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Towards Automating Video Inpainting for Use in a 2D to 3D Video Conversion Pipeline

The goal of the project is to reduce the workload involved in the occlusion filling step of a 2D to 3D video conversion pipeline. To do so, the intern will develop and implement a video inpainting algorithm suitable for use in Hollywood Films. The algorithm will be integrated into the organization’s 2D to 3D video conversion pipeline. The algorithm will provide controls which allow the user to manipulate the results of the inpainting process. The intern will experiment with the use of additional data available within the pipeline as a means to overcome issues with current video inpainting methods. In particular, changing illumination and handling of fixed light sources will be addressed. Since inpainting can be extremely tedious and time consuming when performed by hand, a more automated solution will greatly increase the organization’s efficiency in performing 2D to 3D conversions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amy Gooch

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Leveraging machine learning and Crowdsourcing for knowledge graph construction in term of learning with privilege information

Frequent Google users may be familiar with the knowledge graph – it is what creates the visual display of key information related to a search query, often shown at the top of the page. The knowledge graph a store of information built up by organizing extracted information from various websites and grouping related material under their respective topics. However, these knowledge graphs are not infallible; because the graphs are built computationally and thus lack the robustness of human interpretation, if the text is written in an unusual manner, it is entirely possible to have incorrect information in the graph. This incorrect information is referred to as noise. The purpose of this project is to create a computer algorithm to better parse and interpret text, to lower the amount of noise entered into knowledge graphs. This algorithm will also be trained on human-computed (thus noiseless) knowledge graphs to increase its effectiveness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Condon

Student:

Partner:

Zhejiang University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Étude géo environnementale du gisement Marban et support au responsable de l’environnement

Le projet Bloc Marban est situé à une quinzaine de kilomètres à l’ouest de la ville de Val-d’Or et comprend les anciennes mines Marban, Kierens et Norlartic qui ont produit collectivement environ 590 000 onces d’or et qui sont maintenant trois gîtes dont les ressources minérales combinées sont de 32 millions de tonnes à une teneur moyenne de 1,48 g/t pour 1,53 million d’onces d’or en ressources mesurées et indiquées et de 16,5 millions de tonnes à une teneur moyenne de 1,13 g/t pour 0,6 million d’onces d’or en ressources présumées. Chacun des trois gîtes possède un potentiel de fosse à ciel ouvert et d’opération souterraine. Le projet va dans un premier temps se pencher sur la caractérisation géochimique de résidus miniers au niveau du bassin versant du Lac De Montigny, des sédiments de fond des rivières et des lacs, des eaux de surface et souterraines, pour ensuite compléter la caractérisation par des analyses minéralogiques et chimiques des roches de carottes de forage. Enfin, le suivi de qualité des eaux de lixiviation des essais cinétiques sur les résidus miniers et les roches stériles permettra d’évaluer le potentiel de génération des contaminants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Plante

Student:

Partner:

Niogold Corporation Inc.

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Positionnement et intégration des médicaments biosimilaires dans le système de santé canadien

Le marché mondial des médicaments biosimilaires est en pleine expansion. Le développement des biosimilaires constitue un enjeu majeur à la fois d’un point de vue économique et d’un point de vue sanitaire. Dans le contexte d’une population vieillissante, d’une augmentation des maladies chroniques et d’un budget de plus en plus contraint, les biosimilaires pourraient permettre de maintenir un accès aux soins et/ou d’offrir un plus grand nombre de traitements de pointe, et ce, de manière durable. Le projet se veut une étude exploratoire dont la principale question de recherche est : « Comment positionner les médicaments d’appellation « biosimilaires » sur le marché canadien? » et « Quels sont les conditions/enjeux pour les rendre accessibles à travers les programmes d’assurance-médicaments provinciaux ». Deux modes de cueillette de données sont employées, soit la revue exhaustive de la littérature scientifique ainsi que les entrevues de groupe « Focus Group » et individuelles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

André Côté

Student:

Partner:

Sandoz Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Benchmarking the Sustainability Performance of Clearwater Seafoods

Clearwater Seafoods Limited Partnership. (Clearwater) is a Nova Scotian company that has grown to be one of the global leaders in the market of seafood. it is dedicated to improving the sustainability of its operations in order to protect the valuable resource upon which it relies. In fisheries science and management, as well as food manufacturing practices, Clearwater strives to bring best business practices to its sustainability goals. As one of the leading harvesters of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fisheries, compliance with the MSC standards for fisheries and chain of custody (CoC) is critical. Recent changes to both the fisheries standard and the CoC standard will be integrated into Clearwater operations. . In addition, the framework for sustainability will be updated to reflect upon the growing information in the field. Finally, a review of the best practices for key performance indicators (KPIs) will be done to compare how Clearwater compares with similar companies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kate Sherren

Student:

Partner:

Clearwater Seafoods Ltd Partnership

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Education, Community Engagement and Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: North East British Columbia

Education preparedness is important for communities to engage in the resource sector development. This ranges from having the minimum requirements of a high school diploma to acquiring trades expertise or have a professional designation. Often overlooked are the reasons for gaps in this area. The goal of this research is first to determine the gaps, and second to map them in a manner that highlights the differences of the communities interviewed. The directed interviews about baseline education levels associated with academic preparedness and skills training was analyzed to determine what type of support is lacking in the Natural Gas development. The interviews took place throughout the Monteny Region of NE British Columbia region to assist with Liquid Natural Gas development. This assessment focused on what educational resources are currently in place, and assessed their ability to meet and deliver program in support of specific skill development, their potential to enhance skills training in partnership with local authorities trough all phases of education K-12 to apprentice and/or university education. This second part of the research will map the results, and provide an outline detailing procedures and expectations associated with an outreach strategy employed by potential oil and gas producers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dawn Mills

