Le projet vise l’achèvement des travaux de recherche d’extraction de bâtiments et d’évaluation des dégâts de manière semi-supervisée entamés par le candidat au cours de ses travaux de doctorat. Le développement d’un outil opérationnel utilisant les techniques développées permettra d’effectuer une validation efficace et structurée des dites techniques. Les interactions avec les photo-interprètes de l’entreprise […]

La question du stress financier devient d’autant plus alarmante dans le contexte de crise financière dû à la Covid-19 qui a pour principales conséquences pertes et baisses de revenu généralisé des revenus des ménages. De récents sondages font état d’une vague de faillites personnelles à venir dans les prochains mois : 1,3 million de Canadiens […]

Malaspina Labs Inc. conducts applied research and development of state-of-the-art audio processing technologies that dramatically increase speech comprehension in noisy environments. Based in Vancouver Canada, Malaspina Labs is driven by a core team of academic and industry researchers in the fields of audio processing and speech isolation. We have a common goal of developing the […]

En raison de la pandémie de COVID-19, les personnes âgées, en situation de confinement sont déconnectées de leurs liens sociaux, et donc plus isolées et sédentaires que d’habitude. L’isolement social est encore plus critique pour les aînés moins familiers avec les technologies numériques. La présente demande vise le développement et la validation d’une solution logicielle […]

The research project will focus on identifying thermal characteristics of COVID-19 in humans and applying the characteristics identified to detect COVID-19 in humans using non-invasive methodologies. For this project, the thermal characteristics of viruses in humans, specifically COVID-19 will be studied. The aim will be to answer the following questions: (1) What are the thermal […]

We are building a machine learning algorithm to be able to better understand the unstructured clinical notes that doctors write about patients. This will help hospitals and healthcare systems standardize and extract insights from these notes to make them more useful for determining how sick COVID patients are and how they are improving over time.

The ability of the health system to manage a massive influx of patients is based on the combination of four factors: the personnel, the equipment, the physical spaces and the system in place. A combination better known in jargon as the 4 “S” (staff, stuff, structure / space, system). A fifth factor that is often […]

Food Convergence and Integrity (FCI) Canada is being formed to help agri-food companies mitigate the disruptions of Covid-19, increase interactions and innovations among Canadian agrifood companies and enable new agrifood business streams. Through its member platform, it will enhance resilience and competitiveness of the Canadian agri-food sector, resulting also in increased food security for Canadians. […]

Le dépistage de la fièvre et des autres facteurs reliés à la COVID-19 à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle et projeté en réalité augmentée pour assister les ressources médicales sur le terrain.

In light of disruptions caused by COVID-19, companies employing frontline workers must balance health and safety with maintaining productivity to survive and thrive in an unpredictable economic climate. This picture is complicated by the need for rapid learning in new, redeployed, and longstanding employees. How is workplace learning impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and how […]

As the world gets smaller, the distance between families grows larger. An increasing number of people are living far away from their loved ones, either in another city or in a different country altogether. Many leave behind their parents and other elderly relatives, with the distance making it next to impossible to provide support for […]

This research project aims to review, analyze and build upon the current body of knowledge concerning the therapeutic potential of landscape design. It will review the health outcomes of natural settings at healthcare facilities and examine the design processes behind these. Project partner Virginia Burt Designs is a leading practitioner in this aspect of the […]