Self-optimizing Fabric for ENCQOR Network

This project is aimed to develop a next-generation network providing unprecedented quality of cellular service to Canadians and small and medium businesses, stimulating innovations and improving the quality of life of our people. Relying on the ENCQOR infrastructure, which is the first 5G network in Canada supported by three governments (Quebec, Ontario, and Canada), the […]

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GIS-based Wildfire Catastrophic Risk Economic Capital Modelling

Models used for Wildfire catastrophe insurance as of today are not considering substantial information, such as geographic information and environmental constraints. The objective of the project is to establish a theoretical framework and an empirical process to enhance Aviva Canada’s current Wildfire Economic Capital (EC) model, to be able to determine the amount of capital […]

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Using fractal analysis to determine if physical impairment in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) reduces behavioural movement complexity

Free ranging and wild animals sometimes experience challenges of physical wellbeing and optimal movement ability, but assessing if they are stressed in these situations can prove difficult. My research will be focusing on a population of Japanese macaques on Awaji Island, Japan that are born with very high incidences of limb malformations that cause physical […]

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Haptic API/SDK for Distributed Full Body Haptics

The research seeks to develop an easy to use and program SDK in the Unity software framework for the design and integration of expressive haptic effects for a distributed series of worn haptic actuators. The project’s central objective is to develop a cross platform composition tool for designers that makes it easy to integrate haptic […]

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Real-Time Fashion Landmark Detection for Fashion Analysis and Understanding

The goal of this research is to develop an algorithm which allows Dataperformers to detect and match the apparel present in the video with the apparels in their inventory. To uniquely identify apparels it is very important to match them based on certain key areas. Fashion landmarks are the position of functional key-points defined on […]

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Exploring surface nanoscale axial photonics resonators for ultrahigh-resolution optical gyroscope applications

We will fabricate cylindrical glass microstructures that keep light traveling in circles for a very long time. The circular trajectory of the confined light changes very sensitively due to rotational motion of the cylinders, and these changes can be measured by detecting angular velocity. Therefore, the project aims at developing these cylinders that allow light […]

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Topic Segmentation for Text Mining on legal Documents

Text Mining is the process of automatically extracting structured knowledge from unstructured, natural language documents. It aims to support users in dealing with large amounts of textual information. Examples for specific text mining tasks are entity detection, summarization, and opinion mining. Due to the complexity and ambiguity of natural language, this analysis is broken down […]

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3D Cerebral Ultrasound Elastography Incorporating Spatial and Temporal Priors

The objective of our project is to assess the physiological condition of brain tissue by mapping it’s elasticity in 3D using ultrasound. We will have both technical and clinical contributions in this project. Technically, we will develop a 3D ultrasound elastography method incorporating more than two volumes of ultrasound Radio-Frequency (RF) frames collected while tissue […]

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Animator Agency in Japan’s Character-Centric Media Mix

Human control over technology has become an increasingly political question. As we struggle to regain control over technology, dealing with the effects of the Anthropocene and global climate change, we are lead to ask: do we deserve to have control in the first place? Not limited to the impact on the natural environment, animate media […]

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Contemporary Cultural Iconography of the Manga Superhero’s Distribution in Japanese Bookstores: A Study in Publication Practices and the American Hero’s Transposed Contexts

Japanese comics, popularly known as manga, are currently experiencing a resurgence of the superhero similar to that of the American comics industry. While most research on manga discusses how it impacts other cultures, I aim to locate the influence of the American comic industry on manga through the superhero figure that has become popular through […]

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