A frequently occurring problem in face verification in Jumio is that stock face detectors find multiple faces in the input image. The decision which one should be selected for the face verification step is not clear. Common reasons being, users submitting a single image with both selfie and document id. There can be other people, paintings, posters or television screens in the background.
Users may upload the selfie and the document picture in reverse order, etc.

Providing relevant quantitative trading strategies requires obtaining financial data from multiple sources to obtain market information and then use this data to model outcome. One difficulty in this process is that data entry is done by financial analysts who spend a large portion of their activities entering data from PDF to an application. This project seek to improve data collection in Canada by automating the process and focus analysts on their core competencies.

Afin de limiter dans le sol l’accumulation et la mobilité de contaminants pouvant entraîner un risque potentiel pour la santé humaine, animale et végétale, Orica Canada Inc., un fournisseur mondial d’explosifs commerciaux, souhaiterait décontaminer un de leur terrain hébergeant auparavant une usine de production d’explosifs.

Le projet de recherche ci-présent traite de la compromission des identités des clients et des employés au sein du secteur financier et se focalise plus spécifiquement sur trois moyens qui s’y rapportent : l’hameçonnage, le
« credential stuffing » et le « password guessing ». Le projet a comme objectif de prévenir ces cyberattaques par la mise en place de stratégies d’identification et de sécurisation des comptes compromis de même que par l’implantation de stratégies de sensibilisation pour les employés et les clients sur la protection de leurs identités.

Humans recognise objects in the world leveraging multi-modal sensory inputs beyond visual aspects (images and videos). Touch based information (Haptics) possesses rich information about structure, shape and other objetness properties. In this work, we will study and learn cross-modal representations between vision and touch. To connect vision and touch, we plan to introduce a zero shot classification task of recognising unseen object categories from shapenet dataset using haptics signals.

La crise de la COVID-19 apparaît comme un révélateur des inégalités socio-économiques qui traversent nos sociétés. Dans ce contexte, la protection de la santé et la sécurité en milieu de travail et de la sécurité financière des particuliers-ères est cruciale tant pour contrer l’expansion du virus et que pour relancer l’économie. Le contexte de distanciation physique oblige d’ailleurs des organisations de renouveler leurs façons de faire.

La COVID-19 est causée par un nouveau virus, le SARS-CoV-2 et frappe durement la population mondiale. Cette maladie soulève de nombreuses questions, dont celle de savoir si l’immunité développée par les personnes ayant guéri de la maladie permet de neutraliser efficacement le virus et d’assurer une protection à long terme. Dans le cadre de ce projet, nous allons étudier les caractéristiques des anticorps retrouvés dans le plasma de personnes ayant guéri de la COVID-19 (plasma convalescent), incluant leur pouvoir neutralisant ainsi que leur persistance dans le temps.

Hydro-Québec has data acquisition systems for a multitude of sensors, some of which have been installed since almost 20 years in its electrical generation equipment (turbine-generator units - TGU). The collected data is primarily used to ensure that the information is adequate in the event of an equipment breakdown or for specific behavioral studies.

Load forecasting is an essential activity for a company like Hydro-Québec. It is necessary for objectives as varied as the management of production or the management and maintenance of the electricity network. Any significant forecasting error can result in reliability issues, loss of opportunity, or additional costs to the business. On the other hand, a good prediction would allow Hydro-Québec to generate additional sales in neighbouring markets. With the deployment of its Advanced Measurement Infrastructure (AMI), Hydro-Québec now has a significant amount of new consumption data.

The main duty of Hydro-Quebec is to respond efficiently to the energy demands of customers, in a safe way while remaining competitive in the markets as well. In a changing energy context, the production of solar photovoltaic energy represents a new challenge for Hydro-Quebec, which will have to integrate and to balance this intermittent resource to guarantee the reliability of the electricity grid.