarque permettrait enfin d’inspecter des surfaces d’envergure aussi grande

que souhaitee.

Semantic Close-Captioning of Natural Scenes for Foreign Language Learning

La domination sociale des élites gouvernantes de Metz dans l’espace lorrain (XIVe-XVIe siècle) : Conservation et gestion documentaire de l’activité judiciaire

Le projet de doctorat, conçu dans le cadre d’une collaboration scientifique entre l’Université d’Ottawa et l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, vise à comprendre les modes de légitimation de l’autorité urbaine à Metz, ville du Saint-Empire romain germanique entre le XIVe et le XVIe siècle. L’analyse approfondie des pratiques d’écriture des groupes dirigeants à Metz — incluant la production, la conservation et l’usage des documents — permettra d’appréhender les modes de leur domination sociale à la fin du Moyen Âge et leur inscription dans le territoire sous l’emprise de la ville. L’observatoire principal de la thèse est celui des pratiques de l’écrit telles qu’elles apparaissent dans un fonds archivistique concernant l’activité judiciaire de la ville : celui des correspondances urbaines. L’objectif du projet est porter un nouveau regard sur la logique sociale des pratiques de l’écrit (qu’elles soient médiévales ou modernes) et sur la dynamique de la construction du pouvoir urbain à l’échelle régionale.

Distance Estimation in Harbor Seals at the MSC in Warnemünde

E-mobility in India Scenarios Tool

I will build a scenarios tool to simulate the impacts of transportation electrification on India’s energy system, including the environmental and economic impacts. I intend to ensure that there is a focus on the environmental outcomes associated with such electrification, as opposed to a sole focus on the purely macroeconomic effects. Stakeholders from the government and industry should be able to use this tool to gain clarity on scenarios for e-mobility in India to help them make better decisions. The project will also include a public facing tool to help the public understand the implications of these decisions.

The end result of the project, a tool to assess scenarios for electrification of transportation in India, will also be easily adaptable useful to other countries around the world, so they could engage in the same type of exercise to assess the benefits of electrification. This means that the project will have significance not only to India but to others as well.

The characterization of a Cryogenic Stopping Cell (CSC) in context of the next-generation CSC design

Improving Human Performance in Sport through Physical, Psychological, and Social Sciences.

The research through the Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic will provide more information to people in the sport and physical activity area about strategies for increasing performance levels of athletes and coaches. A combination of research from the physical, psychological, and social science areas provide a comprehensive approach to understanding performance and how it can be improved, predicted and stabilized. In this project, we aim to expand the existing body of knowledge around neck exercise as it relates to concussions, examine mental health and wellness of coaches and support staff in sport following major events, and better understand the characteristics of competent coaches and how to develop and effectively train them.

Coastal Community Access to Fisheries in Canada

Coastal communities and fishermen in British Columbia are facing a suite of issues, that can challenge the continuity of the livelihoods of individual fishers and influence community development outcomes. Some of the challenges facing fishers in BC include changing markets, climate, ecological and governance conditions. One significant and growing challenge that has been identified in BC fisheries is access – which can be defined as the ability of fishers to use and benefit from available resources. However, there are still significant gaps in our knowledge about access issues in BC – including understanding the status, the drivers and the outcomes of access issues. Lack of a comprehensive knowledge base about these issues can undermine our ability to make informed programmatic decisions and policy recommendations to address access issues in BC fisheries. This objective of this project is to develop and implement a quantitative survey of fishermen in coastal British Columbia to help to fill these gaps in knowledge.

Mitigation of CO2 in the emissions of stand-alone electricity generators

In Canada, there are over 280 communities that are off the grid, the majority of which are First Nation. They use stand-alone diesel-powered electricity generators to supply their basic needs, and whilst there are plans to provide renewable energy alternatives, this will take time. In addition, there are a growing number of generators that burn biogas from landfill sites or wastewater treatment plants. All these electricity generators emit carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.
This collaborating company will explore with an established Laurentian University (LU) research team, environmental, and economic benefit from capturing and repurposing the generator’s exhaust CO2. The goal is to adapt and commercialize LU’s technology that captures otherwise waste CO2 in off-gas to promote growth of regional microalgae and produce a revenue stream of high-value health beneficial nutraceuticals, such as antioxidants and antibiotics.

Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Structure

Carbon nanotubes are a tubular carbon-based material with extreme properties at the nanoscale. Scaled up production of macroscopic carbon nanotube materials is still expensive, and the bulk material falls short of the impressive nanoscale material properties. The aim of this project will be to mathematically characterize the structure of carbon nanotube aerogels produced using floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition, one of the most promising methods for industrial scale carbon nanotube production. The structure of the aerogel determines the bulk material properties, the health effects of the material and can provide insight into the formation process. Mathematically characterizing the structure will play an important role in improving the process for cost-effective industrial scale production and ensuring safe handling of the materials.

Inspection des pieces souples sans operations de conformation

Les pieces souples (ou flexibles) sont une categorie de pieces frequemment rencontrees

dans I’industrie, comme les panneaux de revetement de carrosserie, les composantes a parois minces, etc. On estime qu’environ 37% des composantes dans une automobile sont

des pieces sou pies.

Le probleme de I’inspection dimensionnelie de ces pieces est que la geometrie a I’etat libre

est tres differente a cause des effets de la gravite et des contraintes residuelies.

Aujourd’hui, la solution industrielie, couteuse mais indispensable, consiste a fabriquer un

gabarit de conformation pour chaque type de piece. Ce dernier est employe uniquement lors

de I’inspection afin de la contraindre a epouser une forme predefinie.

Les stages proposes s’inscrivent dans un plus vaste projet de recherche qui vise I’elimination

de ces gabarits de conformite pour permettre une inspection rapide et economique. A partir

d’un nuage de points capte par une technologie existante (CMM, capteur laser, etc.) et une

position arbitraire, nous developpons des algorithmes d’alignement non rig ide et des……..