Attention, an important aspect of human cognition, is needed for safe mobility and navigation through the environment. With age, the ability to move and navigate through the world requires greater cognitive resources. Previous brain imaging research has shown that mobility impairments are associated with reduced attention. However, previous work was limited to assessing attention while […]

SOTI has accumulated a large number of devices in the past ten years, and how to diagnose and predict the status of these devices has become a very important topic. Through this research we hope to find various parameters and patterns contributing to particular negative impacts. Additionally we would like to be able to Create […]

The performance of an industrial electroplating line is evaluated using the First Pass Yield (FPY). Improving the FPY of an industrial electroplating line is complex and depends on lots of environmental and technical parameters. These parameters have different nature that makes it hard to assess the interaction between them and consequently to detect the causes […]

Combining Building Integrated Photovoltaic / Thermal (BIPV/T) system and Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) with a thermal storage potentially can increase the efficiency of the heat pump and therefore reduce cost of heating and cooling for the building. In addition, this system potentially can reduce the GHG emission. A hollow core concrete floor can be […]

The existing document understanding systems use machine learning methods, natural language understanding and text analysis, to validate structured trade contracts for language and economic term correctness. The system is now being expanded to allow general document understanding across a wide variety of financial documents, beginning with a focus on customer provided reference material. The proposed […]

Global warming is a well-known global phenomenon that has been in the headlines for the past few decades. Greenhouse gases (Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Carbon Monoxide, etc.) are the major contributors to global warming and several governments have been working towards limiting such emissions by introducing emission guidelines. Carbon Dioxide is the gas of interest in […]

Procedural content (text and video) is abundant on the internet, and is regularly used in our daily lives, e.g., when we follow a cooking recipe to make a dish, or watch an instructional furniture assembly video. Automatically understanding such content allows for the development of various types of AI assistants, including those that can provide […]

Traditionally, software for home products could not be changed once they were shipped. Furthermore, they could not run complex machine learning (ML) models because their computing and storage capacities are limited due to budget constraints. Recent advancements of cloud infrastructure, however, may allow such products to collect a large amount of data and continuously update […]

The goal of cross-modal recipe retrieval is to design systems that are able to find a digital recipe, given the user’s image of the food, or find its image, given its ingredients or cooking instructions. For such a cross- modal retrieval task, a common image-text representation space is needed to embed the semantic information of […]

Women are vastly underrepresented in venture capital (VC) firms. There is also a lack of women entering the field of venture capital due to systemic barriers and a lack of momentum to shift existing barriers for women to enter the venture capital world. This research aims to understand the current status of women in VC […]

The approach to assessing Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland is based on patterns of salmon production and habitat that were established for populations in rivers much further south. The physical and biological characteristics of watersheds and rivers in Newfoundland are different from the southern rivers and the bases for conservation decisions are likely inappropriate. Establishing relationships […]

Observable Market Data is critical for effective valuation of trades for risk management purposes within the investment bank. The valuation process requires the existence of good quality data day by day, and dating back into the mid-2000’s. Not all assets have highly liquid data available either historically or at present, and there is significant interest […]