Realistic image compositions with deep learning priors

Image composition is an operation that incorporates an object extracted from a source image to incorporate it inside a target image. This simple operation has a lot of practical applications in the advertisement, entertainment, and movie industries. However, it is tedious for an artist to achieve realistic image compositions. Indeed, it requires different lighting, shadows, […]

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Avatar Care Provider for Seniors Residences

We aim to provide companionship, distraction and engagement for seniors who would prefer social interaction to being alone. Fundamentally, the technology we intend to develop and, by the end of the grant, deploy on a trial basis in a long-term care facility, would present a conversational nurse or care provider avatar with whom the seniors […]

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Multimodal Geolocation and Traffic Management in Healthcare Centers

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an emerging need of using new advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve our healthcare system to manage a massive influx of patients. Indoor geolocation techniques and optimized traffic management algorithms are substantial for serving a large number of patients in healthcare centers while respecting procedures […]

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Digital Illustration & Children’s Story Creation Strategy

Simbi is working on a process innovation project to significantly improve the process by which our end users are able to use our product. In other words, the intern will be working on innovative methods to get more children’s stories into the hands of our young readers. Simbi faces challenges in effective and timely artistic […]

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ESG Automation for Sustainable Enterprises (EASE)

ESGTree is an Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) data management platform for investors and corporations. Collecting, aggregating, and reporting ESG data is painstakingly inefficient for private capital investors. The ESGTree platform sets up individual client systems in a way that it will cater to all their investors and all the standards they need. The project ESG […]

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Clarifying Questions for Conversational Agents

Many conversational agents blend the functionalities of question-answering and chit-chat into a single system. This lays the foundation for a more interactive type of question-answering models which is the primary focus of the research project. Interaction between a user and the agent allows the user to ask an underdefined or ambiguous question, and, instead of […]

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Portfolio Optimizer

Portfolio managers evaluate stocks to find those with the best expected returns, but they need risk measures to complete their decision-making process. The project has the objective to give adequate risk metrics to portfolio managers for a given portfolio and a list of potential candidates. Historical price values are useful to determine risk, but they […]

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Open MIDaaS – Mobile Identity as a Service

I will be working on open MIDaaS project. It stands for Mobile Identity as a Service. The project aims at making a mobile application the centre of user authentication. The app will be like a personal wallet which will store the list of attributes like verified email, address, and phone and credit card numbers. A […]

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Vaolo : Modélisation thématique à partir de sources hétérogènes

Vaolo est une plateforme technologique innovante dans le secteur du voyage, au croisement entre les plateformes transactionnelles, collaboratives et sociales. Vaolo est une entreprise d’innovation sociale qui vise à propulser le voyage de demain, un voyage éco responsable plus humain et respectueux de la planète et des communautés locales. Sa mission est de développer une […]

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In-process product inspection with computer vision and artificial intelligence

In this project, we investigate deep-learning-based artificial intelligence technologies for automated in-process part inspection for advanced manufacturing. We will experiment with state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning technologies, applied to a camera capture of a manufactured product part while the part is being made. In this way, product defects can be detected early, saving time […]

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