Camera enabled AI-based personal assistants will need to recognize human actions in order to be safe and effective. Current machine learning approaches for action recognition require extensive datasets of annotated videos that depicting the actions to be recognized. Such datasets are expensive to acquire. The goal of this project is to decrease the annotation required […]

A new solar electricity system is being developed here by Solaires Entreprises Inc. founded in Victoria, BC. The novel fabrication method and materials reduces the cost of solar cells by up to 50%. The new price point of the cells allows us to make solar energy profitable in Canada as well as incorporate solar cells […]

La bioraffinerie forestiere integree et verte (BRFIV) est un complexe industriel integre capable de transformer de la biomasse par divers procedes de conversion en une grande variete de produits tout en eliminant I’utilisation de I’energie fossile et tout en reduisant les emissions de gaz a effet de serre par I’utilisation rationnelle de I’energie. Parmi les […]

Le bioraffinage forestier consiste a valoriser les principaux composes chimiques issus du bois pour la production de biocarburant, d’energie et de produits chimiques de specialite. Un concept de plus en plus etudie concernant les bioraffineries de 2eme generation est celui de bioraffinage integre. Parmi les differents concepts de bioraffinerie integree actuellement a l’etude, on peut […]

Reclamation of oil sands fluid fine tailings (FFT) ponds is challenging due to the slow rate of natural consolidation of the suspended sediments generated during the extraction process. In order to reclaim tailings ponds, the shear strength of the sediments must first be increased to make the surface trafficable, at which point further reclamation work […]

La mission de Muclitech est de concevoir, produire et fournir des équipements de gestion du climat se démarquant par leur ingéniosité, leur adaptabilité et leur qualité, répondant en cela aux besoins et attentes d’une clientèle nationale et internationale à la recherche de solutions innovantes. Principales activités de Muclitech Accompagner le producteur agricole dans la conception […]

CaseBank provides a service called ChronicX™ to the airline industry for the purpose of detecting and managing repeat defects, i.e. faults that have eluded resolution repeatedly. Each night, airlines upload their raw maintenance records to the CaseBank server. ChronicX applies text mining methods to eliminate irrelevant records, and search for defects that are repeat occurrences […]

The main focus of this research is to develop representation learning architectures and algorithms that can help perform various multimodal understanding tasks, and at the same time reduce the need for human supervision in the form of costly annotations. To achieve this goal, a learning system must be able to: (1) learn new tasks or […]

Due to the prevalence of coronavirus and the spread of Covid-19 disease, the use of masks has increased significantly, which due to the more disposable use of these masks, environmental hazards have increased significantly. Therefore, the production of high-performance masks in the field of antimicrobials is very important. In this project, we investigate suitable biodegradable […]

This project aims to improve the throughput of the production system at ArcelorMittal through better coordination between the production operations. The project proposes a sophisticated discrete-event simulation model to analyze the impact of all important parameters of the production system, such as steel temperature, furnace heat duration, ladle movements, and heat loss at ladle. Several […]

In the first year of the proposed project, we will explore and optimize the application of environmentally friendly solvents for organosilane adhesion promoters that are used in the production of HSS by Canusa-CPS. In the second year, the shelf-life and lifetime of such products will be investigated using accelerated testing procedures. The results of the […]

The use of hybrid distributed energy resources (HDERs) has grown rapidly during the last decade as a way to reduce the stress placed on the utility grid by society’s ever-expanding power consumption. They consist of fossil fuel generators, battery energy storage systems, and renewable energy systems and can be designed to interact with the grid […]