Maria Amer Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current and former Students
We primarily look for enthusiastic students with a GPA of at least A- and a strong background in mathematics, signal processing, and deep learning. A solid level of programming skills is needed too.

Current Students & Researchers:
Name Year Program Project Area
Mahdi Falaki 09/2023- MASc Visual object tracking
Milad Khanchi 01/2023- MASc Multi Object Tracking
Prateek Sohi 09/2021- MASc Retinal Vessel Segmentation & data augmentation
Mark Ofori-Oduro 09/2018 PhD AIS & Object detection
Goutam Yelluru Gopal 01/2018-04/2024 PhD Visual object tracking
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Waqas Mansoor 07/2023-12/2023 MEng Crack detection using YOLO (co-supervised with Moises)
Hassan Mahmood Khan 07/2023-12/2023 MEng Optimizing Object Tracking Models for Speed (co-supervised with Goutam)
Former Students & Researchers :
Name Year Program Project Title
Mahdi Falaki 07/2023-08/2023 MEng Data augmentation against distortions in object tracking (co-supervised with Mark)
Doreen Duoduaah 01/2020-07/2022 MASc Video quality Assessment
Amin Ansarian 09/2018-07/2021 MASc 3D human pose estimation
Julien Valognes 05/2017-09/2020 MAScObject drift correction
Saeid Vosoughi 09/2016-12/2018 MASc3D human pose estimation
Tarek Ghoneimy 09/2014-09/2017 PhDAIS and object tracking and segmentation
Ravindran Prabhakaran 04/2017-08/2017 MEng Video object detection
Julien Valognes 05/2016-12/2016 BASc
(UGrad Student Research Award)		 Tracker's scoring and ranking
M. Rakhshanfar 05/2010-04/2016 PhD Video enhancement
K. Ratnayake 09/2007-06/2016 PhD Video object tracking
Mohammed Ghazal 09/2006-09/2010 PhD "Robust Detection and tracking of surveillance objects and events"
Hanif Azhar 01/2005-08/2010 PhD "Integration of MPEG-7 and chaos theory for surveillance object classification"
Shulan Xiang 02/2009-01/2010 Visiting researcher "Video-based Pilot Fatigue Detection"
Chung Su 05/2005-04/2007 M.A.Sc. "Color change detection and Binarization of frame differences"
Dr. Carlos Vazquez 03/2005-04/2006 Research Associate "A Prototype for Event Extraction in Video Surveillance"
F.Achkar 01/2004-12/2006 M.A.Sc."Background estimation for video object segmentation"
Mohamed El-Hilali 01/2005-10/2006 M.A.Sc. "Integrating Video Objects and Recognized Speech"
Mohammed Ghazal 09/2004-07/2006 M.A.Sc. "Estimation of noise and artifact in TV signals", co-supervised with Dr. Ghrayeb
Ken Ryan 09/2003-12/2006 M.A.Sc. "Object segmentation from non-professional videos"
Francois Lapalme 01/2004-08/2005 M.A.Sc. "FPGA-based implementation of video noise estimation", co-supervised with Dr. C. Wang
Bin Qi 07/2003-04/2005 M.A.Sc."Global motion estimation for object segmentation"
Former Research Assistants , (U. of Dortmund, Germany):
Name Year Project Title
W. Wegner 1995-1997 "Implementation of Object segmentation and artifact reduction", Jointly with Siemens AG
O. Franzen 1995-1997 "Implementation of spatio-temporal video noise reduction", Jointly with Siemens AG
Former Students (U. of Dortmund, Germany):
Name Year Project Title
H. Dreßler 1996-1997 M.A.Sc., "Noise estimation in analogue and digital transmitted video signals", TR-S11-96, Jointly with Siemens AG
T. Verspohl 1996-1997 M.A.Sc., "MPEG-2 artifact reduction methods"
H. Bayer 1996-1997 M.A.Sc., "Binarization for object segmentation"
A. Gash 1996-1997 M.A.Sc., "Object-Based Vector Analysis for Restoration of Video Signals"
S. Reichert 1995-1996 M.A.Sc., "Comparison of contour tracing methods"
H. Brandes 1997 B.A.Sc., "Spatial noise reduction based on object information", TR-S03-96
M. Busian 1997 B.A.Sc., "Object-Based Vector Field Postprocessing for Enhanced Noise Reduction", TR-S04--97

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