VIVA Lab was founded in 1999 within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (formerly School of Information Technology and Engineering) at the University of Ottawa.
Research areas include:
Video Processing and Coding
Image Processing and Analysis
Computer Vision
Autonomous Systems
Radar object detection
Pedestrian detection
Smart back-up camera
Forward collision warning
Instance Segmentation
Deep People Detection
Thermal Passenger Detection
Forward Leading Car Detection
Vehicle Detection
People Detection
Action recognition
Hand gesture recognition
Face Recognition
Gender Recognition
Face Quality Assessment
Shoulder Keypoint Detection
Hand Detection
Head and Shoulder Detection
Partners: iWatchLife, Solink Corp, Cognivue, Aditude, CBSA Canada, NXP,
Fast Visual Tracking
3D Object Recognition
Fast Homography estimation
Fast Target Recognition for Mobile
UAV Tracking
Visual Object Tracking
Partners: Ross Video, Thales, Habitat Seven, YouI Labs
Smart surveillance
Video summarization
Partners: iWatchLife, Solink Corp, CBSA Canada
Corners and junction detection
Feature point matching strategies
Correspondence between image triplets
Widely separated view matching
Feature-based cut detection in videos
The objective of this project is to address and solve the technical challenges required to achieve effective and natural virtual navigation in image-based renditions of real environments.
NAVIRE
Additive Depth Maps
Omnistereo
Single Cam RGBD VR Scenes
Partners: Frontline Robotics
Computer graphics, object deformation modeling, ... Read more
Machine vision & navigation, 3D environment modeling, motion capture & detection, dexterous robotic manipulators, computational intelligence, ... Read more
Digital image and video processing, colorspaces, multi-dimension signal processing, stereo, anaglyphs, ... Read more
VIVA Lab at the University of Ottawa.
Prof. Robert Laganiere
Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Prof. Jochen Lang
Computer Graphics, Computer Vision
Prof. Pierre Payeur
Robotics