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OpenVL Implementation on Multiprocessor Platform

The project involves creating a vision based system to perform multi-camera 3D tracking of persons in an indoor environment. The implementation of this system will be using Open Vision Library (a standard library for image processing that is designed with hardware acceleration in mind) and it will be running on one or multiple processor hardware platform developed by LightHaus. LightHaus Logic is a Vancouver-based company that develops compact high-performance systems for advanced video analytics and embedded computer applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Sidney Fels

Student:

Amir Afrah

Partner:

LightHaus Logic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Municipal Development: Finding Political Incentives for Economic Investors

The intern is confronted with a classical question in political economy: what kind of political institutions can facilitate economic development? The City of Vancouver represents a fascinating case study in which three important players are locked up in a strategic relationship that can either spur or damage the prospects of further economic development of the city. Player A, City Government, seeks to extract more revenues in taxation in order to accommodate the demands to provide welfare and services. Player B, Commercial Property Owners, a significant source of city revenues, threaten to exit the market should municipal property taxes become too high. Meanwhile, Player C, Residential Property Owners, a significant source of political support, threaten not to re-elect the government if their municipal taxes increase or if the municipal services decline. Thus the position of players B and C seem antagonizing. How to resolve this dilemma: to meet fiscal demands in order to continue to provide city services at the existing level without further alienating economic investors? The intern will investigate whether an introduction of additional political incentives for commercial property owners in municipal governance structures (better enfranchisement or deliberation in policy processes) can create an alternative equilibrium between all the players in which resources are allocated with greater efficiency for all. The intern will work closely with Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association which represents commercial property owners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Lisa Sundstrom

Student:

Elena Feditchkina

Partner:

Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association

Discipline:

Political science

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Game Object Parallelization

In order to produce ever more powerful computer chips designers have begun to produce CPUs with duplicated infrastructure and machines with multiple CPUs. This allows these devices to perform actual simultaneous calculation. The most recent generation of video game consoles are built with this manner of technology, thus adding a new dimension of complexity to the design of the underlying system. Taking a traditional computational task and dividing it for parallel execution is not trivial. This research will work to develop new algorithmic techniques to divide the work of computing the complex interactions between entities in the simulated world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Ramesh Krishnamurti & Alexandra Fedorova

Student:

Micah Best

Partner:

Radical Entertainment

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Segmentation and Classification of Sediment Cores Using Computed Tomography

The goal of the internship project with Quester Tangent Corp., a designer and manufacturer of software products and hardware systems that allow clients to manage large amounts of data, is to research and develop techniques for identifying and classifying the composition of sediments in core samples from the sea floor. Core samples are taken from the sea floor by dropping a cylindrical tube into the sediments, closing a door to lock the sediments into the tube and returning the sample for analysis. Traditional analysis methods remove the sediments from the tube, destroying some of the information contained in the sample. Before destroying the sample, it is possible to take a computed tomography (CT) scan which provides a three- dimensional image using advanced image processing techniques. Using the scan, the intern will try to provide meaningful quantitative information about the structure and composition of the sediment core.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ross Chapman

Student:

Anthony Christney

Partner:

Quester Tangent Corporation

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Requirements for a Collective Intelligence Information Service for Design Teams

Design teams perform goal-oriented decision making, while communities of interest excel at collective discovery. Small groups tend to both receive and present information that is already shared, and do not like to change initial preferences once formed, while good decisions require all the relevant information. There are strategies to mitigate this bias. Technology can harness the strengths of communities of interest to support these strategies. The goal of the research is to specify for CrowdTrust, a developer of social software solutions, the kind of information service (resulting from analysis of its supported communities of interest who use social bookmarking and tagging) that would best serve groups who perform design decision making.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Rob Woodbury

Student:

David Botta

Partner:

CrowdTrust Technologies Ltd.

Discipline:

Interactive arts and technology

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Planning Models for Emergency Medical Services Operations

The purpose of this project is to study the policies used to relocate ambulances in the City of Edmonton. The main goal of this internship is to improve the performance while minimizing the effects on ambulance crews’ workload. With this purpose in mind, the first step is to put in place a software simulation as a test bed to evaluate new solutions proposed (with the added advantage of being useful to evaluate changes in other areas). The second step will be to develop new models useful to analyze and improve on the ambulance relocation policies in use. The result should be a model that could be used now to propose changes to improve performance and/or reduce workload, and in the future to adjust policies as conditions change.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Armann Ingolfsson

Student:

Ramon Alanis

Partner:

