Our Team

Meet the brilliant minds driving research at Vision Intelligence and Data Lab.

Faculty Alumni Graduate Students Collaborators/Interns Undergraduate Students

Faculty

Faculty
Dr. Akilan, T. (Ph.D., P.Eng., SMIEEE)

Associate Professor
Department: Software Engineering, Lakehead University
takilan@lakeheadu.ca
ATAC5014
Office Hours: By appointment
Academic Profile Google Scholar

Alumni

Christopher Silver
Christopher Silver

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Development of an Advanced Thermal Imaging based Human Fall Detection System. [read more]

Christopher Silver
Harish Sundaralingam

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Enhancing Object Detection in Complex Scenes: A Semantic Segmentation-aware Framework with Attention-Gating for Improved Small Object Detection.

Christopher Silver
Kevin Genereux

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Deep Learning-based Intracranial Hemorrhage Segmentation.

Christopher Silver
Mohammad Arshi-Saloot

Postdoc
Topic: Advanced Automation System for Human Capital Hiring and Retention.

Christopher Silver
Nusrat Jahan

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: An Improved Semi-Supervised Learning Framework for Image Semantic Segmentation.

Christopher Silver
Siavash Hosseini

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Regression Modelling for Industrial Applications.

Christopher Silver
Tharrengini Suresh

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Semantic Segmentation with Edge-Context Enrichment and Attention Strategies: A Refined Framework for Improved Performance in Complex Visual Environments.

Graduate Students

Christopher Silver
Chee Mei Ling (Irene)

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Agriculture-Vision: A Large Aerial Image Database for Agricultural Pattern Analysis.

Christopher Silver
Fahim Ur Rahman

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Lightweight Point Cloud Network for Real-Time 3D Object Detection.

Christopher Silver
Gaeul Han

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Object detection from thermal images on roads under low-visibility weather.

Christopher Silver
Jimmy Tsang

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Medical Image Analysis.

Christopher Silver
Russell Frost

MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Automated Music Transcription.

Collaborators/Interns

Nowshad Ruhani
Nowshad Ruhani (Helsinki, Finland)

Topic: Predictive Analysis for EV Charging and Energy Storage Management (ESMS), (BMS).

Tony Braxton Tchio Ngoumeza
Tony Braxton Tchio Ngoumeza

Topic: Precision Agriculture.
Website: green-shade.ca

Kenneth Shahi
Kenneth Shahi

2nd year Software Engineering
Topic: LIDAR 3D Point Cloud Analysis.

Aysouda Karimi
Aysouda Karimi

Topic: Semantic Segmentation.

Undergraduate Students

Braydon Knezevic, David Loovere, Francisco Raposo, and Hanna Lahti

Topic: An AI-assisted System for Operational Efficiency.

K. Kriti

Topic: Thermal Image-based Fall Detection.

P. Curle, and M. Nisbet

Topic: TownHual: A mobile App-based Shipping Delivery System for Remote Communities in Northern On- tario.

N. Imperius, J. Tsang, and M. Tommasini

Topic: Smart Parking: An Android Application.

J. Fiorot, J. Grasley, M. Grandell, and P. Stoppel

Topic: Machine Learning-based Music Recommendation System.

S. Davey, C. Silver, and A. M. Velasquez

Topic: Thermopile Sensor-based Elderly Fall Detection and Warning System for Ensuring Fast Medical Aid.

M. Martin, N.T. Merin, and C. Parmar

Topic: team Counting and Temperature Prediction for Automatic AC Controller System Towards Energy Saving Smart Home.

F. Kharadi, S. McKenna, and E. Trudel

Topic: Fake News Detector Using Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

R. Friesen, N. Ahmed, W. Bugden, K. Dabhi

Topic: MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

O. Ebube, O. Fortune, and U. Emmanue

Topic: Airline Reservation System.

P. Stoppel, P. Curle, M. Tommasini

Topic: Vision-Based Occupancy Tracker for Public Safety.

O.Y. AlSaeedy, A.A. Jafri, and J. Thakkar

Topic: Higher Education Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System.