Student:

Partner:

CalFrac Well Services Ltd;Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of new approaches to promote proliferation of insulin producing pancreatic ?-cells in diabetic patients

Reduced number of insulin producing ?-cells in pancreas due to increased ?-cell death is a key defect in diabetes that eventually leads to elevated blood glucose levels and life-time treatment with glucose lowering drugs or daily insulin injections. Thus, finding therapeutic approaches to prevent the decrease in the number of insulin producing ?-cells in diabetic patients either by reducing ?-cell death or by increasing their proliferation is of great importance. In this study, we will use transformed and primary islet ?-cells, to investigate the effects of five purified natural products (to be provided by Blue-O Medicals Inc.) on ?-cell proliferation, function, and death. The findings of this study may lead to development of new therapeutic approaches to maintain enough number of ?-cells in diabetic patients to keep blood glucose within normal range thereby prevent progression of diabetes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lucy Marzban

Student:

Partner:

Blue-O Medical Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Spelling Correction for Improved Detection of Malicious Chat Messages

Cyberbullying, sexting, profanity and other forms of malicious chat messages have become increasingly common in online virtual worlds and social networks that are used by children and teenagers. These conversations are dangerous to children. The partner organization has already implemented a rule based filtering system to filter out malicious messages. However, not all the malicious messages can be filtered out since people invent subtler forms of malicious messages in an effort to subvert such filtering systems. This project will employ the spelling correction techniques to convert the subtler forms of malicious messages into their original forms. It can improve the performance of filtering system to be more robust against subtler forms of malicious messages.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anoop Sarkar

Student:

Partner:

Two Hat Security Research Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Housing Boom and Bust in Resource-based Economy-the Case of Ordos City, China

Ordos is a resource-based city located in Inner Mongolia, China, which currently undergoes a financial crisis caused by a collapsing housing market. During the past 15 years, the housing market in Ordos City has experienced a boom and bust cycle. This research aims to conduct a systematic and scientific research to thoroughly explore the reasons behind this unfortunate crisis. The significance and uniqueness of this research lie in the discussion of housing market in a resource-based economy, which is a missing part in the existing studies. By collecting and analyzing data, running mathematical models, conducting surveys and interviews, this research aims to identify the critical factors of a resource-based economy that may affect housing development, and then to explore to what extent these factors affect housing market in Ordos City. In addition, this research is targeted to inform policy-making and implementation on housing market management and natural resource development in Ordos City, as well as offer suggestions to prevent the similar crisis that may occur in other resource-based regions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zhu (Joe) Qian

Student:

Partner:

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of Innovative Approaches to Assess Health Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Projects

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. The holistic nature of this definition provides the basis for an all-encompassing evaluation of health, which is the guiding principle behind health impact assessment (HIA). An emerging area of public concern in Canada is the assessment of the potential impact that transportation infrastructure has on human health. HIA is ideally placed for such an assessment. Broadly, HIA can provide an evaluation of the positive and negative impacts of transportation infrastructure projects on community health, and help inform and provide decision-makers with an opportunity to minimize adverse health outcomes and maximize health benefits. At Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc., our Mitacs intern will work closely with our professional scientific staff to research and develop a framework for conducting health impact assessments of transportation infrastructure projects in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jim MacLellan

Student:

Partner:

Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a Patient Aid for Grading of Acne Severity and a Comprehensive Acne Quality of Life Instrument (CompAQ) for Acne Patients

The overall objective of this work is to gain a better understanding of the experience of patients living with acne and how to support their decision making process in terms of acne treatment options. This research will investigate issues surrounding how patients understand how to accurately determine the severity of their acne and the treatment options available to them. From this, an effective patient aid will be developed to inform and support patient’s decision-making process when seeking treatment. This patient aid will include an acne severity grading scale, and established treatment guidelines. This study will also develop a comprehensive measure of acne quality of life (CompAQ) to gain a better understanding of the experience of patients living with acne above and beyond the physical concerns (e.g., psychological and social considerations). This measure will help to determine quality of life outcomes resulting from acne treatments in clinical trials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Chung-Yan

Student:

Partner:

Windsor Clinical Research Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Business Intelligence and Recommendation for Samsung Knox Community Forum

Companies usually use private forums to share sensitive information and discuss strategies. Valuable business knowledge is hidden inside the user generated content in these forums and waiting to be extracted and reused. Knox Community Forum, a thriving private forum inside Samsung where employers from all around the world post content like win notices of deals, meeting agendas of customers, business objectives, various news and technical issues online. In spite of large numbers of posts generated on Knox Community Forum every day, Samsung does not yet have tools to analyze the content of the posts. The intern will gain access to real business forum data set of Samsung and extract data fields from unstructured post content and perform business intelligence mining including business trends summarization and prediction. Previous customer requirements and sale solution will also be mined and paired. A new personalized recommendation algorithm will be developed to recommend the best solution summarized from past requirement-solution pairs given a specific customer and help the sales agent to better engage the customer

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Ester

Student:

Partner:

Samsung Research and Development Canada (SRCA)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; New and Digital Media; Commercial Services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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