City of Edmonton

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Perception and Selection of Sponsored Links

The objective of the proposed project is to examine how users respond to the web links of familiar and unfamiliar brands when they are displayed at different locations in the search result pages in partnership with Enquiro Search Solutions, Inc, a privately held search engine marketing firm headquartered in Kelowna, BC. Participants will be asked to conduct a number of guided internet searches, searches for which they are provided the search terms. The result produced by each search will include the usual sponsored links as well as one target link (or the one of primary interest to the researchers) corresponding to either a familiar or unfamiliar brand. The location/placement of the targeted link will be systematically manipulated across searches. The intern will record participants’ eye fixations as well as the links selected in the results produced by each search. This work is guided by the hypothesis that participants tend to scan the search results very quickly for links to familiar brands which causes them to click on those links.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Peter Graf

Student:

Jie Gao

Partner:

Enquiro Search Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Digital media

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Optimizing Stocking Strategies for Rainbow Trout in Mixed Species Lakes

The goal of this project is to develop a method of estimating optimum stocking strategies in mixed species lakes in collaboration with the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC, a non-profit organization which works in partnership with the provincial government to deliver the fish stocking program as well as providing conservation fish culture services. The growth and survival of stocked fish will be estimated across a range of initial sizes, trout densities and competitor fish densities. A computer simulation model will be used to estimate the amount of angler effort that can be expected across a range of stocking strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Carl Walters

Student:

Brett van Poorton

Partner:

Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Non-Viral Gene Delivery to Gut Stem Cells

The internship project will work to deliver a weight loss protein that will combat obesity. The intern will coat DNA for the protein with a natural substance that can be delivered orally or through surgery. If successful, the team expects to see the presence of this weight loss protein in the blood of the specimens. Moreover, the levels should increase after meals and this should encourage less eating and weight loss. enGene, a biotech company specializing in DNA delivery to the gut, will provide the training necessary for this project. Ultimately, these findings could support further clinical trials for this novel therapy in humans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Timothy J. Kieffer

Student:

Michael Juan

Partner:

enGene Inc.

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Lab-based Accelerated Vibration Testing for Articles in the Baggage Bay Area of the Motor Coach in the Vertical Direction

Motor Coach Industries Ltd. (MCI), a manufacturer of intercity coaches serving charter and tour operations, requires extensive field tests to validate the durability performance of coaches and components. To reduce the time and expense of these field tests, the intern will conduct mathematical analysis of the recorded acceleration signals in the baggage bay area of a motor coach. Using extensive acceleration data collected by MCI engineers, the intern will identify the predominant vibration modes and study the relationship among these modes. This internship project is the first step to developing a comprehensive lab-based vibration test method/spectrum that may minimize future field tests.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Christine Wu

Student:

May Yang

Partner:

Motor Coach Industries Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Features-driven Multi-modality Registration and Fusion of Functional and Structural Medical Images

The internship project with Pacific Nuclear Medicine will develop a software tool that brings two images obtained from different imaging modalities into spatial alignment (aka multi-modal registration). This is a necessary task for the creation of correct image fusions, which are essential for diagnosis and correction of nuclear medicine images. Additionally, the project will develop a feature-registration framework in which pattern-recognition techniques and feature-extraction methods to increase the accuracy and robustness of the registration algorithm will be employed. In particular, the project will extract shape-features available in the image data and perform processing (e.g. distance transformations) to generate more descriptive, representative data, which will perform registration on. Through the incorporation of features into the algorithm, the internship team will propose that the global and local registration of the images can be performed with higher accuracy and efficiency. Finally the developed algorithm shall be tested on the collected medical datasets using established validation methods and be encapsulated in a user-friendly graphical interface.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh

Student:

Lisa Tang

Partner:

Pacific Nuclear Medicine Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a Pharmacokinetic and Physiologic Model of Different Formulations of an Anti-tumoral Agent

In partnership with Labopharm, a leading company in optimizing the performance of small molecule drugs, a complete pharmacokinetic (PK) study of three new formulations of a commercially available drug will be performed. This study will be conducted in order to choose the most appropriate formulation in terms of bioavailability and absorption rate. Pharmacokinetics parameters of the drug will be estimated using different methods. Mechanisms of drug absorption, distribution, and elimination will also be identified. A population pharmacokinetic analysis will be also performed to identify factors that may explain the intra and inter variability of the estimated PK parameters from intravenous and oral data collected.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Fahima Nekka

Student:

Frédérique Fenneteau

Partner:

Labopharm

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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