This project aims to develop a deep learning-based computer vision system of a high-performance visual perception system to support the Autonomous Rail. The developed visual perception system enables extracting rail tracks and objects in typical rail scenes using consumer grade camera and lidar sensors mounted on a moving rail. This visual perception capacity is fundamental […]

Depuis les années 1980, on constate que la littérature traitant de l’andragogie religieuse a jeté un nouveau regard sur l’environnement formatif aux adultes, recadrant la posture et le positionnement de la personne andragogue. De plus, cette période marque l’essor des fondements pédagogiques et des techniques d’intervention tous héritiers du courant socioconstructiviste. Une quarantaine d’années après […]

The proposed research aims to develop nanotechnology based on low-cost iron oxide for easy detection, targeting and separation of biomacromolecules from mixtures of proteins and nucleic acids. Iron oxide nanoparticles will be coated with polymers on the surface. The surface exposed chemical groups will be tuned through synthetic articulation of the polymers. The iron oxide […]

This research project will address the following question: What knowledge-based tools can help WADE Canada accelerate the suitable deployment of decentralized energy (DE) technologies? The proposed research will contribute to WADE Canada’s mission by: • Assessing the performance capabilities of DE technology providers, • Developing a tool to assess the needs of end users (those […]

Collaborative robots, also known as Cobots, are devices that will help farmers in their farming duties to have better control over their crops, increase harvesting efficiency, and solve labor shortage issues in rural areas. These robots can operate near humans and complete a wide variety of tasks including harvesting crops, precise pesticide spraying and crop […]

Cryptocurrencies are a new asset class that are emerging in importance and adoption in global markets. Public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum offer access to an unprecedented amount of financial and technical data. With the increasing amount of blockchain data, it is important that investors and policy makers can access standardized methods of financial […]

In Canada’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, one of the goals is to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. According to this agenda, the target is to reduce Canada’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30%. In order to transition to renewable energy, solar and wind power in combination with energy […]

Recent years have witnessed a surge of interests in exploring emerging research directions of quantum technology, including quantum computing, quantum sensors, quantum cryptography, etc., and the number of scientific publications in the literature in this field has been growing steadily. However, due to the large volume of unstructured text data and the lack of automatic […]

Ce projet cible une population sous-représentée dans les études sur la transition à l’âge adulte, soit les jeunes abandonnant l’école avant la diplomation du secondaire. Il vise à approfondir le portrait de leurs parcours scolaires post-décrochage, auprès d’un échantillon de 545 jeunes provenant de milieux socioéconomiquement désavantagés, interviewés une fois à l’adolescence, puis une seconde […]

Anomaly Detection (AD) is a key research problem in the fast-evolving area of Intelligent Transportation Systems. To proactively detect faults, AD methods are applied to detect deviation from regular behavior, which can also be caused by environmental factors such as weather conditions, neighbouring trains, and track curvature. Thales Canada has unlabeled data from their Next-Generation […]

L’objectif général de ce projet de recherche est d’évaluer le potentiel des lignines produites par un nouveau procédé Organosolv pour la formulation d’adhésifs PF et pMDI. Des modifications chimiques (phénolation, déméthylation, méthylolation) seront considérées pour optimiser le potentiel des lignines. Les adhésifs seront ensuite testés pour la production in-situ de PFMD à partir de la […]

Lake Kivu is a unique lake with a significant amount of methane and CO2 dissolved in its deep layer. The presence of these greenhouse gases poses a potential danger of massive disaster. The extraction of methane is viewed as a possible and profitable solution as the reduction of methane will enhance the ability of the […]