Today, small satellites are launched in large constellations like Starlink and Globalstar for space-based services, such as communications and weather monitoring. This rapid growth in space objects has become a real threat for space operation. In response to this issue of the growing population of space objects, Magellan is developing technologies to provide extensive and […]

The focus of this project is hydrothermal liquefaction of woody biomass waste. Woody biomass waste could include branches or woodchips from logging and wood processing. The waste material is ‘cooked’ with water at extreme temperature and pressure to produce waste oil. The low energy carrying woody biomass waste is converted into a higher energy carrying […]

The world’s stringent need to transition to a low-carbon industrial economy is more pressing than ever. It is imperative to innovate, develop, and implement revolutionary technologies that use low-carbon-intensity energy generation sources and have an intrinsic negative GHG emission factor while being economically profitable. The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction to fuels and chemicals coupled with […]

We have initiated what we hope is a long-term collaboration between University of Alberta (Randy Goebel, Amii/Computing Science) and Edmonton Police Service (Brian Rector), to investigate and develop the application of AI methods to aid in the solution of long-term unsolved homicides (“cold cases”). The initial idea is focused on AI methods for information extraction […]

Ce projet vise le développement d’un programme de promotion de saines habitudes d’activité physique et alimentaires chez des femmes ayant été atteintes d’un cancer du sein. L’intervention impliquera deux approches, l’une virtuelle et l’autre en présentiel, qui sollicitera la collaboration entre le médecin de famille, le kinésiologue, le nutritionniste et le patient. Deux groupes de […]

Conventional camera sensors record three color channels: red, green and blue. In this project we will investigate computational photography algorithms for cameras that record a near-infrared channel (NIR) in addition to RGB. This channel is particularly useful for biometric imaging and holds great potential in consumer imaging applications as well. The key challenge in simultaneously […]

Retrofitting aging commercial buildings from the exterior using wall panels can increase their sustainability and energy efficiency. The partner, RoBIM Technologies Inc., is developing an end-to-end automated solution by using robotic technologies and introducing more energy efficiency materials into the panel design. The combination of robotic prefabrication and sustainability of engineered wood products (EWPs) are […]

Current planning/business analytics platforms automate time-consuming manual budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes to help business users (e.g., financial officer, human resources, merchandising, marketing, or sales) make business decisions. Moreover, end users often use the interactive “what-if” analyses to understand the data from different perspectives and gain insights. However, the current way of presenting the analysis […]

Materials fatigue has a detrimental impact upon the lifetime and cost-effectiveness of turbine equipment in Hydro-Québec’s energy production division. Metal fatigue, in turn, is linked to it internal microstructure, that developed in a metal during its fabrication or repair through welding, as is often done to damaged hydroelectric turbine blades that break during operation. The […]

The research will focus on understanding how same-day delivery courier companies can collaborate with retailers in order to form a mutually beneficial option for the end consumer. It will focus on choosing retailers that can have such service incorporated into their current operations. The challenges, risks, and considerations of the transition will be analyzed to […]

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) enable exciting experiences such as virtual tourism or participation in a live concert from home. These applications are expected to benefit the society as well as being a source of significant revenues. However, such applications are very bit rate- and computation-intensive. The recent MPEG Immersive Video (MIV) format, […]

Breast cancer affect one out of eight women worldwide. Triple-negative breast cancer is an invasive breast cancer that is estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor-negative, and HER2-negative. Triple-negative breast cancer is a type of breast cancer that is usually more aggressive, harder to treat, and more likely to come back (recur) than cancers that are hormone receptor-positive […]