Professor Robin Cohen is one of four faculty members to receive a 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award, the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s most prestigious honour for teaching excellence. The Distinguished Teacher Awards will be presented by Mario Coniglio, associate vice-president, academic, at the June convocation ceremony.
PhD candidateÌýÌýis one of 10 recipients nationally to receive aÌý.
Cheriton School of Computer Science ProfessorÌý, his former PhD studentÌý, now an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, along with colleaguesÌýChristopher Liaw, Abbas Mehrabian and Yaniv Plan, have received aÌý, theÌý.
ProfessorsÌýÌýandÌýÌýjoined the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science earlier this year. Previously, both were full professors in the Department of Computer Science at Western University, where they were faculty members for 14 years.
Their research interests are in the area of computer vision. In particular, Olga’s interests are in visual correspondence and image segmentation, and Yuri’sÌýalso include 3D reconstruction andÌýbiomedical image analysis.
Computer science doctoral studentÌý, Ìýand Schaekermann’s cosupervisors, ProfessorsÌýÌýandÌý, have received a best paper award at CSCW 18, theÌý.
Ìýhas been named as aÌýÌýfor her contributions to eDiscovery byÌý.
TheÌýÌýdrives excellence and leadership in Canada’s knowledge, creationÌýand use of artificial intelligence to foster economic growth and improve the lives of Canadians. The instituteÌýis dedicated to the transformative field of artificial intelligence, excelling in machine and deep learning research.
Professor Robin Cohen has received aÌý. She is the first female recipient of the Association’s highest honour, an award that is conferred to individuals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding research excellence in artificial intelligence during the course of their academic career.
When you look at a scenic mountain photo typically everything in the distance is in sharp focus. But this scene might be even more captivating if something striking were in the foreground, perhaps a field of wild flowers in peak bloom. The problem is if the flowers are close to the lens relative to the mountains it’s impossible for all elements in the photo to be in perfect focus — if the flowers are sharp, the distant mountains will be blurry and vice versa.
We live in a world increasingly dependent on the Internet for information retrieval, social interactionÌýand general leisure. A growing number of Internet users with cognitive or visual impairments need assistive technology to make information accessible to them, but visually complex webÌýpages can be difficult to navigate for assistive technology.