Students Supervised:

Ph.D. Candidates:

• Jie Zhu (2009-present, OCIECE, co-supervision with A. Cuhadar) Thesis Proposal: Error-resilient video coding using multiple description coding and 3D-SPIHT

Ph.D. Students:

• name withheld (2011-present, OCIECE, co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan) EMG signal decomposition thru semi-blind source separation
• name withheld (Fall 2012 start, OCIECE) TBD

M.A.Sc. Students:

• Tan Ho (2007-present, OCIECE, part-time student, co-supervision with E. Dubois) Image inpainting of occluded and occluding objects from multi-perspective images
• name withheld (2011-present, OCIECE, co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan) Postural stability analysis

M.Eng. Students:

• name withheld (Fall 2012 start, OCIECE) TBD
• name withheld (Fall 2012 start, OCIECE) TBD

Alumni:

Research Associates:

• M. Hossein Radfar, Ph.D. (2007-2008, co-supervision with Geoffrey Chan), now at University of Toronto Single channel speech separation

Ph.D. Alumni:

• Tarek Khairy Mohamed Helaly, Ph.D. (2007-present, OCIECE, co-supervision with M. El-Tanany) Thesis: Satellite communication system characterization and implementation
• Mohamed Mahmoud Aly Fouad Abdel-Motagally, Ph.D. (2007-2010, OCIECE, co-supervision with A. Whitehead) Thesis: Image registration under arbitrarily-shaped locally variant illumination and occlusions
• Yasser Mahgoub, Ph.D. (2003-2010, OCIECE), now teacing at Yanbu University College, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. Thesis: Co-channel Speech Separation using State-Space Reconstruction and Sinusoidal Modelling
• M. Hossein Radfar, Ph.D. (2005-2007, Amirkabir University, co-supervision with A. Sayadiyan) Thesis: Single Channel Speech Separation
• David Lo, Ph.D. (2003-2005, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran), with Department of National Defence (Canada) Thesis: Multimodal Talker Localization in Video Conferencing Systems

Visiting Ph.D. Students:

• Ahmed Wesam Sallam (2011-2011) Real-time object tracking in video

M.A.Sc. Alumni:

• Ali Ghazisaeidi (2010-2011, OCIECE, co-supervision with P. Payeur, previously co-supervised by A. Cuhadar) Thesis: Estimating human limb motion from video sequences with anatomical knowledge
• Alex McKenzie (2006-2010, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, OCIBME, co-supervision with J.R. Green) Thesis: On Methods for the Suppression of Aliasing in Time-Series Gene Expression Data
• Junci Zhang (2004-2010, OCIECE, part-time student) Thesis: Robust coefficient encoding for wavelet scalable video coding
• Junwu Zhu (2007-2010, OCIECE, co-supervision with C. Joslin), with ChipWorks Thesis: Perceptual Noise Shaping in DCWT for Image Coding
• Todor Pandeliev (2009-2009, ISS, School of Computer Science, co-supervision with M. Smid) Thesis: Asymmetrical Load-Balancing for Incremental Fast Fourier Transform on Multi-Core Processors
• Felix Petngang (2007-2009, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, OCIECE, co-supervision with C. Joslin) Thesis: Resolution Scalable Image Coding using Rational Wavelet Transform
• Mustafa H. Fanaswala (2007-2009, OCIECE, OGSST Scholar, John Ruptash Memorial Fellowship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, co-supervision with E. Dubois), pursuing Ph.D. at UBC Thesis: Regularized Super-Resolution of Multi-View Images
• Khalil Yonis (2006-2009, OCIECE) Thesis: Objective Video Quality Assessment using the 3D Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform
• Vesal Badee (2004-2006, OGS scholar, OCIECE, co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan), with BioSign Technologies Inc., Toronto, ON Thesis: Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction and Enhancement using Triggered Adaptive Filtering
• Giuseppe Agnello (2004-2005, OCIECE), with General Dynamics, Ottawa, ON Thesis: Parametric Mixing for Centralized VoIP Conferencing Using ITU-T Recommendation G.722.2
• Chengliang Li, M.A.Sc. (2001-2003, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran), now pursuing Ph.D. at Carleton University with Prof. Liu Thesis: Lip Feature Extraction and Audio - Video Synchronization
• Shuman Jin, M.A.Sc. (2001-2003, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran), with TD Canada Trust Thesis: Multiple Packet-Streams in Encrypted Voice over IP

Other former students:

• Zhong Lin (PhD Student, 2004-2008, OCIECE, co-supervision with R. Goubran) Speech enhancement for VoIP impairment

Undergraduates:

• Waqas Muhi Kanwar (May 2005-Aug 2005, NSERC-USRA scholar) Lip-tracking in video
• Patrick Lalonde (May 2006-June 2006) Real-time face tracking
• Matt Solheim (May 2006-June 2006) Real-time skin detection

Undergraduate 4th Year Thesis Students and Topics:

2011/2012

• Group of 4 Portable ECG monitor using compressive sensing
  

• Group of 2 (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan) EMG controlled robot car
  

2010/2011

• Group of 2 Object removal in multi-view images
  

• Group of 4 Ultra-low power ECG monitor with compressive sensing
  

• Group of 3 iPhone Voice-Operated Wheelchair System

2009/2010

Fayz Al Hajri,
Moufed Elefrangy,
Leila Tlebaldiyeva,
Marwa Yassine Ultra low power portable ECG monitor using compressive sensing

2008/2009

On sabbatical.

2007/2008

On leave.

2006/2007

• Jevin Maltais,
  Sebastian Jagodzinski Automatic speechreading, Part 1: Real-time lip tracking using the TI DM642 video/imaging platform
  
• Aleksandar Simic,
  Pooyan Rostamkhani Text reader for the visually impaired using camera cellphone
  
• Tianhe Zhang, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)
  Konstantin Privalov Automatic sign language recognition

2005/2006

• Abdullah Al-Dalati, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)
  Jetaime Lowe,
  Lisa Meitin,
  Andrew Rowden Automatic sign language recognition through motion capture
  (Awarded the NSERC Best Project Award)
• Bang Nguyen Text detection in natural scenes
  
• Roby Ayres,
  Natasha Tajik Point-of-sale fingerprint verification
  
• Pierre-Olivier Savoie, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan) Fetal ECG enhancement through beamforming
  

2004/2005

• Michael Smith Superresolution of images to improve text readability
  (Honourable mention for Best Poster Award)
• Nigel Gocan, (co-supervision with A.D.C. Chan)
  Steven Ortis Fetal ECG extraction through adaptive noise cancellation
• Victor Tazlauanu Chaotic communication and synchronization using an implementation of Chua's circuit
• Samuel Goh,
  Hai Nguyen,
  Cuong Vuu Face detection/recognition for class attendance application

2003/2004

• Olive Xu Polyphonic music transcription - from recording to musical score
• Ehab Hamid Face detection in colour images
• Cindy Ah-Yuen Face detection and tracking in video
• Andrew Bell,
  Kevin Mar,
  Matthew Yee Automatic traffic sign detection and identification in images
• Ertan Oral Co-channel speech separation in convolutive mixtures
• Ian Gagne Image watermarking using quantization index modulation

2002/2003

• Olivier Dagenais (Comp. Sci.) Polyphonic instrument detection in music
• Chi Leung Hung,
  Xia Wu Automatic traffic sign detection and identification in images
• Wael Akram Single channel speech separation