Agriculture supports food security for 60% of the global population, with potatoes, the 4th most consumed crop, feeding around 1.5 billion people daily (Afakh et al. and LeCun et al.). Canada produces about 5.7 million tonnes of potatoes each year, making it the 12th-largest producer in the world. The country’s potato exports generate around $1.6 […]

Compositionality — the ability to understand new combinations of familiar parts — is a core aspect of human cognition and reasoning, but current vision-language models such as CLIP still struggle with it. These limitations reduce the reliability of systems that must correctly interpret objects, attributes, and relations in real-world scenarios. Although many methods have been […]

La Ville de Trois-Rivières, 9e plus populeuse du Québec avec 148?469 habitants, compte sur une équipe de 1?250 employés pour offrir des services publics de qualité à ses citoyens. La Direction des technologies de l’information (TI) joue un rôle stratégique en accompagnant l’administration municipale dans l’identification de ses besoins et l’atteinte de ses objectifs grâce […]

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions such as back pain and arthritis affect millions of Canadians and place a heavy burden on the healthcare system. Every year, thousands of new research studies are published on MSK health, but the sheer volume makes it hard for organizations to keep track of the latest findings. This project will explore how […]

Code review is a critical step in modern software development, ensuring quality, preventing defects, and coordinating collaborative work. Large ecosystems such as OpenStack, which is hosted on Gerrit, receive a high volume of code changes every day, making it challenging for reviewers to decide which contributions should be handled first. In response to this, OpenStack […]

This project will create a realistic virtual greenhouse where robots can practice picking and pruning. It improves plant physics (bending, fruit detachment), models cameras and depth sensors to produce training data, generates many varied greenhouse scenes, and links simulated robots to Kinova’s control software for end-to-end testing. The result: faster, cheaper R&D, fewer risky field […]

1. Le Service d’interprétation visuelle et tactile (SIVET) offre un service d’interprétation en milieu sociocommunautaire : langue des signes québécoise (LSQ), pidgin, oral support de signes, LSQ tactile (pour les personnes sourdes-aveugles). D’ailleurs, le SIVET est le plus important des quatre services régionaux d’interprétation au Québec et, malgré ses 80 interprètes, refuse en moyenne 120 […]

Draft & Goal (D&G) is a Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) company developing a no-code platform that automates marketing workflows using AI agents for writing, search engine optimization, and fact-checking. The integration of large language models (LLMs) is central to their software solution: it allows non-technical users to harness advanced AI for content creation. However, unlike […]

This project focuses on three tasks: 1. Develop a compact descriptor for 3D Gaussian splats to enable robust registration between partial sub-maps. Inspired by prior learned descriptors, the method will encode local Gaussian parameters for fast matching under noise and partial overlap. 2. Extend existing multi-agent Gaussian SLAM system into a decentralized framework where each […]

LensX: Empowering Independence for the Blind through AI Wearable Smart Glasses LensX is an AI-powered assistive technology designed to support blind and low-vision individuals in navigating the world more independently. The project uses a combination of real-time computer vision and voice-based AI to help users identify their surroundings, read text, recognize objects, and receive auditory […]

Ce projet vise à aider les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) à mieux comprendre et améliorer leurs pratiques de développement durable. Pour cela, nous allons créer une application web interactive qui permet aux entreprises de répondre oralement à un questionnaire. Grâce à l’intelligence artificielle, les réponses seront automatiquement analysées et résumées. L’application pourra ensuite proposer […]

The McKenna Institute and ContactNB are collaborating on an initiative to promote AI adoption and responsible use within New Brunswick’s contact centre industry, aiming to enhance productivity, competitiveness, and sustainability by supporting SMEs with AI integration, workforce training, academic collaboration, and attracting investment in the business services sector.